[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR9.2]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 9_SECURITY INFORMATION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 9.2  Implementation and oversight responsibilities.

    The Order requires each agency that originates or handles classified 
information to promulgate implementing regulations. The Order further 
requires that each agency originating or handling classified material 
shall designate a senior official to direct and administer its 
information security program. This official shall be responsible for 
actively overseeing the agency's program, including a security education 
program, to ensure effective implementation of the Order.
    (a) In addition, this official shall have the following 
responsibilities:
    (1) To establish and monitor agency policies and procedures to 
prevent over or under classification, to ensure the protection from 
unauthorized disclosure of properly classified information, including 
intelligence information, and to ensure orderly and effective 
declassification of agency documents which no longer require protection, 
in accordance with the terms of the Order.
    (2) To review proposed classified disclosures of an exceptional 
nature bearing upon issues of concern to the Congress and the public.
    (3) To issue any needed guidelines for classification or 
declassification.
    (4) To recommend to the agency head the following:
    (i) Proposals for reclassification in accordance with section 1.6(c) 
of the Order;
    (ii) Other categories of information, as defined in section 
1.3(a)(10) of the Order, which require protection against unauthorized 
disclosure but which are not specifically protected by sections 1.3(a) 
(1) through (9) of the Order;
    (iii) Waivers, for specified classes of documents or information of 
the requirement to indicate which portions of documents are classified 
and which are not, as provided by section 1.5(b) of the Order; and
    (iv) Waivers for specified classes of documents or information, of 
the requirement to prepare derivative classification guides, as provided 
by section 2.2(c) of the Order.
    (5) To prepare a list of officials, by name or position, delegated 
Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential classification authority.
    (6) To receive, and if necessary act on, suggestions and complaints 
with respect to that agency's administration of its information security 
program.
    (7) To provide guidance concerning corrective or disciplinary action 
in unusually important cases involving unauthorized disclosure or 
refusal to declassify.
    (8) To maintain liaison with the Director of ISOO and to furnish 
reports and information as required by section 5.2 of the Order.
    (b) Department of State. Within the Department of State, the senior 
official is the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Classification/
Declassification Center, hereinafter referred to as (DAS/CDC).
    (c) AID. Within AID (a component of the International Development 
Cooperation Agency), the senior official is the Inspector General.
    (d) USIA. Within USIA, the senior official is the Director, Office 
of the Public Liaison.