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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7303 Funding of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service

Title 22 › CHAPTER 80 — DIPLOMATIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROGRAM OFFICE (DTS-PO) › § 7303

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress can provide whatever money is needed to run, maintain, develop, improve, modernize, and invest in the DTS Network and the DTS–PO. Any money given to the DTS–PO stays available for two fiscal years. The DTS–PO must charge a department or agency only for the bandwidth costs that agency causes and for specific projects the agency asks for, using the pricing method approved under section 7302(e)(1). These charges apply only when Congress has not already provided money for them. The DTS–PO can bill agencies and take payments directly, before, at, or after providing the service. Money it gets this way also stays available for two fiscal years.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7303

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(a)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the operations, maintenance, development, enhancement, modernization, and investment costs of the DTS Network and the DTS–PO. Funds appropriated for allocation to the DTS–PO shall remain available to the DTS–PO for a period of two fiscal years.
(b)Fees
The DTS–PO shall charge a department or agency that uses the DTS Network for only those bandwidth costs attributable to such department or agency and for specific projects carried out at the request of such department or agency, pursuant to the pricing methodology for such bandwidth costs and such projects approved under section 7302(e)(1) of this title, for which amounts have not been appropriated for allocation to the DTS–PO. The DTS–PO is authorized to directly receive payments from departments or agencies that use the DTS Network and to invoice such departments or agencies for the fees under this section either in advance of, or upon or after, providing the bandwidth or performing such projects. Such funds received from such departments or agencies shall remain available to the DTS–PO for a period of two fiscal years.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 7303, Pub. L. 106–567, title III, § 323, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2845, which related to Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Oversight Board, was repealed by Pub. L. 111–259, title V, § 501(a)(1), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2735. See section 7302 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7303

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110