---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2292b"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2292b"
heading: "Disaster assistance coordination through a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance; Presidential appointment and duties"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2292b"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part IX — International Disaster Assistance"
---

# §2292b. Disaster assistance coordination through a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance; Presidential appointment and duties


The President is authorized to appoint a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance whose responsibility shall be to promote maximum effectiveness and coordination in responses to [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) disasters by [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) agencies and between the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and other donors. Included among the Special Coordinator’s responsibilities shall be the formulation and updating of contingency plans for providing disaster relief.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 493, as added Pub. L. 94–161, title I, § 101(3), Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 849.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title.