; (B) any factors that have negatively impacted the efforts of the Secretary to meet such requirements and goals; and (C) any measures that the Secretary plans to implement to meet such requirements and goals. (2) Annual reports On an annual basis, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a strategic plan that describes the resources needed to carry out subsection (a), including a 10-year forecast of demand for nonimmigrant visas in the key high-growth markets, including— (A) a description of the methodology used to make such forecasts that— (i) describes the internal and external studies utilized to prepare such forecasts; and (ii) indicates whether such methodology utilizes the Department of Commerce’s analysis of visitor arrival projections; (B) a comparison of the Department of State’s nonimmigrant visa demand projections and the Department of Commerce’s visitor arrival projections by country; and (C) a description of the practices and procedures currently used by each United States diplomatic and consular mission to manage nonimmigrant visa workload. (3) Appropriate Committees of the Congress In this section, the term appropriate committees of the Congress means— (A) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. (c) Savings provision (1) In general Nothing in subsection (a) may be construed to affect a consular officer’s authority— (A) to deny a visa application under section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1201(g) )