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[CITE: 22USC2393a]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 32--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                   Part II--Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 2393a. Requests by General Accounting Office and 
        Congressional committees for documents and materials
        
    None of the funds made available pursuant to the provisions of this 
chapter shall be used to carry out any provision of this chapter in any 
country or with respect to any project or activity, after the expiration 
of the thirty-five-day period which begins on the date the General 
Accounting Office or any committee of the Congress charged with 
considering legislation, appropriations or expenditures under this 
chapter, has delivered to the office of the head of any agency carrying 
out such provision, a written request that it be furnished any document, 
paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or 
other material in its custody or control relating to the administration 
of such provision in such country or with respect to such project or 
activity, unless and until there has been furnished to the General 
Accounting Office, or to such committee, as the case may be, (1) the 
document, paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, 
report, or other material so requested, or (2) a certification by the 
President that he has forbidden the furnishing thereof pursuant to 
request and his reason for so doing.

(Pub. L. 87-195, pt. III, Sec. 633A, as added Pub. L. 95-424, title V, 
Sec. 502(a)(1), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 957.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 87-195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, as amended, known 
as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of 
this title and Tables.

                          Codification

    This section was formerly classified to subsec. (c) of section 2394 
of this title prior to the complete revision of section 2394 of this 
title by Pub. L. 95-424, title V, Sec. 502(a)(2), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 
957.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 of Pub. L. 95-424, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 2151 
of this title.

                         Delegation of Functions

    For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. 
Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a 
note under section 2381 of this title.
