Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§2406 Development programs for dependable fuel supplies
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 32— - FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part Part III— - Miscellaneous Provisions › § 2406
Summary
Requires U.S. agencies to help other countries make economic plans that rely on large, steady, low-cost fuel supplies from friendly free-world sources and avoid depending on hostile suppliers who could use that dependence for political control.
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Title 22, §2406
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It is of paramount importance that long-range economic plans take cognizance of the need for a dependable supply of fuels, which is necessary to orderly and stable development and growth, and that dependence not be placed upon sources which are inherently hostile to free countries and the ultimate well-being of economically underdeveloped countries and which might exploit such dependence for ultimate political domination. The agencies of government in the United States are directed to work with other countries in developing plans for basing development programs on the use of the large and stable supply of relatively low cost fuels available in the free world.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Prohibition on Assistance for Nuclear Powerplants for Fiscal Year 1978 Pub. L. 95–92, § 14, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 622, which prohibited any funds made available to carry out this chapter for fiscal year 1978 from being used to finance the
Construction
of, the operation or maintenance of, or the supply of fuel for any nuclear powerplant under an agreement of cooperation between the United States and any other country, was repealed by Pub. L. 97–113, title VII, § 734(a)(13), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1560. Nuclear Powerplants in Israel or Egypt Pub. L. 93–559, § 43, Dec. 30, 1974, 88 Stat. 1813, which prohibited any funds authorized under Pub. L. 93–559 from being used to finance the
Construction
of, the operation or maintenance of, or the supply of fuel for any nuclear powerplant in Israel or Egypt, was repealed by Pub. L. 97–113, title VII, § 734(a)(8), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1560.
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 2406
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73