US State Code:United States CodeTITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE


A Council of National Defense is established, for the coordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare, to consist of the Secretary of the Army,...


The Council of National Defense shall nominate to the President, and the President shall appoint, an advisory commission, consisting of not more than seven persons, each of whom...


It shall be the duty of the Council of National Defense to supervise and direct investigations and make recommendations to the President and the heads of executive departments as...


The Council of National Defense shall adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its work, which rules and regulations shall be subject to the approval of the President, and...


Reports shall be submitted by all subordinate bodies and by the advisory commission to the council, and from time to time the council shall report to the President or to the heads...


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Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted or threatened...


When an alien who becomes liable as an enemy, in the manner prescribed in section 21 of this title, is not chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public...


After any such proclamation has been made, the several courts of the United States, having criminal jurisdiction, and the several justices and judges of the courts of the...


When an alien enemy is required by the President, or by order of any court, judge, or justice, to depart and to be removed, it shall be the duty of the marshal of the district...


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Any person who furnishes original information to the United States - (a) leading to the finding or other acquisition by the United States of special nuclear material or...


The Attorney General shall determine whether a person furnishing information to the United States is entitled to a reward and the amount to be paid pursuant to section 47a of...


If the information leading to an award under section 47b of this title is furnished by an alien, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of...


(a) The Attorney General is authorized to hold such hearings and make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the...


Any awards granted under section 47b of this title shall be certified by the Attorney General and, together with the approval of the President in those cases where such approval...


As used in this chapter - (a) The term ''atomic energy'' means all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. (b) The term...


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(a) Definitions The word ''person'' as used in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall include any individual, trustee, firm, association, company, or corporation. The...


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This subchapter may be cited as the ''Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act''. ...


(a) The Congress finds that the natural resources of the United States in certain strategic and critical materials are deficient or insufficiently developed to supply the...


(a) Determination of materials; quantities Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the President shall determine from time to time (1) which materials are strategic and ...


(a) Contents The stockpile consists of the following materials: (1) Materials acquired under this subchapter and contained in the national stockpile on July 29, 1979. ...


(a) Funds appropriated for acquisitions; proposed stockpile transactions; significant changes therein (1) Except for acquisitions made under the authority of paragraph (3)...


(a) Presidential powers The President shall - (1) acquire the materials determined under section 98b(a) of this title to be strategic and critical materials; ...


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(a) Materials in the stockpile may be released for use, sale, or other disposition - (1) on the order of the President, at any time the President determines the release...


(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances (1) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and ...


(a) Establishment There is established in the Treasury of the United States a separate fund to be known as the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (hereinafter in...


(a) Membership The President may appoint advisory committees composed of individuals with expertise relating to materials in the stockpile or with expertise in...


(a) Not later than January 15 of each year, the President shall submit to the Congress an annual written report detailing operations under this subchapter. Each such report...


For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) The term ''strategic and critical materials'' means materials that (A) would be needed to supply the military, industrial,...


The President may not prohibit or regulate the importation into the United States of any material determined to be strategic and critical pursuant to the provisions of...


(a) In general Not later than January 15 of every other year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on stockpile requirements. Each such report shall...


(a) Purchase of materials of domestic origin; processing of materials in domestic facilities Subject to subsection (c) of this section and to the extent the ...


(a) Appointment The President shall designate a single Federal office to have responsibility for performing the functions of the President under this subchapter, other than...


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(a) Investigations; designation of sites; construction and operation of dams, locks, improvements to navigation, etc. The President of the United States may make, or cause to...


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As used in this chapter: (1) The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior; (2) The term ''person'' means any individual, corporation, partnership,...


(a) Extraction and disposal of helium on Federal lands (1) In general The Secretary may enter into agreements with private parties for the recovery and disposal of helium...


(a) Storage, transportation, and withdrawal The Secretary may store, transport, and withdraw crude helium and maintain and operate crude helium storage facilities, in existence ...


(a) In general Whenever the Secretary provides helium storage withdrawal or transportation services to any person, the Secretary shall impose a fee on the person to reimburse...


(a) Purchase by Government agencies The Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, and other agencies of the Federal Government, to the extent that supplies are...


The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission may each designate representatives to cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of...


(a) Stockpile sales (1) Commencement Not later than January 1, 2005, the Secretary shall commence offering for sale crude helium from helium reserves owned by the ...


The Secretary is authorized to establish and promulgate such rules and regulations, as are consistent with the directions of this chapter and are necessary to carry out the...


(a) The provisions of subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5 shall apply to any agency proceeding and any agency action taken under this chapter, including the issuance of rules...


The provisions of the Natural Gas Act of June 21, 1938, as amended (15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.), shall not be applicable to the sale, extraction, processing, transportation, or storage...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Interior shall transfer all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the parcel of land described in subsection (b) of...


Whoever willfully violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to violate, any provision of this chapter or any regulation or order issued or any terms of a license granted...


Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes or will constitute a violation of any provision of...


(a) NAS study and report Not later than three years before the date on which the Secretary commences offering for sale crude helium under section 167f of this title, the...


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Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or ...


When the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy pursuant to section 3 of title 14, the powers conferred on the Secretary of Transportation by section 191 of this title, shall...


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If any owner, agent, master, officer, or person in charge, or any member of the crew of any such vessel fails to comply with any regulation or rule issued or order given under...


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The President may employ such departments, agencies, officers, or instrumentalities of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of this title. (FOOTNOTE...


The term ''United States'' as used in this Act includes all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. ...


During any period in which vessels may be requisitioned under section 1242 of title 46, Appendix, the President is authorized and empowered through the Secretary of Transportation...


During any period in which vessels may be requisitioned under section 1242 of title 46, Appendix, the President is authorized through the Secretary of Transportation to acquire...


(a) Documentation of vessels Any vessel not documented under the laws of the United States, acquired by or made available to the Secretary of Transportation under sections 196...


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Whenever the President, in pursuance of the provisions of this chapter, has called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of the United States, and to cause...


Whenever any part of a State not declared to be in insurrection is under the control of insurgents, or is in dangerous proximity to places under their control, all...


The provisions of this chapter in relation to commercial intercourse shall apply to all commercial intercourse by and between persons residing or being within districts within...


The President may, in his discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse with any part of such State or section, the inhabitants of which are so declared in a state...


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Every officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, and every sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who takes, or causes to be taken into a State declared to be...


It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and prevent frauds and abuses in any trade...


Whenever during any insurrection against the Government of the United States, after the President shall have declared by proclamation that the laws of the United States are...


Such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same may...


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The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for any judicial district in which such property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in...


The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of transportation...


All persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from buying or selling, trading, or in any way dealing in captured or abandoned property, whereby...


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Whenever, at any port of entry, the duties on imports cannot, in the judgment of the President, be collected in the ordinary way, or by the course provided in section 218 (FOOTNOTE...


It shall be unlawful to take any vessel or cargo detained under section 219 of this title from the custody of the proper officers of the customs, unless by process of some court...


Whenever, in any collection district, the duties on imports can not, in the judgment of the President, be collected in the ordinary way, nor in the manner provided by sections...


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From and after fifteen days after the issuing of the proclamation, as provided in section 205 of this title, any vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant...


The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to refuse a clearance to any vessel or other vehicle laden with merchandise, destined for a foreign or domestic port, whenever he...


Whenever a permit or clearance is granted for either a foreign or domestic port, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs granting the same, if he deems it necessary,...


In all cases wherein any vessel, or other property, is condemned in any proceeding by virtue of any laws relating to insurrection or rebellion, the court rendering judgment...


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In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States; to provide for the establishment...


As used in this Act: (1) The term ''intelligence'' includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. (2) The term ''foreign intelligence'' means information ...


(a) Establishment; presiding officer; functions; composition There is established a council to be known as the National Security Council (hereinafter in this section referred to...


(a) Establishment of Counterintelligence Policy Board There is established within the executive branch of Government a National Counterintelligence Policy Board (in this...


(a) Director of Central Intelligence There is a Director of Central Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate....


There is a Central Intelligence Agency. The function of the Agency shall be to assist the Director of Central Intelligence in carrying out the responsibilities referred to...


The Director of Central Intelligence shall direct that elements of the Intelligence Community, whenever compatible with the national security interests of the United States...


(a) No project for the construction of any facility, or improvement to any facility, having an estimated Federal cost in excess of $300,000, may be undertaken in any fiscal...


(a) In general (1) In general Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no project for the construction of any facility to be used primarily by...


(a) Provision of intelligence (1) Under the direction of the National Security Council, the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for providing ...


(a) Access to intelligence To the extent recommended by the National Security Council and approved by the President, the Director of Central Intelligence shall have access to...


(a) In general The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence, shall - (1) ensure that the budgets of the elements of the intelligence ...


(a) Authority to provide assistance Subject to subsection (b) of this section, elements of the intelligence community may, upon the request of a United States law ...


(a) Exemption of certain operational files from search, review, publication, or disclosure (1) The Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, with the...


(a) Concurrence of DCI in certain appointments (1) In the event of a vacancy in a position referred to in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Defense shall obtain the concurrence...


(a) Policy It is the policy of the United States that an element of the Intelligence Community may not use as an agent or asset for the purposes of collecting intelligence...


(a) Finding Congress finds that longstanding statutes, regulations, and policies of the United States prohibit employees, agents, and assets of the elements of the...


When used in sections 403a to 403s of this title, the term - (a) ''Agency'' means the Central Intelligence Agency; (b) ''Director'' means the Director of Central Intelligence; ...


The Director of Central Intelligence shall cause a seal of office to be made for the Central Intelligence Agency, of such design as the President shall approve, and judicial...


(a) Purchases and contracts for supplies and services In the performance of its functions the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to exercise the authorities contained in ...


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(a) Travel, allowances, and related expenses for officers and employees assigned to duty stations outside United States Under such regulations as the Director may prescribe,...


(a) Scope of authority with respect to Federal employees and members of Armed Forces The Director of Central Intelligence may exercise the authority granted in section 4503...


(a) In general In the performance of its functions, the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to - (1) Transfer to and receive from other Government agencies such ...


In the interests of the security of the foreign intelligence activities of the United States and in order further to implement section 403-3(c)(6) of this title that the Director...


Whenever the Director, the Attorney General, and the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization shall determine that the admission of a particular alien into the United...


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(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, ...


(a)(1) The Director may pay a gratuity to the surviving dependents of any officer or employee of the Agency who dies as a result of injuries (other than from disease)...


(a) Use for operational purposes prohibited Subject to the provisions of this section, the Director may accept, hold, administer, and use gifts of money, securities, or ...


(a) Prohibited acts No person may, except with the written permission of the Director, knowingly use the words ''Central Intelligence Agency'', the initials ''CIA'', the seal...


(a) Manner and extent of applicability The provisions of sections 2002, 2031(b)(1)-(3), 2031(f), 2031(g), 2031(h)(2), 2031(i), 2031(l), 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2052(b),...


(a) Special policemen: functions and powers; regulations: promulgation and enforcement (1) The Director may authorize Agency personnel within the United States to perform...


(a) Persons eligible Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, any individual - (1) formerly married to an employee or former employee of the Agency,...


(a) Purpose; establishment In order to - (1) create an objective and effective office, appropriately accountable to Congress, to initiate and conduct independently ...


(a) Officers and employees to whom rules apply Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 83 of title 5, the annuity under subchapter III of such chapter of an officer or ...


The special accrual rates provided by section 2153 of this title and by section 403r of this title for computation of the annuity of an individual who has served abroad as an...


(a) Officers and employees to whom section 2051 rules apply Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer or employee of the Central Intelligence Agency subject...


(a) Appointment There is a General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. ...


(a) In general The Director may carry out a program under which elements of the Agency provide items and services on a reimbursable basis to other elements of the...


The Director may - (1) detail any personnel of the Agency on a reimbursable basis indefinitely to the National Reconnaissance Office without regard to any limitation...


(a) Employment of personnel The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, subject to the direction of the President, is authorized, subject to the civil-service...


(a) Transmittal to Congress (1) The President shall transmit to Congress each year a comprehensive report on the national security strategy of the United States (hereinafter...


(a) Annual submission of multiyear national foreign intelligence program The Director of Central Intelligence shall submit to the congressional committees specified...


(a) Report requirements The President shall submit to the congressional committees specified in subsection (d) of this section each year a report (in both classified...


(a) In general (1) Not later than January 31 each year, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the requirements of the United...


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(a) In general In addition to the Department of Defense missions set forth in section 442 of title 10, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency shall support the...


Unless otherwise directed by the President, the Director of Central Intelligence shall have authority (except as otherwise agreed by the Director and the Secretary of Defense) to - ...


(a) Provision of intelligence information to United Nations (1) No United States intelligence information may be provided to the United Nations or any organization affiliated with...


(a) Detail (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of a department with an element in the intelligence community or the head of an intelligence community...


(a) Report on intelligence community cooperation with Federal law enforcement agencies (1) Not later than December 31 of each year, the Director of Central Intelligence...


(a) In general (1) A diplomatic intelligence support center may not be established, operated, or maintained without the prior approval of the Director of Central Intelligence. ...


(a) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of Central Intelligence may authorize travel on any common carrier when such travel, in the discretion...


(a) Requirement (1) The Director of Central Intelligence shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, establish and maintain in the intelligence community an...


(a) The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the National Security Council, acting through its Executive Secretary,...


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No part of the funds appropriated in any act shall be used to pay (1) any person, firm, or corporation, or any combinations of persons, firms, or corporations, to conduct a study...


Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, the provisions of title 4 of the Revised Statutes as now or hereafter amended shall be applicable to the...


(a) The term ''Department of the Army'' as used in this Act shall be construed to mean the Department of the Army at the seat of the government and all field headquarters,...


(a) Short title This section may be cited as the ''National Security Agency Voluntary Separation Act''. (b) Definitions For purposes of this section - (1) the...


(a) As used in this Act, the term ''function'' includes functions, powers, and duties. (b) As used in this Act, the term ''Department of Defense'' shall be deemed to include...


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act (other than the provisions and purposes...


All laws, orders, and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this title are repealed insofar as they are inconsistent with the powers, duties, and responsibilities enacted ...


(a) Reports to Congressional committees of intelligence activities and anticipated activities (1) The President shall ensure that the intelligence committees are kept...


To the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or...


(a) Presidential findings The President may not authorize the conduct of a covert action by departments, agencies, or entities of the United States Government unless the...


(a) Obligations and expenditures for intelligence or intelligence-related activity; prerequisites Appropriated funds available to an intelligence agency may be obligated...


(a)(1) The transfer of a defense article or defense service, or the anticipated transfer in any fiscal year of any aggregation of defense articles or defense services,...


(a) Disclosure of information by persons having or having had access to classified information that identifies covert agent Whoever, having or having had authorized access...


(a) Disclosure by United States of identity of covert agent It is a defense to a prosecution under section 421 of this title that before the commission of the offense with which...


(a) Annual report by President to Congress on measures to protect identities of covert agents The President, after receiving information from the Director of ...


There is jurisdiction over an offense under section 421 of this title committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States...


Nothing in this subchapter may be construed as authority to withhold information from the Congress or from a committee of either House of Congress. ...


For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) The term ''classified information'' means information or material designated and clearly marked or clearly represented, ...


(a) Exemption by Director of Central Intelligence Operational files of the Central Intelligence Agency may be exempted by the Director of Central Intelligence from the ...


(a) Review by Director of Central Intelligence Not less than once every ten years, the Director of Central Intelligence shall review the exemptions in force under subsection ...


(a) Not later than 180 days after October 14, 1994, the President shall, by Executive order or regulation, establish procedures to govern access to classified information which...


(a) Certification regarding full compliance with requirements The Director of Central Intelligence shall certify to the appropriate committees of Congress whether or not each...


(a) Generally (1) Any authorized investigative agency may request from any financial agency, financial institution, or holding company, or from any consumer reporting agency,...


Except as otherwise specifically provided, the provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to the President and Vice President, Members of the Congress, Justices of the...


For purposes of this subchapter - (1) the term ''authorized investigative agency'' means an agency authorized by law or regulation to conduct a ...


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(a) In general No Federal law enacted on or after December 27, 2000, that implements a treaty or other international agreement shall be construed as making unlawful an...


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There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as the Congress may from time to time determine to be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of...


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The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to establish and develop within and without the continental limits of the United States in fulfilling the air defense responsibilities...


In furtherance of section 491 of this title, the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to make surveys and to acquire lands and rights pertaining thereto or other...


There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes...


The provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the duties and authority of the Secretary of Defense and the departments and agencies of the Department of Defense as provided...


The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to establish a joint long-range proving ground for guided missiles and other weapons by the construction, installation, or equipment...


The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized in discharging the authority given in section 501 of this title to make surveys, to acquire lands and rights or other interests...


There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed $75,000,000 to carry out the purposes of sections 501 and 502...


The Secretary of Defense is authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Navy, and to retransfer from either of such Secretaries...


The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (hereinafter referred to as the ''Administrator'') and the Secretary of Defense are authorized and...


The Administrator is authorized, in implementation of the unitary plan, to construct and equip transsonic or supersonic wind tunnels of a size, design and character adequate for...


(a) The Administrator is authorized to expand the facilities at his existing laboratories and centers by the construction of additional transsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic...


The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in implementation of the unitary plan, to expand the naval facilities at the David W. Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, by...