Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Part VI · Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance
§ 2277. Strategy to advance prosperity, combat corruption, strengthen democratic governance, and improve civilian security in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
Statutory text
Elements
Not later than 180 days after , the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 5-year strategy to advance economic prosperity, combat corruption, strengthen democratic governance, and improve civilian security in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and to curb irregular migration from the region.
Consideration
In developing the strategy required under this section, the Secretary of State should consider the following priorities:
Promoting economic prosperity, including by—
supporting market-based solutions to eliminate constraints to inclusive economic growth;
addressing the underlying causes of poverty and inequality;
responding to immediate humanitarian needs by improving humanitarian outcomes, including through access to sanitation, hygiene, and shelter, and by enabling the provision of health resources;
supporting conservation and community resilience and strengthening community preparedness for natural disasters;
identifying, as appropriate, a role for relevant United States agencies and the United States private sector in supporting efforts to increase private sector investment and advance economic prosperity; and
improving domestic resource mobilization, including by strengthening tax collection and enforcement and legal arbitration mechanisms.
Combating corruption, including by—
strengthening the capacity of national justice systems and attorneys generals 1 to identify and prosecute money laundering and other financial crimes and breaking up financial holdings of organized criminal syndicates, including illegally acquired lands and proceeds from illegal activities;
strengthening special prosecutorial offices and financial institutions to conduct asset forfeitures and criminal analysis, and to combat corruption, money laundering, financial crimes, extortion, and human rights crimes;
implementing transparent, merit-based selection processes for prosecutors and judges and the development of professional and merit-based civil services;
establishing or strengthening methods, procedures for internal and external control mechanisms for the security and police services and judiciary; and
supporting anticorruption efforts through bilateral assistance and complementary support through multilateral anticorruption mechanisms when necessary.
Advancing democratic governance, including by—
strengthening government institutions at the local and national levels to provide services and respond to citizen needs through transparent, inclusive, and democratic processes;
strengthening access to information laws and reforming laws that currently limit access to information;
building the capacity of independent media to engage in professional investigative journalism;
ensuring that threats and attacks on journalists, labor leaders, human rights defenders, and other members of civil society are fully investigated and perpetrators are held accountable; and
strengthening electoral institutions and processes to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections.
Improving security conditions, including by—
implementing the Central America Regional Security Initiative;
increasing the professionalization of security services, including the civilian police and military units;
combating the illicit activities of transnational criminal organizations through support to fully vetted elements of attorneys general offices, appropriate government institutions, and security services; and
enhancing the capacity of relevant security services and attorneys general to support counternarcotics efforts and combat human trafficking, forcible recruitment of children and youth by gangs, gender-based violence, and other illicit activities, including trafficking of wildlife, and natural resources.
Consultation
In developing the strategy required under this section, the Secretary of State may consult with civil society and the private sector in the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Benchmarks
The strategy required under this section shall include annual benchmarks to track the strategy’s progress in curbing irregular migration from the region to the United States and improving conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by measuring progress in key areas, including—
reducing poverty and unemployment, increasing private sector investment, responding to immediate humanitarian needs, sustainably reintegrating returnees, supporting conservation and community resilience, and addressing forced displacement in accordance with the priorities outlined in subsection (b)(1);
strengthening national justice systems and attorneys generals,1 supporting multilateral anticorruption mechanisms, identifying and prosecuting money laundering and other financial crimes, breaking up financial holdings of organized criminal syndicates, and advancing judicial integrity and investigative capacity of local authorities in accordance with the priorities outlined in subsection (b)(2);
strengthening government institutions at the local and national levels to provide services and respond to citizen needs through transparent, inclusive, and democratic processes, promoting human rights, building the capacity of independent media, developing the capacity of civil society to conduct oversight, affording legal protections for human rights defenders and members of civil society, and strengthening electoral institutions in accordance with priorities outlined in subsection (b)(3); and
implementing the objectives stated under the Central America Regional Security Initiative and building the capacity of civilian security services in accordance with the priorities outlined in subsection (b)(4).
Public diplomacy
The strategy required under this section shall include a public diplomacy strategy for educating citizens of the region about United States assistance and its benefits to them, and informing such citizens of the dangers of irregular migration to the United States.
Annual progress updates
Not later than 1 year after the submission of the strategy required under this section and annually thereafter for 4 years, the Secretary of State shall provide the appropriate congressional committees with a written description of progress made in meeting the benchmarks established in the strategy.
Public availability
The strategy required under this section shall be made publicly available on the website of the Department of State. If appropriate, a classified annex may be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees.
Definition
In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Water Resources Development Act of 2020
Pub. L. 116–260 div. FF title III § 352 · 134 Stat. 1182
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2277
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title III, § 352, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3127.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title III, § 352, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3127.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 352. ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR CRITICAL PROJECTS. (a) Consistency With Reports.— Congress finds that the project modifications described in this section are in accordance with the reports submitted to Congress by the Secretary under section 7001 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (33 U.S.C. 2282d), titled “Report to Congress on Future Water Resources Development”, or have otherwise been reviewed by Congress. (b) Modifications.— (1) Sacramento area, california.— Section 219(f)(23) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 117 Stat. 1840) is amended to read as follows: “(23) Sacramento area, california.— $45,000,000 for regional water conservation, recycling, reliability, and resiliency projects in Placer, El Dorado, and Sacramento Counties and the San Juan Suburban Water District, California.” . (2) South perris, california.— Section 219(f)(52) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 114 Stat. 2763A–220) is amended by striking “ $25,000,000” and inserting “ $50,000,000”. (3) Madison and st. clair counties, illinois.— Section 219(f)(55) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 335; 114 Stat. 2763A–221) is amended by striking “ $10,000,000” and inserting “ $45,000,000”. (4) Southern and eastern kentucky.— Section 531 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 3773; 113 Stat. 348; 117 Stat. 142; 121 Stat. 1226) is amended— (A) in subsection (g), by inserting “Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Lincoln,” after “Lee,”; and (B) in subsection (h), by striking “ $40,000,000” and inserting “ $100,000,000”. (5) Desoto county, mississippi.— Section 219(f)(30) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 114 Stat. 2763A–220; 119 Stat. 282; 119 Stat. 2257; 122 Stat. 1623) is amended by striking “ $75,000,000” and inserting “ $130,000,000”. (6) Jackson county, mississippi.— Section 219 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 110 Stat. 3757; 113 Stat. 1494; 121 Stat. 1258) is amended— (A) in subsection (c)(5), by striking “water supply and” and inserting “water supply, projects for stormwater and drainage systems, and”; and (B) in subsection (e)(1), by striking “ $32,500,000” and inserting “ $57,500,000”. (7) St. louis, missouri.— Section 219(f)(32) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 337; 121 Stat. 1233) is amended by striking “ $35,000,000” and inserting “ $70,000,000”. (8) Midwest city, oklahoma.— Section 219(f)(231) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 121 Stat. 1266) is amended by striking “ $2,000,000” and inserting “ $5,000,000”. (9) South central pennsylvania.— Section 313 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4845; 109 Stat. 407; 110 Stat. 3723; 113 Stat. 310; 117 Stat. 142; 121 Stat. 1146) is amended— (A) in subsection (g)(1), by striking “ $200,000,000” and inserting “ $400,000,000”; and (B) in subsection (h)(2), by inserting “Beaver, Jefferson,” after “Washington,”. (10) Lakes marion and moultrie, south carolina.— Section 219(f)(25) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 114 Stat. 2763A–220; 117 Stat. 1838; 130 Stat. 1677; 132 Stat. 3818) is amended by striking “ $89,550,000” and inserting “ $110,000,000”. (11) El paso county, texas.— Section 219(f)(269) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 113 Stat. 336; 121 Stat. 1268) is amended by striking “ $25,000,000” and inserting “ $75,000,000”. (12) Western rural water.— Section 595 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (113 Stat. 383; 117 Stat. 139; 117 Stat. 142; 117 Stat. 1836; 118 Stat. 440; 121 Stat. 1219; 123 Stat. 2851; 128 Stat. 1316; 130 Stat. 1681) is amended— (A) by striking the section heading and inserting “western rural water.”; (B) in subsection (b), by inserting “Arizona,” before “rural Idaho”; (C) in subsection (c), by inserting “Arizona,” before “Idaho”; and (D) in subsection (i), by striking “for the period beginning with fiscal year 2001, $435,000,000, to remain available until expended.” and inserting the following: “, to remain available until expended— “(1) for the period beginning with fiscal year 2001, $435,000,000 for Idaho, Montana, rural Nevada, New Mexico, rural Utah, and Wyoming; and “(2) $150,000,000 for Arizona.” . (13) Central west virginia.— Section 571(h) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (113 Stat. 371; 121 Stat. 1257) is amended by striking “ $20,000,000” and inserting “ $100,000,000”. (14) Southern west virginia.— Section 340(g) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4856; 110 Stat. 3727; 113 Stat. 320) is amended by striking “ $40,000,000” and inserting “ $120,000,000”. (c) Lowell Creek Tunnel, Seward, Alaska.— Section 5032(a)(2) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–114, 121 Stat. 1205) is amended by striking “15” and inserting “20”. (d) Cape Arundel Disposal Site, Maine.— Section 1312 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 (132 Stat. 3821) is amended by striking “December 31, 2021” and inserting “September 30, 2024”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the United States – Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act, and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises this chapter.
Credits
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title III, § 352, , 134 Stat. 3127.)