<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">BASIC AUTHORITIES GENERALLY </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">organization of the department of state </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">Section 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2651a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Secretary of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Department of State shall be administered, in accordance with this Act and other provisions of law, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of State (hereinafter referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Secretary</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, the Deputy Secretary of State, and the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in this section, the Secretary shall have and exercise any authority vested by law in any office or official of the Department of State. The Secretary shall administer, coordinate, and direct the Foreign Service of the United States and the personnel of the Department of State, except where authority is inherent in or vested in the President.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall not have the authority of the Inspector General or the Chief Financial Officer.</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall not have any authority given expressly to diplomatic or consular officers.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Secretary of State and the Department of State. Unless otherwise specified in law, the Secretary may delegate authority to perform any of the functions of the Secretary or the Department to officers and employees under the direction and supervision of the Secretary. The Secretary may delegate the authority to redelegate any such functions.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under Secretaries.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State not more than 6 Under Secretaries of State, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall be compensated at the rate provided for at level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under secretary for arms control and international security.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State, among the Under Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, who shall assist the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary in matters related to international security policy, arms control, and nonproliferation. Subject to the direction of the President, the Under Secretary may attend and participate in meetings of the National Security Council in his role as Senior Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on Arms Control and Nonproliferation Matters.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under secretary for public diplomacy.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State, among the Under Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, who shall have primary responsibility to assist the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary in the formation and implementation of United States public diplomacy policies and activities, including international educational and cultural exchange programs, information, and international broadcasting. The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">prepare an annual strategic plan for public diplomacy in collaboration with overseas posts and in consultation with the regional and functional bureaus of the Department;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">ensure the design and implementation of appropriate program evaluation methodologies;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide guidance to Department personnel in the United States and overseas who conduct or implement public diplomacy policies, programs, and activities;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assist the United States Agency for International Development and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">submit statements of United States policy and editorial material to the Broadcasting Board of Governors for broadcast consideration.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of Under Secretaries.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the President submits to the Senate a nomination of an individual for appointment to a position in the Department of State that is described in paragraph (1), the President shall designate the particular Under Secretary position in the Department of State that the individual shall have.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant Secretaries.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State not more than 24 Assistant Secretaries of State who shall be compensated at the rate provided for at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5. Each Assistant Secretary of State shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, except that the appointments of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and the Assistant Secretary for Administration shall not be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State an Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to human rights and humanitarian affairs (including matters relating to prisoners of war and members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action) in the conduct of foreign policy and such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate. The Secretary of State shall carry out the Secretary's responsibility under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 through the Assistant Secretary.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor shall maintain continuous observation and review all matters pertaining to human rights and humanitarian affairs (including matters relating to prisoners of war and members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action) in the conduct of foreign policy including the following:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Gathering detailed information regarding humanitarian affairs and the observance of and respect for internationally recognized human rights in each country to which requirements of sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 are relevant.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Preparing the statements and reports to Congress required under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/iii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Making recommendations to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development regarding compliance with sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and as part of the Assistant Secretary's overall policy responsibility for the creation of United States Government human rights policy, advising the Administrator of the Agency for International Development on the policy framework under which section 116(e) projects are developed and consulting with the Administrator on the selection and implementation of such projects.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/iv" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Performing other responsibilities which serve to promote increased observance of internationally recognized human rights by all countries.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant secretary for economic and business matters.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the numerical limitation specified in paragraph (1), there is authorized to be established in the Department of State an Assistant Secretary of State who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to international economics and business matters in the conduct of foreign policy.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Matters contemplated.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The matters referred to in subparagraph (A) include the following:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International trade and investment policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International finance, economic development, and debt policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Economic sanctions and combating terrorist financing.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/iv" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International transportation policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/v" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Support for United States businesses.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/vi" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vi">(vi) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Economic policy analysis and private sector outreach.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/vii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vii">(vii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International data privacy and innovation policies.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/viii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="viii">(viii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Assistant Secretary authorized under subparagraph (A) shall coordinate with the Office of Sanctions Coordination established under subsection (h) with respect to the development and implementation of economic sanctions.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of Assistant Secretaries.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the President submits to the Senate a nomination of an individual for appointment to a position in the Department of State that is described in paragraph (1), the President shall designate the regional or functional bureau or bureaus of the Department of State with respect to which the individual shall have responsibility.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Other Senior Officials.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to officials of the Department of State who are otherwise authorized to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be compensated at level IV of the Executive Schedule of section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, four other such appointments are authorized.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordinator for Counterterrorism.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is within the office of the Secretary of State a Coordinator for Counterterrorism (in this paragraph referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Coordinator</quotedText>”) who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary of State shall prescribe.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties described.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The principal duty of the Coordinator shall be the overall supervision (including policy oversight of resources) of international counterterrorism activities. The Coordinator shall be the principal adviser to the Secretary of State on international counterterrorism matters. The Coordinator shall be the principal counterterrorism official within the senior management of the Department of State and shall report directly to the Secretary of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rank and status of ambassador.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall have the rank and status of Ambassador at Large.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV/AIDS Response Coordinator.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be established within the Department of State in the immediate office of the Secretary of State a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorities and duties; definitions.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorities.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator, acting through such nongovernmental organizations (including faith-based and community-based organizations), partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID596D0AADBD1B4F52A0CD6F91BF5563B1" class="footnoteRef">1</ref> and relevant executive branch agencies as may be necessary and appropriate to effect the purposes of this section, is authorized—</chapeau><footnote id="ID596D0AADBD1B4F52A0CD6F91BF5563B1" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section 102(1) of Public Law 110–293 amends subparagraph (A) by inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">, partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">community based organizations)</quotedText>” each place it appears. The amendment probably should have been made to insert such language after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">community-based organizations)</quotedText>”. Such amendment was carried out in order to reflect the probable intent of Congress.</p></footnote> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to operate internationally to carry out prevention, care, treatment, support, capacity development, and other activities for combatting HIV/AIDS;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to transfer and allocate funds to relevant executive branch agencies; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide grants to, and enter into contracts with, nongovernmental organizations (including faith-based and community-based organizations), partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:dangling-footnote-ref" class="footnoteRef">1</ref> to carry out the purposes of section.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and international activities of the United States Government to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including all programs, projects, and activities of the United States Government relating to the HIV/AIDS pandemic under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 or any amendment made by that Act.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Specific duties.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The duties of the Coordinator shall specifically include the following:</chapeau> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/I" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring program and policy coordination among the relevant executive branch agencies and nongovernmental organizations, including auditing, monitoring, and evaluation of all such programs.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/II" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="II">(II) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring that each relevant executive branch agency undertakes programs primarily in those areas where the agency has the greatest expertise, technical capabilities, and potential for success.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/III" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="III">(III) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Avoiding duplication of effort.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IV">(IV) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Establishing an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS headed by the Global AIDS Coordinator and comprised of representatives from the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of Health and Human Services, for the purposes of coordination of activities relating to HIV/AIDS, including—</chapeau> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/aa" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="aa">(aa) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">meeting regularly to review progress in partner countries toward HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care objectives;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/bb" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="bb">(bb) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">participating in the process of identifying countries to consider for increased assistance based on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in those countries, including clear evidence of a public health threat, as well as government commitment to address the HIV/AIDS problem, relative need, and coordination and joint planning with other significant actors;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/cc" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="cc">(cc) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assisting the Coordinator in the evaluation, execution, and oversight of country operational plans;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/dd" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="dd">(dd) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reviewing policies that may be obstacles to reaching targets set forth for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care; and</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/ee" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ee">(ee) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">consulting with representatives from additional relevant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Peace Corps, and the Department of Defense.</content> </item> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/V" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="V">(V) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Coordinating overall United States HIV/AIDS policy and programs, including ensuring the coordination of relevant executive branch agency activities in the field, with efforts led by partner countries, and with the assistance provided by other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and other donor institutions to promote harmonization with other programs aimed at preventing and treating HIV/AIDS and other health challenges, improving primary health, addressing food security, promoting education and development, and strengthening health care systems.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VI" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VI">(VI) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Resolving policy, program, and funding disputes among the relevant executive branch agencies.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VII">(VII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Holding annual consultations with nongovernmental organizations in partner countries that provide services to improve health, and advocating on behalf of the individuals with HIV/AIDS and those at particular risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, including organizations with members who are living with HIV/AIDS.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VIII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VIII">(VIII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring, through interagency and international coordination, that HIV/AIDS programs of the United States are coordinated with, and complementary to, the delivery of related global health, food security, development, and education.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IX" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IX">(IX) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Directly approving all activities of the United States (including funding) relating to combatting HIV/AIDS in each of Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and other countries designated by the President, which other designated countries may include those countries in which the United States is implementing HIV/AIDS programs as of the date of the enactment of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 and other countries in which the United States is implementing HIV/AIDS programs as part of its foreign assistance program. In designating additional countries under this subparagraph, the President shall give priority to those countries in which there is a high prevalence of HIV or risk of significantly increasing incidence of HIV within the general population and inadequate financial means within the country.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/X" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="X">(X) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Working with partner countries in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic is prevalent among injection drug users to establish, as a national priority, national HIV/AIDS prevention programs.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XI" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XI">(XI) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Working with partner countries in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic is prevalent among individuals involved in commercial sex acts to establish, as a national priority, national prevention programs, including education, voluntary testing, and counseling, and referral systems that link HIV/AIDS programs with programs to eradicate trafficking in persons and support alternatives to prostitution.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XII">(XII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Establishing due diligence criteria for all recipients of funds appropriated for HIV/ AIDS assistance pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 401 of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7671) and all activities subject to the coordination and appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and audits carried out by the Coordinator necessary to assess the measurable outcomes of such activities.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XIII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XIII">(XIII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Publicizing updated drug pricing data to inform the purchasing decisions of pharmaceutical procurement partners.</content> </subclause> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In this paragraph:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">AIDS.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">AIDS</term>” means acquired immune deficiency syndrome.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">HIV</term>” means the human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen that causes AIDS.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV/AIDS.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">HIV/AIDS</term>” means, with respect to an individual, an individual who is infected with HIV or living with AIDS.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/iv" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Relevant executive branch agencies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">relevant executive branch agencies</term>” means the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Health and Human Services (including the Public Health Service), and any other department or agency of the United States that participates in international HIV/AIDS activities pursuant to the authorities of such department or agency or this Act.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Qualifications of Certain Officers of the Department of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for personnel management.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to matters relating to personnel in the Department of State, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the field of human resource policy and management.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for diplomatic security.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to diplomatic security, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of (A) management, and (B) Federal law enforcement, intelligence, or security.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for international narcotics and law enforcement.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to international narcotics and law enforcement, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of (A) management, and (B) law enforcement or international narcotics policy.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office of Sanctions Coordination.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established, within the Department of State, an Office of Sanctions Coordination (in this subsection referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Office</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Head.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">have the rank and status of ambassador;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">report directly to the Secretary of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise sanctions authorities delegated to the Secretary;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the principal advisor to the senior management of the Department and the Secretary regarding the development and implementation of sanctions policy;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the lead representative of the United States in diplomatic engagement on sanctions matters;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">consult and closely coordinate with allies and partners of the United States, including the United Kingdom, the European Union and member countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, to ensure the maximum effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the United States and such allies and partners;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the coordinator for the development and implementation of sanctions policy with respect to all activities, policies, and programs of all bureaus and offices of the Department relating to the development and implementation of sanctions policy; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the lead representative of the Department in interagency discussions with respect to the development and implementation of sanctions policy.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Direct hire authority.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office may appoint, without regard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 3318 of title 5, United States Code, candidates directly to positions in the competitive service, as defined in section 2102 of that title, in the Office.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Termination.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority provided under subparagraph (A) shall terminate on the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this subsection.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">Sec. 2. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2669<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State, may use funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Secretary to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for printing and binding outside the States of the United States and the District of Columbia without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 111);</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">for the purpose of promoting and maintaining friendly relations with foreign countries through the prompt settlement of certain claims, settle and pay any meritorious claim against the United States which is presented by a government of a foreign country for damage to or loss of real or personal property of, or personal injury to or death of, any national of such foreign country:<i style="-uslm-dtd:italic"> Provided, </i>That such claim is not cognizable under any other statute or international agreement of the United States and can be settled for not more than $15,000 or the foreign currency equivalent thereof.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/c" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">employ individuals or organizations, by contract, for services abroad and individuals employed by contract to perform such services shall not by virtue of such employment be considered to be employees of the United States Government; for purposes of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Management (except that the Secretary may determine the applicability to such individuals of subsection (f) and of any other law administered by the Secretary concerning the employment of such individuals abroad); and such contracts are authorized to be negotiated, the terms of the contracts to be prescribed, and the work to be performed, where necessary, without regard to such statutory provisions as relate to the negotiation, making, and performance of contracts and performance of work in the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/d" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for official functions and courtesies;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/e" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">purchase uniforms;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/f" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign countries in connection with Department of State operations abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/g" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate payable for GS–18 under section 5332 of such title 5;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/h" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">directly procure goods and services in the United States or abroad, solely for use by United States Foreign Service posts abroad when the Secretary of State, in accordance with guidelines established in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, determines that use of the Federal Supply Service or otherwise applicable Federal goods and services acquisition authority would not meet emergency overseas security requirements determined necessary by the Secretary, taking into account overseas delivery, installation, maintenance, or replacement requirements, except that the authority granted by this paragraph shall cease to be effective when the amendment made by section 2711 of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 takes effect and thereafter procurement by the Secretary of State for the purposes described in this paragraph shall be in accordance with section 303(c)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/j" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide telecommunications services;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/k" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide maximum physical security in Government-owned and leased properties and vehicles abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/l" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">(l) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">purchase special purpose passenger motor vehicles without regard to any price limitation otherwise established by law;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/m" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">(m) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay obligations arising under international agreements, conventions, and binational contracts to the extent otherwise authorized by law;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/n" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">(n) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise the authority provided in subsection (c), upon the request of the Secretary of Defense or the head of any other department or agency of the United States, to enter into personal service contracts with individuals to perform services in support of the Department of Defense or such other department or agency, as the case may be; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/o" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">(o)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID49D00B22FF0B4ED19BF531B59E3AE44C" class="footnoteRef">2</ref> </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make administrative corrections or adjustments to an employee's pay, allowances, or differentials, resulting from mistakes or retroactive personnel actions, as well as provide back pay and other categories of payments under section 5596 of title 5, United States Code, as part of the settlement or compromise of administrative claims or grievances filed against the Department.</content><footnote id="ID49D00B22FF0B4ED19BF531B59E3AE44C" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">2</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Margin is so in law.</p></footnote> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">Sec. 3. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2670<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain insurance on official motor vehicles operated by the Department of State in foreign countries, and pay the expenses incident thereto;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">rent tie lines and teletype equipment;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/c" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide ice and drinking water for United States Embassies and Consulates abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/d" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay excise taxes on negotiable instruments which are negotiated by the Department of State abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/e" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in international educational exchange activities under the jurisdiction of the Department of State;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/f" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay expenses incident to the relief, protection, and burial of American seamen, and alien seamen from United States vessels in foreign countries and in the United States, Territories and possessions;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/g" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the expenses incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of officers and crews of foreign vessels and aircraft in rescuing American seamen, airmen, or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe abroad or at sea;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/h" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">rent or lease, for periods of less than ten years, such offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for the use of the Foreign Service abroad as he may deem necessary, and make payments therefor in advance;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain, improve, and repair properties rented or leased pursuant to authority contained in subsection (h) of this section and furnish fuel, water, and utilities for such properties;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/j" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide emergency medical attention and dietary supplements, and other emergency assistance, for United States citizens incarcerated abroad or destitute United States citizens abroad who are unable to obtain such services otherwise, such assistance to be provided on a reimbursable basis to the extent feasible;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/k" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subject to the availability of appropriated funds, obtain insurance on the historic and artistic articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects which may from time-to-time be within the responsibility of the Fine Arts Committee of the Department of State for the Diplomatic Rooms of the Department;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/l" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">(l) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make payments in advance, of the United States share of necessary expenses for international fisheries commissions, from appropriations available for such purpose; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/m" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">(m) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">establish, maintain, and operate passport and dispatch agencies.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">Sec. 4. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2671<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subject to subsection (b), make expenditures, from such amounts as may be specifically appropriated therefor, for unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service and, to the extent authorized in appropriation Acts, funds expended for such purposes may be accounted for in accordance with section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 107); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">delegate to subordinate officials the authority vested in him by section 291 of the Revised Statutes pertaining to certification of expenditures.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Expenditures described under subsection (a) shall be made only for such activities as—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve to further the realization of foreign policy objectives;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">are a matter of urgency to implement;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">with respect to activities the expenditures for which are required to be certified under subsection (a), require confidentiality in the best interests of the conduct of foreign policy by the United States; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/D" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">are not otherwise prohibited by law.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Activities described in paragraph (1) include—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the evacuation when their lives are endangered by war, civil unrest, or natural disaster of—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">United States Government employees and their dependents; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">private United States citizens or third-country nationals, on a reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable, with such reimbursements to be credited to the applicable Department of State appropriation and to remain available until expended, except that no reimbursement under this clause shall be paid that is greater than the amount the person evacuated would have been charged for a reasonable commercial air fare immediately prior to the events giving rise to the evacuation;</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">loans made to destitute citizens of the United States who are outside the United States and made to provide for the return to the United states of its citizens;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">visits by foreign chiefs of state or heads of government to the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/D" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of delegations representing the President at any inauguration or funeral of a foreign dignitary;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/E" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of the President, the Vice President, or a Member of Congress to a foreign country, including advance arrangements, escort, and official entertainment;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/F" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of the Secretary of State within the United States and outside the United States, including official entertainment;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/G" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">official representational functions of the Secretary of State and other principal officers of the Department of State;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/H" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">official functions outside the United States the expenses for which are not otherwise covered by amounts appropriated for representation allowances;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/I" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">investigations and apprehension of groups or individuals involved in fraudulent issuance of United States passports and visas; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/J" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="J">(J) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">gifts of nominal value given by the President, Vice President, or Secretary of State to a foreign dignitary.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Inspector General of the Department of State shall conduct a periodic audit of the Department of State's emergency expenditures and prepare and transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate an annual report indicating whether such expenditures were made in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">With regard to the repatriations loan program, the Secretary of State shall—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require the borrower to provide a verifiable address and social security number at the time of application;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require a written loan agreement which includes a repayment schedule;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">bar passports from being issued or renewed for those individuals who are in default;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">refer any loan more than one year past due to the Department of Justice for litigation;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain addresses from the Internal Revenue Service for all delinquent accounts which have social security numbers;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">report defaults to commercial credit bureaus as provided in section 3711(f) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">be permitted to use any funds necessary to contract with commercial collection agencies, notwithstanding section 3718(c) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">charge interest on all loans as of May 1, 1983, with the rate of interest to be that set forth in section 3717(a) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assess charges, in addition to the interest provided for in paragraph (8), to cover the costs of processing and handling delinquent claims, as of May 1, 1983;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assess a penalty charge, in addition to the interest provided for in paragraphs (8) and (9), of 6 percent per year for failure to pay any portion of a debt more than ninety days past due; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/11" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">(11) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">implement the interest and penalty provisions in paragraphs (8), (9), and (10) for all current and future loans, regardless of whether the debts were incurred before or after May 1, 1983.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">Sec. 5. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2672<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for participation by the United States in international activities which arise from time to time in the conduct of foreign affairs for which provision has not been made by the terms of any treaty, convention, or special Act of Congress: <i style="-uslm-dtd:italic">Provided,</i> That this subsection shall not be construed as granting authority to accept membership for the United States in any international organization, or to participate in the activities of any international organization for more than one year without approval by the Congress; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the expenses of participation in activities in which the United States participates by authority of subsection (a) of this section, including, but not limited to the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Employment of aliens;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 5701–5708).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Travel expenses of persons serving without compensation in an advisory capacity while away from their homes or regular places of business not in excess of those authorized for regular officers and employees traveling in connection with said international activities; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Rental of quarters by contract or otherwise.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s6" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">Sec. 6. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2673<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of section 8 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287e), and regulations thereunder, applicable to expenses incurred pursuant to that Act, may be applicable to the obligation and expenditure of funds in connection with United States participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s7" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">Sec. 7. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2674<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The exchange allowances or proceeds derived from the exchange or sale of passenger motor vehicles in possession of the Foreign Service abroad, in accordance with section 201(c) of the Act of June 30, 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481(c)), shall be available without fiscal year limitation for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s8" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">Sec. 8. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2675<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may allocate or transfer to any department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States Government (with the consent of the head of such department, agency, or establishment) any funds appropriated to the Department of State, for direct expenditure by such department, agency, or independent establishment for the purposes for which the funds are appropriated in accordance with authority granted in this Act or under authority governing the activities of such department, agency, or independent establishment.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s9" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">Sec. 9. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2676<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts in foreign countries involving expenditures from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of State, without regard to the provisions of section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 22): <i style="-uslm-dtd:italic">Provided,</i> That nothing in this section shall be construed to waive the provisions of section 431 of title 18 of the United States Code.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s10" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">Sec. 10. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2677<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Appropriated funds made available to the Department of State for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel shall be available for such expenses when any part of such travel or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during that same fiscal year.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s11" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">reduction in earmarks if appropriations are less than authorizations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">Sec. 11. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2678<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of a sequestration order issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–177; 2 U.S.C. 901 et seq.)) for a fiscal year pursuant to any authorization of appropriations provided by an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and a provision of that Act provides that a specified amount of the authorization amount shall be available only for a certain purpose, then the amount so specified shall be deemed to be reduced for that fiscal year to the amount which bears the same ratio to the specified amount as the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of sequestration) bears to the authorization amount.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s12" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">Sec. 12. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2679<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, shall prescribe the maximum rates per diem in lieu of subsistence (or of similar allowances therefor) payable while away from their own countries to foreign participants in any exchange of persons program, or in any program of furnishing technical information and assistance, under the jurisdiction of any Government agency, and said rates may be fixed without regard to any provision of law in limitation thereof.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">Sec. 13. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2684<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby established a working capital fund for the Department of State, which shall be available without fiscal year limitations, for expenses (including those authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980) and equipment, necessary for maintenance and operation in the city of Washington and elsewhere of (1) central reproduction, editorial, data processing, audiovisual, library and administrative support services; (2) central services for supplies and equipment (including repairs) (3) such other administrative services as the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, determines may be performed more advantageously and more economically as central services; and (4) medical and health care services. Such fund shall also be available without fiscal year limitation to carry out the purposes of title II of this Act. The capital of the fund shall consist of the amount of the fair and reasonable value of such supply inventories, equipment, and other assets and inventories on order, pertaining to the services to be carried on by the fund, as the Secretary may transfer to the fund, less the related liabilities and unpaid obligations, together with any appropriations made for the purpose of providing capital. The fund shall be reimbursed, or credited with advance payments, from applicable appropriations and funds of the Department of State, other Federal agencies, and other sources authorized by law, for supplies and services at rates which will approximate the expense of operations, including accrual of annual leave and depreciation of plant and equipment of the fund. The fund shall also be credited with other receipts from sale or exchange of property or in payment for loss or damage to property held by the fund. There shall be transferred into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as of the close of each fiscal year, earnings which the Secretary determines to be excess to the needs of the fund.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The current value of supplies returned to the working capital fund by a post, activity, or agency may be charged to the fund. The proceeds thereof shall, if otherwise authorized, be credited to current applicable appropriations and shall remain available for expenditures for the same purposes for which those appropriations are available. Credits may not be made to appropriations under this subsection as the result of capitalization of inventories.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="14">Sec. 14. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2679a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any contract for the procurement of property or services, or both, for the Department of State or the Foreign Service which is funded on the basis of annual appropriations may nevertheless be made for periods not in excess of 5 years when—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">appropriations are available and adequate for payment for the first fiscal year and for all potential cancellation costs; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary of State determines that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the need of the Government for the property or service being acquired over the period of the contract is reasonably firm and continuing;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such a contract will serve the best interests of the United States by encouraging effective competition or promoting economies in performance and operation; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such a method of contracting will not inhibit small business participation.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that funds are not made available for the continuation of such a contract into a subsequent fiscal year, the contract shall be cancelled and any cancellation costs incurred shall be paid from appropriations originally available for the performance of the contract, appropriations currently available for the acquisition of similar property or services and not otherwise obligated, or appropriations made for such cancellation payments.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="15">Sec. 15. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2680<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any provision of law enacted before the date of enactment of the State Department/USIA Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1975, no money appropriated to the Department of State under any law shall be available for obligation or expenditure with respect to any fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 1972—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">unless the appropriation thereof has been authorized by law enacted on or after February 7, 1972; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in excess of an amount prescribed by law enacted on or after such date.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent that legislation enacted after the making of an appropriation to the Department of State authorizes the obligation or expenditure thereof, the limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall have no effect.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this section—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall not be superseded except by a provision of law enacted after February 7, 1972, which specifically repeals, modifies, or supersedes the provisions of this section; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall not apply to, or affect in any manner, permanent appropriations, trust funds, and other similar accounts administered by the Department as authorized by law.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Department of State shall keep the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and responsibilities within the jurisdiction of these committees. Any Federal department, agency, or independent establishment shall furnish any information requested by either such committee relating to any such activity or responsibility.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s16" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="16">Sec. 16. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2680a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The first section of the Act of August 16, 1941 (42 U.S.C. 1651; commonly known as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Defense Base Act</quotedText>”) shall not apply with respect to such contracts as the Secretary of State may determine which are contracts with persons employed to perform work for the Department of State or the Foreign Service on an intermittent basis for not more than 90 days in a calendar year.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s17" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="17">Sec. 17. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2687<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to use appropriated funds for unusual expenses similar to those authorized by section 5913 of title 5, United States Code, incident to the operation and maintenance of the living quarters of the United States Representative to the Organization of American States.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s18" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="18">Sec. 18. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2688<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the sense of the Congress that the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country should be accorded to men and women possessing clearly demonstrated competence to perform ambassadorial duties. No individual should be accorded the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country primarily because of financial contributions to political campaigns.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s19" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="19">Sec. 19. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2689<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1977), the Secretary of State may use funds appropriated for the American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States for such American Sections.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s20" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="20">Sec. 20. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2690<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any expenditure for any gift for any person of any foreign country which involves any funds made available to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service shall be audited by the Controller General and reports thereon made to the Congress to such extent and at such times as he may determine necessary. The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property pertaining to such expenditure and necessary to facilitate the audit.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s21" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="21">Sec. 21. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> <elided style="-uslm-dtd:omitted-text">* * *</elided> </content><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Repealed—1990<b>]</b> </editorialNote> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="22">Sec. 22. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2692<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may compensate, pursuant to regulations which he shall prescribe, for the cost of participating in any proceeding or on any advisory committee or delegation of the Department of State, any organization or person—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">who is representing an interest which would not otherwise be adequately represented and whose participation is necessary for a fair determination of the issues taken as a whole; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">who would otherwise be unable to participate in such proceeding or on such committee or delegation because such organization or person cannot afford to pay the costs of such participation.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Of the funds appropriated for salaries and expenses for the Department of State, not to exceed $250,000 shall be available in any fiscal year for compensation under this section to such organizations and persons.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">administrative services </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="23">Sec. 23. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2695<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the head of any Federal agency performing any foreign affairs functions (including, but not limited to, the Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Agency for International Development) determines that administrative services performed in common by the Department of State and one or more other such agencies may be performed more advantageously and more economically on a consolidated basis, the Secretary of State and the heads of the other agencies concerned may, subject to the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, conclude an agreement which provides for the transfer to and consolidation within the Department or within one of the other agencies concerned of so much of the functions, personnel, property, records, and funds of the Department and of the other agencies concerned as may be necessary to enable the performance of those administrative services on a consolidated basis for the benefit of all agencies concerned. Agreements for consolidation of administrative services under this section shall provide for reimbursement or advances of funds from the agency receiving the service to the agency performing the service in amounts which will approximate the expense of providing administrative services for the serviced agency.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Payment.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A Federal agency which obtains administrative services from the Department of State pursuant to an agreement authorized under subsection (a) shall make full and prompt payment for such services through advance of funds or reimbursement.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall bill each Federal agency for amounts due for services provided pursuant to subsection (a). The Secretary shall notify a Federal agency which has not made full payment for services within 90 days after billing that services to the agency will be suspended or terminated if full payment is not made within 180 days after the date of notification. Except as provided under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall suspend or terminate services to a Federal agency which has not made full payment for services under this section 180 days after the date of notification. Any costs associated with a suspension or termination of services shall be the responsibility of, and shall be billed to, the Federal agency.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the requirement for suspension or termination under paragraph (2) with respect to such services as the Secretary determines are necessary to ensure the protection of life and the safety of United States Government property. A waiver may be issued for a period not to exceed one year and may be renewed.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="24">Sec. 24. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2696<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State, in addition to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for the Department, such sums as may be necessary for any fiscal year for increases in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits authorized by law.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text"> In order to maintain the levels of program activity for the Department of State provided for each fiscal year by the annual authorizing legislation, there are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State such sums as may be necessary to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, or overseas wage and price changes, which occur after November 30 of the earlier of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the calendar year which ended during the fiscal year preceding such fiscal year, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the calendar year which preceded the calendar year during which the authorization of appropriations for such fiscal year was enacted.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out this subsection, there may be established a Buying Power Maintenance account.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to eliminate substantial gains to the approved levels of overseas operations for the Department of State, the Secretary of State shall transfer to the Buying Power Maintenance account such amounts in any appropriation account under the heading “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” as the Secretary determines are excessive to the needs of the approved level of operations under that appropriation account because of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or changes in overseas wages and prices.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or overseas wage and price changes, the Secretary of State may transfer from the Buying Power Maintenance account to any appropriation account under the heading “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” such amounts as the Secretary determines are necessary to maintain the approved level of operations under that appropriation account.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/5" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds transferred by the Secretary of State from the Buying Power Maintenance account to another account shall be merged with and be available for the same purpose, and for the same time period, as the funds in that other account. Funds transferred by the Secretary from another account to the Buying Power Maintenance account shall be merged with the funds in the Buying Power Maintenance account and shall be available for the purposes of that account until expended.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/6" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any restriction contained in an appropriation Act or other provision of law limiting the amounts available for the Department of State that may be obligated or expended shall be deemed to be adjusted to the extent necessary to offset the net effect of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or overseas wage and price changes in order to maintain approved levels.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the limitations contained in this paragraph, not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which funds are appropriated or otherwise made available for an account under “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>”, the Secretary of State may transfer any unobligated balance of such funds to the Buying Power Maintenance account.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The balance of the Buying Power Maintenance account may not exceed $100,000,000 as a result of any transfer under this paragraph.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 and shall be available for obligation or expenditure only in accordance with the procedures under such section.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID1A62D152CE4A4AA6A1C2CF325C21959B" class="footnoteRef">3</ref> </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authorities contained in this paragraph may be exercised only with respect to funds appropriated or otherwise made available after fiscal year 2008.</content><footnote id="ID1A62D152CE4A4AA6A1C2CF325C21959B" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">3</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Margin for subparagraph (D) so in law.</p></footnote> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the Department of State or to the Secretary of State are authorized to be made available until expended.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), funds authorized to be appropriated for any account of the Department of State in the Department of State Appropriations Act, for either fiscal year of any two-year authorization cycle may be appropriated for such fiscal year for any other account of the Department of State.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts appropriated for the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Diplomatic and Consular Programs</quotedText>” account may not exceed by more than 5 percent the amount specifically authorized to be appropriated for such account for a fiscal year. No other appropriations account may exceed by more than 10 percent the amount specifically authorized to be appropriated for such account for a fiscal year.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The requirements and limitations of section 15 shall not apply to the appropriation of funds pursuant to this subsection.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the Department of State or to the Secretary of State are authorized to be obligated for twelve-month contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years, if the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the earlier fiscal year.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="25">Sec. 25. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2697<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may accept on behalf of the United States gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for the benefit of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or for the carrying out of any of its functions. Conditional gifts may be so accepted at the discretion of the Secretary, and the principal of and income from any such conditional gift shall be held, invested, reinvested, and used in accordance with its conditions, except that no gift shall be accepted which is conditioned upon any expenditure which will not be met by the gift or the income from the gift unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any unconditional gift of money accepted under section (a), the income from any gift property held under subsection (c) or (d) (except income made available for expenditure under subsection (d)(2)), the net proceeds from the liquidation of gift property under subsection (c) or (d), and the proceeds of insurance on any gift property which are not used for its restoration, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States. Such funds are hereby appropriated and shall be held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefit of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service). The Secretary of the Treasury may invest and reinvest such funds in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. Such funds and the income from such investments shall be available for expenditure in the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) and the performance of its functions, subject to the same examination and audit as is provided for appropriations made for the Foreign Service by the Congress, but shall not be expended for representational purposes at United States missions except in accordance with the conditions that apply to appropriated funds.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The evidences of any unconditional gift of intangible personal property (other than money) accepted under subsection (a), shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury who may hold or liquidate them, except that they shall be liquidated upon the request of the Secretary of State whenever necessary to meet payments required in the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or the performance of its functions.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall hold any real property or any tangible personal property accepted unconditionally pursuant to subsection (a) and shall either use such property for the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) and the performance of its functions or lease or hire such property, except that any such property not required for the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or the performance of its functions may be liquidated by the Secretary of State whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of State the purposes of the gift will be served thereby. The Secretary of State may insure any property held under this subsection. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall deposit the income from any property held under this subsection with the Secretary of the Treasury as provided in subsection (b).</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The income from any real property or tangible personal property held under this subsection shall be available for expenditure at the discretion of the Secretary of State for the maintenance, preservation, or repair and insurance of such property and any proceeds from insurance may be used to restore the property insured.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purpose of Federal income, estate, and gift taxes, any gift, devise, or bequest accepted under this section shall be deemed to be a gift, devise, or bequest to and for the use of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authorities available to the Secretary of State under this section with respect to the Department of State shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to the Board and the Agency.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="26">Sec. 26. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2698<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may, without regard to section 3106 of title 5, United States Code, authorize a principal officer of the Foreign Service to procure legal services whenever such services are required for the protection of the interests of the Government or to enable a member of the Service to carry on the member's work efficiently.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority available to the Secretary of State under this section shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDC8BC771543404ACE9FE6149F2FFD4E48" class="footnoteRef">4</ref> and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to the Board and the Agency.</content><footnote id="IDC8BC771543404ACE9FE6149F2FFD4E48" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">4</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">So in law. Should probably remove the comma.</p></footnote> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="27">Sec. 27. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2699<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to expand employment opportunities for family members of the United States Government personnel assigned abroad, the Secretary of State shall seek to conclude such bilateral and multilateral agreements as will facilitate the employment of such family members in foreign economies.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any member of a family of a member of the Foreign Service may accept gainful employment in a foreign country unless such employment—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would violate any law of such country or of the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">could, as certified in writing by the United States chief of mission to such country, damage the interests of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s28" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="28">Sec. 28. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2700<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may authorize the principal officer of a Foreign Service post to provide for the use of Government owned or leased vehicles located at that post for transportation of United States Government employees and their families when public transportation is unsafe or not available or when such use is advantageous to the Government.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s29" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="29">Sec. 29. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2701<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary of State determines that educational facilities are not available, or that existing educational facilities are inadequate, to meet the needs of children of United States citizens stationed outside the United States who are engaged in carrying out Government activities, the Secretary may, in such manner as he deems appropriate and under such regulations as he may prescribe, establish, operate, and maintain primary schools, and school dormitories and related educational facilities for primary and secondary schools, outside the United States, make grants of funds for such purposes, or otherwise provide for such educational facilities. The authorities of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, and of paragraphs (h) and (i) of section 3 of this Act, may be utilized by the Secretary in providing assistance for educational facilities. Such assistance may include physical security enhancements and hiring, transporting, and payment of teachers and other necessary personnel. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the child of a United States citizen employee of an agency of the United States Government who is stationed outside the United States attends an educational facility assisted by the Secretary of State under this section, the head of that agency is authorized to reimburse, or credit with advance payment, the Department of State for funds used in providing assistance to such educational facilities, by grant or otherwise, under this section.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="30">Sec. 30. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2702<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The remedy—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of title 28, United States Code, or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">through proceedings for compensation or other benefits from the United States as provided by any other law, where the availability of such benefits precludes a remedy under such sections,</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">for damages for personal injury, including death, allegedly arising from malpractice or negligence of a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist or paramedical (including medical and dental assistants and technicians, nursing assistants, and therapists) or other supporting personnel of the Department of State in furnishing medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations, while in the exercise of his or her duties in or for the Department of State or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality shall be exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding by reason of the same subject matter against such physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or paramedical or other supporting personnel (or his or her estate) whose act or omission gave rise to such claim.</continuation></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The United States Government shall defend any civil action or proceeding brought in any court against any person referred to in subsection (a) of this section (or his or her estate) for any such damage or injury. Any such person against whom such civil action or proceeding is brought shall deliver, within such time after date of service or knowledge of service as may be determined by the Attorney General, all process served upon him or her or an attested true copy thereof to whomever was designated by the Secretary to receive such papers. Such person shall promptly furnish copies of the pleading and process therein to the United States attorney for the district embracing the place wherein the proceeding is brought, to the Attorney General, and to the Secretary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon a certification by the Attorney General that the defendant was acting within the scope of his or her employment in or for the Department of State or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality at the time of the incident out of which the suit arose, any such civil action or proceeding commenced in a State court shall be removed without bond at any time before trial by the Attorney General to the district court of the United States of the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending and the proceeding deemed a tort action brought against the United States under the provisions of title 28, United States Code, and all references thereto. Should a United States district court determine on a hearing on a motion to remand held before a trial on the merits that the case so removed is one in which a remedy by suit within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section is not available against the United States, the case shall be remanded to the State court except that where such remedy is precluded because of the availability of a remedy through proceedings for compensation or other benefits from the United States as provided by any other law, the case shall be dismissed, but in that event, the running of any limitation of time for commencing, or filing an application or claim in, such proceedings for compensation or other benefits shall be deemed to have been suspended during the pendency of the civil action or proceeding under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Attorney General may compromise or settle any claim asserted in such civil action or proceeding in the manner provided in section 2677 of title 28, the United States Code, and with the same effect.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, the provisions of section 2680(h) of title 28, United States Code, shall not apply to any tort enumerated therein arising out of negligence in the furnishing of medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may, to the extent he deems appropriate, hold harmless or provide liability insurance for any person to whom the immunity provisions of subsection (a) of this section apply, for damages for personal injury, including death, negligently caused by any such person while acting within the scope of his or her office of employment and as a result of the furnishing of medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations, if such person is assigned to a foreign area or detailed for service with other than a Federal agency or institution, or if the circumstances are such as are likely to preclude the remedies of third persons against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of title 28, United States Code, for such damage or injury.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, any medical care or related service covered by this section and performed abroad by a covered person at the direction or with the approval of the United States chief of mission or other principal representative of the United States in the area shall be deemed to be within the scope of employment of the individual performing the service.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="31">Sec. 31. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2703<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may authorize and assist in the establishment, maintenance, and operation by civilian officers and employees of the Government of non-Government-operated services and facilities at posts abroad, including the furnishing of space, utilities, and properties owned or leased by the Government for use by its diplomatic, consular, and other missions and posts abroad. The provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 292–300) and section 13 of this Act may be utilized by the Secretary in providing such assistance.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may establish and maintain emergency commissary or mess services in places abroad where, in the judgment of the Secretary, such services are necessary temporarily to insure the effective and efficient performance of official duties and responsibilities. Reimbursements incident to the maintenance and operation of commissary or mess service under this subsection shall be at not less than cost as determined by the Secretary and shall be used as working funds, except that an amount equal to the amount expended for such services shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Services and facilities established under this section shall be made available, insofar as practicable, to officers and employees of all agencies and their dependents who are stationed in the locality abroad, and, where determined by the Secretary to be appropriate due to exceptional circumstances, to United States citizens hired outside of the host country to serve as teaching staff for such dependents abroad. Such services and facilities shall not be established in localities where another agency operates similar services or facilities unless the Secretary determines that additional services or facilities are necessary. Other agencies shall to the extent practicable avoid duplicating the facilities and services provided or assisted by the Secretary under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Charges at any post abroad for a service or facility provided, authorized or assisted under this section shall be at the same rate for all civilian personnel of the Government serviced thereby, and all charges for supplies furnished to such a service or facility abroad by any agency shall be at the same rate as that charged by the furnishing agency to its comparable civilian services and facilities.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may make grants to child care facilities, to offset in part the cost of such care, in Moscow and at no more than five other posts abroad where the Secretary determines that due to extraordinary circumstances such facilities are necessary to the efficient operation of the post. In making that determination, the Secretary shall take into account factors such as—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">whether Foreign Service spouses are encouraged to work at the post because—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the number of members of the post is subject to a ceiling imposed by the receiving country; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Foreign Service nationals are not employed at the post; and</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">whether local child care is available.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s32" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="32">Sec. 32. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2704<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may pay, without regard to section 5702 of title 5, United States Code, subsistence expenses of (1) special agents of the Department of State who are on authorized protective missions, whether at or away from their duty stations, and (2) members of the Foreign Service and employees of the Department who are required to spend extraordinary amounts of time in travel status. The authorities available to the Secretary of State under this section with respect to the Department of State shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to their respective agencies, except that the authority of clause (2) shall be available with respect to those agencies only in the case of members of the Foreign Service and employees of the agency who are performing security-related functions abroad.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="33">Sec. 33. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2705<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The following documents shall have the same force and effect as proof of United States citizenship as certificates of naturalization or of citizenship issued by the Attorney General or by a court having naturalization jurisdiction:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport, during its period of validity (if such period is the maximum period authorized by law), issued by the Secretary of State to a citizen of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The report, designated as a “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States</quotedText>”, issued by a consular officer to document a citizen born abroad. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular officer</term>” includes any United States citizen employee of the Department of State who is designated by the Secretary of State to adjudicate nationality abroad pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="34">Sec. 34. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2706<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Unless the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate are notified fifteen days in advance of the proposed reprogramming, funds appropriated for the Department of State shall not be available for obligation or expenditure through any reprogramming of funds—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which creates new programs;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which eliminates a program, project, or activity;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which relocates an office or employees;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which reorganizes offices, programs, or activities;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which involves contracting out functions which had been performed by Federal employees; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which involves a reprogramming in excess of $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less and which (A) augments existing programs, projects, or activities, (B) reduces by 10 percent or more the funding for any existing program, project, activity, or personnel approved by the Congress, or (C) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects approved by the Congress.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds appropriated for the Department of State may not be available for obligation or expenditure through any reprogramming described in subsection (a) during the period which is the last 15 days in which such funds are available unless notice of such reprogramming is made before such period.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the notification requirement of subsection (a), if the Secretary determines that failure to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health or welfare. In the case of any waiver under this subsection, notification to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall be provided as soon as practicable, but not later than 3 days after taking the action to which the notification requirement was applicable, and shall contain an explanation of the emergency circumstances.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="35">Sec. 35. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2707<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall be responsible for formulation, coordination, and oversight of foreign policy related to international communications and information policy. The Secretary of State shall—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise primary authority for the conduct of foreign policy with respect to such telecommunications functions, including the determination of United States positions and the conduct of United States participation in negotiations with foreign governments and international bodies. In exercising this responsibility, the Secretary shall coordinate with other agencies as appropriate, and, in particular, shall give full consideration to the authority vested by law or Executive order in the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative in this area;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain continuing liaison with other executive branch agencies concerned with international communications and information policy and with the Federal Communications Commission, as appropriate;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in accordance with such authority as may be delegated by the President pursuant to Executive order, supervise and coordinate the activities of any senior interagency policymaking group on international telecommunications and information policy and chair such interagency meetings as may be necessary to coordinate actions on pending issues;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate the activities of, and assist as appropriate, interagency working level task forces and committees concerned with specific aspects of international communications and information policy;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain liaison with the members and staffs of committees of the Congress concerned with international communications and information policy and provide testimony before such committees;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain appropriate liaison with representatives of the private sector to keep informed of their interests and problems, meet with them, and provide such assistance as may be needed to ensure that matters of concern to the private sector are promptly considered by the Department or other executive branch agencies; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assist in arranging meetings of such public sector advisory groups as may be established to advise the Department of State and other executive branch agencies in connection with international communications and information policy issues.</content> </paragraph></subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="36">SEC. 36. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2708<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established a program for the payment of rewards to carry out the purposes of this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Purpose.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rewards program shall be designed to assist in the prevention of acts of international terrorism, international narcotics trafficking, serious violations of international humanitarian law, foreign election interference, transnational organized crime, and other related criminal acts.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Implementation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rewards program shall be administered by the Secretary of State, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rewards Authorized.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the sole discretion of the Secretary (except as provided in subsection (c)(2)) and in consultation, as appropriate, with the heads of other relevant departments or agencies, the Secretary may pay a reward to any individual who furnishes information leading to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for the commission of an act of international terrorism against a United States person or United States property;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring or attempting to commit an act of international terrorism against a United States person or United States property;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for committing, primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, any narcotics-related offense if that offense involves or is a significant part of conduct that involves—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a violation of United States narcotics laws such that the individual would be a major violator of such laws;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the killing or kidnapping of—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any officer, employee, or contract employee of the United States Government while such individual is engaged in official duties, or on account of that individual's official duties, in connection with the enforcement of United States narcotics laws or the implementing of United States narcotics control objectives; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a member of the immediate family of any such individual on account of that individual's official duties, in connection with the enforcement of United States narcotics laws or the implementing of United States narcotics control objectives; or</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an attempt or conspiracy to commit any act described in subparagraph (A) or (B);</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual aiding or abetting in the commission of an act described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (8), (9), or (10);</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (8), (9), (10), or (13) including by dismantling an organization in whole or significant part;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of an individual who holds a key leadership position in a terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the disruption of financial mechanisms of a foreign terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group, including the use by such organization or group of illicit narcotics production or international narcotics trafficking—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to finance acts of international terrorism or transnational organized crime; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to sustain or support any terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for participating in, primarily outside the United States, transnational organized crime;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in transnational organized crime; </content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country, or the transfer to or conviction by an international criminal tribunal (including a hybrid or mixed tribunal), of any foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide (including war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide committed in Syria beginning in March 2011), as defined under the statute of such tribunal;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/11" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">(11) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction of or under the control of a foreign government, aids or abets a violation of section 1030 of title 18, United States Code; </content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/12" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">(12) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the disruption of financial mechanisms of any person who has engaged in the conduct described in section 104(a) or 104(b)(1) of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2914(a) or 2914(b)(1)); or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/13" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">(13) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of a foreign person that knowingly engaged or is engaging in foreign election interference.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procedures.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">To ensure that the payment of rewards pursuant to this section does not duplicate or interfere with the payment of informants or the obtaining of evidence or information, as authorized to the Department of Justice, the offering, administration, and payment of rewards under this section, including procedures for—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">identifying individuals, organizations, and offenses with respect to which rewards will be offered;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the publication of rewards;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the offering of joint rewards with foreign governments;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the receipt and analysis of data; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the payment and approval of payment,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">shall be governed by procedures developed by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prior approval of attorney general required.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Before making a reward under this section in a matter over which there is Federal criminal jurisdiction, the Secretary of State shall obtain the concurrence of the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Funding.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorization of appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding section 102 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (Public Law 99–93; 99 Stat. 408), but subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Period of availability.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitations and Certification.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maximum amount.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No reward paid under this section may exceed $25,000,000, except as personally authorized by the Secretary of State if he determines that offer or payment of an award of a larger amount is necessary to combat terrorism or defend the Nation against terrorist acts. Without first making such determination, the Secretary may authorize a reward of up to twice the amount specified in this paragraph for the capture or information leading to the capture of a leader of a foreign terrorist organization.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Approval.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A reward under this section of more than $100,000 may not be made without the approval of the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Certification for payment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any reward granted under this section shall be approved and certified for payment by the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nondelegation of authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority to approve rewards of more than $100,000 set forth in paragraph (2) may not be delegated.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Protection measures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the Secretary determines that the identity of the recipient of a reward or of the members of the recipient's immediate family must be protected, the Secretary may take such measures in connection with the payment of the reward as he considers necessary to effect such protection.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Forms of reward payment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may make a reward under this section in the form of money, a nonmonetary item (including such items as automotive vehicles), or a combination thereof.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Ineligibility.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An officer or employee of any entity of Federal, State, or local government or of a foreign government who, while in the performance of his or her official duties, furnishes information described in subsection (b) shall not be eligible for a reward under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports on payment of rewards.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 30 days after the payment of any reward under this section, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to such reward. The report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary, shall specify the amount of the reward paid, to whom the reward was paid, and the acts with respect to which the reward was paid. The report shall also discuss the significance of the information for which the reward was paid in dealing with those acts.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to the operation of the rewards program. The report shall provide information on the total amounts expended during the fiscal year ending in that year to carry out this section, including amounts expended to publicize the availability of rewards.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Advance notification for international criminal tribunal rewards.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 15 days before publicly announcing that a reward may be offered for a particular foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary, setting forth the reasons why the arrest or conviction of such foreign national is in the national interests of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports on rewards authorized.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 15 days after a reward is authorized under this section, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods, detailing information about the reward, including the identity of the individual for whom the reward is being made, the amount of the reward, the acts with respect to which the reward is being made, and how the reward is being publicized.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Publication Regarding Rewards Offered by Foreign Governments.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in the sole discretion of the Secretary, the resources of the rewards program shall be available for the publication of rewards offered by foreign governments regarding acts of international terrorism which do not involve United States persons or property or a violation of the narcotics laws of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Media Surveys and Advertisements.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Surveys conducted.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purpose of more effectively disseminating information about the rewards program, the Secretary may use the resources of the rewards program to conduct media surveys, including analyses of media markets, means of communication, and levels of literacy, in countries determined by the Secretary to be associated with acts of international terrorism.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Creation and purchase of advertisements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may use the resources of the rewards program to create advertisements to disseminate information about the rewards program. The Secretary may base the content of such advertisements on the findings of the surveys conducted under paragraph (1). The Secretary may purchase radio or television time, newspaper space, or make use of any other means of advertisement, as appropriate.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/j" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Determinations of the Secretary.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A determination made by the Secretary under this section shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to judicial review.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Act of international terrorism.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">act of international terrorism</term>” includes—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any act substantially contributing to the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in paragraph (8) of section 830 of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 3201 note)) or any nuclear explosive device (as defined in paragraph (4) of that section) by an individual, group, or non-nuclear-weapon state (as defined in paragraph (5) of that section); and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any act, as determined by the Secretary, which materially supports the conduct of international terrorism, including the counterfeiting of United States currency or the illegal use of other monetary instruments by an individual, group, or country supporting international terrorism as determined for purposes of section 6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A)).</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate congressional committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">appropriate congressional committees</term>” means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign person.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">foreign person</quotedText>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who is not a United States person; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a foreign entity.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign election interference.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">foreign election interference</quotedText>” means conduct by a foreign person that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">violates Federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law; or</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise; and</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful act or attempted act, or knowing use of information acquired by theft, undertaken with the specific intent to significantly influence voters, undermine public confidence in election processes or institutions, or influence, undermine confidence in, or alter the result or reported result of, a general or primary Federal, State, or local election or caucus, including—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the campaign of a candidate; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a ballot measure, including an amendment, a bond issue, an initiative, a recall, a referral, or a referendum.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Member of the immediate family.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">member of the immediate family</term>”, with respect to an individual, includes—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a spouse, parent, brother, sister, or child of the individual;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a person with respect to whom the individual stands in loco parentis; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any person not covered by subparagraph (A) or (B) who is living in the individual's household and is related to the individual by blood or marriage.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rewards program.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">rewards program</term>” means the program established in subsection (a)(1).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transnational organized crime.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">transnational organized crime</term>”—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">means—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">racketeering activity (as such term is defined in section 1961 of title 18, United States Code) that involves at least one jurisdiction outside the United States; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any other criminal offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of at least four years under Federal, State, or local law that involves at least one jurisdiction outside the United States and that is intended to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit; and</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">includes wildlife trafficking (as defined by section 2(12) of the Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 (16 U.S.C. 7601(12); Public Law 114–231)) and severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)) involving at least 1 jurisdiction outside of the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transnational organized crime group.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">transnational organized crime group</term>” means a group of persons that includes one or more citizens of a foreign country, exists for a period of time, and acts in concert with the aim of engaging in transnational organized crime.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states narcotics laws.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States narcotics laws</term>” means the laws of the United States for the prevention and control of illicit trafficking in controlled substances (as such term is defined in section 102(6) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6))).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states person.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States person</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a citizen or national of the United States;or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an alien lawfully present in the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="36A">SEC. 36A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2708a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">AWARD OF THOMAS JEFFERSON STAR FOR FOREIGN SERVICE. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to Award.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary, may award a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service to any member of the Foreign Service or any other civilian employee of the Government of the United States who, while employed at, or assigned permanently or temporarily to, an official mission overseas or while traveling abroad on official business, incurred a wound or other injury or an illness (whether or not the wound, other injury, or illness resulted in death)—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">as the person was performing official duties;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">as the person was on the premises of a United States mission abroad; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by reason of the person's status as a United States Government employee.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Selection Criteria.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall prescribe the procedures for identifying and considering persons eligible for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service and for selecting the persons to be recommended for the award.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Award in the Event of Death.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a person selected for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service dies before being presented the award, the award may be made and the star presented to the person's family or to the person's representative, as designated by the President.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Form of Award.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall prescribe the design of the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service. The award may not include a stipend or any other cash payment.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Funding.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any expenses incurred in awarding a person a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service may be paid out of appropriations available at the time of the award for personnel of the department or agency of the United States Government in which the person was employed when the person incurred the wound, injury, or illness upon which the award is based.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">special agents </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="37">Sec. 37. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2709<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Authority.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service may—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">conduct investigations concerning—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">illegal passport or visa issuance or use;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">identity theft or document fraud affecting or relating to the programs, functions, or authorities of the Department of State; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Federal offenses committed within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7(9) of title 18, United States Code), except as such jurisdiction relates to the premises of United States military missions and related residences;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain and execute search and arrest warrants, as well as obtain and serve subpoenas and summonses issued under the authority of the United States;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">protect and perform protective functions directly related to maintaining the security and safety of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">heads of a foreign state, official representatives of a foreign government, and other distinguished visitors to the United States, while the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary of State, Deputy Secretary of State, and official representatives of the United States Government, in the United States or abroad;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">members of the immediate family of persons described in subparagraph (A) or (B);</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">foreign missions (as defined in section 202(a)(4) of this Act) and international organizations (as defined in section 209(b) of this Act), within the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a departing Secretary of State for a period of up to 180 days after the date of termination of that individual's incumbency as Secretary of State, on the basis of a threat assessment; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who has been designated by the President or President-elect to serve as Secretary of State, prior to that individual's appointment.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">if designated by the Secretary and qualified, under regulations approved by the Attorney General, for the use of firearms, carry firearms for the purpose of performing the duties authorized by this section; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDB9A9DCB4F174442A81E0AB40A63BF3DB" class="footnoteRef">5</ref> </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreements with Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury and Firearms Regulations.—</heading><footnote id="IDB9A9DCB4F174442A81E0AB40A63BF3DB" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">5</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section 202 of Public Law 107–228 (116 Stat. 1362) amended subsection (b) by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">(b) <headingText style="-uslm-dtd:header-in-text">Agreement</headingText>.—</quotedText>” and all that follows through the end of paragraph (1) and inserting a new subsection designation, heading, and paragraphs (1) through (2). The text at the beginning of the matter to be struck probably should not have included “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">.—</quotedText>”, but was executed to reflect the probable intent of Congress.</p></footnote> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreement with attorney general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority conferred by paragraphs (1) and (4) of subsection (a) shall be exercised subject to an agreement between the Secretary and the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreement with attorney general and secretary of the treasury.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority conferred by paragraphs (2) and (5) of subsection (a) shall be exercised subject to an agreement among the Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of the Treasury.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Firearms regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations, which shall be approved by the Attorney General, with respect to the carrying and use of firearms by special agents under this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Secret Service not Affected.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in subsection (a)(3) shall be construed to preclude or limit in any way the authority of the United States Secret Service to provide protective services pursuant to section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code, at a level commensurate with protective requirements as determined by the United States Secret Service. The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into an interagency agreement with respect to their law enforcement functions.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">expenses relating to participation in arbitrations of certain disputes </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="38">Sec. 38. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2710<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">International Agreements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use funds available to the Secretary for the expenses of United States participation in arbitrations and other proceedings for the peaceful resolution of disputes under treaties or other international agreements.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contracts Abroad.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use funds available to the Secretary for the expenses of United States participation in arbitrations arising under contracts authorized by law for the performance of services or acquisition of property, real or personal, abroad.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procurement of Services.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use competitive procedures or procedures other than competitive procedures to procure the services of experts for use in preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, whether or not the expert is expected to testify, or to procure personal and other support services for such proceedings or claims. The Secretary need not provide any written justification for the use of procedures other than competitive procedures when procuring such services under this subsection and need not furnish for publication in the Commerce Business Daily or otherwise any notice of solicitation or synopsis with respect to such procurement.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">International Litigation Fund.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to provide the Department of State with a dependable, flexible, and adequate source of funding for the expenses of the Department related to preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, there is established an International Litigation Fund (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">ILF</quotedText>”). The ILF may be available without fiscal year limitation. Funds otherwise available to the Department for the purposes of this paragraph may be credited to the ILF.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reprogramming procedures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds credited to the ILF shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures applicable to such reprogrammings. This paragraph shall not apply to the transfer of funds under paragraph (3).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transfers of funds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds received by the Department of State from another agency of the United States Government or pursuant to the Department of State Appropriations Act of 1937 (49 Stat. 1321, 22 U.S.C. 2661) to meet costs of preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, shall be credited to the ILF.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of funds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds deposited in the ILF shall be available only for the purposes of paragraph (1).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Retention of Funds.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To reimburse the expenses of the United States Government in preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim against a foreign government or other foreign entity, the Secretary may retain 1.5 percent of any amount between $100,000 and $5,000,000, and one percent of any amount over $5,000,000, received per claim under chapter 34 of the Act of February 27, 1896 (22 U.S.C. 2668a; 29 Stat. 32).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Treatment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts retained under the authority of paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the fund under subsection (d).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">counterterrorism protection fund </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="39">Sec. 39. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2711<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may reimburse domestic and foreign persons, agencies, or governments for the protection of judges or other persons who provide assistance or information relating to terrorist incidents primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Before making a payment under this section in a matter over which there is Federal criminal jurisdiction, the Secretary shall advise and consult with the Attorney General.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorization of Appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 for use in reimbursing persons, agencies, or governments under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designation of Fund.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts made available under this section may be referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Counterterrorism Protection Fund</quotedText>”.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">authority to control certain terrorism-related services </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="40">Sec. 40. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2712<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may, by regulation, impose controls on the provisions of the services described in subsection (b) if the Secretary determines that provision of such services would aid and abet international terrorism.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Services Subject to Control.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The services subject to control under subsection (a) are the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Serving in or with the security forces of a designated foreign government.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Providing training or other technical services having a direct military, law enforcement, or intelligence application, to or for the security forces of a designated foreign government.</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">Any regulations issued to impose controls on services described in paragraph (2) shall list the specific types of training and other services subject to the controls.</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Persons Subject of Controls.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">These services may be controlled under subsection (a) when they are provided within the United States by any individual or entity and when they are provided anywhere in the world by a United States person.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Licenses.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of State may require licenses, which may be revoked, suspended, or amended, without prior notice, whenever such action is deemed to be advisable.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designated foreign government.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">designated foreign government</term>” means a foreign government that the Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 1979, has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Security forces.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">security forces</term>” means any military or paramilitary forces, any police or other law enforcement agency (including any police or other law enforcement agency at the regional or local level), and any intelligence agency of a foreign government.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States</term>” includes any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states person.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States person</term>” means any United States national, any permanent resident alien, and any sole proprietorship, partnership, company, association, or corporation organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business within the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Violations.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Penalties.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whoever willfully violates any regulation issued under this section shall be fined not more than $100,000 or five times the total compensation received for the conduct which constitutes the violation, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Investigations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury shall have authority to investigate violations of regulations issued under this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Congressional Oversight.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Review of regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 30 days before issuing any regulations under this section (including any amendment thereto), the Secretary of State shall transmit the proposed regulations to the Congress.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than once every six months, the Secretary of State shall report to the Congress concerning the number and character of licenses granted and denied during the previous reporting period, and such other information as the Secretary may find to be relevant to the accomplishment of the objectives of this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Relationship to Other Laws.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority granted by this section is in addition to the authorities granted by any other provision of law.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">protection of historic and artistic furnishings of reception areas of the department of state building </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="41">Sec. 41. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2713<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall administer the historic and artistic articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects of the reception areas of the Department of State by such means and measures as conform to the purposes of the reception areas, which include conserving those articles, fixtures, and objects and providing for their enjoyment in such manner and by such means as will leave them for the use of the American people. Nothing shall be done under this subsection which conflicts with the administration of the Department of State or with the use of the reception areas for official purposes of the United States Government.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition of Historic and Artistic Items.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Items covered.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects of the reception areas (and similar articles, fixtures, and objects acquired by the Secretary of State), when declared by the Secretary of State to be of historic or artistic interest, shall thereafter be considered to be the property of the Secretary in his or her official capacity and shall be subject to disposition solely in accordance with this subsection.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Sale or trade.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary of State determines that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any item covered by paragraph (1) is no longer needed for use or display in the reception areas, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in order to upgrade the reception areas, a better use of that article would be its sale or exchange,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">the Secretary may, with the advice and concurrence of the Director of the National Gallery of Art, sell the item at fair market value or trade it, without regard to the requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. The proceeds of any such sale may be credited to the unconditional gift account of the Department of State, and items obtained in trade shall be the property of the Secretary of State under this subsection.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Smithsonian institution.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may also lend items covered by paragraph (1), when not needed for use or display in the reception areas, to the Smithsonian Institution or a similar institution for care, repair, study, storage, or exhibition.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definition.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">reception areas</term>” means the areas of the Department of State Building, located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, known as the Diplomatic Reception Rooms (eighth floor), the Secretary of State's offices (seventh floor), the Deputy Secretary of State's offices (seventh floor), and the seventh floor reception area.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">denial of passports to certain convicted drug traffickers </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="42">Sec. 42. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2714<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Ineligibility for Passport.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport may not be issued to an individual who is convicted of an offense described in subsection (b) during the period described in subsection (c) if the individual used a passport or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Passport revocation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall revoke a passport previously issued to an individual who is ineligible to receive a passport under paragraph (1).</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Drug Law Offenses.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Felonies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) applies with respect to any individual convicted of a Federal drug offense, or a State drug offense, if the offense is a felony.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Certain misdemeanors.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) also applies with respect to an individual convicted of a Federal drug offense, or a State drug offense, if the offense is misdemeanor, but only if the Secretary of State determines that subsection (a) should apply with respect to that individual on account of that offense. This paragraph does not apply to an individual's first conviction for a misdemeanor which involves only possession of a controlled substance.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Period of Ineligibility.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) applies during the period that the individual—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is imprisoned, or is legally required to be imprisoned, as the result of the conviction for the offense described in subsection (b); or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is on parole or other supervised release after having been imprisoned as the result of that conviction.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Emergency and Humanitarian Exceptions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of State may issue a passport, in emergency circumstances or for humanitarian reasons, to an individual with respect to whom that subsection applies.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">controlled substance</term>” has the same meaning as is provided in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802);</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Federal drug offense</term>” means a violation of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.);</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any other Federal law involving controlled substances; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Bank Secrecy Act</quotedText>”), or section 1956 or section 1957 of title 18, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Money Laundering Act</quotedText>”), if the Secretary of State determines that the violation is related to illicit production of or trafficking in a controlled substance;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">felony</term>” means a criminal offense punishable by death or imprisonment for more than one year;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">imprisoned</term>” means an individual is confined in or otherwise restricted to a jail-type institution, a half-way house, a treatment facility, or another institution, on a full or part-time basis, pursuant to the sentence imposed as the result of a conviction;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">misdemeanor</term>” means a criminal offense other than a felony;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State drug offense</term>” means a violation of State law involving the manufacture, distribution, or possession of a controlled substance; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State law</term>” means the law of a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">procedures regarding major disasters and incidents abroad affecting united states citizens </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43">Sec. 43. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the case of a major disaster or incident abroad which affects the health and safety of citizens of the United States residing or traveling abroad, the Secretary of State shall provide prompt and thorough notification of all appropriate information concerning such disaster or incident and its effect on United States citizens to the next-of-kin of such individuals. Notification shall be provided through the most expeditious means available, including telephone communications, and shall include timely written notice. The Secretary, through the appropriate offices of the Department of State, shall act as a clearinghouse for up-to-date information for the next-of-kin and shall provide other services and assistance. Assistance shall include liaison with foreign governments and persons and with United State air carriers concerning arrangements for the preparation and transport to the United States of the remains of citizens who die abroad, as well as disposition of personal estates pursuant to section 43B of this Act.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section and sections 43A and 43B, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular officer</term>” includes any United States citizen employee of the Department of State who is designated by the Secretary of State to perform consular services pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43A">SEC. 43A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715b<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">NOTIFICATION OF NEXT OF KIN; REPORTS OF DEATH. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever a United States citizen or national dies abroad, a consular officer shall endeavor to notify, or assist the Secretary of State in notifying, the next of kin or legal guardian as soon as possible, except that, in the case of death of any Peace Corps volunteer (within the meaning of section 5(a) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(a)), any member of the Armed Forces, any dependent of such a volunteer or member, or any Department of Defense employee, the consular officer shall assist the Peace Corps or the appropriate military authorities, as the case may be, in making such notifications.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports of Death or Presumptive Death.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The consular officer may, for any United States citizen who dies abroad—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the case of a finding of death by the appropriate local authorities, issue a report of death or of presumptive death; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the absence of a finding of death by the appropriate local authorities, issue a report of presumptive death.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Implementing Regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43B">SEC. 43B. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715c<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONSERVATION AND DISPOSITION OF ESTATES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Conservation of Estates Abroad.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to act as conservator.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever a United States citizen or national dies abroad, a consular officer shall act as the provisional conservator of the portion of the decedent's estate located abroad and, subject to paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">take possession of the personal effects of the decedent within his jurisdiction;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">inventory and appraise the personal effects of the decedent, sign the inventory, and annex thereto a certificate as to the accuracy of the inventory and appraised value of each article;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">when appropriate in the exercise of prudent administration, collect the debts due to the decedent in the officer's jurisdiction and pay from the estate the obligations owed by the decedent;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">sell or dispose of, as appropriate, in the exercise of prudent administration, all perishable items of property;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">sell, after reasonable public notice and notice to such next of kin as can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, such additional items of property as necessary to provide funds sufficient to pay the decedent's debts and property taxes in the country of death, funeral expenses, and other expenses incident to the disposition of the estate;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">upon the expiration of the one-year period beginning on the date of death (or after such additional period as may be required for final settlement of the estate), if no claimant shall have appeared, after reasonable public notice and notice to such next of kin as can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, sell or dispose of the residue of the personal estate, except as provided in subparagraph (G), in the same manner as United States Government-owned foreign excess property;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/G" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">transmit to the custody of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. the proceeds of any sales, together with all financial instruments (including bonds, shares of stock, and notes of indebtedness), jewelry, heirlooms, and other articles of obvious sentimental value, to be held in trust for the legal claimant; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/H" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the event that the decedent's estate includes an interest in real property located within the jurisdiction of the officer and such interest does not devolve by the applicable laws of intestate succession or otherwise, provide for title to the property to be conveyed to the Government of the United States unless the Secretary declines to accept such conveyance.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to act as administrator.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a consular officer may act as administrator of an estate in exceptional circumstances if expressly authorized to do so by the Secretary of State.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exceptions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The responsibilities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may not be performed to the extent that the decedent has left or there is otherwise appointed, in the country where the death occurred or where the decedent was domiciled, a legal representative, partner in trade, or trustee appointed to take care of his personal estate. If the decedent's legal representative shall appear at any time prior to transmission of the estate to the Secretary and demand the proceeds and effects being held by the consular officer, the officer shall deliver them to the representative after having collected any prescribed fee for the services performed under this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Additional requirement.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to being subject to the limitations in paragraph (3), the responsibilities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may not be performed unless—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">authorized by treaty provisions or permitted by the laws or authorities of the country wherein the death occurs, or the decedent is domiciled; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">permitted by established usage in that country.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Statutory construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section supersedes or otherwise affects the authority of any military commander under title 10 of the United States Code with respect to the person or property of any decedent who died while under a military command or jurisdiction or the authority of the Peace Corps with respect to a Peace Corps volunteer or the volunteer's property.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition of Estates by the Secretary of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Personal estates.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After receipt of a personal estate pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary may seek payment of all outstanding debts to the estate as they become due, may receive any balances due on such estate, may endorse all checks, bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other instruments of indebtedness payable to the estate for the benefit thereof, and may take such other action as is reasonably necessary for the conservation of the estate.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition as surplus united states property.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If, upon the expiration of a period of 5 fiscal years beginning on October 1 after a consular officer takes possession of a personal estate under subsection (a), no legal claimant for such estate has appeared, title to the estate shall be conveyed to the United States, the property in the estate shall be under the custody of the Department of State, and the Secretary shall dispose of the estate in the same manner as surplus United States Government-owned property is disposed or by such means as may be appropriate in light of the nature and value of the property involved. The expenses of sales shall be paid from the estate, and any lawful claim received thereafter shall be payable to the extent of the value of the net proceeds of the estate as a refund from the appropriate Treasury appropriations account.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transfer of proceeds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The net cash estate after disposition as provided in subparagraph (B) shall be transferred to the miscellaneous receipts account of the Treasury of the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Real property.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designation as excess property.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that title to real property is conveyed to the Government of the United States pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(H) and is not required by the Department of State, such property shall be considered foreign excess property under title IV of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 511 et seq.).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Treatment as gift.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that the Department requires such property, the Secretary of State shall treat such property as if it were an unconditional gift accepted on behalf of the Department of State under section 25 of this Act and section 9(a)(3) of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Losses in Connection With the Conservation of Estates.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to compensate.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary is authorized to compensate the estate of any United States citizen who has died overseas for property—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the conservation of which has been undertaken under section 43 or subsection (a) of this section; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">that has been lost, stolen, or destroyed while in the custody of officers or employees of the Department of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Liability.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exclusion of personal liability after provision of compensation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any such compensation shall be in lieu of personal liability of officers or employees of the Department of State.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Liability to the department.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An officer or employee of the Department of State may be liable to the Department of State to the extent of any compensation provided under paragraph (1).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Determinations of liability.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The liability of any officer or employee of the Department of State to the Department for any payment made under subsection (a) shall be determined pursuant to the Department's procedures for determining accountability for United States Government property.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">debt collection </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="44">Sec. 44. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2716<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contract Authority.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of State shall enter into contracts for collection services to recover indebtedness owed by a person, other than a foreign country, to the United States which arises out of activities of the Department of State and is delinquent by more than 90 days.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each contract entered into under this section shall provide that the person with whom the Secretary enters into such contract shall submit to the Secretary at least once each 180 days a status report on the success of the person in collecting debts. Section 3718 of title 31, United States Code, shall apply to any such contract to the extent that such section is not inconsistent with this subsection.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disclosure of Delinquent Debt to Credit Reporting Agencies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall, to the extent otherwise allowed by law, disclose to those credit reporting agencies to which the Secretary reports loan activity information concerning any debt of more than $100 owed by a person, other than a foreign country, to the United States which arises out of activities of the Department of State and is delinquent by more than 31 days.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">defense trade controls registration fees </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="45">Sec. 45. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2717<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For each fiscal year, 100 percent of the registration fees collected by the Office of Defense Trade Controls of the Department of State shall be credited to a Department of State account, to be available without fiscal year limitation. Fees credited to that account shall be available only for payment of expenses incurred for—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">contract personnel to assist in the evaluation of defense trade controls license applications, reduction in processing time for license applications, and improved monitoring of compliance with the terms of licenses;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the automation of defense trade control functions, including compliance and enforcement activities, and the processing of defense trade control license applications, including the development, procurement, and utilization of computer equipment and related software; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the enhancement of defense trade export compliance and enforcement activities, including compliance audits of United States and foreign parties, the conduct of administrative proceedings, monitoring of end-uses in cases of direct commercial arms sales or other transfers, and cooperation in proceedings for enforcement of criminal laws related to defense trade export controls.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">fees received for use of blair house </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="46">Sec. 46. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2718<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of Fees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds received by the Department of State in connection with the use of Blair House (including reimbursements and surcharges for services and goods provided and fees for use of Blair House facilities) may be credited to the appropriate appropriation account of the Department of State which is currently available. Such funds shall be available only for maintenance and other expenses of Blair House.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Compliance With the Budget Act.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority of this section may be exercised only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in an appropriation Act.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s47" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">grants for training and education in international affairs </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="47">Sec. 47. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2719<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may make grants to postsecondary educations institutions or students for the purpose of increasing the level of knowledge and awareness of and interest in employment with the Foreign Service, consistent with section 105 of the Foreign service Act of 1980. To the extent possible, the Secretary shall give special emphasis to promoting such knowledge and awareness of, and interest in employment with, the Foreign Service among minority students. Any grants awarded shall be made pursuant to regulations to be established by the Secretary of State, which shall provide for a limit on the size of any specific grant and, regarding any grant to individuals, shall ensure that no grant recipient receives an amount of grants from one or more Federal programs which in the aggregate would exceed the cost of his or her education, and shall require satisfactory educational progress by grantees as a condition of eligibility for continued receipt of grant funds.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">closing of consular and diplomatic posts abroad </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="48">Sec. 48. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2720<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prohibited Uses of Funds.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided under subsection (d) or in accordance with the procedures under subsections (b) and (c) of this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">no funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State shall be available to pay any expense related to the closing of any United States consular or diplomatic post abroad; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">no funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State may be used to pay for any expense related to the Bureau of Administration of the Department of State (or to carrying out any of its functions) if any United States consular or diplomatic post is closed.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Post Closing Notification.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 45 days before the closing of any United States consular or diplomatic post abroad, the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reprogramming Treatment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts made available to pay any expense related to the closing of a consular or diplomatic post abroad shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures applicable to such reprogramming.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exceptions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this section do not apply with respect to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any post closed because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations between the United States and the country in which the post is located; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any post closed because there is a real and present threat to United States diplomatic or consular personnel in the city where the post is located, and a travel advisory warning against travel by United States citizens to that city has been issued by the Department of State.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definition.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular or diplomatic post</term>” does not include a post to which only personnel of agencies other than the Department of State are assigned.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s49" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">impermissible basis for denial of passports </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="49">Sec. 49. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2721<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport may not be denied issuance, revoked, restricted, or otherwise limited because of any speech, activity, belief, affiliation, or membership, within or outside the United States, which, if held or conducted within the United States, would be protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">international meetings </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="50">Sec. 50. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2722<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority To Pay Expenses.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the United States Government hosts an international meeting or conference in the United States, the Secretary of State is authorized to pay all reasonable expenses of such meeting or conference. Such expenses may include rental of quarters (by contract or otherwise) and personal services.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Retention of Reimbursements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent provided in an appropriation Act, transfers of funds or other reimbursements for payments under subsection (a) are authorized to be retained and credited to the appropriate appropriation account of the Department of State which is available.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">denial of visas </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="51">Sec. 51. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2723<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report to Congress.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Denial of visas.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall report, on a timely basis, to the appropriate committees of the Congress each time a consular post denies a visa on the grounds of terrorist activities or foreign policy. Such report shall set forth the name and nationality of each such person and a factual statement of the basis for such denial.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Visa issuance to inadmissible aliens.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall, on a semiannual basis, submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing every instance during the period covered by the report in which a consular post or the Visa Office of the Department of State issued an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien who is inadmissible to the United States based upon terrorist activity or failed to object to the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien notwithstanding any such ground of inadmissibility. The report shall set forth the name and nationality of the alien, the issuing post, and a brief factual statement of the basis for issuance of the visa or the failure to object. The report may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Information contained in such report may be classified to the extent necessary and shall protect intelligence sources and methods.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate Committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">appropriate committees of the Congress</term>” means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="52">SEC. 52. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2724<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEES FOR COMMERCIAL SERVICES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority To Charge Fee.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State is authorized to charge a fee to cover the actual or estimated cost of providing any person, firm or organization (other than agencies of the United States Government) with commercial services at posts abroad on matters within the authority of the Department of State.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority of this section may be exercised only in countries where the Department of Commerce does not perform commercial services for which it collects fees.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of Fees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds collected under the authority of subsection (a) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of providing commercial services. Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s53" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="53">SEC. 53. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2725<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEES FOR USE OF THE GEORGE P. SHULTZ NATIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS TRAINING CENTER. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s54" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="54">SEC. 54. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2726<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEE FOR USE OF DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the diplomatic reception rooms of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s55" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="55">SEC. 55. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2727<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ACCOUNTING OF COLLECTIONS IN BUDGET PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary shall include in the annual Congressional Presentation Document and the Budget in Brief a detailed accounting of the total collections received by the Department of State from all sources, including fee collections. Reporting on total collections shall also cover collections from the preceding fiscal year and the projected expenditures from all collections accounts.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="56">SEC. 56. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2728<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual Report Concerning Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report to congress.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">180 days after the date of enactment, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to the Congress, a report concerning diplomatic immunity entitled “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Report on Cases Involving Diplomatic Immunity</quotedText>”.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Content of report.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to such other information as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate, the report under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of persons residing in the United States who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving an alien described in subparagraph (A) in which an appropriate authority of a State, a political subdivision of a State, or the United States reported to the Department of State that the authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed a serious criminal offense within the United States, and any additional information provided to the Secretary relating to other serious criminal offenses that any such authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed before the period covered by the report. The Secretary may omit from such report any matter the provision of which the Secretary reasonably believes would compromise a criminal investigation or prosecution or which would directly compromise law enforcement or intelligence sources or methods.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case described in subparagraph (B) in which the Secretary of State has certified that a person enjoys full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of United States citizens who are residing in a receiving state and who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of such state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving a United States citizen under subparagraph (D) in which the United States has been requested by the government of a receiving state to waive the immunity from criminal jurisdiction of the United States citizen.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whether the Secretary has made the notifications referred to in subsection (c) during the period covered by the report.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Serious criminal offense defined.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">serious criminal offense</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any felony under Federal, State, or local law;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any Federal, State, or local offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any crime of violence as defined for purposes of section 16 of title 18, United States Code; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs;</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reckless driving; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/iii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving while intoxicated.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United States Policy Concerning Reform of Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should explore, in appropriate fora, whether states should enter into agreements and adopt legislation—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide jurisdiction in the sending state to prosecute crimes committed in the receiving state by persons entitled to immunity from criminal jurisdiction under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide that where there is probable cause to believe that an individual who is entitled to immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities committed a serious crime, the sending state will waive such immunity or the sending state will prosecute such individual.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Notification of Diplomatic Corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary should periodically notify each foreign mission of United States policies relating to criminal offenses committed by individuals with immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="57">SEC. 57. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2729<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS OF OVERSEAS DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS FROM NONNATURAL CAUSES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Collection of Information.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, collect, with respect to each foreign country, the following information with respect to each United States citizen who dies in that country from a nonnatural cause on or after the date of enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The date of death.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The locality where the death occurred (including the state or province and municipality, if available).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The cause of death, including information on the circumstances of the death, and including, if the death resulted from an act of terrorism, a statement disclosing that information.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Such other information as the Secretary shall prescribe.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Database.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall establish and maintain a database containing the information collected under subsection (a).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Public Availability of Information.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Beginning three months after the date of enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, the Secretary, shall make available, on a country-by-country basis, on the Internet website of the Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, the information from the database described in subsection (b) with respect to deaths occurring since the date of enactment of that Act, or occurring during the preceding three calendar years, whichever period is shorter. The information shall be updated at least every six months.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="58">SEC. 58. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2730<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PROHIBITION ON FUNDING THE INVOLUNTARY RETURN OF REFUGEES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prohibition.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of the funds made available to the Department of State, or the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund established in section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), may be available to effect the involuntary return by the United States of any person to a country in which the person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exception.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply to the return of any person on grounds recognized as precluding protection as a refugee under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of July 28, 1951, and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of January 31, 1967, subject to the reservations contained in the United States Senate resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the Protocol.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Congressional Notification Required in All Cases.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">None of the funds made available to the Department of State, or the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund established in section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), may be available to effect the involuntary return by the United States of any person to any country unless the Secretary first notifies the appropriate congressional committees, except that, in the case of an emergency involving a threat to human life, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate congressional committees as soon as practicable.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Statutory Construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting activities of the Department of State that relate to removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act or extradition.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In this section:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate congressional committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term ``appropriate congressional committees' means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">To effect the involuntary return.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">to effect the involuntary return</term>” means to require, by means of physical force or circumstances amounting to a threat thereof, a person to return to a country against the person's will, regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States and regardless of whether the United States acts directly or through an agent.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="59">SEC. 59. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2731<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">MONITORING AND COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment of office.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall establish within the Department of State an Office to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism (in this section referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Office</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Head of office.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall be the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism (in this section referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Special Envoy</quotedText>”), who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Special Envoy shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of head of office.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the President determines that such is appropriate, the President may nominate the Special Envoy from among officers and employees of the Department. Such officer or employee may not retain the position (or the responsibilities associated with such position) held by such officer or employee prior to the nomination of such officer or employee to the position of Special Envoy under this paragraph.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall serve as the primary advisor to, and coordinate efforts across, the United States Government relating to monitoring and combating anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement that occur in foreign countries.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rank and status of ambassador.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall have the rank of ambassador.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Qualifications.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy should be a person of recognized distinction in the field of combating anti-Semitism.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Purpose of Office.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon establishment, the Office shall assume the primary responsibility for—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">monitoring and combating acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement that occur in foreign countries;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinating and assisting in the preparation of that portion of the report required by sections 116(d)(7) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)(7) and 2304(b)) relating to an assessment and description of the nature and extent of acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement for inclusion in the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinating and assisting in the preparation of that portion of the report required by section 102(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6412(b)(1)(A)(iv)) relating to an assessment and description of the nature and extent of acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement for inclusion in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Consultations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall consult with domestic and international nongovernmental organizations and multilateral organizations and institutions, as the Special Envoy considers appropriate to fulfill the purposes of this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="60">SEC. 60. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2732<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Integral Component.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall make public diplomacy an integral component in the planning and execution of United States foreign policy.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination and Development of Strategy.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall make every effort to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate, subject to the direction of the President, the public diplomacy activities of Federal agencies; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate with the Broadcasting Board of Governors to—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">develop a comprehensive and coherent strategy for the use of public diplomacy resources; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">develop and articulate long-term measurable objectives for United States public diplomacy.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Objectives.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The strategy developed pursuant to subsection (b) shall include public diplomacy efforts targeting developed and developing countries and select and general audiences, using appropriate media to properly explain the foreign policy of the United States to the governments and populations of such countries, with the objectives of increasing support for United States policies and providing news and information. The Secretary shall, through the most effective mechanisms, counter misinformation and propaganda concerning the United States. The Secretary shall continue to articulate the importance of freedom, democracy, and human rights as fundamental principles underlying United States foreign policy goals.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Identification of United States Foreign Assistance.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other public and private assistance organizations and agencies, the Secretary should ensure that information relating to foreign assistance provided by the United States, nongovernmental organizations, and private entities of the United States is disseminated widely, and particularly, to the extent practicable, within countries and regions that receive such assistance. The Secretary should ensure that, to the extent practicable, projects funded by USAID not involving commodities, including projects implemented by private voluntary organizations, are identified as provided by the people of the United States.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="61">SEC. 61. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2733<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">REEMPLOYMENT OF ANNUITANTS UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the application of section 8344 or 8468 of title 5, United States Code, on a case-by-case basis, for employment of an annuitant in a position in the Department of State for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting or retaining a qualified employee, or when a temporary emergency hiring need exists.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procedures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary should prescribe procedures for the exercise of any authority under subsection (a), including criteria for any exercise of authority and procedures for a delegation of authority.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annuitants Not Treated as Employees for Purposes of Retirement Benefits.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An employee for whom a waiver under this section is in effect shall not be considered an employee for purposes of subchapter III of chapter 83, or chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="62">SEC. 62. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2734<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established within the Department of State the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall be the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Functions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The functions of the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization shall include the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Monitoring, in coordination with relevant bureaus and offices of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), political and economic instability worldwide to anticipate the need for mobilizing United States and international assistance for the reconstruction and stabilization of a country or region that is at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Assessing the various types of reconstruction and stabilization crises that could occur and cataloging and monitoring the non-military resources and capabilities of agencies (as such term is defined in section 1603 of the Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2008) that are available to address such crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Planning, in conjunction with USAID, to address requirements, such as demobilization, disarmament, rebuilding of civil society, policing, human rights monitoring, and public information, that commonly arise in reconstruction and stabilization crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Coordinating with relevant agencies to develop interagency contingency plans and procedures to mobilize and deploy civilian personnel and conduct reconstruction and stabilization operations to address the various types of such crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Entering into appropriate arrangements with agencies to carry out activities under this section and the Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2008.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Identifying personnel in State and local governments and in the private sector who are available to participate in the Civilian Reserve Corps established under subsection (b) or to otherwise participate in or contribute to reconstruction and stabilization activities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/G" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Taking steps to ensure that training and education of civilian personnel to perform such reconstruction and stabilization activities is adequate and is carried out, as appropriate, with other agencies involved with stabilization operations.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/H" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Taking steps to ensure that plans for United States reconstruction and stabilization operations are coordinated with and complementary to reconstruction and stabilization activities of other governments and international and nongovernmental organizations, to improve effectiveness and avoid duplication.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/I" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Maintaining the capacity to field on short notice an evaluation team consisting of personnel from all relevant agencies to undertake on-site needs assessment.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Response Readiness Corps.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Response readiness corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the heads of other appropriate agencies of the United States Government, may establish and maintain a Response Readiness Corps (referred to in this section as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Corps</quotedText>”) to provide assistance in support of reconstruction and stabilization operations in countries or regions that are at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife. The Corps shall be composed of active and standby components consisting of United States Government personnel, including employees of the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and other agencies who are recruited and trained (and employed in the case of the active component) to provide such assistance when deployed to do so by the Secretary to support the purposes of this Act.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Civilian reserve corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may establish a Civilian Reserve Corps for which purpose the Secretary is authorized to employ and train individuals who have the skills necessary for carrying out reconstruction and stabilization activities, and who have volunteered for that purpose. The Secretary may deploy members of the Civilian Reserve Corps pursuant to a determination by the President under section 618 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Mitigation of domestic impact.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The establishment and deployment of any Civilian Reserve Corps shall be undertaken in a manner that will avoid substantively impairing the capacity and readiness of any State and local governments from which Civilian Reserve Corps personnel may be drawn.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Existing Training and Education Programs.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall ensure that personnel of the Department, and, in coordination with the Administrator of USAID, that personnel of USAID, make use of the relevant existing training and education programs offered within the Government, such as those at the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School and the Interagency Training, Education, and After Action Review Program at the National Defense University.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="63">SEC. 63. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2735<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FOREIGN RELATIONS EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may establish exchange programs under which officers or employees of the Department of State, including individuals appointed under title 5, United States Code, and members of the Foreign Service (as defined in section 103 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903)), may be assigned, for not more than 1 year, to a position with any foreign government or international entity that permits an employee to be assigned to a position with the Department of State.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Salary and Benefits.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Members of foreign service.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">During a period in which a member of the Foreign Service is participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a), such member shall be entitled to the salary and benefits to which such member would receive but for the assignment under this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-foreign service employees of department.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An employee of the Department of State other than a member of the Foreign Service participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be treated in all respects as if detailed to an international organization pursuant to section 3343(c) of title 5, United States Code.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign participants.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The salary and benefits of an employee of a foreign government or international entity participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be paid by such government or entity during the period in which such employee is participating in such program, and shall not be reimbursed by the Department of State.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-Reciprocal Assignment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may authorize a non-reciprocal assignment of personnel pursuant to this section, with or without reimbursement from the foreign government or international entity for all or part of the salary and other expenses payable during such assignment, if such is in the interests of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rule of Construction.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the appointment as an officer or employee of the United States of—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual whose allegiance is to any country, government, or foreign or international entity other than to the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who has not met the requirements of sections 3331, 3332, 3333, and 7311 of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of law concerning eligibility for appointment as, and continuation of employment as, an officer or employee of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section>

AN ACTTo provide certain basic authority for the Department of State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That this Act may be cited as the “State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956”.

<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">BASIC AUTHORITIES GENERALLY </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">organization of the department of state </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">Section 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2651a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Secretary of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Department of State shall be administered, in accordance with this Act and other provisions of law, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of State (hereinafter referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Secretary</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, the Deputy Secretary of State, and the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in this section, the Secretary shall have and exercise any authority vested by law in any office or official of the Department of State. The Secretary shall administer, coordinate, and direct the Foreign Service of the United States and the personnel of the Department of State, except where authority is inherent in or vested in the President.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall not have the authority of the Inspector General or the Chief Financial Officer.</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall not have any authority given expressly to diplomatic or consular officers.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Secretary of State and the Department of State. Unless otherwise specified in law, the Secretary may delegate authority to perform any of the functions of the Secretary or the Department to officers and employees under the direction and supervision of the Secretary. The Secretary may delegate the authority to redelegate any such functions.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under Secretaries.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State not more than 6 Under Secretaries of State, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall be compensated at the rate provided for at level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under secretary for arms control and international security.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State, among the Under Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, who shall assist the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary in matters related to international security policy, arms control, and nonproliferation. Subject to the direction of the President, the Under Secretary may attend and participate in meetings of the National Security Council in his role as Senior Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on Arms Control and Nonproliferation Matters.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Under secretary for public diplomacy.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State, among the Under Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, who shall have primary responsibility to assist the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary in the formation and implementation of United States public diplomacy policies and activities, including international educational and cultural exchange programs, information, and international broadcasting. The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">prepare an annual strategic plan for public diplomacy in collaboration with overseas posts and in consultation with the regional and functional bureaus of the Department;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">ensure the design and implementation of appropriate program evaluation methodologies;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide guidance to Department personnel in the United States and overseas who conduct or implement public diplomacy policies, programs, and activities;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assist the United States Agency for International Development and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">submit statements of United States policy and editorial material to the Broadcasting Board of Governors for broadcast consideration.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of Under Secretaries.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the President submits to the Senate a nomination of an individual for appointment to a position in the Department of State that is described in paragraph (1), the President shall designate the particular Under Secretary position in the Department of State that the individual shall have.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant Secretaries.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State not more than 24 Assistant Secretaries of State who shall be compensated at the rate provided for at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5. Each Assistant Secretary of State shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, except that the appointments of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and the Assistant Secretary for Administration shall not be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be in the Department of State an Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to human rights and humanitarian affairs (including matters relating to prisoners of war and members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action) in the conduct of foreign policy and such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate. The Secretary of State shall carry out the Secretary's responsibility under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 through the Assistant Secretary.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor shall maintain continuous observation and review all matters pertaining to human rights and humanitarian affairs (including matters relating to prisoners of war and members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action) in the conduct of foreign policy including the following:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Gathering detailed information regarding humanitarian affairs and the observance of and respect for internationally recognized human rights in each country to which requirements of sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 are relevant.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Preparing the statements and reports to Congress required under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/iii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Making recommendations to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development regarding compliance with sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and as part of the Assistant Secretary's overall policy responsibility for the creation of United States Government human rights policy, advising the Administrator of the Agency for International Development on the policy framework under which section 116(e) projects are developed and consulting with the Administrator on the selection and implementation of such projects.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/2/B/iv" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Performing other responsibilities which serve to promote increased observance of internationally recognized human rights by all countries.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Assistant secretary for economic and business matters.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the numerical limitation specified in paragraph (1), there is authorized to be established in the Department of State an Assistant Secretary of State who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to international economics and business matters in the conduct of foreign policy.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Matters contemplated.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The matters referred to in subparagraph (A) include the following:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International trade and investment policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International finance, economic development, and debt policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Economic sanctions and combating terrorist financing.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/iv" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International transportation policy.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/v" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Support for United States businesses.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/vi" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vi">(vi) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Economic policy analysis and private sector outreach.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/vii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vii">(vii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">International data privacy and innovation policies.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/B/viii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="viii">(viii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Assistant Secretary authorized under subparagraph (A) shall coordinate with the Office of Sanctions Coordination established under subsection (h) with respect to the development and implementation of economic sanctions.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/c/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of Assistant Secretaries.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the President submits to the Senate a nomination of an individual for appointment to a position in the Department of State that is described in paragraph (1), the President shall designate the regional or functional bureau or bureaus of the Department of State with respect to which the individual shall have responsibility.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Other Senior Officials.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to officials of the Department of State who are otherwise authorized to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be compensated at level IV of the Executive Schedule of section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, four other such appointments are authorized.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordinator for Counterterrorism.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is within the office of the Secretary of State a Coordinator for Counterterrorism (in this paragraph referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Coordinator</quotedText>”) who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary of State shall prescribe.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties described.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The principal duty of the Coordinator shall be the overall supervision (including policy oversight of resources) of international counterterrorism activities. The Coordinator shall be the principal adviser to the Secretary of State on international counterterrorism matters. The Coordinator shall be the principal counterterrorism official within the senior management of the Department of State and shall report directly to the Secretary of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rank and status of ambassador.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall have the rank and status of Ambassador at Large.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV/AIDS Response Coordinator.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be established within the Department of State in the immediate office of the Secretary of State a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorities and duties; definitions.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorities.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator, acting through such nongovernmental organizations (including faith-based and community-based organizations), partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID596D0AADBD1B4F52A0CD6F91BF5563B1" class="footnoteRef">1</ref> and relevant executive branch agencies as may be necessary and appropriate to effect the purposes of this section, is authorized—</chapeau><footnote id="ID596D0AADBD1B4F52A0CD6F91BF5563B1" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section 102(1) of Public Law 110–293 amends subparagraph (A) by inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">, partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">community based organizations)</quotedText>” each place it appears. The amendment probably should have been made to insert such language after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">community-based organizations)</quotedText>”. Such amendment was carried out in order to reflect the probable intent of Congress.</p></footnote> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to operate internationally to carry out prevention, care, treatment, support, capacity development, and other activities for combatting HIV/AIDS;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to transfer and allocate funds to relevant executive branch agencies; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/A/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide grants to, and enter into contracts with, nongovernmental organizations (including faith-based and community-based organizations), partner country finance, health, and other relevant ministries,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:dangling-footnote-ref" class="footnoteRef">1</ref> to carry out the purposes of section.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Coordinator shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and international activities of the United States Government to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including all programs, projects, and activities of the United States Government relating to the HIV/AIDS pandemic under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 or any amendment made by that Act.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Specific duties.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The duties of the Coordinator shall specifically include the following:</chapeau> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/I" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring program and policy coordination among the relevant executive branch agencies and nongovernmental organizations, including auditing, monitoring, and evaluation of all such programs.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/II" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="II">(II) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring that each relevant executive branch agency undertakes programs primarily in those areas where the agency has the greatest expertise, technical capabilities, and potential for success.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/III" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="III">(III) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Avoiding duplication of effort.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IV">(IV) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Establishing an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS headed by the Global AIDS Coordinator and comprised of representatives from the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of Health and Human Services, for the purposes of coordination of activities relating to HIV/AIDS, including—</chapeau> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/aa" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="aa">(aa) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">meeting regularly to review progress in partner countries toward HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care objectives;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/bb" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="bb">(bb) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">participating in the process of identifying countries to consider for increased assistance based on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in those countries, including clear evidence of a public health threat, as well as government commitment to address the HIV/AIDS problem, relative need, and coordination and joint planning with other significant actors;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/cc" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="cc">(cc) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assisting the Coordinator in the evaluation, execution, and oversight of country operational plans;</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/dd" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="dd">(dd) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reviewing policies that may be obstacles to reaching targets set forth for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care; and</content> </item> <item style="-uslm-dtd:item" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IV/ee" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ee">(ee) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">consulting with representatives from additional relevant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Peace Corps, and the Department of Defense.</content> </item> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/V" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="V">(V) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Coordinating overall United States HIV/AIDS policy and programs, including ensuring the coordination of relevant executive branch agency activities in the field, with efforts led by partner countries, and with the assistance provided by other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and other donor institutions to promote harmonization with other programs aimed at preventing and treating HIV/AIDS and other health challenges, improving primary health, addressing food security, promoting education and development, and strengthening health care systems.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VI" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VI">(VI) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Resolving policy, program, and funding disputes among the relevant executive branch agencies.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VII">(VII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Holding annual consultations with nongovernmental organizations in partner countries that provide services to improve health, and advocating on behalf of the individuals with HIV/AIDS and those at particular risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, including organizations with members who are living with HIV/AIDS.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/VIII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="VIII">(VIII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring, through interagency and international coordination, that HIV/AIDS programs of the United States are coordinated with, and complementary to, the delivery of related global health, food security, development, and education.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/IX" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IX">(IX) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Directly approving all activities of the United States (including funding) relating to combatting HIV/AIDS in each of Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and other countries designated by the President, which other designated countries may include those countries in which the United States is implementing HIV/AIDS programs as of the date of the enactment of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 and other countries in which the United States is implementing HIV/AIDS programs as part of its foreign assistance program. In designating additional countries under this subparagraph, the President shall give priority to those countries in which there is a high prevalence of HIV or risk of significantly increasing incidence of HIV within the general population and inadequate financial means within the country.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/X" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="X">(X) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Working with partner countries in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic is prevalent among injection drug users to establish, as a national priority, national HIV/AIDS prevention programs.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XI" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XI">(XI) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Working with partner countries in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic is prevalent among individuals involved in commercial sex acts to establish, as a national priority, national prevention programs, including education, voluntary testing, and counseling, and referral systems that link HIV/AIDS programs with programs to eradicate trafficking in persons and support alternatives to prostitution.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XII">(XII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Establishing due diligence criteria for all recipients of funds appropriated for HIV/ AIDS assistance pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 401 of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7671) and all activities subject to the coordination and appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and audits carried out by the Coordinator necessary to assess the measurable outcomes of such activities.</content> </subclause> <subclause style="-uslm-dtd:subclause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/B/ii/XIII" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="XIII">(XIII) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Publicizing updated drug pricing data to inform the purchasing decisions of pharmaceutical procurement partners.</content> </subclause> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In this paragraph:</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">AIDS.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">AIDS</term>” means acquired immune deficiency syndrome.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">HIV</term>” means the human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen that causes AIDS.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/iii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">HIV/AIDS.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">HIV/AIDS</term>” means, with respect to an individual, an individual who is infected with HIV or living with AIDS.</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/f/2/C/iv" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">(iv) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Relevant executive branch agencies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">relevant executive branch agencies</term>” means the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Health and Human Services (including the Public Health Service), and any other department or agency of the United States that participates in international HIV/AIDS activities pursuant to the authorities of such department or agency or this Act.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Qualifications of Certain Officers of the Department of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for personnel management.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to matters relating to personnel in the Department of State, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the field of human resource policy and management.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for diplomatic security.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to diplomatic security, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of (A) management, and (B) Federal law enforcement, intelligence, or security.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/g/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Officer having primary responsibility for international narcotics and law enforcement.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The officer of the Department of State with primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary with respect to international narcotics and law enforcement, or that officer's principal deputy, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of (A) management, and (B) law enforcement or international narcotics policy.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office of Sanctions Coordination.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established, within the Department of State, an Office of Sanctions Coordination (in this subsection referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Office</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Head.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">have the rank and status of ambassador;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">report directly to the Secretary of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise sanctions authorities delegated to the Secretary;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the principal advisor to the senior management of the Department and the Secretary regarding the development and implementation of sanctions policy;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the lead representative of the United States in diplomatic engagement on sanctions matters;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">consult and closely coordinate with allies and partners of the United States, including the United Kingdom, the European Union and member countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, to ensure the maximum effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the United States and such allies and partners;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the coordinator for the development and implementation of sanctions policy with respect to all activities, policies, and programs of all bureaus and offices of the Department relating to the development and implementation of sanctions policy; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve as the lead representative of the Department in interagency discussions with respect to the development and implementation of sanctions policy.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Direct hire authority.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office may appoint, without regard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 3318 of title 5, United States Code, candidates directly to positions in the competitive service, as defined in section 2102 of that title, in the Office.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s1/h/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Termination.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority provided under subparagraph (A) shall terminate on the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this subsection.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">Sec. 2. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2669<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State, may use funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Secretary to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for printing and binding outside the States of the United States and the District of Columbia without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 111);</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">for the purpose of promoting and maintaining friendly relations with foreign countries through the prompt settlement of certain claims, settle and pay any meritorious claim against the United States which is presented by a government of a foreign country for damage to or loss of real or personal property of, or personal injury to or death of, any national of such foreign country:<i style="-uslm-dtd:italic"> Provided, </i>That such claim is not cognizable under any other statute or international agreement of the United States and can be settled for not more than $15,000 or the foreign currency equivalent thereof.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/c" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">employ individuals or organizations, by contract, for services abroad and individuals employed by contract to perform such services shall not by virtue of such employment be considered to be employees of the United States Government; for purposes of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Management (except that the Secretary may determine the applicability to such individuals of subsection (f) and of any other law administered by the Secretary concerning the employment of such individuals abroad); and such contracts are authorized to be negotiated, the terms of the contracts to be prescribed, and the work to be performed, where necessary, without regard to such statutory provisions as relate to the negotiation, making, and performance of contracts and performance of work in the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/d" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for official functions and courtesies;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/e" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">purchase uniforms;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/f" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign countries in connection with Department of State operations abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/g" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate payable for GS–18 under section 5332 of such title 5;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/h" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">directly procure goods and services in the United States or abroad, solely for use by United States Foreign Service posts abroad when the Secretary of State, in accordance with guidelines established in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, determines that use of the Federal Supply Service or otherwise applicable Federal goods and services acquisition authority would not meet emergency overseas security requirements determined necessary by the Secretary, taking into account overseas delivery, installation, maintenance, or replacement requirements, except that the authority granted by this paragraph shall cease to be effective when the amendment made by section 2711 of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 takes effect and thereafter procurement by the Secretary of State for the purposes described in this paragraph shall be in accordance with section 303(c)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/j" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide telecommunications services;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/k" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide maximum physical security in Government-owned and leased properties and vehicles abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/l" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">(l) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">purchase special purpose passenger motor vehicles without regard to any price limitation otherwise established by law;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/m" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">(m) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay obligations arising under international agreements, conventions, and binational contracts to the extent otherwise authorized by law;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/n" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">(n) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise the authority provided in subsection (c), upon the request of the Secretary of Defense or the head of any other department or agency of the United States, to enter into personal service contracts with individuals to perform services in support of the Department of Defense or such other department or agency, as the case may be; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s2/o" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">(o)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID49D00B22FF0B4ED19BF531B59E3AE44C" class="footnoteRef">2</ref> </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make administrative corrections or adjustments to an employee's pay, allowances, or differentials, resulting from mistakes or retroactive personnel actions, as well as provide back pay and other categories of payments under section 5596 of title 5, United States Code, as part of the settlement or compromise of administrative claims or grievances filed against the Department.</content><footnote id="ID49D00B22FF0B4ED19BF531B59E3AE44C" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">2</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Margin is so in law.</p></footnote> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">Sec. 3. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2670<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain insurance on official motor vehicles operated by the Department of State in foreign countries, and pay the expenses incident thereto;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">rent tie lines and teletype equipment;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/c" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide ice and drinking water for United States Embassies and Consulates abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/d" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay excise taxes on negotiable instruments which are negotiated by the Department of State abroad;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/e" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in international educational exchange activities under the jurisdiction of the Department of State;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/f" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay expenses incident to the relief, protection, and burial of American seamen, and alien seamen from United States vessels in foreign countries and in the United States, Territories and possessions;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/g" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the expenses incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of officers and crews of foreign vessels and aircraft in rescuing American seamen, airmen, or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe abroad or at sea;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/h" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">rent or lease, for periods of less than ten years, such offices, buildings, grounds, and living quarters for the use of the Foreign Service abroad as he may deem necessary, and make payments therefor in advance;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain, improve, and repair properties rented or leased pursuant to authority contained in subsection (h) of this section and furnish fuel, water, and utilities for such properties;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/j" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide emergency medical attention and dietary supplements, and other emergency assistance, for United States citizens incarcerated abroad or destitute United States citizens abroad who are unable to obtain such services otherwise, such assistance to be provided on a reimbursable basis to the extent feasible;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/k" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subject to the availability of appropriated funds, obtain insurance on the historic and artistic articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects which may from time-to-time be within the responsibility of the Fine Arts Committee of the Department of State for the Diplomatic Rooms of the Department;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/l" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">(l) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make payments in advance, of the United States share of necessary expenses for international fisheries commissions, from appropriations available for such purpose; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s3/m" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">(m) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">establish, maintain, and operate passport and dispatch agencies.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">Sec. 4. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2671<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subject to subsection (b), make expenditures, from such amounts as may be specifically appropriated therefor, for unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service and, to the extent authorized in appropriation Acts, funds expended for such purposes may be accounted for in accordance with section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 107); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">delegate to subordinate officials the authority vested in him by section 291 of the Revised Statutes pertaining to certification of expenditures.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Expenditures described under subsection (a) shall be made only for such activities as—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">serve to further the realization of foreign policy objectives;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">are a matter of urgency to implement;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">with respect to activities the expenditures for which are required to be certified under subsection (a), require confidentiality in the best interests of the conduct of foreign policy by the United States; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/1/D" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">are not otherwise prohibited by law.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Activities described in paragraph (1) include—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the evacuation when their lives are endangered by war, civil unrest, or natural disaster of—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A/i" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">United States Government employees and their dependents; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/A/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">private United States citizens or third-country nationals, on a reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable, with such reimbursements to be credited to the applicable Department of State appropriation and to remain available until expended, except that no reimbursement under this clause shall be paid that is greater than the amount the person evacuated would have been charged for a reasonable commercial air fare immediately prior to the events giving rise to the evacuation;</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">loans made to destitute citizens of the United States who are outside the United States and made to provide for the return to the United states of its citizens;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">visits by foreign chiefs of state or heads of government to the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/D" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of delegations representing the President at any inauguration or funeral of a foreign dignitary;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/E" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of the President, the Vice President, or a Member of Congress to a foreign country, including advance arrangements, escort, and official entertainment;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/F" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel of the Secretary of State within the United States and outside the United States, including official entertainment;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/G" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">official representational functions of the Secretary of State and other principal officers of the Department of State;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/H" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">official functions outside the United States the expenses for which are not otherwise covered by amounts appropriated for representation allowances;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/I" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">investigations and apprehension of groups or individuals involved in fraudulent issuance of United States passports and visas; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/b/2/J" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="J">(J) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">gifts of nominal value given by the President, Vice President, or Secretary of State to a foreign dignitary.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Inspector General of the Department of State shall conduct a periodic audit of the Department of State's emergency expenditures and prepare and transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate an annual report indicating whether such expenditures were made in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">With regard to the repatriations loan program, the Secretary of State shall—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require the borrower to provide a verifiable address and social security number at the time of application;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require a written loan agreement which includes a repayment schedule;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">bar passports from being issued or renewed for those individuals who are in default;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">refer any loan more than one year past due to the Department of Justice for litigation;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain addresses from the Internal Revenue Service for all delinquent accounts which have social security numbers;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">report defaults to commercial credit bureaus as provided in section 3711(f) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">be permitted to use any funds necessary to contract with commercial collection agencies, notwithstanding section 3718(c) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">charge interest on all loans as of May 1, 1983, with the rate of interest to be that set forth in section 3717(a) of title 31, United States Code;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assess charges, in addition to the interest provided for in paragraph (8), to cover the costs of processing and handling delinquent claims, as of May 1, 1983;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assess a penalty charge, in addition to the interest provided for in paragraphs (8) and (9), of 6 percent per year for failure to pay any portion of a debt more than ninety days past due; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s4/d/11" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">(11) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">implement the interest and penalty provisions in paragraphs (8), (9), and (10) for all current and future loans, regardless of whether the debts were incurred before or after May 1, 1983.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">Sec. 5. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2672<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to—</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/a" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">provide for participation by the United States in international activities which arise from time to time in the conduct of foreign affairs for which provision has not been made by the terms of any treaty, convention, or special Act of Congress: <i style="-uslm-dtd:italic">Provided,</i> That this subsection shall not be construed as granting authority to accept membership for the United States in any international organization, or to participate in the activities of any international organization for more than one year without approval by the Congress; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">pay the expenses of participation in activities in which the United States participates by authority of subsection (a) of this section, including, but not limited to the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Employment of aliens;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 5701–5708).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Travel expenses of persons serving without compensation in an advisory capacity while away from their homes or regular places of business not in excess of those authorized for regular officers and employees traveling in connection with said international activities; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s5/b/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Rental of quarters by contract or otherwise.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s6" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">Sec. 6. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2673<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of section 8 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287e), and regulations thereunder, applicable to expenses incurred pursuant to that Act, may be applicable to the obligation and expenditure of funds in connection with United States participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s7" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">Sec. 7. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2674<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The exchange allowances or proceeds derived from the exchange or sale of passenger motor vehicles in possession of the Foreign Service abroad, in accordance with section 201(c) of the Act of June 30, 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481(c)), shall be available without fiscal year limitation for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s8" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">Sec. 8. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2675<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may allocate or transfer to any department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States Government (with the consent of the head of such department, agency, or establishment) any funds appropriated to the Department of State, for direct expenditure by such department, agency, or independent establishment for the purposes for which the funds are appropriated in accordance with authority granted in this Act or under authority governing the activities of such department, agency, or independent establishment.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s9" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">Sec. 9. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2676<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts in foreign countries involving expenditures from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of State, without regard to the provisions of section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 22): <i style="-uslm-dtd:italic">Provided,</i> That nothing in this section shall be construed to waive the provisions of section 431 of title 18 of the United States Code.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s10" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">Sec. 10. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2677<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Appropriated funds made available to the Department of State for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel shall be available for such expenses when any part of such travel or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during that same fiscal year.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s11" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">reduction in earmarks if appropriations are less than authorizations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">Sec. 11. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2678<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of a sequestration order issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–177; 2 U.S.C. 901 et seq.)) for a fiscal year pursuant to any authorization of appropriations provided by an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and a provision of that Act provides that a specified amount of the authorization amount shall be available only for a certain purpose, then the amount so specified shall be deemed to be reduced for that fiscal year to the amount which bears the same ratio to the specified amount as the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of sequestration) bears to the authorization amount.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s12" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">Sec. 12. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2679<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, shall prescribe the maximum rates per diem in lieu of subsistence (or of similar allowances therefor) payable while away from their own countries to foreign participants in any exchange of persons program, or in any program of furnishing technical information and assistance, under the jurisdiction of any Government agency, and said rates may be fixed without regard to any provision of law in limitation thereof.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">Sec. 13. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2684<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby established a working capital fund for the Department of State, which shall be available without fiscal year limitations, for expenses (including those authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980) and equipment, necessary for maintenance and operation in the city of Washington and elsewhere of (1) central reproduction, editorial, data processing, audiovisual, library and administrative support services; (2) central services for supplies and equipment (including repairs) (3) such other administrative services as the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, determines may be performed more advantageously and more economically as central services; and (4) medical and health care services. Such fund shall also be available without fiscal year limitation to carry out the purposes of title II of this Act. The capital of the fund shall consist of the amount of the fair and reasonable value of such supply inventories, equipment, and other assets and inventories on order, pertaining to the services to be carried on by the fund, as the Secretary may transfer to the fund, less the related liabilities and unpaid obligations, together with any appropriations made for the purpose of providing capital. The fund shall be reimbursed, or credited with advance payments, from applicable appropriations and funds of the Department of State, other Federal agencies, and other sources authorized by law, for supplies and services at rates which will approximate the expense of operations, including accrual of annual leave and depreciation of plant and equipment of the fund. The fund shall also be credited with other receipts from sale or exchange of property or in payment for loss or damage to property held by the fund. There shall be transferred into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as of the close of each fiscal year, earnings which the Secretary determines to be excess to the needs of the fund.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s13/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The current value of supplies returned to the working capital fund by a post, activity, or agency may be charged to the fund. The proceeds thereof shall, if otherwise authorized, be credited to current applicable appropriations and shall remain available for expenditures for the same purposes for which those appropriations are available. Credits may not be made to appropriations under this subsection as the result of capitalization of inventories.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="14">Sec. 14. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2679a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any contract for the procurement of property or services, or both, for the Department of State or the Foreign Service which is funded on the basis of annual appropriations may nevertheless be made for periods not in excess of 5 years when—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">appropriations are available and adequate for payment for the first fiscal year and for all potential cancellation costs; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary of State determines that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the need of the Government for the property or service being acquired over the period of the contract is reasonably firm and continuing;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such a contract will serve the best interests of the United States by encouraging effective competition or promoting economies in performance and operation; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/a/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such a method of contracting will not inhibit small business participation.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s14/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that funds are not made available for the continuation of such a contract into a subsequent fiscal year, the contract shall be cancelled and any cancellation costs incurred shall be paid from appropriations originally available for the performance of the contract, appropriations currently available for the acquisition of similar property or services and not otherwise obligated, or appropriations made for such cancellation payments.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="15">Sec. 15. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2680<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any provision of law enacted before the date of enactment of the State Department/USIA Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1975, no money appropriated to the Department of State under any law shall be available for obligation or expenditure with respect to any fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 1972—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">unless the appropriation thereof has been authorized by law enacted on or after February 7, 1972; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in excess of an amount prescribed by law enacted on or after such date.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent that legislation enacted after the making of an appropriation to the Department of State authorizes the obligation or expenditure thereof, the limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall have no effect.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this section—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall not be superseded except by a provision of law enacted after February 7, 1972, which specifically repeals, modifies, or supersedes the provisions of this section; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/a/3/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall not apply to, or affect in any manner, permanent appropriations, trust funds, and other similar accounts administered by the Department as authorized by law.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s15/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Department of State shall keep the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and responsibilities within the jurisdiction of these committees. Any Federal department, agency, or independent establishment shall furnish any information requested by either such committee relating to any such activity or responsibility.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s16" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="16">Sec. 16. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2680a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The first section of the Act of August 16, 1941 (42 U.S.C. 1651; commonly known as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Defense Base Act</quotedText>”) shall not apply with respect to such contracts as the Secretary of State may determine which are contracts with persons employed to perform work for the Department of State or the Foreign Service on an intermittent basis for not more than 90 days in a calendar year.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s17" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="17">Sec. 17. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2687<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to use appropriated funds for unusual expenses similar to those authorized by section 5913 of title 5, United States Code, incident to the operation and maintenance of the living quarters of the United States Representative to the Organization of American States.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s18" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="18">Sec. 18. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2688<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the sense of the Congress that the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country should be accorded to men and women possessing clearly demonstrated competence to perform ambassadorial duties. No individual should be accorded the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country primarily because of financial contributions to political campaigns.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s19" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="19">Sec. 19. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2689<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1977), the Secretary of State may use funds appropriated for the American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States for such American Sections.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s20" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="20">Sec. 20. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2690<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any expenditure for any gift for any person of any foreign country which involves any funds made available to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service shall be audited by the Controller General and reports thereon made to the Congress to such extent and at such times as he may determine necessary. The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property pertaining to such expenditure and necessary to facilitate the audit.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s21" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="21">Sec. 21. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> <elided style="-uslm-dtd:omitted-text">* * *</elided> </content><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>Repealed—1990<b>]</b> </editorialNote> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="22">Sec. 22. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2692<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may compensate, pursuant to regulations which he shall prescribe, for the cost of participating in any proceeding or on any advisory committee or delegation of the Department of State, any organization or person—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">who is representing an interest which would not otherwise be adequately represented and whose participation is necessary for a fair determination of the issues taken as a whole; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">who would otherwise be unable to participate in such proceeding or on such committee or delegation because such organization or person cannot afford to pay the costs of such participation.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s22/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Of the funds appropriated for salaries and expenses for the Department of State, not to exceed $250,000 shall be available in any fiscal year for compensation under this section to such organizations and persons.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">administrative services </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="23">Sec. 23. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2695<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the head of any Federal agency performing any foreign affairs functions (including, but not limited to, the Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Agency for International Development) determines that administrative services performed in common by the Department of State and one or more other such agencies may be performed more advantageously and more economically on a consolidated basis, the Secretary of State and the heads of the other agencies concerned may, subject to the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, conclude an agreement which provides for the transfer to and consolidation within the Department or within one of the other agencies concerned of so much of the functions, personnel, property, records, and funds of the Department and of the other agencies concerned as may be necessary to enable the performance of those administrative services on a consolidated basis for the benefit of all agencies concerned. Agreements for consolidation of administrative services under this section shall provide for reimbursement or advances of funds from the agency receiving the service to the agency performing the service in amounts which will approximate the expense of providing administrative services for the serviced agency.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Payment.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A Federal agency which obtains administrative services from the Department of State pursuant to an agreement authorized under subsection (a) shall make full and prompt payment for such services through advance of funds or reimbursement.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall bill each Federal agency for amounts due for services provided pursuant to subsection (a). The Secretary shall notify a Federal agency which has not made full payment for services within 90 days after billing that services to the agency will be suspended or terminated if full payment is not made within 180 days after the date of notification. Except as provided under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall suspend or terminate services to a Federal agency which has not made full payment for services under this section 180 days after the date of notification. Any costs associated with a suspension or termination of services shall be the responsibility of, and shall be billed to, the Federal agency.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s23/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the requirement for suspension or termination under paragraph (2) with respect to such services as the Secretary determines are necessary to ensure the protection of life and the safety of United States Government property. A waiver may be issued for a period not to exceed one year and may be renewed.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="24">Sec. 24. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2696<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State, in addition to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for the Department, such sums as may be necessary for any fiscal year for increases in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits authorized by law.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text"> In order to maintain the levels of program activity for the Department of State provided for each fiscal year by the annual authorizing legislation, there are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State such sums as may be necessary to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, or overseas wage and price changes, which occur after November 30 of the earlier of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the calendar year which ended during the fiscal year preceding such fiscal year, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the calendar year which preceded the calendar year during which the authorization of appropriations for such fiscal year was enacted.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out this subsection, there may be established a Buying Power Maintenance account.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to eliminate substantial gains to the approved levels of overseas operations for the Department of State, the Secretary of State shall transfer to the Buying Power Maintenance account such amounts in any appropriation account under the heading “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” as the Secretary determines are excessive to the needs of the approved level of operations under that appropriation account because of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or changes in overseas wages and prices.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or overseas wage and price changes, the Secretary of State may transfer from the Buying Power Maintenance account to any appropriation account under the heading “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” such amounts as the Secretary determines are necessary to maintain the approved level of operations under that appropriation account.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/5" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds transferred by the Secretary of State from the Buying Power Maintenance account to another account shall be merged with and be available for the same purpose, and for the same time period, as the funds in that other account. Funds transferred by the Secretary from another account to the Buying Power Maintenance account shall be merged with the funds in the Buying Power Maintenance account and shall be available for the purposes of that account until expended.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/6" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any restriction contained in an appropriation Act or other provision of law limiting the amounts available for the Department of State that may be obligated or expended shall be deemed to be adjusted to the extent necessary to offset the net effect of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or overseas wage and price changes in order to maintain approved levels.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the limitations contained in this paragraph, not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which funds are appropriated or otherwise made available for an account under “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>”, the Secretary of State may transfer any unobligated balance of such funds to the Buying Power Maintenance account.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The balance of the Buying Power Maintenance account may not exceed $100,000,000 as a result of any transfer under this paragraph.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 and shall be available for obligation or expenditure only in accordance with the procedures under such section.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/b/7/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID1A62D152CE4A4AA6A1C2CF325C21959B" class="footnoteRef">3</ref> </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authorities contained in this paragraph may be exercised only with respect to funds appropriated or otherwise made available after fiscal year 2008.</content><footnote id="ID1A62D152CE4A4AA6A1C2CF325C21959B" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">3</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Margin for subparagraph (D) so in law.</p></footnote> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the Department of State or to the Secretary of State are authorized to be made available until expended.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), funds authorized to be appropriated for any account of the Department of State in the Department of State Appropriations Act, for either fiscal year of any two-year authorization cycle may be appropriated for such fiscal year for any other account of the Department of State.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts appropriated for the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Diplomatic and Consular Programs</quotedText>” account may not exceed by more than 5 percent the amount specifically authorized to be appropriated for such account for a fiscal year. No other appropriations account may exceed by more than 10 percent the amount specifically authorized to be appropriated for such account for a fiscal year.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/d/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The requirements and limitations of section 15 shall not apply to the appropriation of funds pursuant to this subsection.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s24/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the Department of State or to the Secretary of State are authorized to be obligated for twelve-month contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years, if the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the earlier fiscal year.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="25">Sec. 25. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2697<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may accept on behalf of the United States gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for the benefit of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or for the carrying out of any of its functions. Conditional gifts may be so accepted at the discretion of the Secretary, and the principal of and income from any such conditional gift shall be held, invested, reinvested, and used in accordance with its conditions, except that no gift shall be accepted which is conditioned upon any expenditure which will not be met by the gift or the income from the gift unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any unconditional gift of money accepted under section (a), the income from any gift property held under subsection (c) or (d) (except income made available for expenditure under subsection (d)(2)), the net proceeds from the liquidation of gift property under subsection (c) or (d), and the proceeds of insurance on any gift property which are not used for its restoration, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States. Such funds are hereby appropriated and shall be held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefit of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service). The Secretary of the Treasury may invest and reinvest such funds in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. Such funds and the income from such investments shall be available for expenditure in the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) and the performance of its functions, subject to the same examination and audit as is provided for appropriations made for the Foreign Service by the Congress, but shall not be expended for representational purposes at United States missions except in accordance with the conditions that apply to appropriated funds.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The evidences of any unconditional gift of intangible personal property (other than money) accepted under subsection (a), shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury who may hold or liquidate them, except that they shall be liquidated upon the request of the Secretary of State whenever necessary to meet payments required in the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or the performance of its functions.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall hold any real property or any tangible personal property accepted unconditionally pursuant to subsection (a) and shall either use such property for the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) and the performance of its functions or lease or hire such property, except that any such property not required for the operation of the Department of State (including the Foreign Service) or the performance of its functions may be liquidated by the Secretary of State whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of State the purposes of the gift will be served thereby. The Secretary of State may insure any property held under this subsection. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall deposit the income from any property held under this subsection with the Secretary of the Treasury as provided in subsection (b).</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/d/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The income from any real property or tangible personal property held under this subsection shall be available for expenditure at the discretion of the Secretary of State for the maintenance, preservation, or repair and insurance of such property and any proceeds from insurance may be used to restore the property insured.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purpose of Federal income, estate, and gift taxes, any gift, devise, or bequest accepted under this section shall be deemed to be a gift, devise, or bequest to and for the use of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s25/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authorities available to the Secretary of State under this section with respect to the Department of State shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to the Board and the Agency.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="26">Sec. 26. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2698<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may, without regard to section 3106 of title 5, United States Code, authorize a principal officer of the Foreign Service to procure legal services whenever such services are required for the protection of the interests of the Government or to enable a member of the Service to carry on the member's work efficiently.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s26/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority available to the Secretary of State under this section shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors,<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDC8BC771543404ACE9FE6149F2FFD4E48" class="footnoteRef">4</ref> and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to the Board and the Agency.</content><footnote id="IDC8BC771543404ACE9FE6149F2FFD4E48" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">4</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">So in law. Should probably remove the comma.</p></footnote> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="27">Sec. 27. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2699<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to expand employment opportunities for family members of the United States Government personnel assigned abroad, the Secretary of State shall seek to conclude such bilateral and multilateral agreements as will facilitate the employment of such family members in foreign economies.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any member of a family of a member of the Foreign Service may accept gainful employment in a foreign country unless such employment—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would violate any law of such country or of the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s27/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">could, as certified in writing by the United States chief of mission to such country, damage the interests of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s28" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="28">Sec. 28. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2700<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may authorize the principal officer of a Foreign Service post to provide for the use of Government owned or leased vehicles located at that post for transportation of United States Government employees and their families when public transportation is unsafe or not available or when such use is advantageous to the Government.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s29" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="29">Sec. 29. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2701<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary of State determines that educational facilities are not available, or that existing educational facilities are inadequate, to meet the needs of children of United States citizens stationed outside the United States who are engaged in carrying out Government activities, the Secretary may, in such manner as he deems appropriate and under such regulations as he may prescribe, establish, operate, and maintain primary schools, and school dormitories and related educational facilities for primary and secondary schools, outside the United States, make grants of funds for such purposes, or otherwise provide for such educational facilities. The authorities of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, and of paragraphs (h) and (i) of section 3 of this Act, may be utilized by the Secretary in providing assistance for educational facilities. Such assistance may include physical security enhancements and hiring, transporting, and payment of teachers and other necessary personnel. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the child of a United States citizen employee of an agency of the United States Government who is stationed outside the United States attends an educational facility assisted by the Secretary of State under this section, the head of that agency is authorized to reimburse, or credit with advance payment, the Department of State for funds used in providing assistance to such educational facilities, by grant or otherwise, under this section.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="30">Sec. 30. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2702<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The remedy—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of title 28, United States Code, or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">through proceedings for compensation or other benefits from the United States as provided by any other law, where the availability of such benefits precludes a remedy under such sections,</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">for damages for personal injury, including death, allegedly arising from malpractice or negligence of a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist or paramedical (including medical and dental assistants and technicians, nursing assistants, and therapists) or other supporting personnel of the Department of State in furnishing medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations, while in the exercise of his or her duties in or for the Department of State or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality shall be exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding by reason of the same subject matter against such physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or paramedical or other supporting personnel (or his or her estate) whose act or omission gave rise to such claim.</continuation></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The United States Government shall defend any civil action or proceeding brought in any court against any person referred to in subsection (a) of this section (or his or her estate) for any such damage or injury. Any such person against whom such civil action or proceeding is brought shall deliver, within such time after date of service or knowledge of service as may be determined by the Attorney General, all process served upon him or her or an attested true copy thereof to whomever was designated by the Secretary to receive such papers. Such person shall promptly furnish copies of the pleading and process therein to the United States attorney for the district embracing the place wherein the proceeding is brought, to the Attorney General, and to the Secretary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon a certification by the Attorney General that the defendant was acting within the scope of his or her employment in or for the Department of State or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality at the time of the incident out of which the suit arose, any such civil action or proceeding commenced in a State court shall be removed without bond at any time before trial by the Attorney General to the district court of the United States of the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending and the proceeding deemed a tort action brought against the United States under the provisions of title 28, United States Code, and all references thereto. Should a United States district court determine on a hearing on a motion to remand held before a trial on the merits that the case so removed is one in which a remedy by suit within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section is not available against the United States, the case shall be remanded to the State court except that where such remedy is precluded because of the availability of a remedy through proceedings for compensation or other benefits from the United States as provided by any other law, the case shall be dismissed, but in that event, the running of any limitation of time for commencing, or filing an application or claim in, such proceedings for compensation or other benefits shall be deemed to have been suspended during the pendency of the civil action or proceeding under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Attorney General may compromise or settle any claim asserted in such civil action or proceeding in the manner provided in section 2677 of title 28, the United States Code, and with the same effect.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, the provisions of section 2680(h) of title 28, United States Code, shall not apply to any tort enumerated therein arising out of negligence in the furnishing of medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may, to the extent he deems appropriate, hold harmless or provide liability insurance for any person to whom the immunity provisions of subsection (a) of this section apply, for damages for personal injury, including death, negligently caused by any such person while acting within the scope of his or her office of employment and as a result of the furnishing of medical care or related services, including the conducting of clinical studies or investigations, if such person is assigned to a foreign area or detailed for service with other than a Federal agency or institution, or if the circumstances are such as are likely to preclude the remedies of third persons against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of title 28, United States Code, for such damage or injury.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s30/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, any medical care or related service covered by this section and performed abroad by a covered person at the direction or with the approval of the United States chief of mission or other principal representative of the United States in the area shall be deemed to be within the scope of employment of the individual performing the service.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="31">Sec. 31. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2703<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may authorize and assist in the establishment, maintenance, and operation by civilian officers and employees of the Government of non-Government-operated services and facilities at posts abroad, including the furnishing of space, utilities, and properties owned or leased by the Government for use by its diplomatic, consular, and other missions and posts abroad. The provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 292–300) and section 13 of this Act may be utilized by the Secretary in providing such assistance.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may establish and maintain emergency commissary or mess services in places abroad where, in the judgment of the Secretary, such services are necessary temporarily to insure the effective and efficient performance of official duties and responsibilities. Reimbursements incident to the maintenance and operation of commissary or mess service under this subsection shall be at not less than cost as determined by the Secretary and shall be used as working funds, except that an amount equal to the amount expended for such services shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Services and facilities established under this section shall be made available, insofar as practicable, to officers and employees of all agencies and their dependents who are stationed in the locality abroad, and, where determined by the Secretary to be appropriate due to exceptional circumstances, to United States citizens hired outside of the host country to serve as teaching staff for such dependents abroad. Such services and facilities shall not be established in localities where another agency operates similar services or facilities unless the Secretary determines that additional services or facilities are necessary. Other agencies shall to the extent practicable avoid duplicating the facilities and services provided or assisted by the Secretary under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Charges at any post abroad for a service or facility provided, authorized or assisted under this section shall be at the same rate for all civilian personnel of the Government serviced thereby, and all charges for supplies furnished to such a service or facility abroad by any agency shall be at the same rate as that charged by the furnishing agency to its comparable civilian services and facilities.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may make grants to child care facilities, to offset in part the cost of such care, in Moscow and at no more than five other posts abroad where the Secretary determines that due to extraordinary circumstances such facilities are necessary to the efficient operation of the post. In making that determination, the Secretary shall take into account factors such as—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">whether Foreign Service spouses are encouraged to work at the post because—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the number of members of the post is subject to a ceiling imposed by the receiving country; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Foreign Service nationals are not employed at the post; and</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s31/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">whether local child care is available.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s32" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="32">Sec. 32. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2704<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may pay, without regard to section 5702 of title 5, United States Code, subsistence expenses of (1) special agents of the Department of State who are on authorized protective missions, whether at or away from their duty stations, and (2) members of the Foreign Service and employees of the Department who are required to spend extraordinary amounts of time in travel status. The authorities available to the Secretary of State under this section with respect to the Department of State shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to their respective agencies, except that the authority of clause (2) shall be available with respect to those agencies only in the case of members of the Foreign Service and employees of the agency who are performing security-related functions abroad.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="33">Sec. 33. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2705<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The following documents shall have the same force and effect as proof of United States citizenship as certificates of naturalization or of citizenship issued by the Attorney General or by a court having naturalization jurisdiction:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport, during its period of validity (if such period is the maximum period authorized by law), issued by the Secretary of State to a citizen of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s33/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The report, designated as a “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States</quotedText>”, issued by a consular officer to document a citizen born abroad. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular officer</term>” includes any United States citizen employee of the Department of State who is designated by the Secretary of State to adjudicate nationality abroad pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="34">Sec. 34. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2706<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Unless the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate are notified fifteen days in advance of the proposed reprogramming, funds appropriated for the Department of State shall not be available for obligation or expenditure through any reprogramming of funds—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which creates new programs;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which eliminates a program, project, or activity;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which relocates an office or employees;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which reorganizes offices, programs, or activities;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which involves contracting out functions which had been performed by Federal employees; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/a/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">which involves a reprogramming in excess of $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less and which (A) augments existing programs, projects, or activities, (B) reduces by 10 percent or more the funding for any existing program, project, activity, or personnel approved by the Congress, or (C) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects approved by the Congress.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds appropriated for the Department of State may not be available for obligation or expenditure through any reprogramming described in subsection (a) during the period which is the last 15 days in which such funds are available unless notice of such reprogramming is made before such period.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s34/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the notification requirement of subsection (a), if the Secretary determines that failure to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health or welfare. In the case of any waiver under this subsection, notification to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall be provided as soon as practicable, but not later than 3 days after taking the action to which the notification requirement was applicable, and shall contain an explanation of the emergency circumstances.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35" styleType="traditional-inline"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="35">Sec. 35. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2707<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall be responsible for formulation, coordination, and oversight of foreign policy related to international communications and information policy. The Secretary of State shall—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">exercise primary authority for the conduct of foreign policy with respect to such telecommunications functions, including the determination of United States positions and the conduct of United States participation in negotiations with foreign governments and international bodies. In exercising this responsibility, the Secretary shall coordinate with other agencies as appropriate, and, in particular, shall give full consideration to the authority vested by law or Executive order in the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative in this area;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain continuing liaison with other executive branch agencies concerned with international communications and information policy and with the Federal Communications Commission, as appropriate;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in accordance with such authority as may be delegated by the President pursuant to Executive order, supervise and coordinate the activities of any senior interagency policymaking group on international telecommunications and information policy and chair such interagency meetings as may be necessary to coordinate actions on pending issues;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate the activities of, and assist as appropriate, interagency working level task forces and committees concerned with specific aspects of international communications and information policy;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain liaison with the members and staffs of committees of the Congress concerned with international communications and information policy and provide testimony before such committees;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">maintain appropriate liaison with representatives of the private sector to keep informed of their interests and problems, meet with them, and provide such assistance as may be needed to ensure that matters of concern to the private sector are promptly considered by the Department or other executive branch agencies; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s35/b/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">assist in arranging meetings of such public sector advisory groups as may be established to advise the Department of State and other executive branch agencies in connection with international communications and information policy issues.</content> </paragraph></subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="36">SEC. 36. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2708<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established a program for the payment of rewards to carry out the purposes of this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Purpose.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rewards program shall be designed to assist in the prevention of acts of international terrorism, international narcotics trafficking, serious violations of international humanitarian law, foreign election interference, transnational organized crime, and other related criminal acts.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Implementation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rewards program shall be administered by the Secretary of State, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rewards Authorized.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the sole discretion of the Secretary (except as provided in subsection (c)(2)) and in consultation, as appropriate, with the heads of other relevant departments or agencies, the Secretary may pay a reward to any individual who furnishes information leading to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for the commission of an act of international terrorism against a United States person or United States property;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring or attempting to commit an act of international terrorism against a United States person or United States property;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for committing, primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, any narcotics-related offense if that offense involves or is a significant part of conduct that involves—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a violation of United States narcotics laws such that the individual would be a major violator of such laws;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the killing or kidnapping of—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any officer, employee, or contract employee of the United States Government while such individual is engaged in official duties, or on account of that individual's official duties, in connection with the enforcement of United States narcotics laws or the implementing of United States narcotics control objectives; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a member of the immediate family of any such individual on account of that individual's official duties, in connection with the enforcement of United States narcotics laws or the implementing of United States narcotics control objectives; or</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an attempt or conspiracy to commit any act described in subparagraph (A) or (B);</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual aiding or abetting in the commission of an act described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (8), (9), or (10);</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (8), (9), (10), or (13) including by dismantling an organization in whole or significant part;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of an individual who holds a key leadership position in a terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the disruption of financial mechanisms of a foreign terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group, including the use by such organization or group of illicit narcotics production or international narcotics trafficking—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to finance acts of international terrorism or transnational organized crime; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/7/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to sustain or support any terrorist organization or transnational organized crime group;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual for participating in, primarily outside the United States, transnational organized crime;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in transnational organized crime; </content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the arrest or conviction in any country, or the transfer to or conviction by an international criminal tribunal (including a hybrid or mixed tribunal), of any foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide (including war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide committed in Syria beginning in March 2011), as defined under the statute of such tribunal;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/11" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">(11) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction of or under the control of a foreign government, aids or abets a violation of section 1030 of title 18, United States Code; </content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/12" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">(12) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the disruption of financial mechanisms of any person who has engaged in the conduct described in section 104(a) or 104(b)(1) of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2914(a) or 2914(b)(1)); or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/b/13" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">(13) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the identification or location of a foreign person that knowingly engaged or is engaging in foreign election interference.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procedures.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">To ensure that the payment of rewards pursuant to this section does not duplicate or interfere with the payment of informants or the obtaining of evidence or information, as authorized to the Department of Justice, the offering, administration, and payment of rewards under this section, including procedures for—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">identifying individuals, organizations, and offenses with respect to which rewards will be offered;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the publication of rewards;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the offering of joint rewards with foreign governments;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the receipt and analysis of data; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/1/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the payment and approval of payment,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">shall be governed by procedures developed by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prior approval of attorney general required.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Before making a reward under this section in a matter over which there is Federal criminal jurisdiction, the Secretary of State shall obtain the concurrence of the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Funding.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorization of appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding section 102 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (Public Law 99–93; 99 Stat. 408), but subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Period of availability.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitations and Certification.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maximum amount.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No reward paid under this section may exceed $25,000,000, except as personally authorized by the Secretary of State if he determines that offer or payment of an award of a larger amount is necessary to combat terrorism or defend the Nation against terrorist acts. Without first making such determination, the Secretary may authorize a reward of up to twice the amount specified in this paragraph for the capture or information leading to the capture of a leader of a foreign terrorist organization.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Approval.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A reward under this section of more than $100,000 may not be made without the approval of the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Certification for payment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any reward granted under this section shall be approved and certified for payment by the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nondelegation of authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority to approve rewards of more than $100,000 set forth in paragraph (2) may not be delegated.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Protection measures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the Secretary determines that the identity of the recipient of a reward or of the members of the recipient's immediate family must be protected, the Secretary may take such measures in connection with the payment of the reward as he considers necessary to effect such protection.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/e/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Forms of reward payment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may make a reward under this section in the form of money, a nonmonetary item (including such items as automotive vehicles), or a combination thereof.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Ineligibility.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An officer or employee of any entity of Federal, State, or local government or of a foreign government who, while in the performance of his or her official duties, furnishes information described in subsection (b) shall not be eligible for a reward under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports on payment of rewards.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 30 days after the payment of any reward under this section, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to such reward. The report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary, shall specify the amount of the reward paid, to whom the reward was paid, and the acts with respect to which the reward was paid. The report shall also discuss the significance of the information for which the reward was paid in dealing with those acts.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to the operation of the rewards program. The report shall provide information on the total amounts expended during the fiscal year ending in that year to carry out this section, including amounts expended to publicize the availability of rewards.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Advance notification for international criminal tribunal rewards.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 15 days before publicly announcing that a reward may be offered for a particular foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary, setting forth the reasons why the arrest or conviction of such foreign national is in the national interests of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/g/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports on rewards authorized.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 15 days after a reward is authorized under this section, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, which may be submitted in classified form if necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods, detailing information about the reward, including the identity of the individual for whom the reward is being made, the amount of the reward, the acts with respect to which the reward is being made, and how the reward is being publicized.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Publication Regarding Rewards Offered by Foreign Governments.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in the sole discretion of the Secretary, the resources of the rewards program shall be available for the publication of rewards offered by foreign governments regarding acts of international terrorism which do not involve United States persons or property or a violation of the narcotics laws of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Media Surveys and Advertisements.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Surveys conducted.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purpose of more effectively disseminating information about the rewards program, the Secretary may use the resources of the rewards program to conduct media surveys, including analyses of media markets, means of communication, and levels of literacy, in countries determined by the Secretary to be associated with acts of international terrorism.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/i/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Creation and purchase of advertisements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may use the resources of the rewards program to create advertisements to disseminate information about the rewards program. The Secretary may base the content of such advertisements on the findings of the surveys conducted under paragraph (1). The Secretary may purchase radio or television time, newspaper space, or make use of any other means of advertisement, as appropriate.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/j" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Determinations of the Secretary.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A determination made by the Secretary under this section shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to judicial review.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">(k) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Act of international terrorism.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">act of international terrorism</term>” includes—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any act substantially contributing to the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in paragraph (8) of section 830 of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 3201 note)) or any nuclear explosive device (as defined in paragraph (4) of that section) by an individual, group, or non-nuclear-weapon state (as defined in paragraph (5) of that section); and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any act, as determined by the Secretary, which materially supports the conduct of international terrorism, including the counterfeiting of United States currency or the illegal use of other monetary instruments by an individual, group, or country supporting international terrorism as determined for purposes of section 6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A)).</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate congressional committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">appropriate congressional committees</term>” means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign person.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">foreign person</quotedText>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who is not a United States person; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a foreign entity.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign election interference.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">foreign election interference</quotedText>” means conduct by a foreign person that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">violates Federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law; or</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise; and</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful act or attempted act, or knowing use of information acquired by theft, undertaken with the specific intent to significantly influence voters, undermine public confidence in election processes or institutions, or influence, undermine confidence in, or alter the result or reported result of, a general or primary Federal, State, or local election or caucus, including—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the campaign of a candidate; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/4/B/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a ballot measure, including an amendment, a bond issue, an initiative, a recall, a referral, or a referendum.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Member of the immediate family.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">member of the immediate family</term>”, with respect to an individual, includes—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a spouse, parent, brother, sister, or child of the individual;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a person with respect to whom the individual stands in loco parentis; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/5/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any person not covered by subparagraph (A) or (B) who is living in the individual's household and is related to the individual by blood or marriage.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rewards program.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">rewards program</term>” means the program established in subsection (a)(1).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transnational organized crime.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">transnational organized crime</term>”—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">means—</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">racketeering activity (as such term is defined in section 1961 of title 18, United States Code) that involves at least one jurisdiction outside the United States; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/A/ii" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any other criminal offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of at least four years under Federal, State, or local law that involves at least one jurisdiction outside the United States and that is intended to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit; and</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/7/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">includes wildlife trafficking (as defined by section 2(12) of the Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 (16 U.S.C. 7601(12); Public Law 114–231)) and severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)) involving at least 1 jurisdiction outside of the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/8" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transnational organized crime group.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">transnational organized crime group</term>” means a group of persons that includes one or more citizens of a foreign country, exists for a period of time, and acts in concert with the aim of engaging in transnational organized crime.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/9" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">(9) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states narcotics laws.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States narcotics laws</term>” means the laws of the United States for the prevention and control of illicit trafficking in controlled substances (as such term is defined in section 102(6) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6))).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">(10) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states person.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States person</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a citizen or national of the United States;or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36/k/10/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an alien lawfully present in the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="36A">SEC. 36A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2708a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">AWARD OF THOMAS JEFFERSON STAR FOR FOREIGN SERVICE. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to Award.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary, may award a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service to any member of the Foreign Service or any other civilian employee of the Government of the United States who, while employed at, or assigned permanently or temporarily to, an official mission overseas or while traveling abroad on official business, incurred a wound or other injury or an illness (whether or not the wound, other injury, or illness resulted in death)—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">as the person was performing official duties;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">as the person was on the premises of a United States mission abroad; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by reason of the person's status as a United States Government employee.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Selection Criteria.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall prescribe the procedures for identifying and considering persons eligible for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service and for selecting the persons to be recommended for the award.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Award in the Event of Death.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a person selected for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service dies before being presented the award, the award may be made and the star presented to the person's family or to the person's representative, as designated by the President.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Form of Award.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall prescribe the design of the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service. The award may not include a stipend or any other cash payment.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s36A/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Funding.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any expenses incurred in awarding a person a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service may be paid out of appropriations available at the time of the award for personnel of the department or agency of the United States Government in which the person was employed when the person incurred the wound, injury, or illness upon which the award is based.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">special agents </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="37">Sec. 37. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2709<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Authority.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service may—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">conduct investigations concerning—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">illegal passport or visa issuance or use;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">identity theft or document fraud affecting or relating to the programs, functions, or authorities of the Department of State; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Federal offenses committed within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7(9) of title 18, United States Code), except as such jurisdiction relates to the premises of United States military missions and related residences;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">obtain and execute search and arrest warrants, as well as obtain and serve subpoenas and summonses issued under the authority of the United States;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">protect and perform protective functions directly related to maintaining the security and safety of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">heads of a foreign state, official representatives of a foreign government, and other distinguished visitors to the United States, while the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary of State, Deputy Secretary of State, and official representatives of the United States Government, in the United States or abroad;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">members of the immediate family of persons described in subparagraph (A) or (B);</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">foreign missions (as defined in section 202(a)(4) of this Act) and international organizations (as defined in section 209(b) of this Act), within the United States;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a departing Secretary of State for a period of up to 180 days after the date of termination of that individual's incumbency as Secretary of State, on the basis of a threat assessment; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who has been designated by the President or President-elect to serve as Secretary of State, prior to that individual's appointment.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">if designated by the Secretary and qualified, under regulations approved by the Attorney General, for the use of firearms, carry firearms for the purpose of performing the duties authorized by this section; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDB9A9DCB4F174442A81E0AB40A63BF3DB" class="footnoteRef">5</ref> </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreements with Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury and Firearms Regulations.—</heading><footnote id="IDB9A9DCB4F174442A81E0AB40A63BF3DB" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">5</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section 202 of Public Law 107–228 (116 Stat. 1362) amended subsection (b) by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">(b) <headingText style="-uslm-dtd:header-in-text">Agreement</headingText>.—</quotedText>” and all that follows through the end of paragraph (1) and inserting a new subsection designation, heading, and paragraphs (1) through (2). The text at the beginning of the matter to be struck probably should not have included “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">.—</quotedText>”, but was executed to reflect the probable intent of Congress.</p></footnote> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreement with attorney general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority conferred by paragraphs (1) and (4) of subsection (a) shall be exercised subject to an agreement between the Secretary and the Attorney General.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Agreement with attorney general and secretary of the treasury.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority conferred by paragraphs (2) and (5) of subsection (a) shall be exercised subject to an agreement among the Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of the Treasury.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Firearms regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations, which shall be approved by the Attorney General, with respect to the carrying and use of firearms by special agents under this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s37/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Secret Service not Affected.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in subsection (a)(3) shall be construed to preclude or limit in any way the authority of the United States Secret Service to provide protective services pursuant to section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code, at a level commensurate with protective requirements as determined by the United States Secret Service. The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into an interagency agreement with respect to their law enforcement functions.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">expenses relating to participation in arbitrations of certain disputes </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="38">Sec. 38. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2710<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">International Agreements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use funds available to the Secretary for the expenses of United States participation in arbitrations and other proceedings for the peaceful resolution of disputes under treaties or other international agreements.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contracts Abroad.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use funds available to the Secretary for the expenses of United States participation in arbitrations arising under contracts authorized by law for the performance of services or acquisition of property, real or personal, abroad.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procurement of Services.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may use competitive procedures or procedures other than competitive procedures to procure the services of experts for use in preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, whether or not the expert is expected to testify, or to procure personal and other support services for such proceedings or claims. The Secretary need not provide any written justification for the use of procedures other than competitive procedures when procuring such services under this subsection and need not furnish for publication in the Commerce Business Daily or otherwise any notice of solicitation or synopsis with respect to such procurement.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">International Litigation Fund.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to provide the Department of State with a dependable, flexible, and adequate source of funding for the expenses of the Department related to preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, there is established an International Litigation Fund (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">ILF</quotedText>”). The ILF may be available without fiscal year limitation. Funds otherwise available to the Department for the purposes of this paragraph may be credited to the ILF.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reprogramming procedures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds credited to the ILF shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures applicable to such reprogrammings. This paragraph shall not apply to the transfer of funds under paragraph (3).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transfers of funds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds received by the Department of State from another agency of the United States Government or pursuant to the Department of State Appropriations Act of 1937 (49 Stat. 1321, 22 U.S.C. 2661) to meet costs of preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim by or against a foreign government or other foreign entity, shall be credited to the ILF.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/d/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of funds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds deposited in the ILF shall be available only for the purposes of paragraph (1).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Retention of Funds.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To reimburse the expenses of the United States Government in preparing or prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal, or a claim against a foreign government or other foreign entity, the Secretary may retain 1.5 percent of any amount between $100,000 and $5,000,000, and one percent of any amount over $5,000,000, received per claim under chapter 34 of the Act of February 27, 1896 (22 U.S.C. 2668a; 29 Stat. 32).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s38/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Treatment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts retained under the authority of paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the fund under subsection (d).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">counterterrorism protection fund </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="39">Sec. 39. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2711<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may reimburse domestic and foreign persons, agencies, or governments for the protection of judges or other persons who provide assistance or information relating to terrorist incidents primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Before making a payment under this section in a matter over which there is Federal criminal jurisdiction, the Secretary shall advise and consult with the Attorney General.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorization of Appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Administration of Foreign Affairs</quotedText>” $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 for use in reimbursing persons, agencies, or governments under this section.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s39/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designation of Fund.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts made available under this section may be referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Counterterrorism Protection Fund</quotedText>”.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">authority to control certain terrorism-related services </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="40">Sec. 40. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2712<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may, by regulation, impose controls on the provisions of the services described in subsection (b) if the Secretary determines that provision of such services would aid and abet international terrorism.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Services Subject to Control.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The services subject to control under subsection (a) are the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Serving in or with the security forces of a designated foreign government.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Providing training or other technical services having a direct military, law enforcement, or intelligence application, to or for the security forces of a designated foreign government.</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">Any regulations issued to impose controls on services described in paragraph (2) shall list the specific types of training and other services subject to the controls.</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Persons Subject of Controls.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">These services may be controlled under subsection (a) when they are provided within the United States by any individual or entity and when they are provided anywhere in the world by a United States person.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Licenses.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of State may require licenses, which may be revoked, suspended, or amended, without prior notice, whenever such action is deemed to be advisable.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designated foreign government.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">designated foreign government</term>” means a foreign government that the Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 1979, has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Security forces.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">security forces</term>” means any military or paramilitary forces, any police or other law enforcement agency (including any police or other law enforcement agency at the regional or local level), and any intelligence agency of a foreign government.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States</term>” includes any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United states person.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States person</term>” means any United States national, any permanent resident alien, and any sole proprietorship, partnership, company, association, or corporation organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business within the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Violations.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Penalties.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whoever willfully violates any regulation issued under this section shall be fined not more than $100,000 or five times the total compensation received for the conduct which constitutes the violation, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/f/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Investigations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury shall have authority to investigate violations of regulations issued under this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Congressional Oversight.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Review of regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 30 days before issuing any regulations under this section (including any amendment thereto), the Secretary of State shall transmit the proposed regulations to the Congress.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/g/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than once every six months, the Secretary of State shall report to the Congress concerning the number and character of licenses granted and denied during the previous reporting period, and such other information as the Secretary may find to be relevant to the accomplishment of the objectives of this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s40/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Relationship to Other Laws.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority granted by this section is in addition to the authorities granted by any other provision of law.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">protection of historic and artistic furnishings of reception areas of the department of state building </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="41">Sec. 41. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2713<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall administer the historic and artistic articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects of the reception areas of the Department of State by such means and measures as conform to the purposes of the reception areas, which include conserving those articles, fixtures, and objects and providing for their enjoyment in such manner and by such means as will leave them for the use of the American people. Nothing shall be done under this subsection which conflicts with the administration of the Department of State or with the use of the reception areas for official purposes of the United States Government.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition of Historic and Artistic Items.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Items covered.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Articles of furniture, fixtures, and decorative objects of the reception areas (and similar articles, fixtures, and objects acquired by the Secretary of State), when declared by the Secretary of State to be of historic or artistic interest, shall thereafter be considered to be the property of the Secretary in his or her official capacity and shall be subject to disposition solely in accordance with this subsection.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Sale or trade.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary of State determines that—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any item covered by paragraph (1) is no longer needed for use or display in the reception areas, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in order to upgrade the reception areas, a better use of that article would be its sale or exchange,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">the Secretary may, with the advice and concurrence of the Director of the National Gallery of Art, sell the item at fair market value or trade it, without regard to the requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. The proceeds of any such sale may be credited to the unconditional gift account of the Department of State, and items obtained in trade shall be the property of the Secretary of State under this subsection.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Smithsonian institution.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may also lend items covered by paragraph (1), when not needed for use or display in the reception areas, to the Smithsonian Institution or a similar institution for care, repair, study, storage, or exhibition.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s41/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definition.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">reception areas</term>” means the areas of the Department of State Building, located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, known as the Diplomatic Reception Rooms (eighth floor), the Secretary of State's offices (seventh floor), the Deputy Secretary of State's offices (seventh floor), and the seventh floor reception area.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">denial of passports to certain convicted drug traffickers </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="42">Sec. 42. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2714<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Ineligibility for Passport.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport may not be issued to an individual who is convicted of an offense described in subsection (b) during the period described in subsection (c) if the individual used a passport or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Passport revocation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall revoke a passport previously issued to an individual who is ineligible to receive a passport under paragraph (1).</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Drug Law Offenses.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Felonies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) applies with respect to any individual convicted of a Federal drug offense, or a State drug offense, if the offense is a felony.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Certain misdemeanors.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) also applies with respect to an individual convicted of a Federal drug offense, or a State drug offense, if the offense is misdemeanor, but only if the Secretary of State determines that subsection (a) should apply with respect to that individual on account of that offense. This paragraph does not apply to an individual's first conviction for a misdemeanor which involves only possession of a controlled substance.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Period of Ineligibility.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) applies during the period that the individual—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is imprisoned, or is legally required to be imprisoned, as the result of the conviction for the offense described in subsection (b); or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is on parole or other supervised release after having been imprisoned as the result of that conviction.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Emergency and Humanitarian Exceptions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of State may issue a passport, in emergency circumstances or for humanitarian reasons, to an individual with respect to whom that subsection applies.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">controlled substance</term>” has the same meaning as is provided in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802);</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Federal drug offense</term>” means a violation of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.);</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any other Federal law involving controlled substances; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Bank Secrecy Act</quotedText>”), or section 1956 or section 1957 of title 18, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Money Laundering Act</quotedText>”), if the Secretary of State determines that the violation is related to illicit production of or trafficking in a controlled substance;</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">felony</term>” means a criminal offense punishable by death or imprisonment for more than one year;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">imprisoned</term>” means an individual is confined in or otherwise restricted to a jail-type institution, a half-way house, a treatment facility, or another institution, on a full or part-time basis, pursuant to the sentence imposed as the result of a conviction;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">misdemeanor</term>” means a criminal offense other than a felony;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State drug offense</term>” means a violation of State law involving the manufacture, distribution, or possession of a controlled substance; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s42/e/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State law</term>” means the law of a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">procedures regarding major disasters and incidents abroad affecting united states citizens </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43">Sec. 43. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the case of a major disaster or incident abroad which affects the health and safety of citizens of the United States residing or traveling abroad, the Secretary of State shall provide prompt and thorough notification of all appropriate information concerning such disaster or incident and its effect on United States citizens to the next-of-kin of such individuals. Notification shall be provided through the most expeditious means available, including telephone communications, and shall include timely written notice. The Secretary, through the appropriate offices of the Department of State, shall act as a clearinghouse for up-to-date information for the next-of-kin and shall provide other services and assistance. Assistance shall include liaison with foreign governments and persons and with United State air carriers concerning arrangements for the preparation and transport to the United States of the remains of citizens who die abroad, as well as disposition of personal estates pursuant to section 43B of this Act.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section and sections 43A and 43B, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular officer</term>” includes any United States citizen employee of the Department of State who is designated by the Secretary of State to perform consular services pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43A">SEC. 43A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715b<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">NOTIFICATION OF NEXT OF KIN; REPORTS OF DEATH. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever a United States citizen or national dies abroad, a consular officer shall endeavor to notify, or assist the Secretary of State in notifying, the next of kin or legal guardian as soon as possible, except that, in the case of death of any Peace Corps volunteer (within the meaning of section 5(a) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(a)), any member of the Armed Forces, any dependent of such a volunteer or member, or any Department of Defense employee, the consular officer shall assist the Peace Corps or the appropriate military authorities, as the case may be, in making such notifications.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports of Death or Presumptive Death.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The consular officer may, for any United States citizen who dies abroad—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the case of a finding of death by the appropriate local authorities, issue a report of death or of presumptive death; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the absence of a finding of death by the appropriate local authorities, issue a report of presumptive death.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Implementing Regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="43B">SEC. 43B. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2715c<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONSERVATION AND DISPOSITION OF ESTATES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Conservation of Estates Abroad.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to act as conservator.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever a United States citizen or national dies abroad, a consular officer shall act as the provisional conservator of the portion of the decedent's estate located abroad and, subject to paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), shall—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">take possession of the personal effects of the decedent within his jurisdiction;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">inventory and appraise the personal effects of the decedent, sign the inventory, and annex thereto a certificate as to the accuracy of the inventory and appraised value of each article;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">when appropriate in the exercise of prudent administration, collect the debts due to the decedent in the officer's jurisdiction and pay from the estate the obligations owed by the decedent;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">sell or dispose of, as appropriate, in the exercise of prudent administration, all perishable items of property;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">sell, after reasonable public notice and notice to such next of kin as can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, such additional items of property as necessary to provide funds sufficient to pay the decedent's debts and property taxes in the country of death, funeral expenses, and other expenses incident to the disposition of the estate;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">upon the expiration of the one-year period beginning on the date of death (or after such additional period as may be required for final settlement of the estate), if no claimant shall have appeared, after reasonable public notice and notice to such next of kin as can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, sell or dispose of the residue of the personal estate, except as provided in subparagraph (G), in the same manner as United States Government-owned foreign excess property;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/G" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">transmit to the custody of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. the proceeds of any sales, together with all financial instruments (including bonds, shares of stock, and notes of indebtedness), jewelry, heirlooms, and other articles of obvious sentimental value, to be held in trust for the legal claimant; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/1/H" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the event that the decedent's estate includes an interest in real property located within the jurisdiction of the officer and such interest does not devolve by the applicable laws of intestate succession or otherwise, provide for title to the property to be conveyed to the Government of the United States unless the Secretary declines to accept such conveyance.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to act as administrator.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a consular officer may act as administrator of an estate in exceptional circumstances if expressly authorized to do so by the Secretary of State.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exceptions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The responsibilities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may not be performed to the extent that the decedent has left or there is otherwise appointed, in the country where the death occurred or where the decedent was domiciled, a legal representative, partner in trade, or trustee appointed to take care of his personal estate. If the decedent's legal representative shall appear at any time prior to transmission of the estate to the Secretary and demand the proceeds and effects being held by the consular officer, the officer shall deliver them to the representative after having collected any prescribed fee for the services performed under this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Additional requirement.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to being subject to the limitations in paragraph (3), the responsibilities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may not be performed unless—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">authorized by treaty provisions or permitted by the laws or authorities of the country wherein the death occurs, or the decedent is domiciled; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/4/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">permitted by established usage in that country.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Statutory construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section supersedes or otherwise affects the authority of any military commander under title 10 of the United States Code with respect to the person or property of any decedent who died while under a military command or jurisdiction or the authority of the Peace Corps with respect to a Peace Corps volunteer or the volunteer's property.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition of Estates by the Secretary of State.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Personal estates.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After receipt of a personal estate pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary may seek payment of all outstanding debts to the estate as they become due, may receive any balances due on such estate, may endorse all checks, bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other instruments of indebtedness payable to the estate for the benefit thereof, and may take such other action as is reasonably necessary for the conservation of the estate.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposition as surplus united states property.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If, upon the expiration of a period of 5 fiscal years beginning on October 1 after a consular officer takes possession of a personal estate under subsection (a), no legal claimant for such estate has appeared, title to the estate shall be conveyed to the United States, the property in the estate shall be under the custody of the Department of State, and the Secretary shall dispose of the estate in the same manner as surplus United States Government-owned property is disposed or by such means as may be appropriate in light of the nature and value of the property involved. The expenses of sales shall be paid from the estate, and any lawful claim received thereafter shall be payable to the extent of the value of the net proceeds of the estate as a refund from the appropriate Treasury appropriations account.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Transfer of proceeds.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The net cash estate after disposition as provided in subparagraph (B) shall be transferred to the miscellaneous receipts account of the Treasury of the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Real property.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Designation as excess property.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that title to real property is conveyed to the Government of the United States pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(H) and is not required by the Department of State, such property shall be considered foreign excess property under title IV of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 511 et seq.).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Treatment as gift.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that the Department requires such property, the Secretary of State shall treat such property as if it were an unconditional gift accepted on behalf of the Department of State under section 25 of this Act and section 9(a)(3) of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Losses in Connection With the Conservation of Estates.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority to compensate.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary is authorized to compensate the estate of any United States citizen who has died overseas for property—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the conservation of which has been undertaken under section 43 or subsection (a) of this section; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">that has been lost, stolen, or destroyed while in the custody of officers or employees of the Department of State.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Liability.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exclusion of personal liability after provision of compensation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any such compensation shall be in lieu of personal liability of officers or employees of the Department of State.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Liability to the department.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An officer or employee of the Department of State may be liable to the Department of State to the extent of any compensation provided under paragraph (1).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/c/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Determinations of liability.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The liability of any officer or employee of the Department of State to the Department for any payment made under subsection (a) shall be determined pursuant to the Department's procedures for determining accountability for United States Government property.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s43B/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">debt collection </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="44">Sec. 44. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2716<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contract Authority.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of State shall enter into contracts for collection services to recover indebtedness owed by a person, other than a foreign country, to the United States which arises out of activities of the Department of State and is delinquent by more than 90 days.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each contract entered into under this section shall provide that the person with whom the Secretary enters into such contract shall submit to the Secretary at least once each 180 days a status report on the success of the person in collecting debts. Section 3718 of title 31, United States Code, shall apply to any such contract to the extent that such section is not inconsistent with this subsection.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s44/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disclosure of Delinquent Debt to Credit Reporting Agencies.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall, to the extent otherwise allowed by law, disclose to those credit reporting agencies to which the Secretary reports loan activity information concerning any debt of more than $100 owed by a person, other than a foreign country, to the United States which arises out of activities of the Department of State and is delinquent by more than 31 days.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">defense trade controls registration fees </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="45">Sec. 45. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2717<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For each fiscal year, 100 percent of the registration fees collected by the Office of Defense Trade Controls of the Department of State shall be credited to a Department of State account, to be available without fiscal year limitation. Fees credited to that account shall be available only for payment of expenses incurred for—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">contract personnel to assist in the evaluation of defense trade controls license applications, reduction in processing time for license applications, and improved monitoring of compliance with the terms of licenses;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the automation of defense trade control functions, including compliance and enforcement activities, and the processing of defense trade control license applications, including the development, procurement, and utilization of computer equipment and related software; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s45/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the enhancement of defense trade export compliance and enforcement activities, including compliance audits of United States and foreign parties, the conduct of administrative proceedings, monitoring of end-uses in cases of direct commercial arms sales or other transfers, and cooperation in proceedings for enforcement of criminal laws related to defense trade export controls.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">fees received for use of blair house </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="46">Sec. 46. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2718<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of Fees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds received by the Department of State in connection with the use of Blair House (including reimbursements and surcharges for services and goods provided and fees for use of Blair House facilities) may be credited to the appropriate appropriation account of the Department of State which is currently available. Such funds shall be available only for maintenance and other expenses of Blair House.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s46/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Compliance With the Budget Act.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority of this section may be exercised only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in an appropriation Act.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s47" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">grants for training and education in international affairs </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="47">Sec. 47. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2719<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may make grants to postsecondary educations institutions or students for the purpose of increasing the level of knowledge and awareness of and interest in employment with the Foreign Service, consistent with section 105 of the Foreign service Act of 1980. To the extent possible, the Secretary shall give special emphasis to promoting such knowledge and awareness of, and interest in employment with, the Foreign Service among minority students. Any grants awarded shall be made pursuant to regulations to be established by the Secretary of State, which shall provide for a limit on the size of any specific grant and, regarding any grant to individuals, shall ensure that no grant recipient receives an amount of grants from one or more Federal programs which in the aggregate would exceed the cost of his or her education, and shall require satisfactory educational progress by grantees as a condition of eligibility for continued receipt of grant funds.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">closing of consular and diplomatic posts abroad </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="48">Sec. 48. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2720<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prohibited Uses of Funds.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided under subsection (d) or in accordance with the procedures under subsections (b) and (c) of this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">no funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State shall be available to pay any expense related to the closing of any United States consular or diplomatic post abroad; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">no funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State may be used to pay for any expense related to the Bureau of Administration of the Department of State (or to carrying out any of its functions) if any United States consular or diplomatic post is closed.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Post Closing Notification.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not less than 45 days before the closing of any United States consular or diplomatic post abroad, the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reprogramming Treatment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts made available to pay any expense related to the closing of a consular or diplomatic post abroad shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 34 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures applicable to such reprogramming.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exceptions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this section do not apply with respect to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any post closed because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations between the United States and the country in which the post is located; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any post closed because there is a real and present threat to United States diplomatic or consular personnel in the city where the post is located, and a travel advisory warning against travel by United States citizens to that city has been issued by the Department of State.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s48/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definition.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">consular or diplomatic post</term>” does not include a post to which only personnel of agencies other than the Department of State are assigned.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s49" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">impermissible basis for denial of passports </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="49">Sec. 49. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2721<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A passport may not be denied issuance, revoked, restricted, or otherwise limited because of any speech, activity, belief, affiliation, or membership, within or outside the United States, which, if held or conducted within the United States, would be protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">international meetings </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="50">Sec. 50. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2722<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority To Pay Expenses.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the United States Government hosts an international meeting or conference in the United States, the Secretary of State is authorized to pay all reasonable expenses of such meeting or conference. Such expenses may include rental of quarters (by contract or otherwise) and personal services.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s50/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Retention of Reimbursements.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent provided in an appropriation Act, transfers of funds or other reimbursements for payments under subsection (a) are authorized to be retained and credited to the appropriate appropriation account of the Department of State which is available.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">denial of visas </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="51">Sec. 51. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2723<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report to Congress.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Denial of visas.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall report, on a timely basis, to the appropriate committees of the Congress each time a consular post denies a visa on the grounds of terrorist activities or foreign policy. Such report shall set forth the name and nationality of each such person and a factual statement of the basis for such denial.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Visa issuance to inadmissible aliens.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall, on a semiannual basis, submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing every instance during the period covered by the report in which a consular post or the Visa Office of the Department of State issued an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien who is inadmissible to the United States based upon terrorist activity or failed to object to the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien notwithstanding any such ground of inadmissibility. The report shall set forth the name and nationality of the alien, the issuing post, and a brief factual statement of the basis for issuance of the visa or the failure to object. The report may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Information contained in such report may be classified to the extent necessary and shall protect intelligence sources and methods.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s51/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate Committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">appropriate committees of the Congress</term>” means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="52">SEC. 52. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2724<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEES FOR COMMERCIAL SERVICES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority To Charge Fee.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State is authorized to charge a fee to cover the actual or estimated cost of providing any person, firm or organization (other than agencies of the United States Government) with commercial services at posts abroad on matters within the authority of the Department of State.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority of this section may be exercised only in countries where the Department of Commerce does not perform commercial services for which it collects fees.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s52/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of Fees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funds collected under the authority of subsection (a) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of providing commercial services. Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s53" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="53">SEC. 53. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2725<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEES FOR USE OF THE GEORGE P. SHULTZ NATIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS TRAINING CENTER. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s54" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="54">SEC. 54. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2726<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FEE FOR USE OF DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the diplomatic reception rooms of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s55" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="55">SEC. 55. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2727<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ACCOUNTING OF COLLECTIONS IN BUDGET PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Secretary shall include in the annual Congressional Presentation Document and the Budget in Brief a detailed accounting of the total collections received by the Department of State from all sources, including fee collections. Reporting on total collections shall also cover collections from the preceding fiscal year and the projected expenditures from all collections accounts.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="56">SEC. 56. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2728<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual Report Concerning Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report to congress.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">180 days after the date of enactment, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to the Congress, a report concerning diplomatic immunity entitled “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Report on Cases Involving Diplomatic Immunity</quotedText>”.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Content of report.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to such other information as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate, the report under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of persons residing in the United States who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving an alien described in subparagraph (A) in which an appropriate authority of a State, a political subdivision of a State, or the United States reported to the Department of State that the authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed a serious criminal offense within the United States, and any additional information provided to the Secretary relating to other serious criminal offenses that any such authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed before the period covered by the report. The Secretary may omit from such report any matter the provision of which the Secretary reasonably believes would compromise a criminal investigation or prosecution or which would directly compromise law enforcement or intelligence sources or methods.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case described in subparagraph (B) in which the Secretary of State has certified that a person enjoys full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of United States citizens who are residing in a receiving state and who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of such state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving a United States citizen under subparagraph (D) in which the United States has been requested by the government of a receiving state to waive the immunity from criminal jurisdiction of the United States citizen.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/2/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whether the Secretary has made the notifications referred to in subsection (c) during the period covered by the report.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Serious criminal offense defined.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">serious criminal offense</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any felony under Federal, State, or local law;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any Federal, State, or local offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any crime of violence as defined for purposes of section 16 of title 18, United States Code; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs;</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reckless driving; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/a/3/D/iii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving while intoxicated.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United States Policy Concerning Reform of Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should explore, in appropriate fora, whether states should enter into agreements and adopt legislation—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide jurisdiction in the sending state to prosecute crimes committed in the receiving state by persons entitled to immunity from criminal jurisdiction under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide that where there is probable cause to believe that an individual who is entitled to immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities committed a serious crime, the sending state will waive such immunity or the sending state will prosecute such individual.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s56/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Notification of Diplomatic Corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary should periodically notify each foreign mission of United States policies relating to criminal offenses committed by individuals with immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="57">SEC. 57. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2729<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS OF OVERSEAS DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS FROM NONNATURAL CAUSES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Collection of Information.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, collect, with respect to each foreign country, the following information with respect to each United States citizen who dies in that country from a nonnatural cause on or after the date of enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The date of death.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The locality where the death occurred (including the state or province and municipality, if available).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The cause of death, including information on the circumstances of the death, and including, if the death resulted from an act of terrorism, a statement disclosing that information.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Such other information as the Secretary shall prescribe.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Database.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall establish and maintain a database containing the information collected under subsection (a).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s57/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Public Availability of Information.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Beginning three months after the date of enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, the Secretary, shall make available, on a country-by-country basis, on the Internet website of the Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, the information from the database described in subsection (b) with respect to deaths occurring since the date of enactment of that Act, or occurring during the preceding three calendar years, whichever period is shorter. The information shall be updated at least every six months.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="58">SEC. 58. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2730<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PROHIBITION ON FUNDING THE INVOLUNTARY RETURN OF REFUGEES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Prohibition.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of the funds made available to the Department of State, or the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund established in section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), may be available to effect the involuntary return by the United States of any person to a country in which the person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exception.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply to the return of any person on grounds recognized as precluding protection as a refugee under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of July 28, 1951, and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of January 31, 1967, subject to the reservations contained in the United States Senate resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the Protocol.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Congressional Notification Required in All Cases.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">None of the funds made available to the Department of State, or the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund established in section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), may be available to effect the involuntary return by the United States of any person to any country unless the Secretary first notifies the appropriate congressional committees, except that, in the case of an emergency involving a threat to human life, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate congressional committees as soon as practicable.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Statutory Construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting activities of the Department of State that relate to removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act or extradition.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In this section:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Appropriate congressional committees.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term ``appropriate congressional committees' means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s58/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">To effect the involuntary return.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">to effect the involuntary return</term>” means to require, by means of physical force or circumstances amounting to a threat thereof, a person to return to a country against the person's will, regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States and regardless of whether the United States acts directly or through an agent.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="59">SEC. 59. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2731<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">MONITORING AND COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment of office.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall establish within the Department of State an Office to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism (in this section referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Office</quotedText>”).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Head of office.—</heading> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall be the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism (in this section referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Special Envoy</quotedText>”), who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Special Envoy shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nomination of head of office.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the President determines that such is appropriate, the President may nominate the Special Envoy from among officers and employees of the Department. Such officer or employee may not retain the position (or the responsibilities associated with such position) held by such officer or employee prior to the nomination of such officer or employee to the position of Special Envoy under this paragraph.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Duties.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall serve as the primary advisor to, and coordinate efforts across, the United States Government relating to monitoring and combating anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement that occur in foreign countries.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rank and status of ambassador.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall have the rank of ambassador.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Qualifications.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy should be a person of recognized distinction in the field of combating anti-Semitism.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Purpose of Office.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon establishment, the Office shall assume the primary responsibility for—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">monitoring and combating acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement that occur in foreign countries;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinating and assisting in the preparation of that portion of the report required by sections 116(d)(7) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)(7) and 2304(b)) relating to an assessment and description of the nature and extent of acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement for inclusion in the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinating and assisting in the preparation of that portion of the report required by section 102(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6412(b)(1)(A)(iv)) relating to an assessment and description of the nature and extent of acts of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incitement for inclusion in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s59/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Consultations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Special Envoy shall consult with domestic and international nongovernmental organizations and multilateral organizations and institutions, as the Special Envoy considers appropriate to fulfill the purposes of this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="60">SEC. 60. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2732<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Integral Component.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall make public diplomacy an integral component in the planning and execution of United States foreign policy.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordination and Development of Strategy.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall make every effort to—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate, subject to the direction of the President, the public diplomacy activities of Federal agencies; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">coordinate with the Broadcasting Board of Governors to—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">develop a comprehensive and coherent strategy for the use of public diplomacy resources; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/b/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">develop and articulate long-term measurable objectives for United States public diplomacy.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Objectives.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The strategy developed pursuant to subsection (b) shall include public diplomacy efforts targeting developed and developing countries and select and general audiences, using appropriate media to properly explain the foreign policy of the United States to the governments and populations of such countries, with the objectives of increasing support for United States policies and providing news and information. The Secretary shall, through the most effective mechanisms, counter misinformation and propaganda concerning the United States. The Secretary shall continue to articulate the importance of freedom, democracy, and human rights as fundamental principles underlying United States foreign policy goals.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s60/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Identification of United States Foreign Assistance.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other public and private assistance organizations and agencies, the Secretary should ensure that information relating to foreign assistance provided by the United States, nongovernmental organizations, and private entities of the United States is disseminated widely, and particularly, to the extent practicable, within countries and regions that receive such assistance. The Secretary should ensure that, to the extent practicable, projects funded by USAID not involving commodities, including projects implemented by private voluntary organizations, are identified as provided by the people of the United States.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="61">SEC. 61. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2733<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">REEMPLOYMENT OF ANNUITANTS UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may waive the application of section 8344 or 8468 of title 5, United States Code, on a case-by-case basis, for employment of an annuitant in a position in the Department of State for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting or retaining a qualified employee, or when a temporary emergency hiring need exists.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Procedures.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary should prescribe procedures for the exercise of any authority under subsection (a), including criteria for any exercise of authority and procedures for a delegation of authority.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s61/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annuitants Not Treated as Employees for Purposes of Retirement Benefits.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An employee for whom a waiver under this section is in effect shall not be considered an employee for purposes of subchapter III of chapter 83, or chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="62">SEC. 62. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2734<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established within the Department of State the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of the Office shall be the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report directly to the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Functions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The functions of the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization shall include the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Monitoring, in coordination with relevant bureaus and offices of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), political and economic instability worldwide to anticipate the need for mobilizing United States and international assistance for the reconstruction and stabilization of a country or region that is at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Assessing the various types of reconstruction and stabilization crises that could occur and cataloging and monitoring the non-military resources and capabilities of agencies (as such term is defined in section 1603 of the Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2008) that are available to address such crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Planning, in conjunction with USAID, to address requirements, such as demobilization, disarmament, rebuilding of civil society, policing, human rights monitoring, and public information, that commonly arise in reconstruction and stabilization crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Coordinating with relevant agencies to develop interagency contingency plans and procedures to mobilize and deploy civilian personnel and conduct reconstruction and stabilization operations to address the various types of such crises.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Entering into appropriate arrangements with agencies to carry out activities under this section and the Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2008.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Identifying personnel in State and local governments and in the private sector who are available to participate in the Civilian Reserve Corps established under subsection (b) or to otherwise participate in or contribute to reconstruction and stabilization activities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/G" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Taking steps to ensure that training and education of civilian personnel to perform such reconstruction and stabilization activities is adequate and is carried out, as appropriate, with other agencies involved with stabilization operations.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/H" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="H">(H) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Taking steps to ensure that plans for United States reconstruction and stabilization operations are coordinated with and complementary to reconstruction and stabilization activities of other governments and international and nongovernmental organizations, to improve effectiveness and avoid duplication.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/a/3/I" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">(I) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Maintaining the capacity to field on short notice an evaluation team consisting of personnel from all relevant agencies to undertake on-site needs assessment.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Response Readiness Corps.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Response readiness corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the heads of other appropriate agencies of the United States Government, may establish and maintain a Response Readiness Corps (referred to in this section as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Corps</quotedText>”) to provide assistance in support of reconstruction and stabilization operations in countries or regions that are at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife. The Corps shall be composed of active and standby components consisting of United States Government personnel, including employees of the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and other agencies who are recruited and trained (and employed in the case of the active component) to provide such assistance when deployed to do so by the Secretary to support the purposes of this Act.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Civilian reserve corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may establish a Civilian Reserve Corps for which purpose the Secretary is authorized to employ and train individuals who have the skills necessary for carrying out reconstruction and stabilization activities, and who have volunteered for that purpose. The Secretary may deploy members of the Civilian Reserve Corps pursuant to a determination by the President under section 618 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Mitigation of domestic impact.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The establishment and deployment of any Civilian Reserve Corps shall be undertaken in a manner that will avoid substantively impairing the capacity and readiness of any State and local governments from which Civilian Reserve Corps personnel may be drawn.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s62/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Existing Training and Education Programs.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall ensure that personnel of the Department, and, in coordination with the Administrator of USAID, that personnel of USAID, make use of the relevant existing training and education programs offered within the Government, such as those at the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School and the Interagency Training, Education, and After Action Review Program at the National Defense University.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="63">SEC. 63. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>2735<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FOREIGN RELATIONS EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may establish exchange programs under which officers or employees of the Department of State, including individuals appointed under title 5, United States Code, and members of the Foreign Service (as defined in section 103 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903)), may be assigned, for not more than 1 year, to a position with any foreign government or international entity that permits an employee to be assigned to a position with the Department of State.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Salary and Benefits.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Members of foreign service.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">During a period in which a member of the Foreign Service is participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a), such member shall be entitled to the salary and benefits to which such member would receive but for the assignment under this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-foreign service employees of department.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An employee of the Department of State other than a member of the Foreign Service participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be treated in all respects as if detailed to an international organization pursuant to section 3343(c) of title 5, United States Code.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Foreign participants.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The salary and benefits of an employee of a foreign government or international entity participating in an exchange program authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be paid by such government or entity during the period in which such employee is participating in such program, and shall not be reimbursed by the Department of State.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-Reciprocal Assignment.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may authorize a non-reciprocal assignment of personnel pursuant to this section, with or without reimbursement from the foreign government or international entity for all or part of the salary and other expenses payable during such assignment, if such is in the interests of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rule of Construction.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the appointment as an officer or employee of the United States of—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual whose allegiance is to any country, government, or foreign or international entity other than to the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tI/s63/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual who has not met the requirements of sections 3331, 3332, 3333, and 7311 of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of law concerning eligibility for appointment as, and continuation of employment as, an officer or employee of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="II">TITLE II—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">AUTHORITIES RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s201" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">declaration of findings and policy </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="201">Sec. 201. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4301<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s201/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Congress finds that the operation in the United States of foreign missions and public international organizations and the official missions to such organizations, including the permissible scope of their activities and the location and size of their facilities, is a proper subject for the exercise of Federal jurisdiction.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s201/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to support the secure and efficient operation of United States missions abroad, to facilitate the secure and efficient operation in the United States of foreign missions and public international organizations and the official missions to such organizations, and to assist in obtaining appropriate benefits, privileges, and immunities for those missions and organizations and to require their observance of corresponding obligations in accordance with international law.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s201/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The treatment to be accorded to a foreign mission in the United States shall be determined by the Secretary after due consideration of the benefits, privileges, and immunities provided to missions of the United States in the country or territory represented by that foreign mission as well as matters relating to the protection of the interests of the United States.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202" styleType="traditional" role="definitions"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">definitions </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="202">Sec. 202. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4302<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this title—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">benefit</term>” (with respect to a foreign mission) means any acquisition, or authorization for an acquisition, in the United States by or for a foreign mission, including the acquisition of—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">real property by purchase, lease, exchange, construction, or otherwise,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">public services, including services relating to customs, importation, and utilities, and the processing of applications or requests relating to public services,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">supplies, maintenance, and transportation,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">locally engaged staff on a temporary or regular basis,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">travel and related services,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">protective services, and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/1/G" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="G">(G) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">financial and currency exchange services,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">and includes such other benefits as the Secretary may designate;</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">chancery</term>” means the principal offices of a foreign mission used for diplomatic or related purposes, and annexes to such offices (including ancillary offices and support facilities), and includes the site and any building on such site which is used for such purposes;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">foreign mission</term>” means any mission to or agency or entity in the United States which is involved in the diplomatic, consular, or other activities of, or which is substantially owned or effectively controlled by—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a foreign government, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an organization (other than an international organization, as defined in section 209(b) of this title) representing a territory or political entity which has been granted diplomatic or other official privileges and immunities under the laws of the United States or which engages in some aspect of the conduct of the international affairs of such territory or political entity,</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">including any real property of such a mission and including the personnel of such a mission;</continuation> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">real property</term>” includes any right, title, or interest in or to, or the beneficial use of, any real property in the United States, including any office or other building;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of State;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">sending State</term>” means the foreign government, territory, or political entity represented by a foreign mission; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/a/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text"> “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United States</term>” means, when used in a geographic sense, the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s202/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Determinations with respect to the meaning and applicability of the terms used in subsection (a) shall be committed to the discretion of the Secretary.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">authorities of the secretary of state </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="203">Sec. 203. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4303<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall carry out the following functions:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Assist agencies of Federal, State, and municipal government with regard to ascertaining and according benefits, privileges, and immunities to which a foreign mission may be entitled.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Provide or assist in the provision of benefits for or on behalf of a foreign mission in accordance with section 204.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As determined by the Secretary, dispose of property acquired in carrying out the purposes of this Act.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As determined by the Secretary, designate an office within the Department of State to carry out the purposes of this Act. If such an office is established, the President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Director, with the rank of ambassador. Of the Director and the next most senior person in the office, one should be an individual who has served in the Foreign Service and the other should be an individual who has served in the United States intelligence community.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s203/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Perform such other functions as the Secretary may determine necessary in furtherance of the policy of this title.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">provision of benefits </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="204">Sec. 204. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4304<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon the request of a foreign mission, benefits may be provided to or for that foreign mission by or through the Secretary on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the Secretary determines that such action is reasonably necessary on the basis of reciprocity or otherwise—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to facilitate relations between the United States and a sending State,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to protect the interests of the United States,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to adjust for costs and procedures of obtaining benefits for missions of the United States abroad,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to assist in resolving a dispute affecting United States interests and involving a foreign mission or sending State, or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">subject to subsection (f), to implement an exchange of property between the Government of the United States and the government of a foreign country, such property to be used by each government in the respective receiving state for, or in connection with, diplomatic or consular establishments,</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">then the Secretary may require a foreign mission (A) to obtain benefits from or through the Secretary on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve, or (B) to forego the acceptance, use, or relations of any benefit or to comply with such terms and conditions as the Secretary may determine as a condition to the execution or performance in the United States of any contract or other agreement, the acquisition, retention, or use of any real property, or the application for or acceptance of any benefit (including any benefit from or authorized by any Federal, State, or municipal governmental authority, or any entity providing public services).</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Terms and conditions established by the Secretary under this section may include—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a requirement to pay to the Secretary a surcharge or fee, and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a waiver by a foreign mission or any assignee of or person deriving rights from a foreign mission of any recourse against any governmental authority, any entity providing public services, any employee or agent of such an authority or entity, or any other person, in connection with any action determined by the Secretary to be undertaken in furtherance of this title.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of effectuating a waiver of recourse which is required under this section, the Secretary may designate any officer of the Department of State as the agent of a foreign mission (or of any assignee of or person deriving rights from a foreign mission). Any such waiver by an officer so designated shall for all purposes (including any court or administrative proceeding) be deemed to be a waiver by the foreign mission (or the assignee of or other person deriving rights from a foreign mission).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this title shall be deemed to preclude or limit in any way the authority of the United States Secret Service to provide protective services pursuant to section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code, at a level commensurate with protective requirements as determined by the United States Secret Service.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon a determination in each specific case by the Secretary of State or the Secretary's designee that the purpose of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, can best be met on the basis of an in-kind exchange of properties with a foreign country pursuant to subsection (b)(5), the Secretary of State may transfer funds made available under the heading “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad</quotedText>” (including funds held in the Foreign Service Buildings Fund) for such purpose to the Working Capital Fund, as provided in section 208(h)(1). Except for funds that may be provided by a foreign government for the purchase of property, only funds transferred under the preceding sentence may be used for the purposes of subsection (b)(5).</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may acquire property in the United States for the purposes of subsection (b)(5) only in the context of a specific reciprocal agreement with a specified foreign government. Property acquired by the United States in the foreign country through such an exchange shall benefit the United States at least to the same extent as the property acquired in the United States benefits the foreign government.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prescribe regulations for the implementation of any in-kind exchange of properties pursuant to subsection (b)(5).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">At least 15 days before entering into any reciprocal agreement for the exchange of property with another foreign government, the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/5" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/5/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Proceeds from the disposition of properties acquired pursuant to this subsection shall be credited to the Foreign Service Buildings Fund (referred to in section 9 of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926).</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204/f/5/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authority to spend proceeds received under subparagraph (A) may be exercised only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in an appropriation Act.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">enforcement of compliance with liability insurance requirements </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="204A">Sec. 204A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4303a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of a foreign mission shall notify promptly the Secretary of the lapse or termination of any liability insurance coverage held by a member of the mission, by a member of the family of such member, or by an individual described in section 19 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of February 13, 1946.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than February 1 of each year, the head of each foreign mission shall prepare and transmit to the Secretary a report including a list of motor vehicles, vessels, and aircraft registered in the United States by members of the mission, members of the families of such members, individuals described in section 19 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of February 13, 1946, and by the mission itself. Such list shall set forth for each such motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the jurisdiction in which it is registered;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the name of insured;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the name of the insurance company;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2/D" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the insurance policy number and the extent of insurance coverage; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/2/E" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such other information as the Secretary may prescribe.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary finds that a member of a foreign mission, a member of the family of such member, or an individual described in section 19 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of February 13, 1946—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is at fault for personal injury, death, or property damage arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft in the United States,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is not covered by liability insurance, and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">has not satisfied a court-rendered judgment against him or is not legally liable,</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">the Secretary shall impose a surcharge or fee on the foreign mission of which such member or individual is a part, amounting to the unsatisfied portion of the judgment rendered against such member or individual or, if there is no court-rendered judgment an estimated amount of damages incurred by the victim. The payment of any such surcharge or fee shall be available only for compensation of the victim or his estate.</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">head of a foreign mission</term>” has the same meaning as is ascribed to the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">head of a mission</term>” in Article 1 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961 (T.I.A.S. numbered 7502; 23 U.S.T. 3227); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204A/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the terms “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">members of a mission</term>” and “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">family</quotedText>” have the same meanings as is ascribed to them by paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2 of the Diplomatic Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 254a).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="204B">SEC. 204B. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4303b<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual Report Concerning Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report to congress.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to the Congress, annually, a report concerning diplomatic immunity entitled “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Report on Cases Involving Diplomatic Immunity</quotedText>”.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Content of report.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to such other information as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate, the report under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of persons residing in the United States who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving an alien described in subparagraph (A) in which an appropriate authority of a State, a political subdivision of a State, or the United States reported to the Department of State that the authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed a serious criminal offense within the United States, and any additional information provided to the Secretary relating to other serious criminal offenses that any such authority had reasonable cause to believe the alien committed before the period covered by the report. The Secretary may omit from such report any matter the provision of which the Secretary reasonably believes would compromise a criminal investigation or prosecution or which would directly compromise law enforcement or intelligence sources or methods.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case described in subparagraph (B) in which the Secretary of State has certified that a person enjoys full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The number of United States citizens who are residing in a receiving state and who enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of such state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/E" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each case involving a United States citizen under subparagraph (D) in which the United States has been requested by the government of a receiving state to waive the immunity from criminal jurisdiction of the United States citizen.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/2/F" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whether the Secretary has made the notifications referred to in subsection (c) during the period covered by the report.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Serious criminal offense defined.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">serious criminal offense</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any felony under Federal, State, or local law;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any Federal, State, or local offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any crime of violence as defined for purposes of section 16 of title 18, United States Code; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/D/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs;</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/D/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reckless driving; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/a/3/D/iii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">driving while intoxicated.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United States Policy Concerning Reform of Diplomatic Immunity.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should explore, in appropriate fora, whether states should enter into agreements and adopt legislation—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide jurisdiction in the sending state to prosecute crimes committed in the receiving state by persons entitled to immunity from criminal jurisdiction under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide that where there is probable cause to believe that an individual who is entitled to immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities committed a serious crime, the sending state will waive such immunity or the sending state will prosecute such individual.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s204B/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Notification of Diplomatic Corps.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary should periodically notify each foreign mission of United States policies relating to criminal offenses committed by individuals with immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the United States under laws extending diplomatic privileges and immunities.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">property of foreign missions </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="205">Sec. 205. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4305<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/a/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall require any foreign mission, including any mission to an international organization (as defined in section 209(b)(2)), to notify the Secretary prior to any proposed acquisition, or any proposed sale or other disposition, of any real property by or on behalf of such mission. The foreign mission (or other party acting on behalf of the foreign mission) may initiate or execute any contract, proceeding, application, or other action required for the proposed action—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/a/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">only after the expiration of the 60–day period beginning on the date of such notification (or after the expiration of such shorter period as the Secretary may specify in a given case); and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/a/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">only if the mission is not notified by the Secretary within that period that the proposal has been disapproved; however, the Secretary may include in such a notification such terms and conditions as the Secretary may determine appropriate in order to remove the disapproval.</content> </subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/a/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">acquisition</quotedText>” includes any acquisition or alteration of, or addition to, any real property or any change in the purpose for which real property is used by a foreign mission.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may require any foreign mission to divest itself of, or forgo the use of, any real property determined by the Secretary—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not to have been acquired in accordance with this section;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to exceed limitations placed on real property available to a United States mission in the sending State; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">where otherwise necessary to protect the interests of the United States.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a foreign mission has ceased conducting diplomatic, consular, and other governmental activities in the United States and has not designated a protecting power or other agent approved by the Secretary to be responsible for the property of that foreign mission, the Secretary—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">until the designation of a protecting power or other agent approved by the Secretary, may protect and preserve any property of that foreign mission; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">may dispose of such property at such time as the Secretary may determine after the expiration of the one-year period beginning on the date that the foreign mission ceased those activities, and may remit to the sending State the net proceeds from such disposition.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After the date of enactment of this subsection, real property in the United States may not be acquired (by sale, lease, or other means) by or on behalf of the foreign mission of a foreign country described in paragraph (4) if, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense (after consultation with the Secretary of State), the acquisition of that property might substantially improve the capability of that country to intercept communications involving United States Government diplomatic, military, or intelligence matters.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After the date of enactment of this subsection, real property in the United States may not be acquired (by sale, lease, or other means) by or on behalf of the foreign mission of a foreign country described in paragraph (4) if, in the judgment of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (after consultation with the Secretary of State), the acquisition of that property might substantially improve the capability of that country to engage in intelligence activities directed against the United States Government, other than the intelligence activities described in paragraph (1).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall inform the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation immediately upon notice being given pursuant to subsection (a) of this section of a proposed acquisition of real property by or on behalf of the foreign mission of a foreign country described in paragraph (4).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/4" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this subsection, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">foreign country</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/4/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any country listed as a Communist country in section 620(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/4/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any country determined by the Secretary of State, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979, to be a country which has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/4/C" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any other country which engages in intelligence activities in the United States which are adverse to the national security interests of the United States.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/5" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">substantially improve</term>” shall not be construed to prevent the establishment of a foreign mission by a country which, on the date of enactment of this section—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/5/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">does not have a mission in the United States, or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s205/d/5/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">with respect to a city in the United States, did not maintain a mission in that city.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">location of foreign missions in the district of columbia </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="206">Sec. 206. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4306<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The location, replacement, or expansion of chanceries in the District of Columbia shall be subject to this section.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A chancery shall be permitted to locate as a matter of right in any area which is zoned commercial, industrial, waterfront, or mixed-use (CR).</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">A chancery shall also be permitted to locate—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in any area which is zoned medium-high or high density residential, and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in any other area, determined on the basis of existing uses, which includes office or institutional uses, including but not limited to any area zoned mixed-use diplomatic or special purpose,</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">subject to disapproval by the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment in accordance with this section.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/b/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In each of the areas described in paragraphs (1) and (2), the limitations and conditions applicable to chanceries shall not exceed those applicable to other office or institutional uses in that area.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/c/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a foreign mission wishes to locate a chancery in an area described in subsection (b)(2), or wishes to appeal an administrative decision relating to a chancery based in whole or in part upon any zoning map or regulation, it shall file an application with the Board of Zoning Adjustment which shall publish notice of that application in the District of Columbia Register.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/c/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Regulations issued to carry out this section shall provide appropriate opportunities for participation by the public in proceedings concerning the location, replacement, or expansion of chanceries.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/c/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A final determination concerning the location, replacement, or expansion of a chancery shall be made not later than six months after the date of the filing of an application with respect to such location, replacement, or expansion. Such determination shall not be subject to the administrative proceedings of any other agency or official except as provided in this title.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any determination concerning the location of a chancery under subsection (b)(2), or concerning an appeal of an administrative decision with respect to a chancery based in whole or in part upon any zoning regulation or map, shall be based solely on the following criteria:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The international obligation of the United States to facilitate the provision of adequate and secure facilities for foreign missions in the Nation's Capital.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Historic preservation, as determined by the Board of Zoning Adjustment in carrying out this section; and in order to ensure compatibility with historic landmarks and districts, substantial compliance with District of Columbia and Federal regulations governing historic preservation shall be required with respect to new construction and to demolition of or alteration to historic landmarks.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The adequacy of off-street or other parking and the extent to which the area will be served by public transportation to reduce parking requirements, subject to such special security requirements as may be determined by the Secretary, after consultation with Federal agencies authorized to perform protective services.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The extent to which the area is capable of being adequately protected, as determined by the Secretary, after consultation with Federal agencies authorized to perform protective services.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The municipal interest, as determined by the Mayor of the District of Columbia.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/d/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Federal interest, as determined by the Secretary.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/e/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Regulations, proceedings, and other actions of the National Capital Planning Commission, the Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia, and the Board of Zoning Adjustment affecting the location, replacement, or expansion of chanceries shall be consistent with this section (including the criteria set out in subsection (d)) and shall reflect the policy of this title.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/e/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Proposed actions of the Zoning Commission concerning implementation of this section shall be referred to the National Capital Planning Commission for review and comment.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Regulations issued to carry out this section shall provide for proceedings of a rule-making and not of an adjudicatory nature.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall require foreign missions to comply substantially with District of Columbia building and related codes in a manner determined by the Secretary to be not inconsistent with the international obligations of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Approval by the Board of Zoning Adjustment or the Zoning Commission or, except as provided in section 205, by any other agency or official is not required—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/h/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">for the location, replacement, or expansion of a chancery to the extent that authority to proceed, or rights or interests, with respect to such location, replacement, or expansion were granted to or otherwise acquired by the foreign mission before the effective date of this section; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/h/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">for continuing use of a chancery by a foreign mission to the extent that the chancery was being used by a foreign mission on the effective date of this section.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/i" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/i/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The President may designate the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Interior, or the Administrator of General Services (or such alternate as such official may from time to time designate) to serve as a member of the Zoning Commission in lieu of the Director of the National Park Service whenever the President determines that the Zoning Commission is performing functions concerning the implementation of this section.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/i/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Board of Zoning Adjustment is performing functions regarding an application by a foreign mission with respect to the location, expansion, or replacement of a chancery—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/i/2/A" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the representative from the Zoning Commission shall be the Director of the National Park Service or if another person has been designated under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the person so designated; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/i/2/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the representative from the National Capital Planning Commission shall be the Executive Director of that Commission.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s206/j" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Provisions of law (other than this title) applicable with respect to the location, replacement, or expansion of real property in the District of Columbia shall apply with respect to chanceries only to the extent that they are consistent with this section.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s207" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">preemption </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="207">Sec. 207. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4307<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other law, no act of any Federal agency shall be effective to confer or deny any benefit with respect to any foreign mission contrary to this title. Nothing in section 202, 203, 204, or 205 may be construed to preempt any State or municipal law or governmental authority regarding zoning, land use, health, safety, or welfare, except that a denial by the Secretary involving a benefit for a foreign mission within the jurisdiction of a particular State or local government shall be controlling.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">general provisions </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="208">Sec. 208. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4308<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary may determine necessary to carry out the policy of this title.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Compliance with any regulation, instruction, or direction issued by the Secretary under this title shall to the extent thereof be a full acquittance and discharge for all purposes of the obligation of the person making the same. No person shall be held liable in any court or administrative proceeding for or with respect to anything done or omitted in good faith in connection with the administration of, or pursuant to and in reliance on, this title, or any regulation, instruction, or direction issued by the Secretary under this title.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of administering this title—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary may accept details and assignments of employees of Federal agencies to the Department of State on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis (with any such reimbursements to be credited to the appropriations made available for the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the employing agency); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the Secretary may, to the extent necessary to obtain services without delay, exercise his authority to employ experts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, without requiring compliance with such otherwise applicable requirements for that employment as the Secretary may determine, except that such employment shall be terminated after 60 days if by that time those requirements are not complied with.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Contracts and subcontracts for supplies or services, including personal services, made by or on behalf of the Secretary shall be made after advertising, in such manner and at such times as the Secretary shall determine to be adequate to ensure notice and opportunity for competition, except that advertisement shall not be required when (1) the Secretary determines that it is impracticable or will not permit timely performance to obtain bids by advertising, or (2) the aggregate amount involved in a purchase of supplies or procurement of services does not exceed $10,000. Such contracts and subcontracts may be entered into without regard to laws and regulations otherwise applicable to solicitation, negotiation, administration, and performance of government contracts. In awarding contracts, the Secretary may consider such factors as relative quality and availability of supplies or services and the compatibility of the supplies or services with implementation of this title.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The head of any Federal agency may, for purposes of this title—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">transfer or loan any property to, and perform administrative and technical support functions and services for the operations of, the Department of State (with reimbursements to agencies under this paragraph to be credited to the current applicable appropriation of the agency concerned); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">acquire and accept services from the Department of State, including (whenever the Secretary determines it to be in furtherance of the purposes of this title) acquisitions without regard to laws normally applicable to the acquisition of services by such agency.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Assets of or under the control of the Department of State, wherever situated, which are used by or held for the use of a foreign mission shall not be subject to attachment, execution, injunction, or similar process, whether intermediate or final.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as otherwise provided, any determination required under this title shall be committed to the discretion of the Secretary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/h" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">(h)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/h/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to implement this title, the Secretary may transfer to the working capital fund established by section 13 of this Act such amounts available to the Department of State as may be necessary.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/h/2" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All revenues, including proceeds from gifts and donations, received by the Secretary in carrying out this title may be credited to the working capital fund established by section 13 of this Act and shall be available for purposes of this title in accordance with that section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s208/h/3" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Only amounts transferred or credited to the working capital fund established by section 13 of this Act may be used in carrying out the functions of the Secretary or the Director under this title.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">application to public international organizations and official missions to such organizations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="209">Sec. 209. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4309<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may make section 206, or any other provision of this title, applicable with respect to an international organization to the same extent that it is applicable with respect to a foreign mission if the Secretary determines that such application is necessary to carry out the policy set forth in section 201(b) and to further the objectives set forth in section 204(b).</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">international organization</quotedText>” means—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a public international organization designated as such pursuant to the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288—288f–2) or a public international organization created pursuant to a treaty or other international agreement as an instrument through or by which two or more foreign governments engage in some aspect of their conduct of international affairs; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an official mission (other than a United States mission) to such a public international organization,</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">including any real property of such an organization or mission and including the personnel of such an organization or mission.</continuation> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">united states responsibilities for employees of the united nations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="209A">Sec. 209A. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4309a<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Findings.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Congress finds that—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">pursuant to the Agreement Between the United States and the United Nations Regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations (authorized by Public Law 80–357 (22 U.S.C. 287 note)), the United States has accepted—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/a/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the obligation to permit and to facilitate the right of individuals, who are employed by or are authorized by the United Nations to conduct official business in connection with that organization or its agencies, to enter into and exit from the United States for purposes of conducting official activities within the United Nations Headquarters District, subject to regulation as to points of entry and departure; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/a/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the implied obligation to permit and to facilitate the acquisition of facilities in order to conduct such activities within or in proximity to the United Nations Headquarters District, subject to reasonable regulation including regulation of the location and size of such facilities; and</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">taking into account paragraph (1) and consistent with the obligation of the United States to facilitate the functioning of the United Nations, the United States has no additional obligation to permit the conduct of any other activities, including nonofficial activities, by such individuals outside of the United Nations Headquarters District.</content> </paragraph></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Activities of United Nations Employees.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/b/1" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The conduct of any activities, or the acquisition of any benefits (as defined in section 201(a)(1) of this title), outside the United Nations Headquarters District by any individual employed by, or authorized by the United Nations to conduct official business in connection with that organization or its agencies, or by any person or agency acting on behalf thereof, may be permitted or denied or subject to reasonable regulation, as determined to be in the best interest of the United States and pursuant to this title.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall report to the Congress—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this section, on the plans of the Secretary for implementing this section; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not later than 6 months thereafter, on the actions taken pursuant to those plans.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">United States Nationals.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This section shall not apply with respect to any United States national.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s209A/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">United Nations Headquarters District</term>” means the area within the United States which is agreed to by the United Nations and the United States to constitute such a district, together with such other areas as the Secretary of State may approve from time to time in order to permit effective functioning of the United Nations or missions to the United Nations.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s210" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">privileges and immunities </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="210">Sec. 210. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4310<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this title shall be construed to limit the authority of the United States to carry out its international obligations, or to supersede or limit immunities otherwise available by law. No act or omission by any foreign mission, public international organization, or official mission to such an organization, in compliance with this title shall be deemed to be an implied waiver of any immunity otherwise provided for by law.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s211" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">enforcement </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="211">Sec. 211. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4311<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s211/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">It shall be unlawful for any person to make available any benefits to a foreign mission contrary to this title. The United States, acting on its own behalf or on behalf of a foreign mission, has standing to bring or intervene in an action to obtain compliance with this title, including any action for injunctive or other equitable relief.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s211/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon the request of any Federal agency, any State or local government agency, or any business or other person that proposes to enter into a contract or other transaction with a foreign mission, the Secretary shall advise whether the proposed transaction is prohibited by any regulation or determination of the Secretary under this title.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s212" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">presidential guidelines </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="212">Sec. 212. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4312<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The authorities granted to the Secretary pursuant to the provisions of this title shall be exercised in accordance with procedures and guidelines approved by the President.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s213" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">severability </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="213">Sec. 213. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4313<b>]</b> </editorialNote><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If any provision of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this title and the application of such provision to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">extraordinary protective services </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="214">Sec. 214. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4314<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may provide extraordinary protective services for foreign missions directly, by contract, or through State or local authority to the extent deemed necessary by the Secretary in carrying out this title, except that the Secretary may not provide under this section any protective services for which authority exists to provide such services under subsections (a)(7) and (d) of section 3056A of title 18, United States Code.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Requirement of Extraordinary Circumstances.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may provide funds to a State or local authority for protective services under this section only if the Secretary has determined that a threat of violence, or other circumstances, exists which requires extraordinary security measures which exceed those which local law enforcement agencies can reasonably be expected to take.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Repealed.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Restrictions on Use of Funds.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Of the funds made available for obligation under this section in any fiscal year—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/d/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not more than 20 percent may be obligated for protective services within any single State during that year; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/d/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not less than 15 percent shall be retained as a reserve for protective services provided directly by the Secretary or for expenditures in local jurisdictions not otherwise covered by an agreement for protective services under this section.</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">The limitations on funds available for obligation in this subsection shall not apply to unobligated funds during the final quarter of any fiscal year.</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Period of Agreement With State or Local Authority.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any agreement with a State or local authority for the provision of protective services under this section shall be for a period of not to exceed 90 days in any calendar year, but such agreements may be renewed after review by the Secretary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Requirement for Appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Contracts may be entered into in carrying out this section only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s214/g" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Working Capital Fund.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Amounts used to carry out this section shall not be subject to section 208(h).</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">use of foreign mission in a manner incompatible with its status as a foreign mission </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="215">Sec. 215. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4315<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment of Limitation on Certain Uses.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A foreign mission may not allow an unaffiliated alien the use of any premise of that foreign mission which is inviolable under United States law (including any treaty) for any purpose which is incompatible with its status as a foreign mission, including use as a residence.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Temporary Lodging.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section, the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">residence</term>” does not include such temporary lodging as may be permitted under regulations issued by the Secretary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Waiver.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may waive subsection (a) with respect to all foreign missions of a country (and may revoke such a waiver) 30 days after providing written notification of such a waiver, together with the reasons for such waiver (or revocation of such a waiver), to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Congress concerning the implementation of this section and shall submit such other reports to the Congress concerning changes in implementation as may be necessary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">foreign mission</term>” includes any international organization as defined in section 209(b); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">unaffiliated alien</term>” means, with respect to a foreign country, an alien who—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/e/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant, and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s215/e/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is not a member, or a family member of a member, of a foreign mission of that foreign country.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">application of travel restrictions to personnel of certain countries and organizations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="216">Sec. 216. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4316<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Requirement for Restrictions.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall apply the same generally applicable restrictions to the travel while in the United States of the individuals described in subsection (b) as are applied under this title to the members of the missions of the Soviet Union in the United States.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Individuals Subject to Restrictions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The restrictions required by subsection (a) shall be applied with respect to those individuals who (as determined by the Secretary) are—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the personnel of an international organization, if the individual is a national of any foreign country whose government engages in intelligence activities in the United States that are harmful to the national security of the United States;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the personnel of a mission to an international organization, if that mission is the mission of a foreign government that engages in intelligence activities in the United States that are harmful to the national security of the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the family members or dependents of an individual described in paragraphs (1) and (2);</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">and who are not nationals or permanent resident aliens of the United States.</continuation> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Waivers.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, after consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, may waive application of the restrictions required by subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States so require.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Definitions.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this section—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">generally applicable restrictions</term>” means any limitations on the radius within which unrestricted travel is permitted and obtaining travel services through the auspices of the Office of Foreign Missions for travel elsewhere, and does not include any restrictions which unconditionally prohibit the members of missions of the Soviet Union in the United States from traveling to designated areas of the United States and which are applied as a result of particular factors in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">international organization</term>” means an organization described in section 209(b)(1); and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">personnel</term>” includes—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e/3/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">officers, employees, and any other staff member, and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tII/s216/e/3/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any individual who is retained under contract or other arrangement to serve functions similar to those of an officer, employee, or other staff member.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="III">TITLE III—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ABROAD </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301" styleType="traditional" role="definitions"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">definitions </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="301">Sec. 301. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4341<b>]</b> </editorialNote><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this title, the following terms have the following meanings:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">employee</term>” means an individual who is under the jurisdiction of a chief of mission to a foreign country (as provided under section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927)) and who is—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an employee as defined by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an officer or employee of the United States Postal Service or of the Postal Rate Commission;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a member of a uniformed service who is not under the command of an area military commander; or</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/1/D" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an expert or consultant as authorized pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, with the United States or any agency, department, or establishment thereof; but is not a national or permanent resident of the foreign country in which employed.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">contractor</term>” means—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/2/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">an individual employed by personal services contract pursuant to section 2(c) of this Act (22 U.S.C. 2669(c)), section 636(a)(3) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2396(a)(3)), or pursuant to other similar authority, including, in the case of an organization performing services under such authority, an individual involved in the performance of such services; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/2/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such other individuals or firms providing goods or services by contract as are designated by regulations issued pursuant to section 303;</content> </subparagraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph">but does not include a contractor with or under the supervision of an area military commander.</continuation> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">charitable contribution</term>” means a contribution or gift as defined in section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or other similar contribution or gift to a bona fide charitable foreign entity as determined pursuant to regulations or policies issued pursuant to section 303.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">chief of mission</term>” has the meaning given such term by section 102(3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 2902(3)).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">foreign country</term>” means any country or territory, excluding the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and other territories or possessions of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">personal property</term>” means any item of personal property, including automobiles, computers, boats, audio and video equipment, and any other items acquired for personal use, but excluding items of minimal value as determined by regulation or policy issued pursuant to section 303.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s301/7" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">profit</term>” means any proceeds (including cash and other valuable consideration but not including amounts of such proceeds given as charitable contributions) for the sale, disposition, or assignment of personal property in excess of the basis for such property. For purposes of this title, basis shall include initial price, inland and overseas transportation costs (if not reimbursed by the United States Government), shipping insurance, taxes, customs fees, duties or other charges, and capital improvements, but shall not include insurance on an item while in use, or maintenance and related costs. For purposes of computing profit, proceeds and costs shall be valued in United States dollars at the time of receipt or payment, at a rate of exchange as determined by regulation or policy issued pursuant to section 303.</content> </paragraph> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s302" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">limitations on disposition of personal property </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="302">Sec. 302. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4342<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s302/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Rule.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as authorized under subsection (b), employees or members of their family shall not sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of personal property within a foreign country which was imported into or purchased within that foreign country and which, by virtue of the official status of the employee, was exempt from import limitation, customs duties, or taxes which would otherwise apply.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s302/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Approval by Chief of Mission.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The chief of mission to a foreign country, or a designee of such chief of mission, is authorized to approve within that foreign country sales, assignment, or other dispositions of property by employees under the chief of mission's jurisdiction (as described in section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927)) to the extent that such sale, assignment, or other disposition is in accordance with regulations and policies, rules, and procedures issued pursuant to section 303.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s302/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Violation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Violation of this section, or other importation, sale, or other disposition of personal property within a foreign country which violates its laws or regulations or governing international law and is prohibited by regulations and policies, rules, and procedures issued pursuant to section 303, shall be grounds for disciplinary action against an employee.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s303" styleType="traditional"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">regulations </heading> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="303">Sec. 303. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4343<b>]</b> </editorialNote><subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s303/a" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Issuance; Purpose.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State may issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this title. The primary purpose of such regulations and related policies, rules, and procedures shall be to assure that employees and members of their families do not profit personally from sales or other transactions with persons who are not themselves entitled to exemption from import restrictions, duties, or taxes.</content></subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s303/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contractors.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Such regulations shall require that, to the extent contractors enjoy importation or tax privileges in a foreign country because of their contractual relationship to the United States Government, after the effective date of this title contracting agencies shall include provisions in their contracts to carry out the purpose of this title.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIII/s303/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Chief of Mission.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In order to ensure that due account is taken of local conditions, including applicable laws, markets, exchange rate factors, and accommodation exchange facilities, such regulations may authorize the chief of mission to each foreign country to establish more detailed policies, rules, or procedures for the application of this title within that country to employees under the chief of mission's jurisdiction.</content> </subsection> </section> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IV">TITLE IV—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES HISTORICAL SERIES </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s401" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="401">SEC. 401. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4351<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">GENERAL AUTHORITY AND CONTENTS OF PUBLICATION. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s401/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Charter of the Publication.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Department of State shall continue to publish the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Foreign Relations of the United States historical series</quotedText>” (hereafter in this title referred to as the “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">FRUS series</quotedText>”), which shall be a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of major United States foreign policy decisions and significant United States diplomatic activity. Volumes of this publication shall include all records needed to provide a comprehensive documentation of the major foreign policy decisions and actions of the United States Government, including the facts which contributed to the formulation of policies and records providing supporting and alternative views to the policy position ultimately adopted.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s401/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Editing Principles.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The editing of records for preparation of the FRUS series shall be guided by the principles of historical objectivity and accuracy. Records shall not be altered and deletions shall not be made without indicating in the published text that a deletion has been made. The published record shall omit no facts which were of major importance in reaching a decision, and nothing shall be omitted for the purpose of concealing a defect of policy.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s401/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Deadline for Publication of Records.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State shall ensure that the FRUS series shall be published not more than 30 years after the events recorded.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="402">SEC. 402. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4352<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">RESPONSIBILITY FOR PREPARATION OF THE FRUS SERIES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/a/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Historian of the Department of State shall be responsible for the preparation of the FRUS series, including the selection of records, in accordance with the provisions of this title.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/a/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation shall review records, and shall advise and make recommendations to the Historian concerning all aspects of preparation and publication of the FRUS series, including, in accordance with the procedures contained in section 403, the review and selection of records for inclusion in volumes of the series.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Other departments, agencies, and other entities of the United States Government shall cooperate with the Office of the Historian by providing full and complete access to the records pertinent to United States foreign policy decisions and actions and by providing copies of selected records in accordance with the procedures developed under section 403, except that no access to any record, and no provision of any copy of a record, shall be required in the case of any record that was prepared less than 26 years before the date of a request for such access or copy made by the Office of the Historian.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s402/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">National Archives and Records Administration.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the requirement for the National Archives and Records Administration to provide access to, and copies of, records to the Department of State for the FRUS series shall be governed by chapter 21 of title 44, United States Code, by any agreement concluded between the Department of State and the National Archives and Records Administration, and, in the case of Presidential records, by section 2204 of such title.</content> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="403">SEC. 403. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4353<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PROCEDURES FOR IDENTIFYING RECORDS FOR THE FRUS SERIES; DECLASSIFICATION, REVISIONS, AND SUMMARIES. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Development of Procedures.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this title, each department, agency, or other entity of the United States Government engaged in foreign policy formulation, execution, or support shall develop procedures for its historical office (or a designated individual in the event that there is no historical office)—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to coordinate with the State Department's Office of the Historian in selecting records for possible inclusion in the FRUS series;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to permit full access to the original, unrevised records by such individuals holding appropriate security clearances as have been designated by the Historian as liaison to that department, agency, or entity, for purposes of this title, and by members of the Advisory Committee; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to permit access to specific types of records not selected for inclusion in the FRUS series by the individuals identified in paragraph (2) when requested by the Historian in order to confirm that records selected by that department, agency, or entity accurately represent the policymaking process reflected in the relevant part of the FRUS series.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Declassification Review.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the provisions of this subsection, records selected by the Historian for inclusion in the FRUS series shall be submitted to the respective originating agency for declassification review in accordance with that agency's procedures for such review, except that such declassification review shall be completed by the originating agency within 120 days after such records are submitted for review. If the originating agency determines that any such record is not declassifiable because of a continuing need to protect sources and methods for the collection of intelligence information or to protect other sensitive national security information, then the originating agency shall attempt to make such deletions in the text as will make the record declassifiable.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the Historian determines that the meaning of the records proposed for inclusion in a volume of the FRUS series would be so altered or changed by deletions made under paragraph (1) that publication in that condition could be misleading or lead to an inaccurate or incomplete historical record, then the Historian shall take steps to achieve a satisfactory resolution of the problem with the originating agency. Within 60 days of receiving a proposed solution from the Historian, the originating agency shall furnish the Historian a written response agreeing to the solution or explaining the reasons for the alteration or deletion.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Historian shall inform the Advisory Committee of any failure by an originating agency to complete its declassification review of a record within 120 days and of any steps taken under paragraph (2).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If the Advisory Committee determines that the meaning of the records proposed for inclusion in a volume of the FRUS series would be so altered or changed by deletions made under paragraph (1), or if the Advisory Committee determines as a result of inspection of other documents under subsection (a)(3) that the selection of documents could be misleading or lead to an inaccurate or incomplete historical record, then the Advisory Committee shall so advise the Secretary of State and submit recommendations to resolve the issue.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/5" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/5/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee shall have full and complete access to the original text of any record in which deletions have been made. In the event that the head of any originating agency considers it necessary to deny access by the Advisory Committee to the original text of any record, that agency head shall promptly notify the Advisory Committee in writing, describing the nature of the record in question and the justification for withholding that record.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/5/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Historian shall provide the Advisory Committee with a complete list of the records described in subparagraph (A).</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s403/b/6" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a record is deleted in whole or in part as a result of review under this subsection then a note to that effect shall be inserted at the appropriate place in the FRUS volume.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="404">SEC. 404. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4354<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">DECLASSIFICATION OF STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Deadline for Declassification.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided in subsection (b), each classified record of permanent historical value (as determined by the Secretary of State and the Archivist of the United States) which was published, issued, or otherwise prepared by the Department of State (or any officer or employee thereof acting in an official capacity) shall be declassified not later than 30 years after the record was prepared, shall be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration, and shall be made available at the National Archives for public inspection and copying.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this subsection may be construed to require the declassification of a record wholly prepared by a foreign government.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exempted Records.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsection (a) shall not apply to any record (or portion thereof) the publication of which the Secretary of State, in coordination with any agency that originated information in the records, determines—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would compromise weapons technology important to the national defense of the United States or reveal sensitive information relating to the design of United States or foreign military equipment or relating to United States cryptologic systems or activities;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would disclose the names or identities of living persons who provided confidential information to the United States and would pose a substantial risk of harm to such persons;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would demonstrably impede current diplomatic negotiations or other ongoing official activities of the United States Government or would demonstrably impair the national security of the United States; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">would disclose matters that are related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of the Department of State or are contained in personnel, medical, or similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Review.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee shall review—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the State Department's declassification procedures,</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">all guidelines used in declassification, including those guidelines provided to the National Archives and Records Administration which are in effect on the date of enactment of this title, and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by random sampling, records representative of all Department of State records published, issued, or otherwise prepared by the Department of State that remain classified after 30 years.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/c/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that the Secretary of State considers it necessary to deny access to records under paragraph (1)(C), the Secretary shall notify the Advisory Committee in writing, describing the nature of the records in question and the justification for withholding them.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual Reports by the Advisory Committee.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee shall annually submit to the Secretary of State and to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives a report setting forth its findings from the review conducted under subsection (c).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Annual Reports by the Secretary.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than March 1 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives on the compliance of the Department of State with the provisions of this title, including—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the volumes published in the previous calendar year;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the degree to which the Department is not in compliance with the deadline set forth in section 401(c); and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e/1/C" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the factors relevant to the inability of the Department to comply with the provisions of this title, including section 401(c).</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s404/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Form of reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each report required to be submitted by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, together with a classified annex if necessary.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s405" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="405">SEC. 405. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4355<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">RELATIONSHIP TO THE PRIVACY ACT AND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s405/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Privacy Act.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this title may be construed as requiring the public disclosure of records or portions of records protected under section 552a of title 5, United States Code (relating to the privacy of personal records).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s405/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Freedom of Information Act.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s405/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided in paragraph (2), no record (or portion thereof) shall be excluded from publication in the FRUS series under section 403, or exempted from the declassification requirement of section 404, solely by virtue of the application of section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code (relating to the exemption of certain matters from freedom of information requirements).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s405/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Records described in section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (relating to visa records) shall be excluded from publication in the FRUS series under section 403 and, to the extent applicable, exempted from the declassification requirement of section 404.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="406">SEC. 406. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4356<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ADVISORY COMMITTEE. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established on a permanent basis the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation for the Department of State. The activities of the Advisory Committee shall be coordinated by the Office of the Historian of the Department of State.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee shall be composed of 9 members and an executive secretary. The Historian shall serve as executive secretary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/3/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The members of the Advisory Committee shall be appointed by the Secretary of State from among distinguished historians, political scientists, archivists, international lawyers, and other social scientists who have a demonstrable record of substantial research pertaining to the foreign relations of the United States. No officer or employee of the United States Government shall be appointed to the Advisory Committee.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/3/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B)</num><clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/3/B/i" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Six members of the Advisory Committee shall be appointed from lists of individuals nominated by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Political Science Association, Society of American Archivists, the American Society of International Law, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. One member shall be appointed from each list.</content></clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/a/3/B/ii" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If an organization does not submit a list of nominees under clause (i) in a timely fashion, the Secretary of State shall make an appointment from among the nominees on other lists.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/b" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Terms of Service for Appointments.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/b/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided in paragraph (2), members of the Advisory Committee shall be appointed for terms of three years.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/b/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Of the members first appointed, as designated by the Secretary of State at the time of their appointment (after consultation with the appropriate organizations) three shall be appointed for terms of one year, three shall be appointed for terms of two years, and three shall be appointed for terms of three years.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/b/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each term of service under paragraph (1) shall begin on September 1 of the year in which the appointment is made.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/b/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A vacancy in the membership of the Advisory Committee shall be filled in the same manner as provided under this subsection to make the original appointment. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of a term shall serve for the remainder of that term. A member may continue to serve when his or her term expires until a successor is appointed. A member may be appointed to a new term upon the expiration of his or her term.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/c" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Selection of Chairperson.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Advisory Committee shall select, from among its members, a chairperson to serve a term of 1 year. A chairperson may be reelected upon expiration of his or her term as chairperson.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/d" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Meetings.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A majority of the members of the Advisory Committee shall constitute a quorum. The Advisory Committee shall meet at least quarterly or as frequently as may be necessary to carry out its duties.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/e" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Security Clearances.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/e/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All members of the Advisory Committee shall be granted the necessary security clearances, subject to the standard procedures for granting such clearances.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/e/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of any law or regulation governing access to classified records, a member of the Advisory Committee seeking access under this paragraph to a record shall be deemed to have a need to know.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Compensation.—</heading> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Members of the Advisory Committee—</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f/1/A" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall each receive compensation at a rate of not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay payable for positions at GS–15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, for each day such member is engaged in the actual performance of the duties of the Advisory Committee; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f/1/B" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates authorized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services of the Advisory Committee.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary of State is authorized to provide for necessary secretarial and staff assistance for the Advisory Committee.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s406/f/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the Advisory Committee to the extent that the provisions of this title are inconsistent with that Act.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s407" styleType="OLC" role="definitions"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="407">SEC. 407. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:legis-comment"><b>[</b>4357<b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">DEFINITIONS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this title—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s407/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Advisory Committee</term>” means the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation for the Department of State;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s407/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Historian</term>” means the Historian of the Department of State or any successor officer of the Department of State responsible for carrying out the functions of the Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, of the Department of State, as in effect on the date of enactment of this title;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s407/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">originating agency</term>” means, with respect to a record, the department, agency, or entity of the United States (or any officer or employee thereof of acting in his official capacity) that originates, develops, publishes, issues, or otherwise prepares that record or receives that record from outside the United States Government; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/84/885/tIV/s407/4" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">record</term>” includes any written material (including any document, memorandum, correspondence, statistical data, book, or other papers), map, photograph, machine readable material, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value in them, and such term does not include library or museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, any extra copy of a document preserved only for convenience of reference, or any stocks of publications or of processed documents.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section>