[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR4a.5]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 4a--CLASSIFICATION, DECLASSIFICATION, AND PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 4a.5  Duration of classification.

    (a) Information shall remain classified no longer than ten years 
from the date of its original classification, except as provided in 
Sec. 1.6(d) of E.O. 12958. Under E.O. 12958, information may be exempted 
from declassification within ten years if the unauthorized disclosure of 
such information could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the 
national security for more than ten years and meets one of the eight 
criteria listed in Sec. 1.6 (d).
    (b) Department of Commerce originally classified information marked 
for an indefinite duration of classification under predecessor orders to 
E.O. 12958 shall be declassified after twenty years. Classified 
information contained in archive records determined to have permanent 
historical value under Title 44 of the United States Code shall be 
automatically declassified no longer than 25 years from the date of its 
original classification, except as provided in Sec. 3.4(d) of E.O. 
12958.