[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5, Parts 1200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1221.109]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1221--THE NASA SEAL AND OTHER DEVICES, AND THE CONGRESSIONAL SPACE MEDAL OF HONOR--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart 1221.1--NASA Seal, NASA Insignia, NASA Logotype, NASA Program 
Identifiers, NASA Flags, and the Agency's Unified Visual Communications 
                                 System
 
Sec. 1221.109  Use of the NASA Seal.

    (a) The Associate Deputy Administrator shall be responsible for 
custody of the NASA Impression Seal and custody of NASA replica 
(plaques) seals. The NASA Seal is restricted to the following:
    (1) NASA award certificates and medals.
    (2) NASA awards for career service.
    (3) Security credentials and employee identification cards.
    (4) NASA Administrator's documents; the Seal may be used on 
documents such as interagency or intergovernmental agreements and 
special reports to the President and Congress, and on other documents, 
at the discretion of the NASA Administrator.
    (5) Plaques; the design of the NASA Seal may be incorporated in 
plaques for display in Agency auditoriums, presentation rooms, lobbies, 
offices of senior officials, and on the fronts of buildings occupied by 
NASA. A separate NASA seal in the form of a 15-inch, round, bronze-
colored plaque on a walnut-colored wood base is also available, but 
prohibited for use in the above representational manner. It is 
restricted to use only as a presentation item by the Administrator and 
the Deputy Administrator.

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    (6) The NASA Flag and the NASA Administrator's, Deputy 
Administrator's, and Associate Deputy Administrator's Flags, which 
incorporate the design of the Seal.
    (7) NASA prestige publications which represent the achievements or 
missions of NASA as a whole.
    (8) Publications (or documents) involving participation by another 
Government agency for which the other Government agency has authorized 
the use of its seal.
    (b) Use of the NASA Seal for any purpose other than as prescribed in 
this section is prohibited, except that the Associate Deputy 
Administrator may authorize, on a case-by-case basis, the use of the 
NASA Seal for purposes other than those prescribed when the Associate 
Deputy Administrator deems such use to be appropriate.