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[CITE: 22USC1475g]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
 CHAPTER 18--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
 
                SUBCHAPTER VII--ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 1475g. Overseas public diplomacy posts and personnel 
        overseas
        

(a) Limitation

    Except as provided under this section no funds authorized to be 
appropriated to the Department of State may be used to pay any expense 
associated with the closing of any overseas public diplomacy post 
abroad.

(b) Notification

    Not less than 45 days before the closing of any overseas public 
diplomacy post abroad the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate.

(c) Exceptions

    This section shall not apply to any overseas public diplomacy post 
closed--
        (1) because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations 
    between the United States and the country in which the post is 
    located; or
        (2) where there is a real and present threat to United States 
    diplomats in the city where the post is located and where a travel 
    advisory warning against travel by United States citizens to the 
    city has been issued by the Department of State.

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title VIII, Sec. 812, as added Pub. L. 102-138, 
title II, Sec. 206(a), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 693; amended Pub. L. 
105-277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, Sec. 1335(a)(5), Oct. 21, 1998, 
112 Stat. 2681-787.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to this section were contained in Pub. L. 100-
204, title II, Sec. 204, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1373, which was set 
out as a note under section 1461 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. 
L. 102-138, title II, Sec. 206(c), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 693.


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(D), substituted ``Overseas 
public diplomacy'' for ``USIA'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), (B), substituted 
``Department of State'' for ``United States Information Agency'' and 
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information 
Agency post''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), (C), substituted 
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information 
Agency post'' and ``Secretary of State'' for ``Director of the United 
States Information Agency''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-277, Sec. 1335(a)(5)(A), substituted 
``overseas public diplomacy post'' for ``United States Information 
Agency post'' in introductory provisions.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-277 effective Oct. 1, 1999, see section 
1301 of Pub. L. 105-277, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
6531 of this title.


                    Reductions in American Employees

    Section 206(b) of Pub. L. 102-138, which provided that reductions 
could not be made in number of American employees of United States 
Information Agency stationed abroad until number of such employees was 
same percentage of total number of American employees of Agency as 
number of American employees of Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to 
total number of American employees at Agency at same time in 1981, was 
repealed by Pub. L. 105-277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, 
Sec. 1336(4), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-790.
