1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Post Office Discontinuance Accountability Act of 2017 . 2. Emergency suspensions of post offices Section 404 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) Emergency suspensions (1) Definitions In this subsection— (A) the terms alternate service and temporary location include a location at which customers affected by an emergency suspension may send and receive mail, which may include the provision and regular servicing of a Cluster Box Unit (commonly known as a CBU ) by the Postal Service; (B) the term discontinuance means a closing or consolidation; (C) the term discontinuance procedures means the procedures required for the discontinuance of a post office under subsection (d) and any regulations promulgated under that subsection; (D) the term discontinue means close or consolidate; (E) the term emergency suspension means the temporary discontinuance of a post office, without following discontinuance procedures for the post office, because of— (i) a natural disaster; (ii) the early, sudden, or unexpected termination of a lease or rental agreement by the lessor when suitable alternate quarters are not immediately available in the same community; (iii) lack of qualified personnel to operate the post office; (iv) severe or irreparable damage to, or destruction of, the post office when suitable alternate quarters are not immediately available in the community; (v) a challenge to the sanctity of the mail; or (vi) a lack of adequate measures to safeguard the post office or its revenues; and (F) the term post office — (i) means a Post Office, as that term is defined in section 241.1 of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation