---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4853"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4853"
heading: "Security requirements for contractors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4853"
units:
  - "Chapter 58 — Diplomatic Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Diplomatic Security Program"
---

# §4853. Security requirements for contractors


Not later than 90 days after August 27, 1986, the Secretary of State shall issue regulations to—

- (1) strengthen the security procedures applicable to contractors and subcontractors involved in any way with any diplomatic construction or design project; and
- (2) permit a contractor or subcontractor to have access to any design or blueprint relating to such a project only in accordance with those procedures.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 403, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 865.)