---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9308"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9308"
heading: "Rule of construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9308"
units:
  - "Chapter 100 — Global Food Security"
---

# §9308. Rule of construction

- (a) **Effect on other programs—** Nothing in the [Global Food Security Strategy](/usc/22/9303.md?p=5) or this chapter or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to supersede or otherwise affect the authority of the [relevant Federal departments and agencies](/usc/22/9303.md?p=8) to carry out programs specified in [subsection (b)](#b), in the manner provided, and subject to the terms and conditions, of those programs, including, but not limited to, the terms, conditions, and requirements relating to the procurement and transportation of food assistance furnished pursuant to such programs.
- (b) **Programs described—** The programs referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) are the following:
  - (1) The Food for Peace Act ([7 U.S.C. 1691](/usc/7/1691.md) et seq.).
  - (2) The Food for Progress Act of 1985 ([7 U.S.C. 1736o](/usc/7/1736o.md)).
  - (3) Section 416(b) of the Agriculture[^1] Act of 1949 ([7 U.S.C. 1431](/usc/7/1431.md)).[^2]
  - (4) McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program ([7 U.S.C. 1736o](/usc/7/1736o.md)–1).
  - (5) Local and Regional Procurement Program ([7 U.S.C. 1726c](/usc/7/1726c.md)).
  - (6) Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act ([7 U.S.C. 1736f–1](/usc/7/1736f–1.md)).
  - (7) Any other [food and nutrition security](/usc/22/9303.md?p=3) and emergency and non-emergency food assistance program of the Department of Agriculture.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “Agricultural”.
[^2]: So in original. Probably should be “1431(b)).”

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–195, § 9, July 20, 2016, 130 Stat. 684.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The amendments made by this Act, referred to in subsec. (a), are the amendments made by Pub. L. 114–195, section 7(c) of which amended sections 2292 and 2292a of this title.

The Food for Peace Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is act July 10, 1954, ch. 469, 68 Stat. 454, which is classified generally to chapter 41 (§ 1691 et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1691 of Title 7 and Tables.

The Food for Progress Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Pub. L. 99–198, title XI, § 1110, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1472, which is classified to section 1736o of Title 7, Agriculture.

The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(6), is title III of Pub. L. 96–494, as added by Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 225(a), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 959, which is classified to section 1736f–1 of Title 7, Agriculture.