---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3350"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3350"
heading: "Maximum amount charged for declassification reviews"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3350"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities"
  - "Subchapter III — Security Clearances and Classified Information"
---

# §3350. Maximum amount charged for declassification reviews


In reviewing and processing a request by a person for the mandatory declassification of information pursuant to Executive Order No. 13526, a successor executive order, or any provision of law, the head of an element of the intelligence community—

- (1) may not charge the person reproduction fees in excess of the amount of fees that the head would charge the person for reproduction required in the course of processing a request for information under [section 552 of title 5](/usc/5/552.md) (commonly referred to as the “Freedom of Information Act”); and
- (2) may waive or reduce any processing fees in the same manner as the head waives or reduces fees under such section 552.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–31, div. N, title III, § 313, May 5, 2017, 131 Stat. 816.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Executive Order No. 13526, referred to in text, is Ex. Ord. No. 13526, Dec. 29, 2009, 75 F.R. 707, 1013, which is set out as a note under section 3161 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definition of “intelligence community” as used in this section, see section 2 of div. N of Pub. L. 115–31, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.