Subsection (b) is taken from section 631 (d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and relates to the size of MAP missions. It reflects the sense of the Congress that further progress should be made to reduce administrative costs overseas to the extent that this can be done without impairing the effectiveness of the programs.

Section 104. Employment of personnel

Subsection (a) is taken from section 625(d)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and deals only with personnel outside the United States. It authorizes the use, where appropriate, of the compensation provisions of the Foreign Service Act to carry out military assistance, sales, and related activities abroad.

Subsection (b) is taken from section 633 (c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and authorizes the assignment of Department of Defense personnel to any civil office to carry out this bill.

Section 105. Detail of personnel to foreign governments and international organizations

This section, which is taken from sections 627 and 628 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, authorizes officers or employees of any U.S. Government agency to be detailed or assigned to any office or position with foreign governments and international organizations, whenever the President determines that such detail or assignment would be consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of the bill. The section prohibits such officer or employee from accepting compensation or other benefits from the foreign government or from taking an oath of allegiance to such government.

Section 106. Status of personnel detailed or assigned

This section is taken from section 629 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.

Subsection (a) provides that an individual detailed or assigned under section 105 shall continue to be considered an officer or employee of the U.S. Government agency from which detailed or assigned. His allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits will not be affected. His compensation, allowances and benefits shall be paid from funds appropriated to that agency or made available to that agency under this Act.

Subsection (b) authorizes the receipt of representation allowances by an individual assigned, detailed or appointed under sections 105 or 103 under such regulations as the President may prescribe.

Section 107. Terms of detail or assignment

This section is taken from section 630 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. It authorizes details or assignments to be either without reimbursement or with reimbursement to the U.S. Government or upon an advance of funds, property or services, or subject to a credit in favor of the United States for its contribution to the international organization. Reimbursements are credited to the appropriation, fund, or account utilized to pay the compensation, travel expenses, allowances, and benefits of the individual. 3

Section 108. Expenses

This section is taken from section 636 (c) and (g) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.

Subsection (a) provides that funds available under this bill may be utilized for administrative and operating expenses, for extraordinary expenses (of not to exceed $300,000 in any fiscal year), for constructing or otherwise acquiring quarters, office space and supporting facilities overseas, and for maintenance, repair and alteration of facilities in the District of Columbia or elsewhere.

Subsection (b) authorizes the reimbursement of actual expenses of military officers assigned as tour directors in connection with orientation visits of foreign military personnel in order to avoid imposing an undue hardship on such American officers.

Section 109. Reports and information

Subsection (a) is taken from the first sentence of section 634(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and requires the President to transmit to Congress at the close of each fiscal year a report covering that fiscal year's operation under this bill.

Subsection (b) is taken from the first sentence of section 634(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and requires the President to make information available to the public and the members of Congress with respect to operations under this bill.

Subsection (c) is taken from section 634 (d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and requires the President at the end of each fiscal year to notify each committee of the Congress charged with considering legislation or appropriations under this bill of all actions taken during the fiscal year which resulted in furnishing assistance of a kind, for a purpose, or to an area substantially different from that included in the presentation to Congress referred to in the preceding sentence, or which resulted in obligations or reservations which exceeded by 50 percent or more than the program presented to Congress, with justification for such changes. It further requires in any presentations to Congress a comparison of the current fiscal year's programs and activities with those presented to Congress in the previous year and an explanation of any substantial changes. In addition a new sentence has been added, consistent with the multiple year authorization for appropriations in section 83, which requires the President in presenting requests to the Congress for appropriations for each of the fiscal years 1968 through 1971 also to present the programs, to be carried out with the funds appropriated, to the committees of Congress having jurisdiction over the authorization for such appropriations, if requested to do so by the chairmen of those committees. Section 634 (c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. as amended, relating to the furnishing of documents to the General Accounting Office and Congressional committees, is omitted. Title III. Miscellaneous provisions

Section 121. Provisions of law repealed and amended

(a) Subsection (a) makes several technical amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, necessitated by the proposed reenactment of the legislative authorities for the economie and military assistance programs as separate bills.

Paragraph (1) amends section 303, which relates to Indus Basin Development, by deleting a reference to part II of the Act.

Paragraph (2) repeals part II of the Act, which relates to military

assistance.

Paragraph (3) amends section 602, which relates to small business, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Provisions concerning small business are omitted from this bill as unnecessary in view of 10 U.S.C. 2301, which applies to all procurement by the Department of Defense.

Paragraph (4) amends section 603, which relates to shipping on U.S. vessels, by deleting the reference to defense articles. Language taken from section 603 appears as section 96 of this bill.

Paragraph (5) amends section 605, which relates to retention and use of certain items and funds, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 605 appears as section 93 of this bill.

Paragraph (6) amends section 609(a)(3), which relates to the special account for counterpart funds, so as to continue the availability of the use of counterpart for military budget support.

Paragraph (7) amends section 610, which relates to transfer between accounts, so as to continue the applicability of this authority to both the economic and military programs.

Paragraph (8) amends section 614, which relates to special authority, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 614 appears as section 92 of this bill.

Paragraph (9) amends section 620(m), which relates to restrictions on assistance, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 620 (m) appears as section 21(a)(1) of this bill.

Paragraph (10) repeals section 623, which relates to the functions. of the Secretary of Defense. Language taken from section 623 appears as section 102 of this bill.

Paragraph (11) amends section 624, which relates to statutory officers, by substituting references to this bill for references to part II of the Foreign Assistance Act.

Paragraph (12) amends section 625, which relates to employment of personnel, by substituting references to this bill for references to part II of the Foreign Assistance Act. It also redesignates section 625(c) as section 110 of this bill.

Paragraph (13) amends section 631(d), which relates to missions and staffs abroad, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 631 (d) appears as section 103 (b) of this bill.

Paragraph (14) amends section 632, which relates to allocation and reimbursement among agencies, by deleting references to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 632 appears as sections 81, 82, and 85 of this bill.

Paragraph (15) amends section 633, which relates to waivers of certain laws, by repealing subsection (b). The repealed language is set forth as section 92(d) of this bill.

Paragraph (16) amends section 635(h), which relates to general authorities, by deleting the reference to the military assistance program. Language taken from section 635 (h) appears as section 91(b) of this bill.

Paragraph (17) amends section 636, which relates to provisions on uses of funds, by deleting the reference to the military assistance program in subsection (a) and by deleting subsection (g). Language taken from section 636 (g) appears as section 108 of this bill.

Paragraph (18) repeals section 640, which relates to military sales. Paragraph (19) amends section 644, which relates to definitions, by deleting the definitions pertaining to the military assistance program contained in subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (i) and (m). These definitions are set forth in section 3 of this bill.

(b) Subsection (b) is a technical provision which substitutes for the references in other statutes to the superseded sections of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, the appropriate provisions of this bill.

Section 122. Saving provisions

This section is designed to preserve continuity during the period of transition from prior legislation to this bill.

Subsection (a) provides that, except as otherwise specified in this bill, all actions taken under provisions repealed by this bill, or Acts superseded by those provisions, will continue in effect until modified by appropriate authority.

Subsection (b) provides that wherever provisions of this bill establish conditions for the use of authority or funds, compliance with substantially similar conditions under provisions of law repealed by this bill, or Acts superseded by those provisions, will suffice. This subsection makes it unnecessary to renegotiate numerous existing international agreements.

Subsection (c) provides that funds made available pursuant to part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, shall continue available unless otherwise provided by law.

Section 123. Unexpended balances

This section is taken from the introductory clause of section 645 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, relating to unexpended balances. The remainder of that sentence is pertinent only to economic assistance.

Section 124. Construction

This section is a standard separability provision to the effect that the invalidity of any provision of the bill or of its application to any persons or circumstances shall not affect the remainder of the bill or the applicability of such provision to the persons or circumstances.