SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Manufac-
turing Disaster Relief Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN BUY AMERICAN RE-
QUIREMENTS TO DISASTER RELIEF ASSIST-
ANCE AND EMERGENCY RELIEF ASSISTANCE 
UNDER THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 
1961. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 604 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2354) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN BUY AMERICAN 
REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Administrator may not procure a 
manufactured article to provide disaster relief assist-
ance or emergency relief assistance in a foreign 
country unless the article is manufactured in such 
foreign country. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(A) 
FOR
U.S.-MANUFACTURED
ARTI-
CLES.—If the Administrator determines that 
satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of 
the article described in paragraph (1) cannot be 
procured as and when needed, the Adminis-
trator may procure an article manufactured in 
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the United States to provide disaster relief as-
sistance or emergency relief assistance in such 
foreign country. 
‘‘(B) FOR OTHER MANUFACTURED ARTI-
CLES.—If the Administrator determines that 
satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of 
the article described in paragraph (A) cannot be 
procured as and when needed, the Adminis-
trator may procure an article manufactured in 
any other country to provide disaster relief as-
sistance or emergency relief assistance in such 
foreign country. 
‘‘(3) 
CONSISTENCY
WITH
INTERNATIONAL 
AGREEMENTS.—No provision of this subsection shall 
apply to the extent the Administrator, in consulta-
tion with the United States Trade Representative, 
determines that it is inconsistent with United States 
obligations under an international agreement. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘Administrator’ means the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘disaster relief assistance’ 
means assistance under chapter 9 of part I of 
this Act; 
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‘‘(C) the term ‘emergency relief assistance’ 
means assistance under part I of this Act to ad-
dress an urgent situation in which a population 
is in imminent danger of increased malnutrition 
and mortality as a result of food shortages; and 
‘‘(D) the term ‘manufactured’ means, with 
respect to a country, the article has been manu-
factured in such country substantially all from 
articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, 
or manufactured, as the case may be, in such 
country.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section takes effect 90 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act and applies to any contract entered 
into on or after that date for the procurement of articles 
to which such amendment applies. 
Æ 
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