(a) There is established, within the Department of Health and Human Services, an office to be known as the Office of Refugee Resettlement (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Office”). The head of the Office shall be a Director (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Director”), to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”).
(b) The function of the Office and its Director is to fund and administer (directly or through arrangements with other Federal agencies), in consultation with the Secretary of State, programs of the Federal Government under this subchapter.
(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title IV, ch. 2, §411, as added Pub. L. 96–212, title III, §311(a)(2), Mar. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 110; amended Pub. L. 103–236, title I, §162(n)(1), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 409.)
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