---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3303"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3303"
heading: "Construction of intelligence community facilities; Presidential authorization"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3303"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities"
  - "Subchapter I — Budget and Oversight"
---

# §3303. Construction of intelligence community facilities; Presidential authorization

- (a) No project for the construction of any facility, or improvement to any facility, having an estimated Federal cost in excess of $300,000, may be undertaken in any fiscal year unless specifically identified as a separate item in the President’s annual fiscal year [budget](/usc/50/3105a.md?p=a-1) request or otherwise specifically authorized and appropriated if such facility or improvement would be used primarily by personnel of the [intelligence community](#b).
- (b) As used in this section, the term “intelligence community” has the same meaning given that term in [section 3003(4) of this title](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–335, title VIII, § 8131, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2653.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 403–2a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.