[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR3a.61]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 3a_NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3a.61  Storage and custody of classified information.

    (a) Unless specifically authorized by the Chairman or Executive 
Director, classified information and materials within the Washington 
office will be stored only in GSA-approved security containers in the 
Office of Administrative Operations. Such containers will be of steel 
construction with built-in, three-position, dial-type, manipulation-
proof, changeable combination locks.
    (b) A custodian and one or more alternate custodians will be 
assigned responsibility for the security of each container under his 
jurisdiction in which classified information is stored. Such assignment 
will be made a matter of record by executing GSA Optional Form 63, 
Classified Container Registration, and affixing it to the container 
concerned. Custodians will be responsible for assuring that combinations 
are changed as required and that locking and checking functions are 
accomplished daily in compliance with paragraphs (g) and (h) of this 
section.
    (c) GSA Optional Form 63 is a 3-sheet form, each sheet having a 
specific purpose and disposition, as follows:
    (1) Sheet 1 records the names, addresses, and home telephone numbers 
of the custodian and alternate custodians. Sheet 1 is affixed to the 
outside of the container.
    (2) Sheet 2 records the combination of the container and is placed 
inside Sheet 3, which is an envelope.
    (3) Sheet 3, an envelope, is a carbon copy of Sheet 1. When the 
container combination is recorded on Sheet 2, it is sealed inside Sheet 
3 which is then forwarded to the FPC Top Secret Control Officer.
    (d) GSA Optional Form 62, Safe or Cabinet Security Record, will be 
attached conspicuously to the outside of each container used to store 
classified information. The form is used to certify the opening and 
locking of a container, and the checking of a container at the end of 
each working day or whenever it is opened and locked during the day.

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    (e) Combinations of containers used to store classified materials 
will be assigned classifications equal to the highest category of 
classified information stored therein. Active combinations are subject 
to the safeguarding and receipting requirements of this instruction. 
Superseded combinations become declassified automatically and 
certificates of destruction therefore are unnecessary.
    (f) Knowledge of or access to the combination of a container used 
for the storage of classified material will be given only to those 
appropriately cleared individuals who are authorized access to the 
information stored therein.
    (g) Combinations of containers used to store classified material 
will be changed at least once a year. A combination will be changed also 
whenever anyone knowing or having access to it is transferred; when the 
combination has been subjected to compromise; when the security 
classification of the container is upgraded; and at any other time as 
may be deemed necessary. Combinations to locks on security containers 
will be changed only by individuals having a security clearance equal to 
the highest category of classified material stored therein. Changing 
lock combinations is a responsibility of OAO. (See FPC Special 
Instruction No. AM 2162.2, Periodic Change of Combination on Locks.)
    (h) The individual who unlocks a container will indicate the date 
and time and initial entry on GSA Optional Form 62. At the close of each 
workday, or when the container is locked at earlier time, the individual 
locking the container will make the appropriate entry on GSA Optional 
Form 62. An individual other than the one who locked the container will 
check to insure that it is properly closed and locked and will make the 
appropriate entry on GSA Optional Form 62. When a container has not been 
opened during the day, the checker will enter the date and the notation 
``Not Opened'' and make appropriate entry in the ``Checked By'' column.
    (i) The red and white reversible ``Closed-Open'' cardboard sign will 
be used on all classified containers to indicate whether the container 
is open or locked.
    (j) Typewriter ribbons used in the preparation of classified 
information will be safeguarded in the manner appropriate for the degree 
of classification involved. Cloth ribbons are considered insecure until 
both upper and lower lines have been cycled through the typewriter at 
least twice. Carbon paper or film ribbons are insecure at all times 
since the imprint thereon cannot be obliterated and such ribbon must be 
destroyed as classified waste. Insecure ribbons will not be left in 
typewriters overnight but will be stored in appropriate classified 
container.

                 Accountability For Classified Material