(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private
partners of universities’’ after ‘‘for the univer-
sities’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(3) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private
partners of universities’’ after ‘‘such univer-
sities’’;
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘,
and’’ and inserting a semicolon;
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the
comma at the end and inserting a semicolon;
(D) by striking the matter following sub-
paragraph (B); and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) multilateral banks and agencies receiv-
ing United States funds;
‘‘(D) development agencies of other coun-
tries; and
‘‘(E) United States Government foreign as-
sistance and economic cooperation programs;’’;
and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) generally engage the United States univer-
sity community more extensively in the agricultural
research, trade, and development initiatives under-
taken outside the United States, with the objectives of
strengthening its capacity to carry out research,
teaching, and extension activities for solving problems
in food production, processing, marketing, and con-
sumption in agriculturally developing nations, and
for transforming progress in global agricultural re-
search and development into economic growth, trade,
and trade benefits for aid recipient countries and
United States communities and industries, and for
the wise use of natural resources; and
‘‘(5) ensure that all federally funded support to
universities and public and private partners of uni-
versities relating to the goals of this title is periodi-
cally reviewed for its performance.’’.
(d) DEFINITION OF UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296(d) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(d))
is amended—
(1) by inserting after ‘‘sea-grant colleges;’’ the
following: ‘‘Native American land-grant colleges as
authorized under the Equity in Educational Land-
Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 note);’’; and
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘extension’’
and inserting ‘‘extension (including outreach)’’.
(e) DEFINITION OF ADMINISTRATOR.—Section 296(e)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(e))
is amended by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before ‘‘Agency’’.
(f) DEFINITION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS
OF UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(f) As used in this title, the term ‘public and private
partners of universities’ includes entities that have coopera-
tive or contractual agreements with universities, which may
include formal or informal associations of universities,
other education institutions, United States Government and
State agencies, private voluntary organizations, nongovern-
mental organizations, firms operated for profit, nonprofit
organizations, multinational banks, and, as designated by
the Administrator, any organization, institution, or agency
incorporated in other countries.’’.
(g) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE.—Section 296 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(g) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculture’ in-
cludes the science and practice of activity related to food,
feed, and fiber production, processing, marketing, distribu-
tion, utilization, and trade, and also includes family and
consumer sciences, nutrition, food science and engineering,
agricultural economics and other social sciences, forestry,
wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, veterinary
medicine, and other environmental and natural resources
sciences.’’.
(h) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURISTS.—Section 296 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(h) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculturists’ in-
cludes farmers, herders, and livestock producers, individuals
who fish and others employed in cultivating and harvesting
food resources from salt and fresh waters, individuals who
cultivate trees and shrubs and harvest nontimber forest
products, as well as the processors, managers, teachers, ex-
tension specialists, researchers, policymakers, and others
who are engaged in the food, feed, and fiber system and
its relationships to natural resources.’’.
SEC. 3. GENERAL AUTHORITY.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.—Section 297(a)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(a))
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), to read as follows:
‘‘(1) to implement program components through
United States universities as authorized by para-
graphs (2) through (5) of this subsection;’’;
(2) in paragraph (3), to read as follows:
‘‘(3) to provide long-term program support for
United States university global agricultural and re-
lated environmental collaborative research and learn-
ing opportunities for students, teachers, extension spe-
cialists, researchers, and the general public;’’; and
(3) in paragraph (4)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before
‘‘universities’’;
(B) by inserting ‘‘agricultural’’ before ‘‘re-
search centers’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘and the institutions of ag-
riculturally developing nations’’ and inserting
‘‘multilateral banks, the institutions of agri-
culturally developing nations, and United States
and foreign nongovernmental organizations sup-
porting extension and other productivity-enhanc-
ing programs’’.
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(b) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘universities’’ and inserting
‘‘United States universities with public and pri-
vate partners of universities’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (C)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘, environment,’’ before
‘‘and related’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘farmers and farm
families’’ and inserting ‘‘agriculturalists’’;
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, including
resources of the private sector,’’ after ‘‘Federal or
State resources’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and the
United States Department of Agriculture’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘, the Department of Agri-
culture, State agricultural agencies, the Department
of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the En-
vironmental Protection Agency, the Office of the
United States Trade Representative, the Food and
Drug Administration, other appropriate Federal
agencies, and appropriate nongovernmental and busi-
ness organizations.’’.
(c) FURTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(c) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), to read as follows:
‘‘(2) focus primarily on the needs of agricultural
producers, rural families, processors, traders, con-
sumers, and natural resources managers;’’; and
(2) in paragraph (4), to read as follows:
‘‘(4) be carried out within the developing coun-
tries and transition countries comprising newly
emerging democracies and newly liberalized econo-
mies; and’’.
(d) SPECIAL PROGRAMS.—Section 297 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b) is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(e) The Administrator shall establish and carry out
special programs under this title as part of ongoing pro-
grams for child survival, democratization, development of
free enterprise, environmental and natural resource man-
agement, and other related programs.’’.
SEC. 4. BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRICUL-
TURAL DEVELOPMENT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 298(a) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(a)) is amended
in the third sentence, by inserting at the end before the pe-
riod the following: ‘‘on a case-by-case basis’’.
(b) GENERAL AREAS
OF RESPONSIBILITY
OF
THE
BOARD.—Section 298(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(b)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) The Board’s general areas of responsibility shall
include participating in the planning, development, and
implementation of, initiating recommendations for, and
monitoring, the activities described in section 297 of this
title.’’.
(c) DUTIES OF THE BOARD.—Section 298(c) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘in-
crease food production’’ and all that follows and
inserting the following: ‘‘improve agricultural
production, trade, and natural resource manage-
ment in developing countries, and with private
organizations seeking to increase agricultural
production and trade, natural resources manage-
ment, and household food security in developing
and transition countries;’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting be-
fore ‘‘sciences’’ the following: ‘‘, environmental,
and related social’’;
(2) in paragraph (4), after ‘‘Administrator and
universities’’ insert ‘‘and their partners’’;
(3) in paragraph (5), after ‘‘universities’’ insert
‘‘and public and private partners of universities’’;
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(5) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘in the devel-
oping nations.’’ and inserting ‘‘and natural resource
issues in the developing nations, assuring efficiency
in use of Federal resources, including in accordance
with the Governmental Performance and Results Act
of 1993 (Public Law 103–62; 107 Stat. 285), and the
amendments made by that Act;’’; and
(6) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) developing information exchanges and con-
sulting regularly with nongovernmental organiza-
tions, consumer groups, producers, agribusinesses and
associations, agricultural cooperatives and commodity
groups, State departments of agriculture, State agri-
cultural research and extension agencies, and aca-
demic institutions;
‘‘(9) investigating and resolving issues con-
cerning implementation of this title as requested by
universities; and
‘‘(10) advising the Administrator on any and all
issues as requested.’’.
(d) SUBORDINATE UNITS.—Section 298(d) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(d)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Research’’ and insert ‘‘Pol-
icy’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘administration’’ and in-
serting ‘‘design’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘section 297(a)(3) of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘section 297’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Joint Committee on Coun-
try Programs’’ and inserting ‘‘Joint Operations
Committee’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘which shall assist’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘which shall assist in
and advise on the mechanisms and processes for
implementation of activities described in section
297.’’.
SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORT.
Section 300 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2220e) is amended by striking ‘‘April 1’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘September 1’’.
Calendar No. 913
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4002
AN ACT
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to
revise and improve provisions relating to famine
prevention and freedom from hunger.
OCTOBER 2 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 2000
Reported with an amendment