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§3311 Submittal to Congress by Heads of Elements of Intelligence Community of Plans for Orderly Shutdown in Event of Absence of Appropriations

Title 50 › Chapter 45— MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AUTHORITIES › Subchapter I— BUDGET AND OVERSIGHT › § 3311

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When an intelligence agency leader files a required shutdown plan with the OMB Director under section 124 of OMB Circular A–11 (or any successor), they must also send copies to congressional intelligence committees, Senate and House Appropriations Defense Subcommittees, and, if the plan covers an intelligence unit inside the Department of Defense, to Senate and House Armed Services Committees. "Head of an applicable agency" means the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and leaders of intelligence elements in the Department of Defense.

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Title 50, §3311

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(a)Whenever the head of an applicable agency submits a plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in accordance with section 124 of Office of Management and Budget Circular A–11, pertaining to agency operations in the absence of appropriations, or any successor circular of the Office that requires the head of an applicable agency to submit to the Director a plan for an orderly shutdown in the event of the absence of appropriations, such head shall submit a copy of such plan to the following:
(1)The congressional intelligence committees.
(2)The Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
(3)The Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(4)In the case of a plan for an element of the intelligence community that is within the Department of Defense, to—
(A)the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and
(B)the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
(b)In this section, the term “head of an applicable agency” includes the following:
(1)The Director of National Intelligence.
(2)The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(3)Each head of each element of the intelligence community that is within the Department of Defense.

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definition For definition of “congressional intelligence committees” referred to in subsec. (a)(1), see section 2 of Pub. L. 113–126, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.

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50 U.S.C. § 3311

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60