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Union Calendar No. 329 

110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1084 

[Report No. 110–537] 

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the State Department Basic 

Authorities Act of 1956, and the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to build 

operational readiness in civilian agencies, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 15, 2007 

Mr. FARR (for himself and Mr. SAXTON) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

MARCH 4, 2008 

Additional sponsors: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of 

Texas, Mr. HONDA, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY

of Pennsylvania, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. WATSON, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. 

BORDALLO, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. FORBES, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, 

Mr. LATHAM, Mr. WOLF, Mr. BOUCHER, Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas, Mr. 

MCDERMOTT, Mr. COHEN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. STARK, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. VAN

HOLLEN, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. ELLISON, and Mr. MILLER

of North Carolina 

MARCH 4, 2008 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 


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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 15, 2007] 

A BILL 

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the State 

Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, and the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to build operational readiness 

in civilian agencies, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reconstruction and Sta5 bilization Civilian Management Act of 2008’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) In June 2004, the Office of the Coordinator 

9 for Reconstruction and Stabilization (referred to as 

10 the ‘‘Coordinator’’) was established in the Department 

11 of State with the mandate to lead, coordinate, and in12 stitutionalize United States Government civilian ca13 pacity to prevent or prepare for post-conflict situa14 tions and help reconstruct and stabilize a country or 

15 region that is at risk of, in, or is in transition from, 

16 conflict or civil strife. 

17 (2) In December 2005, the Coordinator’s man18 date was reaffirmed by the National Security PresiVerDate Aug 31 2005 00:10 Mar 05, 2008 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6203 E:\BILLS\H1084.RH H1084

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1 dential Directive 44, which instructed the Secretary of 

2 State, and at the Secretary’s direction, the Coordi3 nator, to coordinate and lead integrated United 

4 States Government efforts, involving all United States 

5 departments and agencies with relevant capabilities, 

6 to prepare, plan for, and conduct reconstruction and 

7 stabilization operations. 

8 (3) National Security Presidential Directive 44 

9 assigns to the Secretary, with the Coordinator’s as10 sistance, the lead role to develop reconstruction and 

11 stabilization strategies, ensure civilian interagency 

12 program and policy coordination, coordinate inter13 agency processes to identify countries at risk of insta14 bility, provide decision-makers with detailed options 

15 for an integrated United States Government response 

16 in connection with reconstruction and stabilization 

17 operations, and carry out a wide range of other ac18 tions, including the development of a civilian surge 

19 capacity to meet reconstruction and stabilization 

20 emergencies. The Secretary and the Coordinator are 

21 also charged with coordinating with the Department 

22 of Defense on reconstruction and stabilization re23 sponses, and integrating planning and implementing 

24 procedures. 


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1 (4) The Department of Defense issued Directive 

2 3000.05, which establishes that stability operations 

3 are a core United States military mission that the 

4 Department of Defense must be prepared to conduct 

5 and support, provides guidance on stability oper6 ations that will evolve over time, and assigns respon7 sibilities within the Department of Defense for plan8 ning, training, and preparing to conduct and support 

9 stability operations. 

10 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

11 In this Act: 

12 (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis13 trator’’ means the Administrator of the United States 

14 Agency for International Development. 

15 (2) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ means any en16 tity included in chapter 1 of title 5, United States 

17 Code. 

18 (3) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT19 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit20 tees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 

21 House of Representatives and the Committee on For22 eign Relations of the Senate. 

23 (4) DEPARTMENT.—Except as otherwise provided 

24 in this Act, the term ‘‘Department’’ means the De25 partment of State. 


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1 (5) PERSONNEL.—The term ‘‘personnel’’ means 

2 individuals serving in any service described in section 

3 2101 of title 5, United States Code, other than in the 

4 legislative or judicial branch. 

5 (6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

6 the Secretary of State. 

7 SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR RECON8 STRUCTION AND STABILIZATION CRISES. 

9 Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act 

10 of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2351 et seq.) is amended by inserting 

11 after section 617 the following new section: 

12 ‘‘SEC. 618. ASSISTANCE FOR A RECONSTRUCTION AND STA13 BILIZATION CRISIS. 

14 ‘‘(a) ASSISTANCE.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If the President determines 

16 that it is in the national security interests of the 

17 United States for United States civilian agencies or 

18 non-Federal employees to assist in reconstructing and 

19 stabilizing a country or region that is at risk of, in, 

20 or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife, the 

21 President may, in accordance with the provisions set 

22 forth in section 614(a)(3), subject to paragraph (2) of 

23 this subsection but notwithstanding any other provi24 sion of law, and on such terms and conditions as the 

25 President may determine, furnish assistance to such 


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1 country or region for reconstruction or stabilization 

2 using funds under paragraph (3). 

3 ‘‘(2) PRE-NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—The 

4 President may not furnish assistance pursuant para5 graph (1) until five days (excepting Saturdays, Sun6 days, and legal public holidays) after the require7 ments under section 614(a)(3) of this Act are carried 

8 out. 

9 ‘‘(3) FUNDS.—The funds referred to in para10 graph (1) are funds made available under any other 

11 provision of law and under other provisions of this 

12 Act, and transferred or reprogrammed for purposes of 

13 this section, and such transfer or reprogramming 

14 shall be subject to the procedures applicable to a noti15 fication under section 634A of this Act. 

16 ‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—The authority contained in this 

17 section may be exercised only during fiscal years 2008, 

18 2009, and 2010, except that the authority may not be exer19 cised to furnish more than $100,000,000 in any such fiscal 

20 year.’’. 

21 SEC. 5. RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION. 

22 Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 

23 of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a et seq.) is amended by adding 

24 at the end the following new section: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 62. RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION. 

2 ‘‘(a) OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR FOR RECON3 STRUCTION AND STABILIZATION.— 

4 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established 

5 within the Department of State the Office of the Coor6 dinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. 

7 ‘‘(2) COORDINATOR FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND

8 STABILIZATION.—The head of the Office shall be the 

9 Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, 

10 who shall be appointed by the President, by and with 

11 the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator 

12 shall report directly to the Secretary. 

13 ‘‘(3) FUNCTIONS.—The functions of the Office of 

14 the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization 

15 shall include the following: 

16 ‘‘(A) Monitoring, in coordination with rel17 evant bureaus and offices of the Department of 

18 State and the United States Agency for Inter19 national Development (USAID), political and 

20 economic instability worldwide to anticipate the 

21 need for mobilizing United States and inter22 national assistance for the reconstruction and 

23 stabilization of a country or region that is at 

24 risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or 

25 civil strife. 


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1 ‘‘(B) Assessing the various types of recon2 struction and stabilization crises that could 

3 occur and cataloging and monitoring the non4 military resources and capabilities of agencies 

5 (as such term is defined in section 3 of the Re6 construction and Stabilization Civilian Manage7 ment Act of 2008) that are available to address 

8 such crises. 

9 ‘‘(C) Planning, in conjunction with 

10 USAID, to address requirements, such as demo11 bilization, disarmament, rebuilding of civil soci12 ety, policing, human rights monitoring, and 

13 public information, that commonly arise in re14 construction and stabilization crises. 

15 ‘‘(D) Coordinating with relevant agencies to 

16 develop interagency contingency plans and pro17 cedures to mobilize and deploy civilian personnel 

18 and conduct reconstruction and stabilization op19 erations to address the various types of such cri20 ses. 

21 ‘‘(E) Entering into appropriate arrange22 ments with agencies to carry out activities under 

23 this section and the Reconstruction and Sta24 bilization Civilian Management Act of 2008. 


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1 ‘‘(F) Identifying personnel in State and 

2 local governments and in the private sector who 

3 are available to participate in the Civilian Re4 serve Corps established under subsection (b) or to 

5 otherwise participate in or contribute to recon6 struction and stabilization activities. 

7 ‘‘(G) Taking steps to ensure that training 

8 and education of civilian personnel to perform 

9 such reconstruction and stabilization activities is 

10 adequate and is carried out, as appropriate, 

11 with other agencies involved with stabilization 

12 operations. 

13 ‘‘(H) Taking steps to ensure that plans for 

14 United States reconstruction and stabilization 

15 operations are coordinated with and complemen16 tary to reconstruction and stabilization activities 

17 of other governments and international and non18 governmental organizations, to improve effective19 ness and avoid duplication. 

20 ‘‘(I) Maintaining the capacity to field on 

21 short notice an evaluation team consisting of 

22 personnel from all relevant agencies to undertake 

23 on-site needs assessment. 

24 ‘‘(b) RESPONSE READINESS CORPS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) RESPONSE READINESS CORPS.—The Sec2 retary, in consultation with the Administrator of the 

3 United States Agency for International Development 

4 and the heads of other appropriate agencies of the 

5 United States Government, may establish and main6 tain a Response Readiness Corps (referred to in this 

7 section as the ‘Corps’) to provide assistance in sup8 port of reconstruction and stabilization operations in 

9 countries or regions that are at risk of, in, or are in 

10 transition from, conflict or civil strife. The Corps 

11 shall be composed of active and standby components 

12 consisting of United States Government personnel, in13 cluding employees of the Department of State, the 

14 United States Agency for International Development, 

15 and other agencies who are recruited and trained 

16 (and employed in the case of the active component) to 

17 provide such assistance when deployed to do so by the 

18 Secretary to support the purposes of this Act. 

19 ‘‘(2) CIVILIAN RESERVE CORPS.—The Secretary, 

20 in consultation with the Administrator of the United 

21 States Agency for International Development, may es22 tablish a Civilian Reserve Corps for which purpose 

23 the Secretary is authorized to employ and train indi24 viduals who have the skills necessary for carrying out 

25 reconstruction and stabilization activities, and who 


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1 have volunteered for that purpose. The Secretary may 

2 deploy members of the Civilian Reserve Corps pursu3 ant to a determination by the President under section 

4 618 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 

5 ‘‘(3) MITIGATION OF DOMESTIC IMPACT.—The es6 tablishment and deployment of any Civilian Reserve 

7 Corps shall be undertaken in a manner that will 

8 avoid substantively impairing the capacity and read9 iness of any State and local governments from which 

10 Civilian Reserve Corps personnel may be drawn. 

11 ‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 

12 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State such 

13 sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 

14 2010 for the Office and to support, educate, train, main15 tain, and deploy a Response Readiness Corps and a Civil16 ian Reserve Corps. 

17 ‘‘(d) EXISTING TRAINING AND EDUCATION PRO18 GRAMS.—The Secretary shall ensure that personnel of the 

19 Department, and, in coordination with the Administrator 

20 of USAID, that personnel of USAID, make use of the rel21 evant existing training and education programs offered 

22 within the Government, such as those at the Center for Sta23 bilization and Reconstruction Studies at the Naval Post24 graduate School and the Interagency Training, Education, 


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1 and After Action Review Program at the National Defense 

2 University.’’. 

3 SEC. 6. AUTHORITIES RELATED TO PERSONNEL. 

4 (a) EXTENSION OF CERTAIN FOREIGN SERVICE BENE5 FITS.—The Secretary, or the head of any agency with re6 spect to personnel of that agency, may extend to any indi7 viduals assigned, detailed, or deployed to carry out recon8 struction and stabilization activities pursuant to section 62 

9 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (as 

10 added by section 5 of this Act), the benefits or privileges 

11 set forth in sections 413, 704, and 901 of the Foreign Serv12 ice Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973, 22 U.S.C. 4024, and 22 

13 U.S.C. 4081) to the same extent and manner that such bene14 fits and privileges are extended to members of the Foreign 

15 Service. 

16 (b) AUTHORITY REGARDING DETAILS.—The Secretary 

17 is authorized to accept details or assignments of any per18 sonnel, and any employee of a State or local government, 

19 on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis for the purpose 

20 of carrying out this Act, and the head of any agency is 

21 authorized to detail or assign personnel of such agency on 

22 a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis to the Department 

23 of State for purposes of section 62 of the State Department 

24 Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as added by section 5 of this 

25 Act. 


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1 SEC. 7. RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION STRATEGY. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in consulta3 tion with the Administrator of the United States Agency 

4 for International Development, shall develop an interagency 

5 strategy to respond to reconstruction and stabilization oper6 ations. 

7 (b) CONTENTS.—The strategy required under sub8 section (a) shall include the following: 

9 (1) Identification of and efforts to improve the 

10 skills sets needed to respond to and support recon11 struction and stabilization operations in countries or 

12 regions that are at risk of, in, or are in transition 

13 from, conflict or civil strife. 

14 (2) Identification of specific agencies that can 

15 adequately satisfy the skills sets referred to in para16 graph (1). 

17 (3) Efforts to increase training of Federal civil18 ian personnel to carry out reconstruction and sta19 bilization activities. 

20 (4) Efforts to develop a database of proven and 

21 best practices based on previous reconstruction and 

22 stabilization operations. 

23 (5) A plan to coordinate the activities of agencies 

24 involved in reconstruction and stabilization oper25 ations. 


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1 SEC. 8. ANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 

2 Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 

3 of this Act and annually for each of the five years thereafter, 

4 the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate con5 gressional committees a report on the implementation of 

6 this Act. The report shall include detailed information on 

7 the following: 

8 (1) Any steps taken to establish a Response 

9 Readiness Corps and a Civilian Reserve Corps, pur10 suant to section 62 of the State Department Basic 

11 Authorities Act of 1956 (as added by section 5 of this 

12 Act). 

13 (2) The structure, operations, and cost of the Re14 sponse Readiness Corps and the Civilian Reserve 

15 Corps, if established. 

16 (3) How the Response Readiness Corps and the 

17 Civilian Reserve Corps coordinate, interact, and work 

18 with other United States foreign assistance programs. 

19 (4) An assessment of the impact that deployment 

20 of the Civilian Reserve Corps, if any, has had on the 

21 capacity and readiness of any domestic agencies or 

22 State and local governments from which Civilian Re23 serve Corps personnel are drawn. 

24 (5) The reconstruction and stabilization strategy 

25 required by section 7 and any annual updates to that 

26 strategy. 


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1 (6) Recommendations to improve implementa2 tion of subsection (b) of section 62 of the State De3 partment Basic Authorities Act of 1956, including 

4 measures to enhance the recruitment and retention of 

5 an effective Civilian Reserve Corps. 

6 (7) A description of anticipated costs associated 

7 with the development, annual sustainment, and de8 ployment of the Civilian Reserve Corps. 


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Union Calendar No. 329 

110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1084 

[Report No. 110

–537] 

A BILL 

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the 

other purposes. operational readiness in civilian agencies, and for and the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to build State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, 

MARCH 4, 2008 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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