Reports on exercise of authority

Not later than one year after December 13, 2003, and annually thereafter, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the exercise of the authority in section 3072 of this title. The number of contracts entered into during the period. The cost of each such contract. The length of each such contract. The types of services to be provided under each such contract. The availability, if any, of United States Government personnel to perform functions similar to the services to be provided under each such contract. The efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fill available personnel vacancies, or request additional personnel positions, in areas relating to the intelligence or counterintelligence mission of the Bureau. Each report under this section shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and the committees specified in subparagraph (A); the Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary of the Senate; and the Committees on Appropriations, Government Reform and Oversight, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. Each report under this section shall include, for the one-year period ending on the date of such report, the following: In this section— for purposes of the submittal of the classified annex to any report under this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— for purposes of the submittal of the unclassified portion of any report under this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— (Source: (Pub. L. 108–177, title III, § 311(b), Dec. 13, 2003, 117 Stat. 2605.))