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 PUBLIC LAW 94-161—DEC. 20, 1975 aspects of development assistance as the President may determine in order to render such assistance of increasing value and benefit; " (4) programs of reconstruction following natural or manmade disasters; "(5) programs designed to help solve special development problems in the poorest countries and to make possible proper utilization of infrastructure and related projects funded with earlier United States assistance; and " (6) programs of urban development, with particiular emphasis on small, labor intensive enterprises, marketing systems for small producers, and financial and other institutions which enable the urban poor to participate in the economic and social development of their country. "(b) There is authorized to be appropriated to the President for the purposes of this section, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, $99,550,000 for the fiscal year 1976 and $104,500,000 for the fiscal year 1977, which amounts are authorized to remain available until expended. Of the amounts made available under this section, not less than $30,000,000 shall be available during the period beginning July 1, 1975, and ending September 30. 1977, only for reimbursement to private voluntary agencies of the United States for costs incurred with respect to the shipment of food and nonfood commodities provided through private donations. "SEC. 107. I^TTERMEDiATE TECHNOLOGY.—Of the funds made available to carry out this chapter for the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978, a total of $20,000,000 may be used for activities in the field of intermediate technology, through grants in support of an expanded and coordinated private effort to promote the development and dissemination of technologies appropriate for developing countries. The Agency for International Development shall prepare a detailed proposal to carry out this section and shall keep the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee fully and currently informed concerning the development of the proposal. The proposal shall be transmitted to these committees no later than March 31, 1976, and shall not be implemented until thirty days after its transmittal or until passage by each committee of a resolution in eflfect approving its implementation.".

89 STAT. 859

Appropriation authorization.

22 USC 2151e.

Proposal. Information to congressional committees. Transmitted to congressional committees.

COST-SHARING

SEC. 307. Section 110(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 Waiver. is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end 22 USC 2151h. thereof the following: "and except that the President may waive this cost-sharing requirement in the case of a project or activity in a country which the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of this Act determines is relatively least developed based on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development list of 'relatively least developed countries' ". DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF COOPERATIVES

SEC. 308. Section 111 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is 22 USC 21511. amended to read as follows: "SEC. 111. DEVELOPMENT AND USE or COOPERATIVES.—In order to strengthen the participation of the niral and urban poor in their country's development, hisrh priority shall be given to increasing the use of funds made available under this Act for assistance in the development of cooperatives in the less developed countries which will

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