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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1880

To provide assistance for the relief and reconstruction of Afghanistan, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            December 20 (legislative day, December 18), 2001

 Mr. Wellstone introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide assistance for the relief and reconstruction of Afghanistan, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Afghanistan 
Freedom and Reconstruction Act of 2001''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 3. United States policy toward Afghanistan.
Sec. 4. Urgent humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan.
Sec. 5. Support for security during transition in Afghanistan.
Sec. 6. Rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Sec. 7. Afghanistan democracy and human rights initiatives.
Sec. 8. Authorization of funds for United Nations Drug Control Program 
                            (UNDCP) initiatives in Afghanistan.
Sec. 9. United States diplomatic facilities.
Sec. 10. Definitions.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) The President in his remarks on December 12, 2001, at 
        the signing of the Afghan Women and Children Relief Act stated 
        that ``America and our allies will do our part in the 
        rebuilding of Afghanistan. We learned our lessons from the 
        past. We will not leave until the mission is complete. We will 
        work with international institutions on the long-term 
        development of Afghanistan. We will provide immediate 
        humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.''.
            (2) Current estimates of the costs of assisting Afghanistan 
        range from $5,000,000,000 over 5 years to $40,000,000,000 over 
        a decade.
            (3) The United States should be the lead financial 
        contributor to the rehabilitation and reconstruction effort in 
        Afghanistan, and should contribute no less that $5,000,000,000 
        to this effort over the next 5 years.
            (4) The people of Afghanistan have suffered for more than 
        20 years from continual conflict, civil strife, and from 
        successive repressive regimes supported by foreign governments 
        resulting in one of the lowest levels of life expectancy, adult 
        literacy, and high levels of infant and child mortality, 
        maternal mortality, and malnutrition.
            (5) Afghanistan has experienced near total devastation 
        through 2 decades of war, resulting in the largest 
        concentration of land mines and unexploded ordinances and the 
        destruction of most infrastructure, including schools, 
        hospitals, and powerplants.
            (6) As a result, there are approximately 2,000,000 Afghan 
        refugees in Pakistan, 1,500,000 in Iran, and 1,200,000 
        internally displaced persons in Afghanistan at risk of disease 
        and malnutrition, the largest such group in the world.
            (7) The Taliban implemented a brutal and repressive regime, 
        particularly with respect to the rights of women and their 
        participation in Afghan society. Under Taliban rule, women were 
        denied access to work, healthcare, and prevented from 
        adequately providing for their children. Women were segregated 
        from society and virtually imprisoned in their own homes under 
        the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
            (8) Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan became a training 
        ground, operational base, and safe haven for terrorists and 
        international terrorist organizations, and it continues to be 
        one of the world's largest sources of illegal opium.
            (9) Since 1996, the Taliban harbored Osama bin Laden, whom 
        the United Nations demanded that it surrender in United Nations 
        Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999). As a result of the 
        Taliban's failure to do so, the United Nations Security Council 
        imposed progressively more comprehensive sanctions on the 
        Taliban under Resolutions 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000), and 1363 
        (2001), which sanctions are binding on all members of the 
        United Nations under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United 
        Nations.
            (10) The failure of the Taliban to comply with the demands 
        of the United States and the United Nations Security Council 
        allowed Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network to orchestrate 
        from Afghanistan the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 
        on the United States in which thousands of Americans and 
        foreign nationals were murdered.
            (11) After the expulsion or elimination of foreign 
        terrorist organizations from the territory of Afghanistan and 
        the cessation of hostilities, the United States bears the 
        leading responsibility to help create a stable political, 
        economic, and social environment in Afghanistan.
            (12) The most effective and efficient way to promote 
        stability and prevent a return to lawlessness and warfare in 
        post-Taliban Afghanistan is to quickly restore basic services, 
        and to provide substantial long-term assistance for the 
        political, social, and economic reconstruction and 
        rehabilitation of Afghanistan.
            (13)(A) The President in his radio address to the Nation on 
        October 6, 2001, urged Congress to make funds available to the 
        reconstruction and development of Afghanistan, recognizing that 
        assisting people in this fashion ``is also a central part of 
        the American tradition'', stated that ``[e]ven as we fight evil 
        regimes we are generous to the people they oppress'', and 
        further stated that ``[f]ollowing World War II, America fed and 
        rebuilt Japan and Germany, and their people became some of our 
        closest friends in the world''.
            (B) The President in his speech before the United Nations 
        on November 10, 2001, stated that ``[t]he United States will 
        work closely with the United Nations and the [multilateral] 
        development banks to reconstruct Afghanistan''.
            (14) United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a 
        speech in Washington, D.C., on November 28, 2001--
                    (A) declared that ``the solution to the Afghan 
                crisis ultimately must come from the women and men of 
                Afghanistan itself'';
                    (B) reaffirmed the commitment of the international 
                community to ``ensuring that an end is put to the long 
                nightmare of women's repression in Afghanistan'' and 
                urged ``the parties to bring Afghan women into every 
                stage of the political process''; and
                    (C) stated that ``in Afghanistan today human rights 
                means, above all, women's rights''.
            (15) As a result of the changing situation in Afghanistan, 
        the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1378, 
        calling on member states to support a transitional 
        administration in Afghanistan, provide urgent humanitarian 
        assistance to the people of Afghanistan, and furnish long-term 
        assistance for the social and economic reconstruction and 
 
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       rehabilitation of Afghanistan.
            (16) On December 5, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, representatives 
        of the Afghan people agreed to a framework for the 
        reestablishment of a government that is broad-based, 
        multiethnic, gender-inclusive, and fully representative of the 
        Afghan people.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to support a substantial United States commitment to 
        the reconstruction of Afghanistan;
            (2) to prevent the return to power of the Taliban regime in 
        Afghanistan and promote the long-term stability and physical 
        security of an independent Afghanistan;
            (3) to support a diplomatic framework for the achievement 
        of a broad-based, multiethnic, gender-inclusive, fully 
        representative government freely chosen by the Afghan people 
        that respects the human rights of all the Afghan people;
            (4) to authorize new, immediate, and sustained humanitarian 
        assistance to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan 
        and among Afghan refugees in neighboring countries;
            (5) to authorize new assistance bilaterally, or through a 
        multilateral fund or international foundation, for the 
        rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan with a 
        particular emphasis on meeting the educational, health, and 
        sustenance needs of women and children to better enable their 
        full participation in Afghan society; and
            (6) to otherwise promote a secure environment in 
        Afghanistan that will prevent the resurgence of foreign 
        terrorists in Afghanistan.

SEC. 3. UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) United States Policy Toward Taliban Regime.--It shall be the 
policy of the United States to prevent the return to power of the 
Taliban regime in Afghanistan so as to diminish the risk of future 
terrorist attacks on the United States, and restore basic human 
freedoms to the people of Afghanistan.
    (b) Diplomatic Framework for the Promotion of a Free and 
Independent Afghanistan.--It shall be the policy of the United States--
            (1) to support the convening of a traditional Afghan 
        assembly (commonly referred to as a ``Loya Jirga'') in order to 
        facilitate Afghanistan's transition from war to a broad-based, 
        multiethnic, gender-inclusive, fully representative government 
        freely chosen by the Afghan people, help lay the groundwork for 
        Afghanistan's reconstruction and economic recovery, and 
        strengthen Afghanistan's security;
            (2) to maintain a significant United States commitment to 
        the relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of Afghanistan 
        as part of a larger regional policy framework, paying 
        particular attention to the education and physical and mental 
        health care needs of the Afghan people, especially the needs of 
        women and children;
            (3) to support the objectives agreed to on December 5, 
        2001, in Bonn, Germany, and work toward ensuring the future 
        independence of Afghanistan, establishing the principle that 
        neighboring countries and other countries in the region do not 
        threaten or interfere in one another's sovereignty, territorial 
        integrity, or political independence, and supporting a 
        coordinated and sustained international effort to reconstruct 
        Afghanistan;
            (4) to work with the United Nations and the international 
        community in the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration 
        of combatants into Afghan society and in demining the Afghan 
        countryside as well as programs to rehabilitate and assist mine 
        victims, war orphans, and widows;
            (5) to support bilateral and regional economic agreements 
        and other measures to foster greater economic opportunity for 
        the citizens of Afghanistan and the region generally;
            (6) to promptly recognize a new broad-based, multiethnic, 
        gender-inclusive, fully representative government in 
        Afghanistan acceptable to the Afghan people; and
            (7) in order to ensure security of the people of 
        Afghanistan, to support the establishment of a multinational 
        security force in Afghanistan.

SEC. 4. URGENT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) Current Humanitarian Efforts.--Congress commends the President 
for allocating $320,000,000 in humanitarian assistance to the people of 
Afghanistan and strongly urges that the President continue to provide 
additional humanitarian assistance in 2002 and 2003 in conjunction with 
other donors and international organizations.
    (b) Equitable Distribution of Relief Assistance.--It should be the 
policy of the United States in promoting equitable distribution of 
relief and rehabilitation assistance in Afghanistan--
            (1) to ensure noncombatants (particularly refugees and 
        displaced persons) equal and ready access to all emergency food 
        and relief assistance, with special emphasis on the needs of 
        women and children;
            (2) to provide relief, rehabilitation, and recovery 
        assistance to promote self-reliance; and
            (3) to ensure that relief is provided on the basis of need 
        without regard to political affiliation, geographic location, 
        or the ethnic, tribal or religious identity of the recipient.
    (c) Authority To Provide Assistance.--The President is authorized 
to furnish assistance in accordance with this section on such other 
terms and conditions as the President may determine for the urgent 
humanitarian needs of the people of Afghanistan and report to the 
appropriate congressional committees on any further assistance provided 
under this section.
    (d) Humanitarian Assistance Inside Afghanistan.--Assistance under 
this section shall be targeted to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of 
the war-affected or drought-affected civilian population inside 
Afghanistan and shall include--
            (1) emergency food, shelter, and medical assistance, 
        including mental health treatment;
            (2) clean drinking water and sanitation;
            (3) preventative health care, including childhood 
        vaccination, therapeutic feeding, maternal child health 
        services, and infectious diseases surveillance and treatment;
            (4) family tracing and reunification services for families 
        separated by war; and
            (5) basic education and vocational training with an 
        emphasis on the educational needs of women and children.
    (e) Assistance to Afghan Refugees.--Assistance under this section 
shall be targeted to meet the needs of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, 
Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and other countries in the 
region and shall include--
            (1) assistance described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of 
        subsection (d) for such refugees;
            (2) assistance to families sheltering Afghan refugees in 
        the form of economic stipends, food assistance, and household 
        implements;
            (3) assistance to communities in neighboring countries that 
        have taken in large numbers of refugees in the form of 
        rehabilitation or expansion of basic services, access to health 
        and education facilities for refugees or other assistance aimed 
        at easing the burden on local populations hosting refugees;
            (4) assistance to international organizations and host 
        governments in maintaining security by screening refugees to 
        ensure the exclusion of armed combatants, members of foreign 
        terrorist organizations, and other individuals not eligible for 
        economic assistance from the United States; and
            (5) assistance for voluntary refugee repatriation and 
        reintegration inside Afghanistan and continued assistance to 
        those refugees who are unable or 
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unwilling to return, and to 
        ensure that all screening and repatriation operations are 
        conducted voluntarily, with safety and dignity.
    (f) Food Aid.--Assistance under this section shall be targeted to 
meet the immediate, emergency food needs for the Afghan people and 
shall include assistance under title II of the Agricultural Trade 
Development and Assistance Act of 1954, the Food for Progress Act of 
1985, and section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as well as 
local procurement of surplus commodities. Such assistance should 
include--
            (1) emergency food distribution to displaced, refugee, and 
        other vulnerable populations affected by war or drought;
            (2) school feeding programs to improve child nutrition and 
        school attendance;
            (3) food for work programs to facilitate the rehabilitation 
        process by increasing self-sufficiency;
            (4) emergency monetization programs to increase 
        commercially available food stocks, decrease and stabilize food 
        prices, and stimulate local economies; and
            (5) food and agricultural production, including the 
        provision of seeds and tools.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the President--
            (1) to carry out the activities described in subsection (d) 
        for fiscal year 2003, $150,000,000;
            (2) to carry out the activities described in subsection (e) 
        for fiscal year 2003, $75,000,000; and
            (3) to carry out the activities described in subsection (f) 
        for fiscal year 2003, $175,000,000.
    (h) Authority To Provide Assistance.--Assistance under this section 
may be provided notwithstanding any other provision of law.

SEC. 5. SUPPORT FOR SECURITY DURING TRANSITION IN AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, during 
the transition to a broad-based, multiethnic, gender-inclusive, fully 
representative government in Afghanistan, the United States should 
support, a multinational security force, to ensure security in 
Afghanistan and to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance 
throughout the country.
    (b) Assistance for Multinational Security Force.--
            (1) In general.--The President is authorized to provide 
        assistance for the establishment and expenses of a 
        multinational security force in Afghanistan.
            (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated to the President such sums as may be 
        necessary to carry out paragraph (1) for fiscal years 2002 and 
        2003.

SEC. 6. REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) Targeting Assistance To Aid the Poor Majority.--It is the sense 
of Congress that United States development assistance for Afghanistan 
should be targeted to aid the poor majority of the people of 
Afghanistan (particularly refugees, women, and children) to the maximum 
extent practicable. The United States Government should--
            (1) build upon the capabilities and experiences of the 
        Afghan people both in country and in the diaspora, and of, 
        international, and indigenous private and voluntary 
        organizations active in local grassroots rehabilitation, 
        reconstruction, and development efforts; and
            (2) consult closely with the appropriate Afghan government 
        and civil society representatives as well as other governments 
        and international organizations participating in rehabilitation 
        and reconstruction efforts and significantly incorporate their 
        views into the policymaking process.
    (b) Sense of Congress on Assistance for Women and Girls.--It is the 
sense of Congress that all United States assistance for Afghanistan 
should include a particular emphasis on meeting the educational, 
health, and sustenance needs of women and children, especially girls, 
to better enable their full participation in Afghan society.
    (c) Authority To Provide Assistance.--The President is authorized 
to furnish assistance in accordance with this section on such other 
terms and conditions as the President may determine for the 
rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan if--
            (1) with respect to assistance for fiscal year 2002, the 
        President first determines and certifies to the appropriate 
        congressional committees that a broad-based, multiethnic, 
        gender-inclusive fully representative interim authority has 
        been established to govern Afghanistan and that a special 
        independent commission for the convening of an emergency 
        traditional Afghan assembly (commonly referred to as a ``Loya 
        Jirga'') has been appointed;
            (2) with respect to assistance for fiscal year 2003, the 
        President first determines and certifies to the appropriate 
        congressional committees that a Loya Jirga has been convened 
        and has decided on a broad-based, multiethnic, gender-
        inclusive, fully representative transitional authority for 
        Afghanistan; and
            (3) with respect to assistance for fiscal years 2004, 2005, 
        and 2006, the President first determines and certifies to the 
        appropriate congressional committees with respect to each such 
        fiscal year that substantial progress has been made toward 
        adopting a constitution and establishing a democratically 
        elected government for Afghanistan.
    (d) Programs, Projects, and Activities Supported.--Assistance under 
this section should include--
            (1) projects to address the urgent needs of the Afghan 
        people, including projects to--
                    (A) establish and maintain physical security, and 
                rapidly expand humanitarian mine removal efforts;
                    (B) identify and provide critical agricultural 
                supplies (seeds, fertilizer, tools) for the upcoming 
                agricultural season;
                    (C) commence substantial public works programs for 
                refugees and nonagricultural workers, especially 
                returning fighters, and their families to generate 
                income and reintegrate them into society; and
                    (D) reestablish basic primary health care and 
                emergency services, and begin critical repairs of 
                hospitals, airport runways, the air traffic control 
                system, key bridges, and roads;
            (2) rehabilitation and reconstruction projects to benefit 
        the poorest people, including--
                    (A) disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration 
                programs for ex-combatants;
                    (B) demining of the Afghan countryside and 
                assistance to mine victims, war orphans, and widows;
                    (C) reconstruction of permanent and semi-permanent 
                shelters, including provision of building materials;
                    (D) primary health care and emergency water and 
                power supplies;
                    (E) vocational training and capacity building 
                programs and food for work programs;
                    (F) programs designed to facilitate recruitment of 
                skilled professionals inside Afghanistan and from the 
                Afghan diaspora to assist in the reconstruction efforts 
                in Afghanistan; and
                    (G) the furnishing of seeds for planting, 
                fertilizer, pesticides, farm implements, crop storage 
                and preservation supplies, farm animals, vaccine and 
                veterinary services to protect livestock, and repair 
                and reconstruction of well and irrigation systems;
            (3) programs to provide basic education, particularly for 
        girls, including efforts to support the teaching of displaced 
        children and rebuild schools;
            (4) programs to educate 
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young Afghan refugees, particularly 
        girls, in neighboring countries if conflict within Afghanistan 
        continues;
            (5) assistance to reconstitute and expand the delivery of 
        primary and maternal health care, including the reconstruction 
        of health clinics and hospitals, the provision of mental health 
        care services, the reestablishment of vaccination campaigns, 
        and the establishment of diseases surveillance and treatment 
        programs;
            (6) programs that combat corruption, improve transparency 
        and accountability, and otherwise promote good governance;
            (7) assistance to establish credit, micro-enterprise, and 
        income-generation programs for the poor, with particular 
        emphasis on women;
            (8) other programs to reestablish veterinary services, 
        local crop research, and agricultural development projects; and
            (9) programs designed to eliminate the cultivation of poppy 
        through alternative development of licit crops.
    (e) Contributions to Multilateral Fund or International 
Foundation.--
            (1) Authority.--In addition to providing assistance under 
        this section for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of 
        Afghanistan on a bilateral basis--
                    (A) there is authorized to be appropriated to the 
                President such sums as may be necessary for the period 
                beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and 
                ending September 30, 2006, to make a contribution or 
                contributions to a multilateral fund or international 
                foundation established for the development of a post-
                conflict Afghanistan; and
                    (B) the President is authorized, from amounts 
                appropriated pursuant to the authorization of 
                appropriations under subsection (g), to make a 
                contribution for any of the fiscal years 2002 through 
                2006 to a multilateral fund or international foundation 
                established for the development of a post-conflict 
                Afghanistan if the President first makes a 
                determination and certification under subsection (c) 
                for the fiscal year involved.
            (2) Limitation.--The amount of a contribution under 
        paragraph (1)(B) may not exceed 50 percent in fiscal year 2002, 
        and 75 percent in any subsequent fiscal year, of the amount 
        appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
        under subsection (g) for such fiscal year.
    (f) Applicable Administrative Authorities.--Except to the extent 
inconsistent with the provisions of this section, the administrative 
authorities under chapters 1 and 2 of part III of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 shall apply to the provision of assistance under 
this section to the same extent and in the same manner as such 
authorities apply to the provision of economic assistance under part I 
of such Act.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to carry out this section (other than 
subsection (e)(1)(A)) for fiscal year 2002, $75,000,000, for fiscal 
year 2003, $200,000,000, for fiscal year 2004, $300,000,000, for fiscal 
year 2005, $300,000,000, and $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.
    (h) Implementation of Programs.--Of the amount made available to 
carry out this section for a fiscal year, not more than 5 percent of 
such amount may be used for administrative expenses for the United 
States Agency for International Development in connection with such 
assistance.
    (i) Report Relating to Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.--As part 
of the annual submission of the budget of the United States, the 
President shall include a description of the activities conducted 
pursuant to this section and section 7 in the prior fiscal year, the 
progress made in meeting the development objectives for such year, a 
description of the United States development objectives for the 
rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan for the fiscal year 
involved and the amount of funds necessary to meet such objectives and 
the amount of funds to meet such objectives for the subsequent fiscal 
year.
    (j) Authority To Provide Assistance.--Assistance under this section 
may be provided notwithstanding any other provision of law.

SEC. 7. AFGHANISTAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES.

    (a) Assistance to Democracy.--The President is authorized and 
encouraged to provide assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (including chapter 4 of part II of the Act) to support the 
transition to a multiethnic democratic government in Afghanistan. Such 
assistance shall--
            (1) focus on building the capacity of Afghans, particularly 
        women, to participate in the selection of a broad-based, 
        multiethnic, gender-inclusive, fully representative government 
        in Afghanistan;
            (2) support activities of a transitional administration or 
        interim government to draft a new constitution, other legal 
        frameworks, and other initiatives to promote the rule of law 
        and combat corruption in Afghanistan;
            (3) support activities to prepare Afghanistan for 
        elections, including voter registration, civic education 
        programs, political party building, and technical electoral 
        assistance;
            (4) support the development of civil society and 
        independent news media;
            (5) promote the participation of women in government and 
        civil society through education and training; and
            (6) promote reconciliation, conflict resolution, and 
        prevention of further conflict with respect to Afghanistan, 
        including establishing accountability for gross human rights 
        violations.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to carry out this section for fiscal year 
2002, $10,000,000, for fiscal year 2003, $25,000,000 and for fiscal 
year 2004, $25,000,000.
    (c) Authority To Provide Assistance.--Assistance under this section 
may be provided notwithstanding any other provision of law.

SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR UNITED NATIONS DRUG CONTROL PROGRAM 
              (UNDCP) INITIATIVES IN AFGHANISTAN.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the President not less 
than $12,500,000 for fiscal year 2002 and $25,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2003 and 2004 for a voluntary contribution of the United 
States to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) for antidrug 
initiatives to reduce or eliminate the trafficking of illicit drugs 
from Afghanistan, in particular heroin, including activities relating 
to precursor chemical control efforts.

SEC. 9. UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC FACILITIES.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to such sums as 
are otherwise authorized to be appropriated for ``Embassy Security, 
Construction and Maintenance'', there is authorized to be appropriated 
for ``Embassy Security, Construction and Maintenance'', for the fiscal 
year 2003, $65,000,000 to reestablish a United States embassy and 
appropriate consular facilities in Afghanistan, including offices for 
agencies responsible for carrying out the purposes of this Act that are 
located in such facilities.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to 
subsection (a) are authorized to be remain available until expended.

SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
        International Relations of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
            (2) National.--The term ``national'' means, with respect to 
        a foreign country, a national of the country, including a 
        natural person, corporation, b
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usiness association, partnership, 
        or other entity operating as a business enterprise under the 
        laws of the country.
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