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USAID Regulations

USAID implements its development programs in compliance with various environmental regulations, many of which are referenced below:

• Code of Federal Regulations 22 CFR 216 (87 kb) | (60 kb)
  22 CFR 216 Flowchart En español: (178 kb) En français: (39 kb)

• Glossary of Environmental Compliance terms
• Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations of the E&E Bureau
• ADS: Automated Directives System : Relevant Chapters of USAID's Automated Directives System, which guide program implementation. Formerly the USAID handbooks, the ADS is a two-tier standardized system that separates policy from essential procedures. This system also includes a supplementary reference section, consisting of "how to" guides, forms, and other publications from other agencies that affect the Agency.
  Chapter 201: Planning (821 kb)
  Chapter 204: Environmental Procedures (72 kb)| (104 kb)|
  Chapter 211: Biosafety Procedures for Genetic Engineering Research
  Chapter 250: Urban and Environmental Credit Program (UE Credit Program) (115 kb)| (206 kb)
  Chapter 302: USAID Direct Contracting - (234 kb)
  Chapter 303: Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Non-Governmental Organizations - (303 kb)| (531 kb)
  Chapter 306: Interagency Agreements - (682 kb)| (869 kb)
  Chapter 308: Grants and Cooperative Agreements with Public International Organizations - (175 kb)
  Chapter 312.5.3E: Pesticides (128 kb)
  
• Code of Federal Regulations Referenced in the ADS
• USAID's policy directive on the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
• Entire Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended This is USAID's underlying enabling legislation. This link will provide the entire Act which is more than 763 pages long and provides an overall context. For ease of use, the links below lead to pages that provide selected FAA environment related sections.
  • Section 117 (Environment and Natural Resources)
  • Section 118 (Tropical Forests)
  • Section 119 (Endangered Species)
  • Part I, Chapter 7 (Debt for Nature Exchanges) This Chapter provides authority for USAID to engage in debt for nature exchanges involving commercial debt.
  • Part IV, (Enterprise for the American Initiative) This Part creates an interagency program in which USAID is one of a group of participating federal agencies who together reduce official debt of Latin American and Caribbean countries owed to the U.S. in exchange for the creation of local public-private trust funds for the purpose of making grants in environment, child survival and child development. See also related legislation in the Export Import Bank Act, Section 12 and the Food for Peace Act, Title VI.
  • Part V (Tropical Forestry Conservation Act)
  • The Tropical Forest Conservation Act

Other controlling Federal legislation:

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, laws & regulations homepage
• National Environmental Policy Act
• NEPANet maintained by the President's Council on Environmental Quality
• 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
Executive Orders
• 12114 Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions
• 13028 (61 kb) and 13131 (60 kb) Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. This amends Executive Order 12757, which was subsequently amended by Executive Order 12823 and Executive Order 13028
• 13089: Coral Reef Protection (65 kb)
• 13112: Invasive Species (68 kb)
• National Invasive Species Council Additional information on invasive species and the federal response is available on this web page. USAID is one of ten U.S. government agencies involved.
• 13141: Environmental Review of Trade Agreements
• 13148: Greening the Government Through Leadership in Environmental Management
• 13158: Marine Protected Areas (138 kb)

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