Sec. 211. Establishment of compliance officers
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Title VI of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1871 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. The term covered agency means a department or agency of the United States Government that has the authority to submit applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under this Act and which receives unminimized collection pursuant to orders issued under this Act.
The term Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has the meaning given that term in section 101. The head of each covered agency shall appoint a single Federal officer to serve as the Compliance Officer for that agency. Each Compliance Officer appointed under subsection
(b)shall be responsible for overseeing the compliance of the relevant covered agency with the requirements of this Act. Each Compliance Officer shall oversee routine audits of the compliance by the relevant covered agency with— the requirements of this Act regarding submitting applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, including with respect to the accuracy of such applications; and the minimization, targeting, querying, and accuracy procedures required by this Act. Each Compliance Officer shall— conduct on a routine basis assessments of the efficacy of the minimization, targeting, querying, and accuracy procedures adopted by the Attorney General pursuant to this Act; and annually submit to the Assistant Attorney General designated as the Assistant Attorney General for National Security under section 507A of title 28, United States Code, and the head of the relevant covered agency the findings of such assessments, including any recommendations of the Compliance Officer with respect to improving such procedures. Each Compliance Officer shall ensure the appropriate remediation of any compliance issues of the relevant covered agency identified pursuant to this section or the rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. On an annual basis, and consistent with the protection of sources and methods, each Inspector General of a covered agency shall submit to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the appropriate congressional committees an assessment of the implementation of this section by the covered agency. . The table of sections at the beginning of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 604 the following new item: Sec. 605. Compliance officers. .
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