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shall notify the Committees on Appropriations in writing 
within 5 days of such determination, the basis for such 
determination and any resulting changes to program and 
policy. 
BUDGET DOCUMENTS 
SEC. 7076. (a) OPERATING AND REORGANIZATION 
PLANS.— 
(1) Not later than 45 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, each department, agency, or or-
ganization funded in titles I, II, and VI of this Act, 
and the Department of the Treasury and Inde-
pendent Agencies funded in title III of this Act, in-
cluding the Inter-American Foundation and the 
United States African Development Foundation, 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
an operating plan for funds appropriated to such de-
partment, agency, or organization in such titles of 
this Act, or funds otherwise available for obligation 
in fiscal year 2018, that provides details of the uses 
of such funds at the program, project, and activity 
level: Provided, That such plans shall include, as ap-
plicable, a comparison between the congressional 
budget justification funding levels, the most recent 
congressional directives or approved funding levels, 
and the funding levels proposed by the department 
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or agency; and a clear, concise, and informative de-
scription/justification: Provided further, That if such 
department, agency, or organization receives an ad-
ditional amount under the same heading in title VIII 
of this Act, operating plans required by this sub-
section shall include consolidated information on all 
such funds: Provided further, That operating plans 
that include changes in levels of funding for pro-
grams, projects, and activities specified in the con-
gressional budget justification, in this Act, or 
amounts specifically designated in the respective ta-
bles included in the report accompanying this Act, 
as applicable, shall be subject to the notification and 
reprogramming requirements of section 7015 of this 
Act. 
(2) Concurrent with the submission of an oper-
ating plan pursuant to paragraph (1), each covered 
department, agency, or organization shall submit to 
the Committees on Appropriations information de-
tailing any planned reorganization of such depart-
ment, agency, or organization, including any action 
planned pursuant to the March 13, 2017 Executive 
Order No. 13781 on a Comprehensive Plan for Re-
organizing the Executive Branch, including— 
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(A) a detailed explanation of the plan, in-
cluding any policies and procedures currently or 
expected to be used to comply with Executive 
Order No. 13781; 
(B) a detailed organization chart, including 
a brief description of each operating unit; and 
(C) the number of employees for each op-
erating unit. 
(b) SPEND PLANS.— 
(1) Prior to the initial obligation of funds, the 
Secretary of State or Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, as ap-
propriate, shall submit to the Committees on Appro-
priations a spend plan for funds made available by 
this Act, for— 
(A) assistance for Afghanistan, Iraq, Leb-
anon, Pakistan, and the West Bank and Gaza; 
(B) regional security initiatives listed 
under this section in the report accompanying 
this Act: Provided, That the spend plan for 
such initiatives shall include the amount of as-
sistance planned for each country by account, 
to the maximum extent practicable; and 
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(C) democracy programs and sectors enu-
merated in subsections (a), (b), (d), (f), and (g) 
of section 7060 of this Act. 
(2) Not later than 45 days after enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations a detailed 
spend plan for funds made available by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Department of the Treasury, 
International Affairs Technical Assistance’’ in title 
III. 
(c) SPENDING REPORT.—Not later than 45 days 
after enactment of this Act, the USAID Administrator 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a de-
tailed report on spending of funds made available during 
fiscal year 2017 under the heading ‘‘Development Credit 
Authority’’. 
(d) NOTIFICATIONS.—The spend plans referenced in 
subsection (b) shall not be considered as meeting the noti-
fication requirements in this Act or under section 634A 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 
(e) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET JUSTIFICATION.— 
(1) The congressional budget justification for 
Department of State operations and foreign oper-
ations shall be provided to the Committees on Ap-
propriations concurrent with the date of submission 
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of the President’s budget for fiscal year 2019: Pro-
vided, That any appendices for such justification 
shall be provided to the Committees on Appropria-
tions not later than 10 calendar days thereafter. 
(2) The Secretary of State and the USAID Ad-
ministrator shall include in the congressional budget 
justification a detailed justification for multi-year 
availability for any funds requested under the head-
ings ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular Programs’’ and ‘‘Op-
erating Expenses’’. 
REPORTS AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 7077. (a) PUBLIC POSTING OF REPORTS.— 
(1) 
REQUIREMENT.—Any 
agency 
receiving 
funds made available by this Act shall, subject to 
paragraphs (2) and (3), post on the publicly avail-
able Web site of such agency any report required by 
this Act to be submitted to the Committees on Ap-
propriations, upon a determination by the head of 
such agency that to do so is in the national interest. 
(2) EXCEPTIONS.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply to a report if— 
(A) the public posting of such report would 
compromise national security, including the 
conduct of diplomacy; or 
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(B) the report contains proprietary, privi-
leged, or sensitive information. 
(3) TIMING AND INTENTION.—The head of the 
agency posting such report shall, unless otherwise 
provided for in this Act, do so only after such report 
has been made available to the Committees on Ap-
propriations for not less than 45 days: Provided, 
That any report required by this Act to be submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations shall include 
information from the submitting agency on whether 
such report will be publicly posted. 
(b) REQUESTS FOR DOCUMENTS.—None of the funds 
appropriated or made available pursuant to titles III 
through VI of this Act shall be available to a nongovern-
mental organization, including any contractor, which fails 
to provide upon timely request any document, file, or 
record necessary to the auditing requirements of the De-
partment of State and the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development. 
(c) RECORDS MANAGEMENT.— 
(1) LIMITATION.—None of the funds appro-
priated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Diplomatic 
and Consular Programs’’ and ‘‘Capital Investment 
Fund’’ in title I, and ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ and 
‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ in title II that are made 
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available to the Department of State and USAID 
may be made available to support the use or estab-
lishment of email accounts or email servers created 
outside the .gov domain or not fitted for automated 
records management as part of a Federal govern-
ment records management program in contravention 
of the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amend-
ments of 2014 (Public Law 113–187). 
(2) DIRECTIVES.—The Secretary of State and 
USAID Administrator shall— 
(A) update the policies, directives, and 
oversight necessary to comply with Federal 
statutes, regulations, and presidential executive 
orders and memoranda concerning the preserva-
tion of all records made or received in the con-
duct of official business, including record 
emails, instant messaging, and other online 
tools; 
(B) use funds appropriated by this Act 
under the headings ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular 
Programs’’ and ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ in 
title I, and ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ and ‘‘Capital 
Investment Fund’’ in title II, as appropriate, to 
improve Federal records management pursuant 
to the Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. Chap-
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ters 21, 29, 31, and 33) and other applicable 
Federal records management statutes, regula-
tions, or policies for the Department of State 
and USAID; 
(C) direct departing employees that all 
Federal records generated by such employees, 
including senior officials, belong to the Federal 
Government; and 
(D) significantly improve the response time 
for identifying and retrieving Federal records, 
including requests made pursuant to the Free-
dom of Information Act. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 45 days after en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of State and 
USAID Administrator shall each submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations and to the Na-
tional Archives and Records Administration detail-
ing, as appropriate and where applicable— 
(A) any updates or modifications made to 
the policy of each agency regarding the use or 
the establishment of email accounts or email 
servers created outside the .gov domain or not 
fitted for automated records management as 
part of a Federal government records manage-
ment program since the submission to the Com-
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mittees on Appropriations of the report re-
quired by section 7077(c)(3) of the Department 
of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J of 
Public Law 115–31); 
(B) the extent to which each agency is in 
compliance with applicable Federal records 
management statutes, regulations, and policies, 
including meeting Directive goal 1.2 of the 
Managing Government Records Directive (M– 
12–18) by December 31, 2016; and 
(C) any steps taken since the submission 
of the report referenced in subparagraph (A) 
to— 
(i) comply with paragraph (1)(B) of 
this subsection; 
(ii) ensure that all employees at every 
level have been instructed in procedures 
and processes to ensure that the docu-
mentation of their official duties is cap-
tured, preserved, managed, protected, and 
accessible in official Government systems 
of the Department of State and USAID; 
(iii) implement recommendation 1 
made by the Office of Inspector General 
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(OIG), Department of State, in the Janu-
ary 2016 Evaluation of the Department of 
State’s FOIA Process for Requests Involv-
ing the Office of the Secretary (ESP–16– 
01); 
(iv) reduce the backlog of Freedom of 
Information Act (FOIA) and Congressional 
oversight requests, and measurably im-
prove the response time for answering such 
requests; and 
(v) strengthen cyber security meas-
ures to mitigate vulnerabilities, including 
those resulting from the use of personal 
email accounts or servers outside the .gov 
domain, improve the process to identify 
and remove inactive user accounts, update 
and enforce guidance related to the control 
of national security information, and im-
plement the recommendations of the cor-
responding reports of the OIG as detailed 
under this section in the report accom-
panying this Act. 
(4) OPERATING PLANS.—The operating plans 
required by section 7076(a) of this Act for funds ap-
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tion of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 
infrastructure enhancements, and implementation of en-
hanced security controls on network devices, $15,000,000, 
to remain available through September 30, 2019. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$9,500,000. 
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND 
DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation 
planning, research, systems development, development ac-
tivities, and making grants, to remain available until ex-
pended, $8,500,001: Provided, That of such amount, 
$3,000,000 shall be for necessary expenses of the Inter-
agency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center 
(IIPIC): Provided further, That there may be transferred 
to this appropriation, to remain available until expended, 
amounts transferred from other Federal agencies for ex-
penses incurred under this heading for IIPIC activities not 
related to transportation infrastructure: Provided further, 
That the tools and analysis developed by the IIPIC shall 
be available to other Federal agencies for the permitting 
and review of major infrastructure projects not related to 
transportation only to the extent that other Federal agen-
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