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§2684 Capital Fund for Department of State to Centralize Reproduction, Editorial, Data Processing, Audiovisual and Other Services; Maximum Amount; Operation of Fund

Title 22 › CHAPTER 38 — DEPARTMENT OF STATE › § 2684

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a working capital fund for the Department of State that can be used without a fiscal year limit. The fund pays for central services like copying, editing, data processing, audiovisual work, library and admin support, supply and equipment services (including repairs), and medical and health care. The Secretary, with OMB approval, can add other admin services that are cheaper to run centrally. The fund can also be used for the purposes of Title II of the Act. Its capital is the fair value of supplies, equipment, and orders the Secretary transfers in, minus related debts, plus any appropriations added for capital. The fund must be repaid, or given advance payments, from State appropriations, other federal agencies, and other lawful sources at rates that roughly cover operating costs (including accrued leave and equipment depreciation). It also keeps money from selling or exchanging property or from payments for loss or damage. Any earnings the Secretary decides are more than the fund needs must be sent to the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts at the end of each fiscal year. If a post, activity, or agency returns supplies to the fund, the fund may be charged the supplies’ current value. The money from that can, if allowed, be credited back to the current appropriations and stay available for the same purposes. Credits cannot be made under this rule just because inventories were capitalized.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2684

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(a)Establishment of fund
There is hereby established a working capital fund for the Department of State, which shall be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses (including those authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 [22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.]) 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 Office of Management and 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 [22 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.] 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.
(b)Charges to fund; credit to appropriations
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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 96–465, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2071, which is classified principally to chapter 52 (§ 3901 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3901 of this title and Tables. Title II of this Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is title II of act Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, as added Aug. 24, 1982, Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(b), 96 Stat. 283, known as the Foreign Missions Act, which is classified principally to chapter 53 (§ 4301 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 170u of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–246 inserted “and” before “(4)”, struck out “; and (5) services and supplies to carry out title II of this Act”, and inserted provision that the fund also be available without fiscal year limitation to carry out the purposes of title II of this Act. 1982—Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 97–241, § 203(a), added cl. (5). 1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–465 substituted “Foreign Service Act of 1980” for “Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended”. 1978—Pub. L. 95–426 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted “central services” for “central supply services” in cl. (2), struck out “and” at end of cl. (2), inserted “; and (4) medical and health care services”, struck out “Not to exceed $750,000 in net assets shall be transferred to the fund for purposes of providing capital” after “for the purpose of providing capital”, and added subsec. (b). 1972—Pub. L. 92–226 struck out last sentence authorizing appropriation of amounts necessary to provide capital for the fund. See section 2680 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1982 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–241 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 204 of Pub. L. 97–241, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 4301 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–465 effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96–465, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 3901 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment Pub. L. 95–426, title I, § 109(b), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 967, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [amending this section] shall take effect on October 1, 1978.”

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2, of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085. section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970 redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget and offices of Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Directors of Bureau of the Budget as Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Directors, respectively, of Office of Management and Budget. section 103 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970 transferred all records, property, personnel, and funds of Bureau to Office of Management and Budget. See Part I of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2684

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110