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requesting partial distributions of an
amount confidentially calculated by the
Licensing Division that equals 50% of
the average satellite royalty awarded to
MGC for 2010–2013, as applied against
the 2015–2017 satellite royalties
collected. Motion at 4.1
The Settling Devotional Claimants
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separate motion that MGC filed in the
companion cable docket. See Settling
Devotional Claimants’ Opposition to
Multigroup Claimants’ Motion for
Partial Distribution of 2015–2017 Cable
and Satellite Royalty Funds
(Opposition).2 MGC filed a Reply in
support of its Motion. See Multigroup
Claimants’ Reply in Support of Motion
for Partial Distribution of 2015–2017
Satellite Royalties (Aug. 13, 2021).3
Prior to ruling on a motion for partial
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to determine whether any interested
claimant entitled to receive such royalty
fees has a reasonable objection to the
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the partial distribution motion that
come to their attention after the close of
the comment period.4
Dated: September 8, 2021.
Jesse M. Feder,
Chief Copyright Royalty Judge.
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1 The Motion can be found at https://app.crb.gov/
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document/download/25603.
4 The Judges deem the SDC’s Opposition and
MGC’s Reply to constitute timely comments and
will consider them, together with any other
comments they receive during the comment period,
in determining whether any reasonable objection
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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
CORPORATION
[MCC FR 21–08]
Report on Countries That Are
Candidates for Millennium Challenge
Account Eligibility in Fiscal Year 2022
and Countries That Would Be
Candidates But for Legal Prohibitions
Millennium Challenge
Corporation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Millennium Challenge
Act of 2003 requires the Millennium
Challenge Corporation to publish a
report that identifies countries that are
‘‘candidate countries’’ for Millennium
Challenge Account assistance during
fiscal year 2022. The report is set forth
in full below.
SUMMARY:
(Authority: Section 608(a) of the Millennium
Challenge Act of 2003, as amended, 22 U.S.C.
7701, 7707(a))
Dated: September 8, 2021.
Thomas G. Hohenthaner,
Acting VP/General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary.
Report on Countries That Are
Candidates for Millennium Challenge
Compact Eligibility for Fiscal Year 2022
and Countries That Would Be
Candidates But for Legal Prohibitions
Summary
This report to Congress is provided in
accordance with section 608(a) of the
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as
amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the
Act).
The Act authorizes the provision of
assistance for global development
through the Millennium Challenge
Corporation (MCC) for countries that
enter into a Millennium Challenge
Compact with the United States to
support policies and programs that
advance the progress of such countries
to achieve lasting economic growth and
poverty reduction. The Act requires
MCC to take a number of steps in
selecting countries with which MCC
will seek to enter into a compact,
including determining the countries that
will be eligible countries for fiscal year
(FY) 2022 based on (a) a country’s
demonstrated commitment to (i) just
and democratic governance, (ii)
economic freedom, and (iii) investments
in its people, (b) the opportunity to
reduce poverty and generate economic
growth in the country, and (c) the
availability of funds to MCC. These
steps include the submission to the
congressional committees specified in
the Act and publication in the Federal
Register of reports on the following:
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• The countries that are ‘‘candidate
countries’’ for FY 2022 based on their
per capita income levels and their
eligibility to receive assistance under
U.S. law and countries that would be
candidate countries but for specified
legal prohibitions on assistance (section
608(a) of the Act);
• The criteria and methodology that
the MCC Board of Directors (the Board)
will use to measure and evaluate the
relative policy performance of the
‘‘candidate countries’’ consistent with
the requirements of subsections (a) and
(b) of section 607 of the Act in order to
determine ‘‘eligible countries’’ from
among the ‘‘candidate countries’’
(section 608(b) of the Act); and
• The list of countries determined by
the Board to be ‘‘eligible countries’’ for
FY 2022, identification of such
countries with which the Board will
seek to enter into compacts, and a
justification for such eligibility
determination and selection for compact
negotiation (section 608(d) of the Act).
This report is the first of three
required reports listed above.
Candidate Countries for FY 2022
The Act requires the identification of
all countries that are candidate
countries for FY 2022 and the
identification of all countries that would
be candidate countries but for specified
legal prohibitions on assistance. Under
sections 606(a) and (b) of the Act,
candidate countries must qualify as low
income or lower middle income
countries as defined in the Act.
Specifically, a country will be a
candidate country in the low income
category for FY 2022 if it
• has a per capita income that is not
greater than the World Bank’s lower
middle income country threshold for
such fiscal year ($4,095 gross national
income per capita for FY 2022);
• is among the 75 countries identified
by the World Bank as having the lowest
per capita income; and
• is not ineligible to receive United
States economic assistance under part I
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as amended (the Foreign Assistance
Act), by reason of the application of the
Foreign Assistance Act or any other
provision of law.
A country will be a candidate country
in the lower middle income category for
FY 2022 if it
• has a per capita income that is not
greater than the World Bank’s lower
middle income country threshold for
such fiscal year ($4,095 gross national
income per capita for FY 2022);
• is not among the 75 countries
identified by the World Bank as having
the lowest per capita income; and
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• is not ineligible to receive United
States economic assistance under part I
of the Foreign Assistance Act by reason
of the application of the Foreign
Assistance Act or any other provision of
law.
Under section 606(c) of the Act as
applied for FY 2022, a country with per
capita income changes from FY 2021 to
FY 2022 such that the country would be
reclassified from the low income
category to the lower middle income
category or vice versa will retain its
income status in its former category for
FY 2022 and two subsequent fiscal years
(FY 2023 and FY 2024). A country that
has transitioned to the upper middle
income category does not qualify as a
candidate country.
Pursuant to section 606(d) of the Act,
the Board identified the following
countries as candidate countries under
the Act for FY 2022. In so doing, the
Board referred to the prohibitions on
assistance to countries for FY 2021
under the Department of State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. J., Pub.
L. 116–94) (FY 2021 SFOAA).
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Candidate Countries: Low Income
Category
1. Afghanistan
2. Angola
3. Bangladesh
4. Benin
5. Bhutan
6. Bolivia
7. Burkina Faso
8. Burundi
9. Cabo Verde
10. Cameroon
11. Central African Republic
12. Chad
13. Congo, Democratic Republic of the
14. Congo, Republic of the
15. Coˆte d’Ivoire
16. Djibouti
17. Egypt
18. El Salvador
19. Eswatini
20. Gambia, The
21. Ghana
22. Guinea
23. Haiti
24. Honduras
25. India
26. Kenya
27. Kiribati
28. Kyrgyzstan
29. Laos
30. Lesotho
31. Liberia
32. Madagascar
33. Malawi
34. Mauritania
35. Mongolia
36. Morocco
37. Mozambique
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38. Nepal
39. Niger
40. Nigeria
41. Pakistan
42. Papua New Guinea
43. Rwanda
44. Sao Tome and Principe
45. Senegal
46. Sierra Leone
47. Solomon Islands
48. Somalia
49. Tajikistan
50. Tanzania
51. Timor-Leste
52. Togo
53. Tunisia
54. Uganda
55. Ukraine
56. Uzbekistan
57. Vanuatu
58. Vietnam
59. Yemen
60. Zambia
Candidate Countries: Lower Middle
Income Category
1. Algeria
2. Belize
3. Indonesia
4. Micronesia, Federated States of
5. Philippines
6. Samoa
Countries That Would Be Candidate
Countries But for Legal Provisions That
Prohibit Assistance
Countries that would be considered
candidate countries for FY 2022 but are
ineligible to receive United States
economic assistance under part I of the
Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the
application of any provision of the
Foreign Assistance Act or any other
provision of law are listed below. This
list is based on legal prohibitions
against economic assistance that apply
as of July 27, 2021.
Prohibited Countries: Low Income
Category
• Burma is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance, including due to
concerns relative to its record on human
rights and pursuant to the military coup
restriction in section 7008 of the FY
2021 SFOAA.
• Cambodia is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance pursuant to section
7043(b)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA,
which restricts (with limited
exceptions) assistance to the
Government of Cambodia unless the
Secretary of State certifies that the
Government of Cambodia is taking
effective steps to strengthen regional
security and stability and respect the
rights and responsibilities enshrined in
the Constitution of the Kingdom of
Cambodia.
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• Comoros is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance due to its status as a
Tier 3 country under the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
• Eritrea is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance due to its human
rights record and its status as a Tier 3
country under the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101
et seq.).
• Ethiopia is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance due to its human
rights record.
• Guinea-Bissau is ineligible to
receive foreign assistance due to its
status as a Tier 3 country under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
• Iran is ineligible to receive foreign
assistance, including due to its status as
a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
• Korea, North is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance, including due to its
status as a Tier 3 country under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
• Mali is ineligible to receive foreign
assistance pursuant to the military coup
restriction in section 7008 of the FY
2021 SFOAA.
• Nicaragua is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance, including due to its
status as a Tier 3 country under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
• South Sudan is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance pursuant to section
7042(i)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA due to
its human rights record.
• Sudan is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance including due to the
military coup restriction in section 7008
of the FY 2021 SFOAA.
• Syria is ineligible to receive foreign
assistance due to its status as a Tier 3
country under the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101
et seq.).
• Zimbabwe is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance, including pursuant to
section 7042(k)(2) of the FY 2021
SFOAA, which prohibits (with limited
exceptions) assistance for the central
government of Zimbabwe unless the
Secretary of State certifies and reports to
Congress that the rule of law has been
restored, including respect for
ownership and title to property, and
freedoms of expression, association, and
assembly.
Prohibited Countries: Lower Middle
Income Category
• Sri Lanka is ineligible to receive
foreign assistance pursuant to section
7044(e)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA,
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which restricts (with limited
exceptions) assistance for the central
government unless the Secretary makes
certain certifications regarding actions
taken by the Government of Sri Lanka
and reports to the Committees on
Appropriations.
Countries identified above as
candidate countries, as well as countries
that would be considered candidate
countries but for the applicability of
legal provisions that prohibit U.S.
economic assistance, may be the subject
of future statutory restrictions or
determinations, or changed country
circumstances, that affect their legal
eligibility for assistance under part I of
the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of
application of the Foreign Assistance
Act or any other provision of law for FY
2022.
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Considerations for Estimating SiteSpecific Probable Maximum
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Nuclear Regulatory
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ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a
knowledge management NUREG,
NUREG/KM–0015, ‘‘Considerations for
Estimating Site-Specific Probable
Maximum Precipitation at Nuclear
Power Plants in the United States of
America.’’ The NRC staff and Oak Ridge
National Laboratory have prepared a
reference document summarizing recent
lessons-learned in connection with a
review of the site-specific probable
maximum precipitation (SSPMP)
estimates used by some nuclear power
plant owners and operators in
connection with a recent re-evaluation
of external flooding at their respective
project sites.
DATES: NUREG/KM–0015 is available on
September 13, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2020–0237 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2020–0237. Address
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telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. NUREG/KM–0015,
‘‘Considerations for Estimating SiteSpecific Probable Maximum
Precipitation at Nuclear Power Plants in
the United States of America’’ is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML21245A418.
• Attention: The PDR, where you may
examine, and order copies of public
documents, is currently closed. You
may submit your request to the PDR via
email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call
1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737,
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET),
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin Quinlan, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
6809, email: Kevin.Quinlan@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
By letter dated March 12, 2012, the
NRC issued a request for information to
all power reactor licensees and holders
of construction permits in active or
deferred status licensees to reevaluate
seismic and external flooding for their
sites against current Commission
requirements and guidance. This
request was made consistent with
paragraph 50.54(f) of title of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
‘‘Conditions of licenses.’’ The request
was issued in connection with
implementing lessons-learned identified
by the staff, and described in their NearTerm Task Force Report, following the
2011 accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power plant. In connection with
this request, owners and operators were
to re-evaluate flood hazards at their
respective sites using present-day
methods and regulatory guidance used
by the NRC staff when reviewing 10
CFR part 52 applications for Early Site
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Permits and Combined Operating
Licenses.
In response to the staff’s 2012
§ 50.54(f) information request, owners
and licensees submitted about 60
external flood hazard re-evaluation
reports (FHRRs) corresponding to the
operating fleet of power reactors. In the
matter of the probable maximum
precipitation (PMP) value used for some
of the flood-hazard re-evaluations
(primarily the estimation of local
intense precipitation and riverine-based
floods), current NRC guidance
documents recommend the use of the
PMP estimation methods described in a
series of Hydrometeorological Reports
(HMRs) developed by the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). The PMP event
itself is generally defined as the greatest
depth of precipitation for a given
duration meteorologically possible for a
design watershed or a given storm area
at a particular time of year. The
estimated PMP over a particular
watershed or basin results in a flood
magnitude for which there is virtually
no risk of exceeding. The challenge,
however, is that HMR-derived PMP
estimates are based on methodologies
and data which have not been updated
with rainfall and storm events which
have occurred in the decades since the
HMRs were last published.
Upon review of the FHRRs, the staff
found that about 26 project sites
responding to the § 50.54(f) information
request submitted PMP estimates that
were not based on NOAA HMRs but
were developed by a commercial
interest. As part of the FHRR process,
the staff conducted an audit of the
commercial vendor who developed the
site-specific PMP estimates to betterunderstand the technical basis
underlying the approach. In all cases,
these SSPMP estimates were less than
those obtained from the applicable
HMR. Although the development and
estimation of the SSPMP studies
reviewed by the staff generally followed
processes similar to those described in
the existing guidance, several different
methods, data sources, assumptions,
and procedures were used to obtain site
specific results other than those found
using the HMR methodology.
Based on the staff’s § 50.54(f) review
experience and in anticipation of its
continued use, this NUREG summarizes
the lessons-learned concerning the
review and application of a SSPMP. To
that end, this NUREG addresses the
following topics:
• Storm Selection
• Storm Reconstruction
• Storm Transposition
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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
[MCC FR 21-08]
Report on Countries That Are Candidates for Millennium Challenge
Account Eligibility in Fiscal Year 2022 and Countries That Would Be
Candidates But for Legal Prohibitions
AGENCY: Millennium Challenge Corporation.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 requires the Millennium
Challenge Corporation to publish a report that identifies countries
that are ``candidate countries'' for Millennium Challenge Account
assistance during fiscal year 2022. The report is set forth in full
below.
(Authority: Section 608(a) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003,
as amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a))
Dated: September 8, 2021.
Thomas G. Hohenthaner,
Acting VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Report on Countries That Are Candidates for Millennium Challenge
Compact Eligibility for Fiscal Year 2022 and Countries That Would Be
Candidates But for Legal Prohibitions
Summary
This report to Congress is provided in accordance with section
608(a) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as amended, 22 U.S.C.
7701, 7707(a) (the Act).
The Act authorizes the provision of assistance for global
development through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for
countries that enter into a Millennium Challenge Compact with the
United States to support policies and programs that advance the
progress of such countries to achieve lasting economic growth and
poverty reduction. The Act requires MCC to take a number of steps in
selecting countries with which MCC will seek to enter into a compact,
including determining the countries that will be eligible countries for
fiscal year (FY) 2022 based on (a) a country's demonstrated commitment
to (i) just and democratic governance, (ii) economic freedom, and (iii)
investments in its people, (b) the opportunity to reduce poverty and
generate economic growth in the country, and (c) the availability of
funds to MCC. These steps include the submission to the congressional
committees specified in the Act and publication in the Federal Register
of reports on the following:
The countries that are ``candidate countries'' for FY 2022
based on their per capita income levels and their eligibility to
receive assistance under U.S. law and countries that would be candidate
countries but for specified legal prohibitions on assistance (section
608(a) of the Act);
The criteria and methodology that the MCC Board of
Directors (the Board) will use to measure and evaluate the relative
policy performance of the ``candidate countries'' consistent with the
requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of section 607 of the Act in
order to determine ``eligible countries'' from among the ``candidate
countries'' (section 608(b) of the Act); and
The list of countries determined by the Board to be
``eligible countries'' for FY 2022, identification of such countries
with which the Board will seek to enter into compacts, and a
justification for such eligibility determination and selection for
compact negotiation (section 608(d) of the Act).
This report is the first of three required reports listed above.
Candidate Countries for FY 2022
The Act requires the identification of all countries that are
candidate countries for FY 2022 and the identification of all countries
that would be candidate countries but for specified legal prohibitions
on assistance. Under sections 606(a) and (b) of the Act, candidate
countries must qualify as low income or lower middle income countries
as defined in the Act.
Specifically, a country will be a candidate country in the low
income category for FY 2022 if it
has a per capita income that is not greater than the World
Bank's lower middle income country threshold for such fiscal year
($4,095 gross national income per capita for FY 2022);
is among the 75 countries identified by the World Bank as
having the lowest per capita income; and
is not ineligible to receive United States economic
assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended (the Foreign Assistance Act), by reason of the application of
the Foreign Assistance Act or any other provision of law.
A country will be a candidate country in the lower middle income
category for FY 2022 if it
has a per capita income that is not greater than the World
Bank's lower middle income country threshold for such fiscal year
($4,095 gross national income per capita for FY 2022);
is not among the 75 countries identified by the World Bank
as having the lowest per capita income; and
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is not ineligible to receive United States economic
assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the
application of the Foreign Assistance Act or any other provision of
law.
Under section 606(c) of the Act as applied for FY 2022, a country
with per capita income changes from FY 2021 to FY 2022 such that the
country would be reclassified from the low income category to the lower
middle income category or vice versa will retain its income status in
its former category for FY 2022 and two subsequent fiscal years (FY
2023 and FY 2024). A country that has transitioned to the upper middle
income category does not qualify as a candidate country.
Pursuant to section 606(d) of the Act, the Board identified the
following countries as candidate countries under the Act for FY 2022.
In so doing, the Board referred to the prohibitions on assistance to
countries for FY 2021 under the Department of State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. J.,
Pub. L. 116-94) (FY 2021 SFOAA).
Candidate Countries: Low Income Category
1. Afghanistan
2. Angola
3. Bangladesh
4. Benin
5. Bhutan
6. Bolivia
7. Burkina Faso
8. Burundi
9. Cabo Verde
10. Cameroon
11. Central African Republic
12. Chad
13. Congo, Democratic Republic of the
14. Congo, Republic of the
15. C[ocirc]te d'Ivoire
16. Djibouti
17. Egypt
18. El Salvador
19. Eswatini
20. Gambia, The
21. Ghana
22. Guinea
23. Haiti
24. Honduras
25. India
26. Kenya
27. Kiribati
28. Kyrgyzstan
29. Laos
30. Lesotho
31. Liberia
32. Madagascar
33. Malawi
34. Mauritania
35. Mongolia
36. Morocco
37. Mozambique
38. Nepal
39. Niger
40. Nigeria
41. Pakistan
42. Papua New Guinea
43. Rwanda
44. Sao Tome and Principe
45. Senegal
46. Sierra Leone
47. Solomon Islands
48. Somalia
49. Tajikistan
50. Tanzania
51. Timor-Leste
52. Togo
53. Tunisia
54. Uganda
55. Ukraine
56. Uzbekistan
57. Vanuatu
58. Vietnam
59. Yemen
60. Zambia
Candidate Countries: Lower Middle Income Category
1. Algeria
2. Belize
3. Indonesia
4. Micronesia, Federated States of
5. Philippines
6. Samoa
Countries That Would Be Candidate Countries But for Legal Provisions
That Prohibit Assistance
Countries that would be considered candidate countries for FY 2022
but are ineligible to receive United States economic assistance under
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of the application of
any provision of the Foreign Assistance Act or any other provision of
law are listed below. This list is based on legal prohibitions against
economic assistance that apply as of July 27, 2021.
Prohibited Countries: Low Income Category
Burma is ineligible to receive foreign assistance,
including due to concerns relative to its record on human rights and
pursuant to the military coup restriction in section 7008 of the FY
2021 SFOAA.
Cambodia is ineligible to receive foreign assistance
pursuant to section 7043(b)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA, which restricts
(with limited exceptions) assistance to the Government of Cambodia
unless the Secretary of State certifies that the Government of Cambodia
is taking effective steps to strengthen regional security and stability
and respect the rights and responsibilities enshrined in the
Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Comoros is ineligible to receive foreign assistance due to
its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Eritrea is ineligible to receive foreign assistance due to
its human rights record and its status as a Tier 3 country under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Ethiopia is ineligible to receive foreign assistance due
to its human rights record.
Guinea-Bissau is ineligible to receive foreign assistance
due to its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Iran is ineligible to receive foreign assistance,
including due to its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Korea, North is ineligible to receive foreign assistance,
including due to its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Mali is ineligible to receive foreign assistance pursuant
to the military coup restriction in section 7008 of the FY 2021 SFOAA.
Nicaragua is ineligible to receive foreign assistance,
including due to its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
South Sudan is ineligible to receive foreign assistance
pursuant to section 7042(i)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA due to its human
rights record.
Sudan is ineligible to receive foreign assistance
including due to the military coup restriction in section 7008 of the
FY 2021 SFOAA.
Syria is ineligible to receive foreign assistance due to
its status as a Tier 3 country under the Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).
Zimbabwe is ineligible to receive foreign assistance,
including pursuant to section 7042(k)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA, which
prohibits (with limited exceptions) assistance for the central
government of Zimbabwe unless the Secretary of State certifies and
reports to Congress that the rule of law has been restored, including
respect for ownership and title to property, and freedoms of
expression, association, and assembly.
Prohibited Countries: Lower Middle Income Category
Sri Lanka is ineligible to receive foreign assistance
pursuant to section 7044(e)(2) of the FY 2021 SFOAA,
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which restricts (with limited exceptions) assistance for the central
government unless the Secretary makes certain certifications regarding
actions taken by the Government of Sri Lanka and reports to the
Committees on Appropriations.
Countries identified above as candidate countries, as well as
countries that would be considered candidate countries but for the
applicability of legal provisions that prohibit U.S. economic
assistance, may be the subject of future statutory restrictions or
determinations, or changed country circumstances, that affect their
legal eligibility for assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance
Act by reason of application of the Foreign Assistance Act or any other
provision of law for FY 2022.
[FR Doc. 2021-19694 Filed 9-10-21; 8:45 am]
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