Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 116 Part 3.djvu/800

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116 STAT. 2392 PUBLIC LAW 107-306—NOV. 27, 2002 annual leave accrued or accumulated by such employee to, or permitting such employee to receive transferred leave from, an employee of any other agency (including another excepted agency having a program under this subsection). "(2) To the extent practicable and consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and methods, any program established under paragraph (1) shall be consistent with the provisions of this subchapter outside of this section and with any regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management implementing this subchapter.". (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. —Section 6339 of such title is amended— (1) in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) (as so redesignated by subsection (a)(2)), by striking "under this section" and inserting "under this subsection"; and (2) in subsection (d), by striking "of Personnel Management". SEC. 323. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DIVERSITY IN THE WORKFORCE OF INTELXIGENCE COMMUNITY AGENCIES. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress finds the following: (1) The United States is engaged in a war against terrorism that requires the active participation of the intelligence community. (2) Certain intelligence agencies, among them the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, have announced that they will be hiring several hundred new agents to help conduct the war on terrorism. (3) Former Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency have stated that a more diverse intelligence community would be better equipped to gather and analyze information on diverse communities. (4) The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security ^ency were authorized to establish an undergraduate training program for the purpose of recruiting and training minority operatives in 1987. (5) The Defense Intelligence Agency was authorized to establish an undergraduate training program for the purpose of recruiting and training minority operatives in 1988. (6) The National Imagery and Mapping Agency was authorized to establish an undergraduate training program for the purpose of recruiting and training minority operatives in 2000. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—I t is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (with respect to the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Bureau), the Director of Central Intelligence, the Director of the National Security Agency, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency should make the creation of a more diverse workforce a priority in hiring decisions; and (2) the Director of Central Intelligence, the Director of the National Security Agency, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency should increase their minority recruitment efforts through the undergraduate training program provided for under law.