Memorandum Authorizing the Transfer of Agency for International Development Appropriations

Memorandum for the Administrator of the Agency for International Development

Subject: Determination Under Section 610(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, to Transfer $17.5 million to the Operating Expenses Appropriation

Pursuant to the authorities vested in me by sections 109 and 610(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the "Act"), I hereby determine that it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $17.5 million appropriated for fiscal year 1997 to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Act be transferred to, and consolidated with, appropriations made to carry out section 667(a) of the Act. I hereby authorize such transfer and consolidation.

This determination shall be effective immediately, and you are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register.

William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 21, 1997]