50 U.S.C. § 3116 — Notice of impact of diplomatic and consular post closings on intelligence community

(a) Notice to intelligence^* and defense officials. The Secretary of State must notify the Director of National Intelligence and the Defense Secretary of any “covered closure.” To the maximum extent practicable, notice must come at least 30 days before the closure. (b) Notice to committees. After consulting appropriate intelligence-community element heads, the Director must send the appropriate congressional committees a notice describing the closure’s impact on the intelligence community^*. It must be sent within 30 days after receiving the notice under (a) and, as practicable, before closure. It must say whether and how much the Director and other element heads were consulted in the closure decision and registered concerns or objections. (c) Definitions. (1) “Appropriate congressional committees” means the congressional intelligence committees^*; the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees; the Senate and House Armed Services Committees; and the Senate and House Appropriations Committees. (2) “Covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post” means closing a United States diplomatic or consular post abroad that is expected to last at least 60 days. This section does not otherwise define the terms it uses.