PUBLIC LAW 106-178—MAR. 14, 2000 114 STAT. 43 (B) no report has been made under section 2 with respect to an activity of the entity to receive such payment, and the President has no credible information of any activity that would require such a report; and (C) the United States will receive goods or services of value to the United States commensurate with the value of the extraordinary payments made. (2) For purposes of this subsection, the term "maintenance" means activities which cannot be performed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and which must be performed in order for the Service Module to provide environmental control, life support, and orbital maintenance functions which cannot be performed by an alternative means at the time of payment. (3) This subsection shall cease to be effective 60 days after Termination a United States propulsion module is in place at the International date. Space Station. (h) EXCEPTION. — Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), no agency of the United States Government may make extraordinary payments in connection with the International Space Station to any foreign person subject to measures applied pursuant to— (1) section 3 of this Act; or (2) section 4 of Executive Order No. 12938 (November 14, 1994), as amended by Executive Order No. 13094 (July 28, 1998). Such payments shall also not be made to gmy other entity if the agency of the United States Government anticipates that such payments will be passed on to such a foreign person. SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Act, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) EXTRAORDINARY PAYMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.—The term "extraordinary pay- ments in connection with the International Space Station" means payments in cash or in kind made or to be made by the United States Government— (A) for work on the International Space Station which the Russian Government pledged at any time to provide at its expense; or (B) for work on the International Space Station, or for the purchase of goods or services relating to human space flight, that are not required to be made under the terms of a contract or other agreement that was in effect on January 1, 1999, as those terms were in effect on such date. (2) FOREIGN PERSON; PERSON.— The terms "foreign person" and "person" mean— (A) a natural person that is an alien; (B) a corporation, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other nongovernmental entity, organization, or group, that is organized under the laws of a foreign country or has its principal place of business in a foreign country; (C) any foreign governmental entity operating as a business enterprise; and (D) any successor, subunit, or subsidiary of any entity described in subparagraph (B) or (C).
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