PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Department of State must send a classified report within 30 days after December 16, 2016, listing which U.S. diplomatic and consular posts are labeled high risk, high threat. Before opening or reopening any post, and on a regular basis for posts already open, the Secretary of State must decide whether a post should be given that high risk, high threat label. Appropriate congressional committees = House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. High risk, high threat post = a U.S. diplomatic, consular, or other mission abroad that the Secretary finds is in a country with high to critical political violence and terrorism, where the host government cannot or will not provide adequate security, and whose on-site security falls below State Department standards.

Title 22, §4803

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(a)Initial designation

Not later than 30 days after December 16, 2016, the Department of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report, in classified form, that contains a list of diplomatic and consular posts designated as high risk, high threat posts.

(b)Designations before opening or reopening posts

Before opening or reopening a diplomatic or consular post, the Secretary shall determine if such post should be designated as a high risk, high threat post.

(c)Designating existing posts

The Secretary shall regularly review existing diplomatic and consular posts to determine if any such post should be designated as a high risk, high threat post if conditions at such post or the surrounding security environment require such a designation.

(d)Definitions

In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees

(2)High risk, high threat post

The term “high risk, high threat post” means a United States diplomatic or consular post or other United States mission abroad, as determined by the Secretary, that, among other factors—

(A)is located in a country—

(i)with high to critical levels of political violence and terrorism; and

(ii)the government of which lacks the ability or willingness to provide adequate security; and

(B)has mission physical security platforms that fall below the Department of State’s established standards.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 4803, Pub. L. 99–399, title I, § 104(a), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 856, established Bureau of Diplomatic Security in Department of State, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(g)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 407. A prior section 104 of Pub. L. 99–399 enacted this section and amended former section 2652 of this title and section 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(g)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 407.

Amendments

2017—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–94 inserted “and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives” after “appropriate congressional committees”.

§4803 Designation of High Risk, High Threat Posts