---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 242.1"
title: "22"
number: "242.1"
heading: "Authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/242.1"
---

# §242.1. Authority.

- (a) **Under section 3 of the HAVANA Act of 2021 (Pub.** L. 117-46), codified in [22 U.S.C. 2680b(i)](/usc/22/2680b.md?p=i), the Secretary of State or other agency heads may provide a payment for a qualifying injury to the brain to a covered employee or covered dependent, who incurred a qualifying injury to the brain on or after January 1, 2016. The authority to provide such payments is at the sole discretion of the USAID Administrator or their designee.
- (b) These regulations are issued in accordance with [22 U.S.C. 2680b(i)(4)](/usc/22/2680b.md?p=i-4) and apply to former covered employees of the United States Agency for International Development and their covered dependents.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2651a; 22 U.S.C. 2680b.

### Source

Source: 88 FR 41319, June 26, 2023, unless otherwise noted.