Latin America and the Caribbean:
Environmental Compliance
As a federal government agency, the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) is subject to applicable U.S.
environmental laws, regulations, Executive Orders and procedures that
ensure the wise use of the taxpayer's money. Effective implementation of
these through state of the art environmental impact assessment ensures
that the development activities USAID undertakes are not only
economically sustainable but are protective of the world's environment
on which we and future generations all depend.
Implementation and compliance within USAID is coordinated
and enforced by a team of professional environmental staff
led by the Agency
Environmental Coordinator and a network of Bureau
Environmental Officers, Regional
Environmental Advisors and Mission
Environmental Officers.
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Bureau has compiled
the following references to facilitate environmental compliance.
Also see the LAC
Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) Tracker to locate
environmental reviews of all USAID activities in the LAC region.
USAID implements environment programs in compliance with
various regulations, many of which are referenced below.
- Environmental Procedures
- USAID
Environmental Procedures
- Relevant Chapters of USAID's Automated Directives
System, which guide environmental compliance of program
implementation
- USAID Environmental
Guidelines for Development Activities in Latin America and
the Caribbean (December 2003, Final)
- Overview
of USAID Environmental Compliance Procedures (Developed
for PL-480 Programs) (PDF, 288K)
- Entire Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended
(PDF, 4MB)
- Section
117 (Environment and Natural Resources)
- Section
118 (Tropical Forests)
- Section
119 (Endangered Species)
- Part
I, Chapter 7 (Debt for Nature Exchanges)
- Part
IV, (Enterprise for the American Initiative)
- Part
V (Tropical Forestry Conservation Act)
- LAC
Tropical Forest and Biodiversity FAA 118/119 Country Analyses
- Agency Tropical
Forestry Report (PDF, 701K)
- Other Compliance Resources
- U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, laws & regulations
homepage
- National
Environmental Policy Act
- Executive Orders
- 13028 and 13131:
Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
(PDFs, 61K and 60K, respectively)
- 13089:
Coral Reef Protection (PDF, 65K)
- 13112:
Invasive Species (PDF, 68K)
- 13158:
Marine Protected Areas (PDF, 138K)
- 12114:
Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions
- 22
USC Section 262m: Governing Procedures for USAID Environmental
Impact Monitoring of Multilateral Development Banks
- Export-Import
Bank Act of 1945 as amended
- Public
Law 480, Food For Peace Act, Title VI - Enterprise for the
Americas Initiative, Additional Legislation
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