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 99 STAT. 1310

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PUBLIC LAW 99-190—DEC. 19, 1985

(4) vigorously promote the establishment within the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank to institute a component which provides training in environmental and natural resource planning and program development; (5) ensure that there is a thorough evaluation within the U.S. Government of the potential environmental problems, and the adequacy of measures to address these problems, associated with all proposed loans for projects involving large impoundments of rivers in tropical countries; penetration roads into relatively undeveloped areas; and agricultural and rural development programs; the potential environmental problems to be addressed in such evaluations shall include those relating to deterioration of water quality, siltation, spread of water borne diseases, forced resettlement, deforestation, threats to the land, health and culture of indigenous peoples, top soil management, water logging and salinization in irrigation projects, and pesticide misuse and resistance; (6) call for, by May 31, 1986, separate and special meetings of each of the Boards of Executive Directors of these institutions to discuss their environmental performance, and ways in which this performance can be improved, including alternative projects considered and alternative configurations of projects with specific attention to environmental problems associated with the following categories of projects: large impoundments of rivers in tropical countries; penetration roads into relatively undeveloped areas; agriculture and rural development projects; and (7) in preparation for the meetings referred to in clause (6), the United States Executive Directors of the Multilateral Development Banks shall request the preparation of reviews by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Inter-American Development Bank from available information, of their environmental performance over the past decade with respect to the categories of projects referred to in clause (6); the United States Executive Directors shall request that these reviews specifically discuss the environmental problems explicitly referred to in clause (5). (b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare and submit to the Committees on Appropriations by March 31, 1986, a report documenting the progress the Multilateral Development Banks have made in implementing the environmental reform measures described in clauses (1) through (4) of subsection (a). (c) The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State shall undertake initiatives, in addition to those described in clause (6) of subsection (a) to discuss measures to improve the environmental performance of the Multilateral Development Banks with the representatives, and with the ministries from which they receive their instructions, of other donor nations to these institutions. (d) In the report of the Secretary of the Treasury required by subsection (b) regarding the implementation of staffing measures suggested in clause (1) of subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall specifically discuss the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development's progress in adding environmentally trained professionals, or in developing and implementing alternative plans for environmental staffing in each of the Bank's six regional offices to review projects for their prospective ecological impacts. »

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