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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2515 Foreign Currency Fluctuations Account

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 34— - THE PEACE CORPS › § 2515

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Treasury account called the "Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account" to pay extra Peace Corps costs overseas when changes in exchange rates make expenses higher than the money Congress gave. The Peace Corps Director (or a person the Director picks) can certify transfers from that account into the Peace Corps spending account. Money moved in becomes part of the regular appropriation and is available for the same time and purpose. The Peace Corps may record obligations using the exchange rates from its budget and later adjust when payments are made. Unused or newly available funds can be moved back into the account, but not after the original appropriation period ends. At year end, unobligated balances may be put into the account only if an appropriation law allows it. Congress may fund the account so it starts each fiscal year with $5,000,000. Each year the Director must report transfers to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2515

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(a)(1)There is established in the Treasury of the United States an account to be known as the “Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account”. The account shall be used for the purpose of providing funds to pay expenses for operations of the Peace Corps outside the United States which, as a result of fluctuations in currency exchange rates, exceed the amount appropriated for such expenses.
(2)Funds in the account may be transferred, upon the certification of the Director of the Peace Corps (or the Director’s designee) that the transfer is necessary for the purpose specified in paragraph (1), to the account containing funds appropriated for the expenses of the Peace Corps.
(b)Funds transferred under subsection (a) shall be merged with, and be available for the same time period, as the appropriation to which they are applied. Notwithstanding any provision of law limiting the amount of funds the Peace Corps may obligate in any fiscal year, such amount shall be increased to the extent necessary to reflect fluctuations in exchange rates from those used in preparing the budget submission.
(c)An obligation of the Peace Corps payable in the currency of a foreign country may be recorded as an obligation based upon exchange rates used in preparing a budget submission. A change reflecting fluctuations in exchange rates may be recorded as a disbursement is made.
(d)Funds transferred from the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account may be transferred back to that account—
(1)if the funds are not needed to pay obligations incurred because of fluctuations in currency exchange rates of foreign countries in the appropriation to which the funds were originally transferred; or
(2)because of subsequent favorable fluctuations in the rates or because other funds are, or become, available to pay such obligations.
(e)A transfer of funds back to the account under subsection (d) may not be made after the end of the fiscal year or other period for which the appropriation, to which the funds were originally transferred, is available for obligation.
(f)(1)At the end of the fiscal year or other period for which appropriations for the expenses of the Peace Corps are made available, unobligated balances of such appropriation may be transferred into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account, to be merged with, and to be available for the same period and purposes as, that account.
(2)The authority of this subsection shall be exercised only to the extent that specific amounts are provided in advance in an appropriation Act.
(g)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to maintain a balance of $5,000,000 in such account at the beginning of such fiscal year.
(h)Each year the Director of the Peace Corps shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, a report on funds transferred under this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 2515, Pub. L. 87–293, title I, § 16, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 622, related to appointment of persons serving under prior law, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 89–572, § 5(a), Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 102–565, § 2(b), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4266, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] applies with respect to each fiscal year after fiscal year 1992.”

Amendments

and Application of

Amendments

Unaffected; Continuation of Determinations, Authorization,

Regulations

, Orders, Contracts, Agreements, and Other Actions Pub. L. 89–572, § 5, Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765, provided that: “(a) section 16 of the Peace Corps Act, as amended [former section 2515 of this title], which relates to appointment of persons serving under prior law, section 20 of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which relates to moratorium on student loans [amending section 425 of Title 20, Education], section 21 of the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which amends the Civil Service Retirement Act [section 8301 et seq. of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees], and title II of the Act, which relates to Internal Revenue Code and Social Security Act

Amendments

[amending section 912, 1303, 3121, 3122, 3401 and 6051 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and section 405, 409 and 410 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and notes under section 912 and 3121 of Title 26] are hereby repealed. “(b) Such repeal shall not be deemed to affect

Amendments

contained in such provisions and the application of the

Amendments

contained in the title. All determinations, authorizations,

Regulations

, orders, contracts, agreements, and other actions issued, undertaken, or entered into under authority of the provisions of law repealed by subsection (a) shall continue in full force and effect until modified by appropriate authority.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2515

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73