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[CITE: 50USC403j]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 403j. Central Intelligence Agency; appropriations; 
        expenditures
        
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, sums made available 
to the Agency by appropriation or otherwise may be expended for purposes 
necessary to carry out its functions, including--
        (1) personal services, including personal services without 
    regard to limitations on types of persons to be employed, and rent 
    at the seat of government and elsewhere; health-service program as 
    authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 7901); rental of news-reporting 
    services; purchase or rental and operation of photographic, 
    reproduction, cryptographic, duplication, and printing machines, 
    equipment, and devices, and radio-receiving and radio-sending 
    equipment and devices, including telegraph and teletype equipment; 
    purchase, maintenance, operation, repair, and hire of passenger 
    motor vehicles, and aircraft, and vessels of all kinds; subject to 
    policies established by the Director, transportation of officers and 
    employees of the Agency in Government-owned automotive equipment 
    between their domiciles and places of employment, where such 
    personnel are engaged in work which makes such transportation 
    necessary, and transportation in such equipment, to and from school, 
    of children of Agency personnel who have quarters for themselves and 
    their families at isolated stations outside the continental United 
    States where adequate public or private transportation is not 
    available; printing and binding; purchase, maintenance, and cleaning 
    of firearms, including purchase, storage, and maintenance of 
    ammunition; subject to policies established by the Director, 
    expenses of travel in connection with, and expenses incident to 
    attendance at meetings of professional, technical, scientific, and 
    other similar organizations when such attendance would be a benefit 
    in the conduct of the work of the Agency; association and library 
    dues; payment of premiums or costs of surety bonds for officers or 
    employees without regard to the provisions of section 14 \1\ of 
    title 6; payment of claims pursuant to title 28; acquisition of 
    necessary land and the clearing of such land; construction of 
    buildings and facilities without regard to sections 259 and 267 \1\ 
    of title 40; repair, rental, operation, and maintenance of 
    buildings, utilities, facilities, and appurtenances; and
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        (2) supplies, equipment, and personnel and contractual services 
    otherwise authorized by law and regulations, when approved by the 
    Director.

    (b) The sums made available to the Agency may be expended without 
regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the 
expenditure of Government funds; and for objects of a confidential, 
extraordinary, or emergency nature, such expenditures to be accounted 
for solely on the certificate of the Director and every such certificate 
shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified.

(June 20, 1949, ch. 227, Sec. 8, formerly Sec. 10, 63 Stat. 212; 
renumbered Sec. 8, Pub. L. 85-507, Sec. 21(b)(2), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 
337.)

                       References in Text

    Section 14 of title 6, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), was repealed 
by Pub. L. 93-310, title II, Sec. 203(1), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 202.
    Sections 259 and 267 of title 40, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), 
were repealed by Pub. L. 86-249, Sec. 17(12), Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 
485. See section 601 et seq. of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, 
and Works.

                          Codification

    In subsec. (a)(1), ``(5 U.S.C. 7901)'' substituted for ``(5 U.S.C. 
150)'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 
Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
    Section was enacted as part of the Central Intelligence Agency Act 
of 1949, and not as part of the National Security Act of 1947 which 
comprises this chapter.


        Availability of Appropriations for Construction Projects

    Pub. L. 103-139, title VIII, Sec. 8104, Nov. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 
1463, provided that: ``During the current fiscal year and thereafter, 
funds appropriated for construction projects of the Central Intelligence 
Agency, which are transferred to another Agency for execution, shall 
remain available until expended.'' Similar provisions were contained in 
the following prior appropriation acts:
    Pub. L. 102-396, title IX, Sec. 9030, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1907.
    Pub. L. 102-172, title VIII, Sec. 8030, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 
1177.
    Pub. L. 101-511, title VIII, Sec. 8031, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 
1881.
    Pub. L. 101-165, title IX, Sec. 9042, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1137.
    Pub. L. 100-463, title VIII, Sec. 8074, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 
2270-29.
    Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(b) [title VIII, Sec. 8095], Dec. 22, 1987, 
101 Stat. 1329-43, 1329-79.
    Pub. L. 99-500, Sec. 101(c) [title IX, Sec. 9130], Oct. 18, 1986, 
100 Stat. 1783-82, 1783-128; Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 101(c) [title IX, 
Sec. 9130], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-82, 3341-128.


                     Acquisition of Critical Skills

    Pub. L. 99-569, title V, Sec. 506, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3202, 
provided that: ``Pursuant to the authority granted in section 8 of the 
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 403j), the Director 
of Central Intelligence shall establish an undergraduate training 
program with respect to civilian employees of the Central Intelligence 
Agency similar in purpose, conditions, content, and administration to 
the program which the Secretary of Defense is authorized to establish 
under section 16 of the National Security Act of 1959 (50 U.S.C. 402 
note) for civilian employees of the National Security Agency.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 403a, 403e, 403f of this 
title; title 5 section 5948; title 31 sections 1344, 3524.
