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[CITE: 50USC1641]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                    CHAPTER 34--NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
 
  SUBCHAPTER IV--ACCOUNTABILITY AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF PRESIDENT
 
Sec. 1641. Accountability and reporting requirements of 
        President
        

(a) Maintenance of file and index of Presidential orders, rules and 
        regulations during national emergency

    When the President declares a national emergency, or Congress 
declares war, the President shall be responsible for maintaining a file 
and index of all significant orders of the President, including 
Executive orders and proclamations, and each Executive agency shall 
maintain a file and index of all rules and regulations, issued during 
such emergency or war issued pursuant to such declarations.

(b) Presidential orders, rules and regulations; transmittal to Congress

    All such significant orders of the President, including Executive 
orders, and such rules and regulations shall be transmitted to the 
Congress promptly under means to assure confidentiality where 
appropriate.

(c) Expenditures during national emergency; Presidential reports to 
        Congress

    When the President declares a national emergency or Congress 
declares war, the President shall transmit to Congress, within ninety 
days after the end of each six-month period after such declaration, a 
report on the total expenditures incurred by the United States 
Government during such six-month period which are directly attributable 
to the exercise of powers and authorities conferred by such declaration. 
Not later than ninety days after the termination of each such emergency 
or war, the President shall transmit a final report on all such 
expenditures.

(Pub. L. 94-412, title IV, Sec. 401, Sept. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1257.)
