22 USC 2431a - Definitions

U.S Code last checked for updates: Oct 31, 2025

§ 2431a.

Definitions

As used in this subchapter:

(1)

Administering body

(2)

Appropriate congressional committees

The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)

the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and

(B)

the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.

(3)

Beneficiary country

(4)

Board

(5)

Developing country with a tropical forest or coral reef

The term “developing country with a tropical forest or coral reef” means—

(A)

(i)

a country that has a per capita income of $725 or less in 1994 United States dollars (commonly referred to as “low-income country”), as determined and adjusted on an annual basis by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in its World Development Report; or

(ii)

a country that has a per capita income of more than $725 but less than $8,956 in 1994 United States dollars (commonly referred to as “middle-income country”), as determined and adjusted on an annual basis by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in its World Development Report; and

(B)

a country that contains at least one tropical forest or coral reef that is globally outstanding in terms of its biological diversity or represents one of the larger intact blocks of tropical forests or coral reefs left, on a regional, continental, or global scale.

(6)

Eligible country

(7)

Conservation Agreement

(8)

Conservation Facility

(9)

Conservation Fund

(10)

Coral

The term “coral” means species of the phylum Cnidaria, including—

(A)

all species of the orders Antipatharia (black corals), Scleractinia (stony corals), Alcyonacea (soft corals), Gorgonacea (horny corals), Stolonifera (organpipe corals and others), and Coenothecalia (blue coral), of the class Anthoza; 1

 So in original. Probably should be “Anthozoa;”.

and

(B)

all species of the order Hydrocorallina (fire corals and hydrocorals) of the class Hydrozoa.

(11)

Coral reef

(12)

Coral reef ecosystem

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. V, § 803, as added Pub. L. 105–214, § 1, July 29, 1998, 112 Stat. 886; amended Pub. L. 115–440, §§ 3(b), 4(b), 8(e), 9(b)(1), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5581, 5583, 5584.)

cite as: 22 USC 2431a