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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§4357 Definitions

Title 22 › Chapter 53B— FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES HISTORICAL SERIES › § 4357

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines four key words used in the chapter. Advisory Committee means the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. Historian means the Department of State Historian or any officer who takes over the Historian’s duties for the Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, as it was on October 28, 1991. Originating agency means the U.S. department, agency, or official that makes, prepares, publishes, issues, or receives a record from outside the U.S. Government. Record means written items (like documents, memos, letters, data, or books), maps, photos, electronic or machine-readable files, or other documentary material in any form that an agency makes or gets under federal law or while doing public business and keeps as evidence or for information. It does not include library or museum pieces kept only for reference or display, extra convenience copies, or stocks of publications or processed documents.

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Title 22, §4357

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For purposes of this chapter—
(1)the term “Advisory Committee” means the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation for the Department of State;
(2)the term “Historian” 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 October 28, 1991;
(3)the term “originating agency” 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
(4)the term “record” 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.

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Authority of Secretary of State Except as otherwise provided, Secretary of State to have and exercise any authority vested by law in any official or office of Department of State and references to such officials or offices deemed to refer to Secretary of State or Department of State, as appropriate, see section 2651a of this title and section 161(d) of Pub. L. 103–236, set out as a note under section 2651a of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 4357

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60