---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4855"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4855"
heading: "Cost overruns"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4855"
units:
  - "Chapter 58 — Diplomatic Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Diplomatic Security Program"
---

# §4855. Cost overruns


Any amount required to complete any [capital project](/usc/22/2421e.md?p=2) described in the Department of State’s Supplemental Diplomatic Security [Program](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6), as justified to the Congress for the respective fiscal year, which is in excess of the amount made available for that project pursuant to section [4851(a)(1)](/usc/22/4851.md?p=a-1) or [(3)](/usc/22/4851.md?p=a-3)[^1] shall be treated as a reprogramming of [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) under [section 2706 of this title](/usc/22/2706.md) and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures applicable to such reprogrammings.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 405, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 865.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 4851(a)(3) of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 101(c), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 388.