Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§2282 Assistance for Commercial Debt Exchanges

Title 22 › CHAPTER 32 — FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER I — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT › Part VII — Debt-for-Nature Exchanges › § 2282

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The USAID Administrator can give grants to nonprofit groups so they can buy discounted government debt on the open market. That debt must be canceled or bought back under a deal that is part of a debt-for-nature exchange. Grantees and subgrantees may keep any interest earned on the money from the exchange. They do not have to send that interest to the U.S. Treasury or get more money approved by Congress. The interest must be used for the approved program goals and can be put into an endowment whose income supports those goals.

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Title 22, §2282

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(a)The Administrator of the Agency for International Development is authorized to furnish assistance, in the form of grants on such terms and conditions as may be necessary, to nongovernmental organizations for the purchase on the open market of discounted commercial debt of a foreign government of an eligible country which will be canceled or redeemed under the terms of an agreement with that government as part of a debt-for-nature exchange.

(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a grantee (or any subgrantee) of the grants referred to in subsection (a) may retain, without deposit in the Treasury of the United States and without further appropriation by Congress, interest earned on the proceeds of any resulting debt-for-nature exchange pending the disbursements of such proceeds and interest for approved program purposes, which may include the establishment of an endowment, the income of which is used for such purposes.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Another section 462 of Pub. L. 87–195 is classified to section 2272 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 2282

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102