§2421b — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The AID Administrator must set up a program to pay for community-level infrastructure projects that ease the worst effects of poverty or protect and sustain the environment. The program must also consider the host country’s development needs and possible markets for U.S. goods and services. Working with AID technical staff, regional bureaus, and country missions, the Administrator will pick and fund projects in countries getting aid under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.). Examples include basic sanitation, water systems and treatment, pollution control, and rural infrastructure. Projects must show measurable improvements in human and environmental health.

Title 22, §2421b

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(a)The Administrator of AID shall develop a program, in accordance with subsection (b), that focuses on developmentally sound capital projects for basic infrastructure that will measurably alleviate the worst manifestations of poverty or directly promote environmental safety and sustainability at the community level, taking into consideration development needs of the host country and export opportunities for services and goods from the United States.

(b)In order to carry out subsection (a), the Administrator of AID shall, working with AID technical support staff, regional bureau staff, and country missions, identify and provide funding for capital projects to alleviate the worst manifestations of poverty or to promote environmental safety and sustainability at the community level in countries receiving assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.]. Such projects may include basic sanitation systems, basic water supply and treatment, pollution control, and rural infrastructure benefiting poor communities or establishing environmentally sustainable patterns of rural development. Such projects should have measurable positive effects on indicators of human and environmental health.

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References in Text

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Part I of the Act is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 2151 et seq.) of chapter 32 of this title. For provisions deeming references to subchapter I to include parts IV (§ 2346 et seq.), VI (§ 2348 et seq.), and VIII (§ 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 32, see section 202(b) of Pub. L. 92–226, set out as a note under section 2346 of this title, and section 2348c and 2349aa–5 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Aid, Trade, and Competitiveness Act of 1992 and also as part of the Jobs Through Exports Act of 1992, and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises this chapter.

§2421b Capital projects for poverty alleviation and environmental safety and sustainability