---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3116"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3116"
heading: "Notice of impact of diplomatic and consular post closings on intelligence community"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3116"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Accountability for Intelligence Activities"
---

# §3116. Notice of impact of diplomatic and consular post closings on intelligence community

- (a) **Notice to Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Defense—** The Secretary of State shall provide notice to the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5) and the Secretary of Defense of any covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post. To the maximum extent practicable, the notice shall be provided at least 30 days before the date on which the covered closure occurs.
- (b) **Notice to congressional committees—** The Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5), in consultation with the heads of the other appropriate elements of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) as determined by the Director, shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1) a notice describing the impact of the closure on the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4). The notice shall be submitted within 30 days after the date on which the Director receives the notice under [subsection (a)](#a) and, to the maximum extent practicable, shall be submitted before the date on which the covered closure occurs. Such notice shall include a description of whether, and the extent to which, the Director and the heads of the other appropriate elements of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) were consulted in the decision-making process with respect to such closure and registered any concerns with or objections to such closure.
- (c) **Definitions—** In this section:
  - (1) **Appropriate congressional committees—** The term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1)” means—
    - (A) the [congressional intelligence committees](/usc/50/3003.md?p=7);
    - (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;
    - (C) the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and
    - (D) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
  - (2) **Covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post defined—** The term “covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post” means the closure of a United States diplomatic or consular post abroad that is anticipated to last for 60 days or more.

## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 517, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. F, title LXIII, § 6303, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1610.)