---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2431b"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2431b"
heading: "Establishment of Facility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2431b"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IV — Debt Reduction for Developing Countries with Tropical Forests"
---

# §2431b. Establishment of Facility


There is established in the Department of the Treasury an entity to be known as the “[Conservation Facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8)” for the purpose of providing for the administration of debt reduction in accordance with this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. V, § 804, as added Pub. L. 105–214, § 1, July 29, 1998, 112 Stat. 887; amended Pub. L. 115–440, § 4(a), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5581.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 804 of Pub. L. 87–195, pt. V, was classified to section 2434 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–329.

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 115–440 substituted “Conservation Facility” for “Tropical Forest Facility”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Pub. L. 115–440, § 4(c), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5582, provided that: “Any reference in any other provision of law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the ‘Tropical Forest Facility’ shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘Conservation Facility’.”