*Administration of Barack Obama, 2013 *

**Memorandum on Delegation of Authority Pursuant to Sections 110(d)(4) and 110(f) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as Amended **

*July 29, 2013 *

*Memorandum for the Secretary of State *

*Subject:* Delegation of Authority Pursuant to Sections 110(d)(4) and 110(f) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as Amended

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority conferred upon the President by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of Public Law 106–386), as amended (the "Act"), to determine, consistent with sections 110(d)(4) and 110(f) of the Act, with respect to Syria for Fiscal Year 2013, that assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act would promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the United States.

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the *Federal Register*.

BARACK OBAMA

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 6, 2013]

NOTE: This memorandum was published in the *Federal Register* on August 7.

*Categories:* Communications to Federal Agencies : Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, delegation of authority, memorandum*.*

*Subjects:* Foreign policy, U.S. : Trafficking in persons, efforts to combat; Syria : Trafficking in persons, efforts to combat.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201300539.