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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§7303 Funding of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money can be provided as needed to run, maintain, upgrade, and invest in the DTS Network and its Program Office. Funds set aside for the DTS–PO can be used for two fiscal years after they are provided. The DTS–PO must charge an agency only for the bandwidth costs that are actually attributable to that agency and for specific projects the agency asks for, using the pricing method approved under section 7302(e)(1), when those costs were not already paid for by amounts set aside for the DTS–PO. The DTS–PO may take payments directly and may bill before, during, or after providing the service. Money it receives this way can also be used for two fiscal years.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7303

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(a)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)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III, § 323, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2845, which related to Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Oversight Board, was repealed by Pub.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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60