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107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5733
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to ensure that projects and 
activities carried out with United States assistance are appropriately 
identified overseas as ‘‘American Aid’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2002
Mr. SCHIFF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on International Relations 
A BILL 
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to ensure 
that projects and activities carried out with United 
States assistance are appropriately identified overseas 
as ‘‘American Aid’’, 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 ‘‘Public Diplomacy En-
hancement Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF FUNDING OF PROJECTS AND 
ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS AS ‘‘AMERICAN AID’’. 
Section 641 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2401) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 641. IDENTIFICATION OF FUNDING OF PROJECTS 
AND ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS AS ‘AMERICAN 
AID’. 
‘‘(a) IDENTIFICATION OF FUNDING OF PROJECTS 
AND ACTIVITIES AS ‘AMERICAN AID’.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Projects and activities 
funded, in whole or in part, with United States as-
sistance, including projects and activities carried out 
by nongovernmental organizations, shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, be identified appropriately 
overseas as ‘American Aid’ or ‘Assistance from the 
People of the United States’ in English and the ap-
propriate local language. 
‘‘(2) EXAMPLES OF METHODS OF IDENTIFICA-
TION.—Examples of methods to identify projects 
and activities in accordance with paragraph (1) in-
clude use at the local, national, and regional levels 
of print and broadcast media (including news-
papers), press releases, signage, and appropriate 
events (such as seminars, lectures, ‘ribbon-cutting’ 
ceremonies, and related events).
‘‘(3) APPLICATION REQUIREMENT.—Each con-
tractor or recipient of any assistance award that is 
selected to carry out projects or activities with 
United States assistance shall provide to the United 
States a plan of action on its project or activity pro-
posal that describes how it will comply with the re-
quirement contained in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(4) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘United States assistance’ means assistance under—
‘‘(A)(i) chapter 1 of part I of this Act 
(relating to development assistance); 
‘‘(ii) chapter 10 of part I of this Act 
(relating to the Development Fund for Africa); 
‘‘(iii) chapter 11 of part I of this Act 
(relating to assistance for the independent 
states of the former Soviet Union); 
‘‘(iv) chapter 12 of part I of this Act 
(relating to assistance for the countries of the 
South Caucasus and Central Asia region); 
‘‘(v) chapter 4 of part II of this Act 
(relating to the Economic Support Fund); and 
‘‘(B) the Support for East European De-
mocracy (SEED) Act of 1989. 
‘‘(b) WAIVER.—The requirement contained in sub-
section (a)(1) may be waived with respect to a project or
activity if the requirement would have an adverse impact 
on the objectives of the project or activity. 
‘‘(c) REPORT ON WAIVERS OF MARKING AND IDENTI-
FICATION REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of State, in 
consultation with the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, shall prepare and 
submit to Congress a report on an annual basis that in-
cludes the number of waivers issued by the Agency for 
International Development during the preceding fiscal 
year of—
‘‘(1) the requirement to suitably mark Agency-
funded commodities, equipment, or activities, includ-
ing the rationale for such waivers; and 
‘‘(2) the requirement to identify programs 
under this Act appropriately overseas as ‘American 
Aid’, including the rationale for such waivers. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take ef-
fect on the date of its enactment.’’.
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