22 U.S.C. § 2421a — Capital projects office within Agency for International Development
submitted 34 years ago by Pub. L. 102-549 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 425 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator of AID must create an office for developmentally sound capital projects and support projects that consider host-country needs and United States export opportunities. The office must coordinate projects, funding, infrastructure reviews, and a study of countries moving to market economies.
(a) Establishment. The Administrator of AID must establish a capital projects office to carry out subsection (b). (b) Purposes. The office must (1) develop an AID program focused only on developmentally sound capital projects, considering the host country’s development needs and United States export opportunities; and (2) specifically consider opportunities for United States high-technology firms, including small and medium-sized firms, to support capital projects in developing countries and countries moving from nonmarket to market economies. (c) Activities. Working through the office and with appropriate members of the Trade Promotion Coordination Committee, the Administrator (1) must support capital projects in those countries; (2) must periodically review their infrastructure needs, explore opportunities for United States firms in new projects, and keep those firms and Congress informed; (3) must ensure every AID-funded project is developmentally sound under criteria of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; (4) must coordinate with other AID offices and country missions to develop projects offering opportunities for United States firms while remaining consistent with AID’s main mission of helping developing countries with traditional development projects; (5) must coordinate, when appropriate, AID funds available for tied-aid purposes; and (6) must help meet the infrastructure needs of countries moving to market economies and respond to foreign-government infrastructure assistance. This includes a comprehensive study that (A) identifies the economic sectors most in need of rebuilding and (B) identifies the countries’ technology status and opportunities for United States high-technology firms to build technological infrastructure, including export opportunities for United States high-technology companies. The results must be reported to the appropriate congressional committees within 12 months after October 28, 1992.
The Administrator of AID shall establish a capital projects office to carry out the purposes described in subsection (b).
The purposes referred to in subsection (a) are—
to develop an AID program that would focus solely on developmentally sound capital projects, taking into consideration development needs of the host country and the export opportunities for the United States; and
to consider specifically opportunities for United States high-technology firms, including small- and medium-sized firms, in supporting capital projects for developing countries and for countries making the transition from nonmarket to market economies.
The Administrator of AID (acting through the capital projects office), in coordination with the appropriate members of the Trade Promotion Coordination Committee—
shall support capital projects in developing countries and in countries making the transition from nonmarket to market economies;
shall periodically review infrastructure needs in developing countries and countries making the transition from nonmarket to market economies and shall explore opportunities for United States firms in the development of new capital projects in these countries, keeping both United States firms and the Congress informed of these reviews;
shall ensure that each capital project for which AID provides funding is developmentally sound, as determined under the criteria developed by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development;
shall coordinate its activities with other AID offices, and work with AID country missions, in developing capital projects that provide opportunities for United States firms consistent with AID’s primary mission to help developing countries with traditional development projects;
shall coordinate, where appropriate, funds available to AID for tied-aid purposes; and
shall play a special role in helping to meet the infrastructure needs of countries making the transition from nonmarket to market economies by meeting the challenge of infrastructure assistance provided by foreign governments to those countries, including by undertaking a comprehensive study of the infrastructure needs of the various countries making the transition from nonmarket to market economies—
to identify those sectors in the economies of these countries that are most in need of rebuilding, and
to identify the state of technology in these countries and the opportunity for United States high technology firms to help develop a technological infrastructure in these countries, including an assessment of export opportunities for United States high technology companies.
The results of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph (6) shall be reported to the appropriate congressional committees within 12 months after October 28, 1992.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 102–549, title III, § 302, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3658.)
- 1992Enacted · Pub. L. 102-549 · 106 Stat. 3658
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