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This volume of legislation and related material is part of a 5-volume set of laws and related material frequently referred to by the Committees on Foreign Relations of the Senate and International Relations of the House of Representatives, amended to date and annotated to show pertinent history or cross references. The body of statutory law set out in this volume was in force, as amended, at the end of 2002. This volume sets out "session law" as originally enacted by Congress and published by the Archivist of the U.S. as "slip law" and later in the series "U.S. Statues at Large" (as subsequently amended, if applicable). Amendments are incorporated into the text and distinguished by a footnote. Comprehensive!