§3072a — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

The FBI Director must send Congress a report about the FBI’s use of a certain authority. The first report is due no later than one year after December 13, 2003, and then every year after that. Each yearly report must cover the past year and say how many contracts were made, the cost and length of each, what services each contract provides, whether U.S. government staff could do the same work, and what the FBI did to fill vacancies or to request more positions for its intelligence or counterintelligence work. The report must be unclassified but can include a classified annex. For the classified annex, the report goes to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. The unclassified part goes to those two committees and also to the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary, and the House Committees on Appropriations, Government Reform and Oversight, and the Judiciary.

Title 50, §3072a

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(1)Not later than one year after December 13, 2003, and annually thereafter, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the exercise of the authority in section 3072 of this title.

(2)Each report under this section shall include, for the one-year period ending on the date of such report, the following:

(A)The number of contracts entered into during the period.

(B)The cost of each such contract.

(C)The length of each such contract.

(D)The types of services to be provided under each such contract.

(E)The availability, if any, of United States Government personnel to perform functions similar to the services to be provided under each such contract.

(F)The efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fill available personnel vacancies, or request additional personnel positions, in areas relating to the intelligence or counterintelligence mission of the Bureau.

(3)Each report under this section shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

(4)In this section—

(A)for purposes of the submittal of the classified annex to any report under this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—

(i)the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and

(ii)the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and

(B)for purposes of the submittal of the unclassified portion of any report under this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—

(i)the committees specified in subparagraph (A);

(ii)the Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary of the Senate; and

(iii)the Committees on Appropriations, Government Reform and Oversight, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 409b–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, and not as part of the National Security Act of 1947 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999. Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019. Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Accountability of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

§3072a Reports on Exercise of Authority