Libya; Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs (Presidential Determination)

Federal Register: March 16, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 51)

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Presidential Determination No. 2011-8 of March 7, 2011

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

Related to Libya

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee

Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act''), as amended, (22

U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act, in an amount not to exceed $15 million from the United

States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to the humanitarian crisis resulting from the violence in Libya.

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, March 7, 2011

FR Doc. 2011-6263

Filed 3-15-11; 8:45 am

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