I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5171 
To create a program under which qualified and available United States 
construction workers and appropriate equipment can be sent to Haiti 
to assist Haitians in the rebuilding of their country after the devastating 
January 12, 2010, earthquake, as requested by the Government of Haiti, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 28, 2010 
Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To create a program under which qualified and available 
United States construction workers and appropriate 
equipment can be sent to Haiti to assist Haitians in 
the rebuilding of their country after the devastating Jan-
uary 12, 2010, earthquake, as requested by the Govern-
ment of Haiti, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘ ‘Partnership With 
America’ Rapid Rebuilding of Haiti Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced a 
7.0 magnitude earthquake centered approximately 
15 miles southwest of the nation’s capital, Port-au- 
Prince. 
(2) Following the initial earthquake came 50 
aftershocks, all higher than a magnitude of 4.0, 
within 24 hours. 
(3) The Government of Haiti reports an esti-
mated 230,000 deaths and 300,000 injured. 
(4) Additionally, 1.2 million people have been 
displaced as a result of the earthquake. 
(5) Damage caused by the earthquake is esti-
mated to be between $8 billion and $14 billion. 
(6) According to an Inter-American Develop-
ment Bank report, the episode ‘‘. . . is the most de-
structive event a country has ever experienced when 
measured in terms of the number of people killed as 
a share of the country’s population’’. 
(7) Given the ongoing economic recession in 
which more than 8 million people have lost their jobs 
in the United States, many qualified construction in-
dustry employees in the United States are currently 
unemployed or significantly underemployed and 
therefore could be available to provide immediate ex-
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pertise and labor to facilitate the rapid rebuilding of 
Haiti. 
SEC. 3. PARTNERSHIP WITH AMERICA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the end of the 30- 
day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, working through the 
Infrastructure Finance Experts Corps of the Office of 
Technical Assistance, shall develop and begin carrying out, 
together with the Government of Haiti, a program to be 
called the ‘‘Partnership With America’’ program, under 
which United States construction and reconstruction ex-
perts and workers who currently are unemployed or sig-
nificantly underemployed shall begin work in Haiti on an 
organized and coordinated plan to help Haitians rebuild 
the infrastructure of Haiti, including roads, airports, en-
ergy facilities, schools, hospitals, and other services funda-
mental to economic development, including permanent 
housing for persons who lost their housing because of the 
earthquake. 
(b) PROGRAM GUIDELINES.—In developing the Part-
nership With America program, the Secretary, working 
through the Infrastructure Finance Experts Corps of the 
Office of Technical Assistance, shall— 
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(1) provide the Congress with an estimate of 
the funding needs of such program, including pro-
posed funding sources; 
(2) develop a plan for transporting the United 
States workers and appropriate construction equip-
ment to Haiti; 
(3) develop a plan for the United States work-
ers to mentor Haitian workers while effecting a 
rapid rebuilding of important Haitian infrastructure 
to help the country recover from the January 12, 
2010, earthquake as quickly as possible while antici-
pating the needs of a Haitian economy that does not 
merely return to pre-earthquake levels but grows 
fast enough to provide jobs for Haitians and raise 
the overall standard of living in that country; 
(4) ensure that various infrastructure projects 
are coordinated as well as possible to minimize 
waste, fraud, and abuse; 
(5) seek to employ to the greatest extent pos-
sible United States experts and qualified workers 
who are unemployed or significantly underemployed, 
and be flexible enough to cycle workers to and from 
Haiti in such a way that allows them to return to 
the United States quickly to fill new jobs, while still 
completing their stated missions in rebuilding Haiti; 
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(6) develop a public-private partnership for ef-
fecting the goals of the program, using available 
Government transportation and logistical resources 
while providing rapid rebuilding of Haiti using quali-
fied and available American workers; 
(7) establish centers of excellence through 
which available construction industry experts from 
the United States provide specialized training to 
Haitians on construction industry best practices and 
leading methodologies and technologies to facilitate 
the transfer of deep expertise, including knowledge 
on earthquake-resistant infrastructure; 
(8) seek to ensure that the United States work-
ers do not take the place of Haitian workers, but in-
stead supplement, coordinate, and mentor Haitian 
construction workers, and train them so that an ade-
quate and adequately trained Haitian construction 
force is left in place to accommodate the hoped-for 
future growth of the Haitian economy; 
(9) include adequate controls to ensure that 
United States contractors subcontract substantial 
amounts of work to local Haitian companies; and 
(10) ensure that clear performance metrics and 
incentives are provided to those entities participating 
in the program. 
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