[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR9b.1]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 9b--REGULATIONS GOVERNING DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRESS BUILDING PASSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 9b.1  Press access to the Department of State.

    (a) Media correspondents without valid Department of State press 
building passes shall have access to the Main State building identical 
to that enjoyed by members of the public.
    (b) Media correspondents holding valid Department of State press 
building passes:
    (1) May enter and have access 24 hours a day, during regular working 
hours, outside regular working hours, on weekends and on holidays, 
without an appointment, to the reception area of the Diplomatic Lobby, C 
Street Mezzanine area, press booths (Room 2310), press briefing room 
(Room 2118), and when in operation, the Office of Press Relations (Room 
2109).
    (2) May enter and have access without an appointment, on the 
basement level or on the first and second floors, to the cafeteria, post 
office, banks, concessionaries, barber shop, dry cleaners and the 
Foreign Affairs Recreation Association offices for the purposes for 
which they are established and when they are in operation.
    (3) May not escort non-passholders into the Department of State 
building.
    (c) Media correspondents, with or without a Department of State 
press building pass, may enter areas above the second floor of the Main 
State building only if the correspondent is invited by a Department 
employee to attend a specific social or official function in an office 
located above the second floor. Permission to enter areas above the 
second floor is strictly limited to direct passage to and from the

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appointment location of the Department of State employee, or the office 
or reception room where the function takes place.
    (d) Possession of State Department press building pass does not 
confer access to or other privileges at other Federal buildings. It is 
not to be construed as official United States Government recognition, 
approval or accreditation of a correspondent.

[54 FR 1686, Jan. 17, 1989]