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PUBLIC LAW 106-31—MAY 21, 1999 113 STAT. 69 that heading in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in division A, section 101(d) of the Omnibus ConsoHdated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277)): Provided further, That up to $5,500,000 of the funds appropriated by this paragraph may be transferred to "Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development", to remain available until September 30, 2000, to be used for administrative costs of USAID in addressing the effects of those hurricanes, of which up to $1,000,000 may be used to contract directly for the personal services of individuals in the United States: Provided further. That up to $1,500,000 of the funds appropriated by this paragraph may be transferred to "Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development Office of Inspector General", to remain available until expended, to be used for costs of audits, inspections, and other activities associated with the expenditure of the funds appropriated by this paragraph: Provided further. That up to $500,000 of the funds appropriated by this paragraph shall be made available to the Comptroller General for purposes of monitoring the provision of assistance using funds appropriated by this paragraph: Provided further. That funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated and expended subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, not less than $2,000,000 should be made available to support the clearance of landmines and other unexploded ordnance in Nicaragua and Honduras: Provided further. That the funds appropriated under this heading, and the supplemental funds appropriated in this Act that are in addition to the funds made available under title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in division A, section 101(d) of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277)), shall be subject to the funding ceiling contained in section 580 of that Act, notwithstanding section 545 of that Act: Provided further. That funds appropriated under this heading may be charged to finance obligations for which apiJropriations available for other accounts under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, were charged after April 30, 1999, to finance obligations to address the effects of the hurricanes in Central America and the Caribbean and the earthquake in Colombia: Provided further, That the provisions of section 110 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, shall not be applicable to any assistance furnished to address the effects of the hurricanes in Central America and the Caribbean and the earthquake in Colombia: Provided further. That none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for nonproject assistance: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.