A bill to amend the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps for fiscal year 1993 and to establish a Peace Corps foreign exchange fluctuations account, and for other purposes.
PL 102-565 (S.3309), enacted 10/28/1992

PUBLIC LAW 102-565—OCT. 28, 1992 
106 STAT. 4265 
Public Law 102-565 
102d Congress 
An Act 
To amend the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps 
Q . ng iqqo 
for fiscal year 1993 and to establish a Peace Corps foreign exchange fluctuations 
' 
account, and for other purposes. 
i°- *309] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 3(b) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2502(b)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
"(b) AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act 
$218,146,000 for fiscal year 1993, which are authorized to remain 
available until September 30,1994.". 
SEC. 2. PEACE CORPS FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS. 
(a) ESTABUSHMENT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY 
FLUCTUATIO 
ACCOUNT.—The Peace Cori)s Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) is amend 
by inserting after section 15 the following new section: 
"SEC. 16. FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ACCOUNT. 
22 USC 2515. 
"(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) There is established in the Treasury 
of the United States an account to be known as the 'Foreign Cur-
rency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account'. The account shall be 
used for the purpose of providing funds to pay expenses for oper-
ations of the Peace Corps outside the United States which, as 
a result of fluctuations in currency exchange rates, exceed the 
amount appropriated for such expenses. 
"(2) Funds in the account may be transferred, upon the cer-
tification of the Director of the Peace Corps (or the Director's 
designee) that the transfer is necessary for the purpose specified 
in paragraph (1), to the account containing fimds appropriated 
for the expenses of the Peace Corps. 
"(b) USE OF FUNDS IN THE ACCOUNT.—Funds transferred under 
subsection (a) shall be merged with, and be available for the same 
time period, as the appropriation to which they are applied. Not-
withstanding any provision of law limiting the amount of fiinds 
the Peace Corps may obligate in any fiscal year, such amount 
shall be increased to the extent necessary to reflect 
fluctuations 
in exchange rates from those used in preparing the budget submis-
sion. 
"(c) EXCHANGE RATES APPLICABLE TO OBLIGATIONS.—An obliga-
tion of the Peace Corps payable in the currency of a foreign country 
may be recorded as an obligation based upon exchange rates used 
in preparing a budget submission. A change reflecting 
fluctuations 
in exchange rates may be recorded as a disbursement is made. 
"(d) TRANSFERS BACK TO ACCOUNT.—Funds transferred fi-om 
the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account may be 
transferred back to that account— 
106 STAT. 4266 
PUBLIC LAW 102-565—OCT. 28, 1992 
"(1) if the funds are not needed to pay obligations incurred 
because of fluctuations in currency exchange rates of foreign 
countries in the appropriation to which the funds were origi-
nally transferred; or 
"(2) because of subsequent favorable fluctuations in the 
rates or because other funds are, or become, available to pay 
such obligations. 
"(e) LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS BACK.—A transfer of funds back 
to the account under subsection (d) may not be made after the 
end of the fiscal year or other period for which the appropriation, 
to which the funds were originally transferred, is available for 
obligation. 
"(f) TRANSFERS TO THE ACCOUNT FROM REGULAR APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—(1) At the end of the fiscal year or other period for which 
appropriations for the expenses of the Peace Corps are made avail-
able, unobligated balances of such appropriation may be transferred 
into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account, to 
be merged with, and to be available for the same period and 
purposes as, that account. 
"(2) The authority of this subsection shall be exercised only 
to the extent that specific amounts are provided in advance in 
an appropriation Act. 
"(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace 
Corps, Account for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary 
to maintain a balance of $5,000,000 in such account at the beginning 
of such fiscal year. 
"(h) REPORTS.—Each year the Director of the Peace Corps shall 
submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate, a report on funds transferred under this sec-
tion.". 
22 use 2515 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—^The amendment made by subsection (a) 
note. 
applies with respect to each fiscal year after fiscal year 1992. 
22 use 2504 
SEC. 3. EVALUATION OF HEALTH-CARE SERVICES PROVIDED TO PEACE 
note 
CORPS VOLUNTEERS. 
Contracts. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Peace Corps shall Contract 
with an eligible organization or organizations to conduct before 
January 1, 1997, a total of three evaluations of the health-care 
needs of the Peace Corps volunteers and the adequacy of the system 
through which the Peace Corps provides health-care services in 
meeting those needs. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS OF THE EVALUATIONS.—Each evaluation 
shall include an assessment of the adequacy of the Peace Corps 
health-care system— 
(1) to provide diagnostic, treatment, and referral services 
to meet the health-care needs of Peace Corps volunteers, and 
(2) to conduct health examinations of applicants for enroll-
ment as Peace Corps volunteers and to provide immunization 
and dented care preparatory to service of applicants for enroll-
ment who have accepted an invitation to begin a period of 
training for service as a Peace Corps volunteer. 
(c) REPORTS TO THE PEACE CORPS.—^An organization making 
an evaluation under this section shall submit to the Director of 
the Peace Corps a report containing its 
findings 
and rec-
PUBLIC LAW 102-565—OCT. 28, 1992 
106 STAT. 4267 
ommendations not later than May 31, 1993, December 31, 1994, 
and December 31, 1996, as the case may be. Each report shall 
include recommendations regarding appropriate standards and pro-
cedures for ensuring the furnishing of quaUty medical care and 
for measuring the quality of care provided to Peace Corps vol-
unteers. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 days after receipt 
of a report required by subsection (c), the Director of the Peace 
Corps shall transmit the report, together with the Director's com-
ments, to the appropriate congressional committees. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term "appropriate congressional committees" means 
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(2) the term "eligible organization" means an independent 
health-care accreditation organization or other independent 
organization with expertise in evaluating health-care systems 
similar to that of the Peace Corps. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENT ON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED MAT-
TERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—^Not later than May 31, 1992, the Director 
of the Peace Corps and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report which 
describes— 
(1) the information provided by the Peace Corps to its 
volunteers and to applicants for volunteer service in the Peace 
Corps regarding the benefits and services to which Peace Corps 
volunteers or trainees may be entitled or for which they may 
be eligible in the event that they sustain injuries or become 
disabled during their service, or their training for service, with 
the Peace Corps; 
(2) the efforts by the Peace Corps and the Department 
of Labor to coordinate the provision of such information to 
Peace Corps volunteer-applicants and volunteers and the 
processing of claims by Peace Corps volunteers under the Fed-
eral Employees Compensation Act (FECA); 
^ 
(3) the number of Peace Corps volunteers and volunteer-
applicants who have filed claims under the Federal Employees 
Compensation Act (FECA) and the percentage of the claims 
that have been approved; and 
(4) the timeliness of approvals or denials of claims of Peace 
Corps volunteers and volunteer-applicants under the Federal 
Employees Compensation Act (FECA). 
(b) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall also include such recommendations as the Director of the 
Peace Corps and the Secretary of Labor may determine necessary 
to facilitate the filing and processing of clsdms by Peace Corps 
volunteers regarding the benefits described in that subsection. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term "appropriate congressional committees" means 
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
106 STAT. 4268 
PUBLIC LAW 102-565—OCT. 28, 1992 
(2) the term "Federal Employees Compensation Act 
(FECA)" means chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 5. PEACE CORPS PROGRAMS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Up to $6,000,000 of the funds 
made available to carry out the Peace Corps Act for fiscal year 
/ 
1993 shall be made available for establishing Small Business Devel-
opment Programs in the independent states of the former Soviet 
Union. The programs shall include the promotion of local economic 
development by providing technical assistance £ind training in 
municipal restructuring and financing, privatization, valuation of 
state-owned enterprises, the development and promotion of business 
associations, and the identification of investment opportunities and 
requirements. 
(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term 
"independent states of the former Soviet Union" means the following 
(which formerly were part of the Soviet Union): Armenia, Azer-
baijan, Byelarus, (Jeorgia, Kazakhstan, Kjrrgyzstan, Moldova, Rus-
sia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. 
Approved October 28, 1992. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 3309: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 138 (1992): 
Oct. 2, considered and passed Senate. 
Oct. 5, considered and passed House.