---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8921"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8921"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8921"
units:
  - "Chapter 96A — Ukraine Freedom Support"
---

# §8921. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Account; correspondent account; payable-through account—** The terms “account”, “correspondent account”, and “payable-through account” have the meanings given those terms in [section 5318A of title 31](/usc/31/5318A.md).
- (2) **Appropriate congressional committees—** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
  - (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
  - (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.
- (3) **Defense article; defense service; training—** The terms “defense article”, “defense service”, and “training” have the meanings given those terms in [section 2794 of this title](/usc/22/2794.md).
- (4) **Financial institution—** The term “financial institution” means a financial institution specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), (M), or (Z) of [section 5312(a)(2) of title 31](/usc/31/5312.md?p=a-2).
- (5) **Foreign financial institution—** The term “foreign financial institution” has the meaning given that term in section 561.308 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).
- (6) **Foreign person—** The term “foreign person” means any individual or entity that is not a United States citizen, a permanent resident alien, or an entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States.
- (7) **Knowingly—** The term “knowingly”, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result.
- (8) **Russian person—** The term “Russian person” means—
  - (A) an individual who is a citizen or national of the Russian Federation; or
  - (B) an entity organized under the laws of the Russian Federation.
- (9) **Special Russian crude oil project—** The term “special Russian crude oil project” means a project intended to extract crude oil from—
  - (A) the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation in waters more than 500 feet deep;
  - (B) Russian Arctic offshore locations; or
  - (C) shale formations located in the Russian Federation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–272, § 2, Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 2952; Pub. L. 116–283, div. F, title LXI, § 6110(e)(2), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4563.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Par. (4). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “(Z)” for “(Y)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 113–272, § 1(a), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 2952, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014’.”