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50 USC § 3112 - Annual reports on the domestic activities of the intelligence community

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s3112"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "50 USC § 3112 - Annual reports on the domestic activities of the intelligence community"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "3112"
section_name: "Annual reports on the domestic activities of the intelligence community"
chapter_number: 44
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "ACCOUNTABILITY FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 513, as added Pub. L. 117–103, div. X, title V, § 505(b), Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 989.)"
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# § 3112. Annual reports on the domestic activities of the intelligence community

**(a)** **Reports** Not later than January 31 of each year, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report—

**(1)** identifying all domestic activities undertaken by each element of the intelligence community during the prior fiscal year; and

**(2)** for each activity identified under paragraph (1), a statement of the legal authority authorizing such activity to be undertaken.

**(b)** **Form** Each report under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

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**Source Credit**: (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 513, as added Pub. L. 117–103, div. X, title V, § 505(b), Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 989.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### First Report; Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined

> **“(c)** **First Report.—** Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Mar. 15, 2022], the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the first report required under section 513 of the National Security Act of 1947 [50 U.S.C. 3112], as added by subsection (a).
> 
> **“(d)** **Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—** In this section, the term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means—
> 
> **“(1)** the congressional intelligence committees; and
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> **“(2)** the Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and the Subcommittees on Homeland Security of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.”

, (d), , , provided that:

[For definition of “congressional intelligence committees” as used in , set out above, see , set out as a note under .]