---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4585"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4585"
heading: "Public database of covered foreign persons"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4585"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Defense Production"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition and Notification on Investments Relating to Covered National Security Transactions"
---

# §4585. Public database of covered foreign persons

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11) of Commerce, may establish a publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database that identifies [covered foreign persons](/usc/50/4589.md?p=3) that are either engaged in a [prohibited technology](/usc/50/4589.md?p=10-A) or a [notifiable technology](/usc/50/4589.md?p=7-A) pursuant to this subchapter.
- (b) **Modification process—** The [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11) of Commerce, is authorized to establish a mechanism for a [covered foreign person](/usc/50/4589.md?p=3) to petition for their removal from or inclusion in the publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database described in (a).[^1]
- (c) **Confidentiality of evidence—** The [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11) shall establish a mechanism for the public, including Congress, stakeholders, investors, and nongovernmental organizations, to submit evidence on a confidential basis regarding whether a [foreign person](/usc/50/4589.md?p=5) is a [covered foreign person](/usc/50/4589.md?p=3) in a [prohibited technology](/usc/50/4589.md?p=10-A) or [notifiable technology](/usc/50/4589.md?p=7-A) and should be included in the database described in [subsection (a)](#a), if any.
- (d) **Rule of construction—** The database described in [subsection (a)](#a), if any, shall not be considered to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of [covered foreign persons](/usc/50/4589.md?p=3) for the purposes of this subchapter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be preceded by “subsection”.

## Source credit

(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)