; (B) the safety of Department of State personnel and customers and compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local health and social distancing guidelines; and (C) the ability for expedited service for applicants requiring a passport for purposes related to their employment. (c) Implementation Not later than 30 days after the submission of the plan under subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall begin implementation of the plan to eliminate the backlog of passport applications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (d) Inspector General audit Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the Department of State shall submit to Congress an audit on the elimination of the passport application backlog required by the plan required under subsection (a), and the Department’s actionable strategies described in subsection (b). (e) Definition In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.