---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6611"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6611"
heading: "Reorganization authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6611"
units:
  - "Chapter 74 — Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Transition"
  - "Part B — Reorganization Authority"
---

# §6611. Reorganization authority

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/6502.md?p=10) is authorized, subject to the requirements of this chapter, to allocate or reallocate any [function](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) transferred to the [Department](/usc/22/6502.md?p=6) under any subchapter of this chapter, and to establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue such organizational entities within the [Department](/usc/22/6502.md?p=6) as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out any reorganization under this chapter, but this subsection does not authorize the [Secretary](/usc/22/6502.md?p=10) to modify the terms of any statute that establishes or defines the [functions](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) of any bureau, [office](/usc/22/6502.md?p=9), or officer of the [Department](/usc/22/6502.md?p=6).
- (b) **Requirements and limitations on reorganization plan—** The reorganization plan transmitted under [section 6601 of this title](/usc/22/6601.md) may not have the effect of—
  - (1) creating a new executive [department](/usc/22/6502.md?p=6);
  - (2) continuing a [function](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) beyond the period authorized by law for its exercise or beyond the time when it would have terminated if the reorganization had not been made;
  - (3) authorizing a [Federal agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) to exercise a [function](/usc/22/6502.md?p=7) which is not authorized by law at the time the plan is transmitted to Congress;
  - (4) creating a new [Federal agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3) which is not a component or part of an existing executive [department](/usc/22/6502.md?p=6) or independent [agency](/usc/22/6502.md?p=3); or
  - (5) increasing the term of an [office](/usc/22/6502.md?p=9) beyond that provided by law for the [office](/usc/22/6502.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–798.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this subdivision”, meaning subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–765, known as the Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998. For complete classification of this subdivision to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables.