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handle is hein.crs/crsmthaaapt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Public Law Date Enacted Title of Statute Summary of Pertinent Provisions P.L. 103-359 10/14/1994 Counterintelligence and Physical Searches under FISA. Security Enhancements Act Sec. 807(a) amends FISA to redesignate former title III as title IV and of 1994 former Section 301 as Section 401. The new title III of FISA, 50 U.S.C. § 1821 et seq., provides for physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes. The new title: - provides pertinent definitions (Sec. 301 of FISA). Physical searches without a court order of property used exclusively by certain foreign powers. authorizes the President, acting through the Attorney General, to authorize physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes without a court order for periods of up to 1 year upon Attorney General certification that (1) the search is directed solely at premises, information, material, or property used exclusively by, or under the open and exclusive control of a foreign government or any component thereof, whether or not recognized by the United States; a faction of a foreign nation or nations, not substantially composed of United States persons; or an entity that is openly acknowledged by a foreign government or governments to be directed and controlled by such foreign government or governments; (2) that there is no substantial likelihood that the physical search will involve the premises, information, material, or property of a U.S. person; and (3) that the proposed minimization procedures with respect to the search meet the definition of minimization procedures in new section 301(4) of FISA. A copy of the certification must be provided to the FISA court immediately. This section also requires the Attorney General to report any minimization procedures and any changes thereto to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Intelligence Committees) 30 days in advance, unless the Attorney General determines that immediate action is required and notifies the committees immediately of the minimization procedures and the