22 U.S.C. § 262p–4: Instructions to United…

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The Secretary of the Treasury must tell the U.S. Executive Director at each multilateral development bank to start talks with other directors and ask the bank to take needed steps. Those steps are to find out during the initial feasibility study how a proposed project would affect indigenous people in the borrowing country, make sure loan conditions that protect indigenous peoples’ rights to land and resources are followed, and consult indigenous communities and nongovernmental groups that represent them at every stage of loan design, planning, implementation, and monitoring.

Title 22, §262p–4

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The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to initiate discussions with other executive directors of the respective bank and to propose that the bank take such steps as may be necessary—

(1)to determine, at the time an initial feasibility study is conducted with respect to a proposed project and to the fullest extent possible, the impact such project would have on indigenous people in the borrowing country;

(2)to ensure compliance with loan conditionalities relating to the protection of the rights of indigenous people to lands and resources; and

(3)to consult with indigenous people, and nongovernmental organizations representing indigenous people, at every phase of loan design, planning, implementation, and monitoring.

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Editorial Notes

Codification section 1605 of Pub. L. 95–118 is based on section 701 of title VII of H.R. 3750, One Hundredth Congress, as introduced Dec. 11, 1987, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–202.

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Definitions The definitions in section 262p–5 of this title apply to this section.

§262p–4 Instructions to United States Executive Directors; Indigenous People in Borrowing Country; Determination of Impact; Protection of Rights; Consultation

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Title 22, §262p–4

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