22 U.S.C. § 287e–2 — Reimbursement for goods and services provided by the United States to the United Nations

(a) Requirement to obtain reimbursement. (1) Except as paragraph (2) says, the President must seek and promptly get a UN commitment to reimburse the U.S. whenever the U.S. government gives assistance under the laws listed in subsection (c): (A) to the UN, when the assistance helps carry out an assessed peacekeeping operation; (B) for any UN peacekeeping operation the Security Council authorized under Chapter VI or VII of the UN Charter and that's paid for by peacekeeping or regular-budget assessments; or (C) to a country taking part in such an operation, when the assistance helps that country participate.

(2) Exceptions. (A) Paragraph (1)'s requirement doesn't apply to: (i) goods and services given to U.S. Armed Forces; (ii) assistance worth less than $3,000,000 per fiscal year per operation; (iii) assistance given before November 29, 1999; (iv) salaries and expenses of civilian police and other civilian and military monitors, where UN policy already requires contributing members to pay for similar assistance; or (v) any assistance commitment made before November 29, 1999. (B) The requirements of subsection (d)(1)(B) don't apply to deploying U.S. military forces when the President decides that deployment matters to U.S. security interests; that deployment's cost must still be included in the data provided under section 2348d.

(3) Form and amount. (A) The reimbursement amount is set at the UN's usual rate. (B) Reimbursement can include credits against U.S. assessed contributions for UN peacekeeping, but only after the agency providing the assistance has first been reimbursed for its own expenses.

(b) Treatment of reimbursements. (1) Any reimbursement paid the U.S. is credited to the current appropriation, fund, or account of the agency that provided the assistance. (2) Credited amounts merge with that appropriation, fund, or account, and are available for the same purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limits, as the funds they merge with.

(c) Covered assistance. Subsection (a) applies to assistance given under: (1) sections 287d and 287d–1; (2) sections 2261, 2318(a)(1), 2321j, 2348a(c), and 2357; and (3) any other law under which the U.S. provides assistance to carry out an assessed UN peacekeeping operation's mandate.

(d) Waiver. (1)(A) The President may authorize this assistance without following subsection (a) if the President decides — and notifies the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Speaker in writing — that doing so matters to U.S. security interests. (B) When using that authority, the President must notify the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee following the same procedures used for reprogramming notifications under section 2394–1. (2) Congressional review. Despite such a notice, subsection (a) still applies if Congress enacts a joint resolution disapproving the President's determination within 15 calendar days of receiving the notice. (3) Senate procedures. Any such joint resolution is considered in the Senate under section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.

(e) Relationship to other reimbursement authority. Nothing here stops the President from seeking additional reimbursement for this assistance, beyond what subsection (a) requires.

(f) Definition. "Assistance" in this section includes personnel, services, supplies, equipment, facilities, and other assistance provided by the Defense Department or any other U.S. government agency.