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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 58 — Diplomatic Security

§ 4863. Use of cleared personnel to ensure secure maintenance and repair of diplomatic facilities abroad

Statutory text

(a)

Policies and regulations

The Secretary of State shall develop and implement policies and regulations to provide for the use of persons who have been granted an appropriate United States security clearance to ensure that the security of areas intended for the storage of classified materials or the conduct of classified activities in a United States diplomatic mission or consular post abroad is not compromised in the performance of maintenance and repair services in those areas.

(b)

Study and report

The Secretary of State shall conduct a study of the feasibility and necessity of requiring that, in the case of certain United States diplomatic facilities abroad, no contractor shall be hired to perform maintenance or repair services in an area intended for the storage of classified materials or the conduct of classified activities unless such contractor has been granted an appropriate United States security clearance. Such study shall include, but is not limited to, United States facilities located in Cairo, New Delhi, Riyadh, and Tokyo. Not later than 180 days after , the Secretary of State shall report the results of such study to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986

    Pub. L. 99–399 title IV § 415 · 100 Stat. 853

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4863

    (Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 415, as added Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 133(a), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 32.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 415, as added Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 133(a), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 32.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 415, as added Pub. L. 101–246, title I, § 133(a), , 104 Stat. 32.)

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