---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6562"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6562"
heading: "Transfer of functions and authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6562"
units:
  - "Chapter 74 — Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation"
  - "Subchapter IV — United States International Development Cooperation Agency"
  - "Part A — Abolition and Transfer of Functions"
---

# §6562. Transfer of functions and authorities

- (a) **Allocation of funds—**
  - (1) **Allocation to the Secretary of State—** Funds made available under the categories of assistance deemed allocated to the Director of the International Development Cooperation [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) under section 1–801 of Executive Order No. 12163 ([22 U.S.C. 2381](/usc/22/2381.md) note) as of October 1, 1997, shall be allocated to the Secretary of State on and after the effective date of this subchapter without further action by the President.
  - (2) **Procedures for reallocations or transfers—** The Secretary of State may allocate or transfer as appropriate any funds received under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) in the same manner as previously provided for the Director of the International Development Cooperation [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) under section 1–802 of that Executive Order, as in effect on October 1, 1997.
- (b) **With respect to Overseas Private Investment Corporation—** There are transferred to the [Administrator](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=1) of the [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) for International Development all [functions](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) of the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) as of the day before the effective date of this subchapter with respect to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
- (c) **Other activities—** The authorities and [functions](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) transferred to the United States International Development Cooperation [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) or the Director of that [Agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) by section 6 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1979 shall, to the extent such authorities and [functions](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) have not been repealed, be transferred to those [agencies](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) or heads of [agencies](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3), as the case may be, in which those authorities and [functions](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) were vested by statute as of the day before the effective date of such reorganization plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIV, § 1412, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–790.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Executive Order No. 12163, referred to in subsec. (a), is Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, which is set out as a note under section 2381 of this title. Section 1–801 of Ex. Ord. No. 12163 was deleted in the general amendment of Part 1–8 of Ex. Ord. No. 12163 by Ex. Ord. No. 13118, § 8, Mar. 31, 1999, 64 F.R. 16597.

For the effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (b), meaning the effective date of title XIV of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, see section 1401 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as a note under section 6561 of this title.

Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1979, referred to in subsec. (c), is Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1979, 44 F.R. 41165, 93 Stat. 1378, effective Oct. 1, 1979, pursuant to Ex. Ord. No. 12163, which was set out as a note under section 2381 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIV, §§ 1401, 1422(a)(1), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–790, 2681–792.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to the United States International Development Finance Corporation and treatment of related references, see sections 9683 and 9686(d) of this title.