---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 346"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "346"
heading: "Consolidation and co-location of offices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/346"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VII — Management"
---

# §346. Consolidation and co-location of offices


Not later than 1 year after November 25, 2002, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) shall develop and submit to Congress a plan for consolidating and co-locating—

- (1) any [regional offices](/usc/6/311.md?p=10) or field offices of [agencies](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) that are transferred to the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) under this chapter, if such officers[^1] are located in the same municipality; and
- (2) portions of regional and field offices of other [Federal agencies](/usc/6/677a.md?p=4), to the extent such offices perform [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) that are transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) under this chapter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “offices”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VII, § 706, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2220.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in pars. (1) and (2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.