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Executive Order 11922—Amending Executive Order No. 11077 of January 22, 1963, Entitled "Administration of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962"

June 16, 1976

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Migration and Refuges Assistance Act of 1962, as amended (Chapter 36 of Title 22 of the United States Code), and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States of America, Section 1 of Executive Order No. 11077 of January 22. 1963, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

"(d) Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the President for the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund established by Section 2(c) of the act (22 U.S.C. 2601) shall be deemed to be allocated without further action of the President to the Secretary of State, and the Secretary may allocate or transfer, as appropriate, such funds to any agency, or part thereof, for obligation or expenditure consistent with the provisions of this order, the act, and other applicable law: Provided, That such funds may not be transferred, obligated, or expended until the President shall have made the determinations provided for in Section 2(c) (1) of the act, which determinations are reserved to the President, and the designations and determinations provided for in Section 2(b) (2) of the act.".

GERALD R. FORD

The White House,

June 16, 1976.

Gerald R. Ford, Executive Order 11922—Amending Executive Order No. 11077 of January 22, 1963, Entitled "Administration of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962" Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/268622

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