50 USC § 4585 - Public database of covered foreign persons

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title: "50 USC § 4585 - Public database of covered foreign persons"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "4585"
section_name: "Public database of covered foreign persons"
chapter_number: 55
chapter_name: "DEFENSE PRODUCTION"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "PROHIBITION AND NOTIFICATION ON INVESTMENTS RELATING TO COVERED NATIONAL SECURITY TRANSACTIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)"
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# § 4585. Public database of covered foreign persons

**(a)** **In general** The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, may establish a publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database that identifies covered foreign persons that are either engaged in a prohibited technology or a notifiable technology pursuant to this subchapter.

**1** **Modification process** [^1]

The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized to establish a mechanism for a covered foreign person to petition for their removal from or inclusion in the publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database described in (a).

So in original. Probably should be preceded by “subsection”.

**(c)** **Confidentiality of evidence** The Secretary shall establish a mechanism for the public, including Congress, stakeholders, investors, and nongovernmental organizations, to submit evidence on a confidential basis regarding whether a foreign person is a covered foreign person in a prohibited technology or notifiable technology and should be included in the database described in subsection (a), if any.

**(d)** **Rule of construction** The database described in subsection (a), if any, shall not be considered to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of covered foreign persons for the purposes of this subchapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)