Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§1738i Enterprise for the Americas Board

Title 7 › CHAPTER 41 — FOOD FOR PEACE › SUBCHAPTER VI — ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE › § 1738i

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Enterprise for the Americas Board. The President appoints 11 members: six government representatives (at least one from the Department of Agriculture) and five private experts from environmental, child survival and development, community development, scientific, or academic groups with experience in Latin America and the Caribbean (at least one must represent a child survival and development group). The President also picks the chair from the six government representatives. The Board must advise the President on negotiating environmental framework agreements. It must work with the eligible country's government, local NGOs, and regional experts to identify a suitable local body, and it must review that body's programs, operations, and financial audits.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1738i

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(a)Establishment
There is established a board to be known as the “Enterprise for the Americas Board” (hereafter referred to in this subchapter as the “Board”).
(b)Membership and chairperson
(1)Membership
The Board shall be composed of— (A)
(B)five representatives from private nongovernmental environmental, child survival and child development, community development, scientific, and academic organizations with experience and expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean, at least one of whom shall be a representative from a child survival and child development organization;
to be appointed by the President.
(2)Chairperson
The Board shall be headed by a chairperson who shall be appointed by the President from among the representatives appointed under paragraph (1)(A).
(c)Responsibilities
The Board shall—
(1)advise the President on the negotiations for the environmental framework agreements described in subsections (a) and (b) of section 1738f of this title;
(2)ensure, in consultation with the government of the appropriate eligible country, with nongovernmental organizations of such eligible country, and if appropriate, of the region, and with environmental, scientific, and academic leaders of such eligible country and, as appropriate, of the region, that a suitable body referred to in section 1738f(c) of this title is identified; and
(3)review the programs, operations, and fiscal audits of the bodies referred to in section 1738f(c) of this title.

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1992—Pub. L. 102–549, § 603(1), substituted “Enterprise” for “Environment” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–549, § 603(2), substituted “Enterprise” for “Environment”. Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 102–549, § 603(3), inserted “child survival and child development,” after “environmental,” and “, at least one of whom shall be a representative from a child survival and child development organization”. 1991—Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 102–237, § 339(1), substituted “six” for “five” and inserted “, at least one of whom shall be a representative of the Department of Agriculture” after “Government”. Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 102–237, § 339(2), substituted “five” for “four”.

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7 U.S.C. § 1738i

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110