[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 6]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR2001.82]

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                        TITLE 32-NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
CHAPTER XX--INFORMATION SECURITY OVERSIGHT OFFICE, NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND 
                         RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 2001_CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart G_Reporting and Definitions
 
Sec. 2001.82  Definitions [6.1].

    (a) ``Accessioned Records'' means records of permanent historical 
value in the legal custody of NARA.
    (b) ``Authorized person'' means a person who has a favorable 
determination of eligibility for access to classified information, has 
signed an approved nondisclosure agreement, and has a need-to-know for 
the specific classified information in the performance of official 
duties.
    (c) ``Cleared commercial carrier'' means a carrier that is 
authorized by law, regulatory body, or regulation, to transport SECRET 
and CONFIDENTIAL material and has been granted a SECRET facility 
clearance in accordance with the National Industrial Security Program.
    (d) ``Control'' means the authority of the agency that originates 
information, or its successor in function, to regulate access to the 
information.
    (e) ``Declassified or Declassification'' means the authorized change 
in the status of information from classified information to unclassified 
information.
    (f) ``Equity'' means information originally classified by or under 
the control of an agency.
    (g) ``Exempted'' means nomenclature and marking indicating 
information has been determined to fall within an enumerated exemption 
from automatic declassification under E.O. 12958, as amended.
    (h) ``Federal Record'' includes all books, papers, maps, 
photographs, machine-readable materials, or other documentary materials, 
regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an 
agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in 
connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or 
appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor 
as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, 
procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because 
of the informational value of data in them. Library and museum material 
made or acquired and preserved solely for reference, and stocks of 
publications and processed documents are not included. (44 U.S.C. 3301)
    (i) ``File series'' means a body of related records created or 
maintained by an agency, activity, office or individual. The records may 
be related by subject, topic, form, function, or filing scheme. An 
agency, activity, office, or individual may create or maintain several 
different file series, each serving a different function. Examples may 
include a subject file, alphabetical name index, chronological file, or 
a record set of agency publications. File series frequently correspond 
to items on a NARA-approved agency records schedule. Some very large 
series may contain several identifiable sub-series, and it may be 
appropriate to treat sub-series as discrete series for the purposes of 
the Order.
    (j) ``Newly Discovered Records'' means records that were 
inadvertently not reviewed prior to the effective date of automatic 
declassification because the agency declassification authority was 
unaware of their existence.
    (k) ``Open storage area'' means an area constructed in accordance 
with section 2001.62 and authorized by the agency head for open storage 
of classified information.
    (l) ``Pass/Fail (P/F)'' means a declassification technique that 
regards information at the full document or folder level. Any exemptible 
portion of a document or folder may result in exemption (failure) of the 
entire documents

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or folders. Documents or folders that contain no exemptible information 
are passed and therefore declassified. Documents within exempt folders 
are exempt from automatic declassification. Declassified documents may 
be subject to FOIA exemptions other than the security exemption 
((b)(1)), and the requirements placed by legal authorities governing 
Presidential records and materials.
    (m) ``Permanent Records'' means any Federal record that has been 
determined by NARA to have sufficient value to warrant its preservation 
in the National Archives of the United States. Permanent records include 
all records accessioned by NARA into the National Archives of the United 
States and later increments of the same records, and those for which the 
disposition is permanent on SF 115s, Request for Records Disposition 
Authority, approved by NARA on or after May 14, 1973.
    (n) ``Presidential Historical Materials and Records'' means the 
papers or records of the former Presidents under the legal control of 
the Archivist pursuant to sections 2107, 2111, 2111note, or 2203 of 
title 44, U.S.C., as defined at 44 U.S.C. 2111, 2111note, and 2001.
    (o) ``Records'' means the records of an agency and Presidential 
papers or Presidential records, as those terms are defined in title 44, 
United States Code, including those created or maintained by a 
government contractor, licensee, certificate holder, or grantee that are 
subject to the sponsoring agency's control under the terms of the 
contract, license, certificate, or grant.
    (p) ``Redaction'' means the removal of exempted information from 
copies of a document.
    (q) ``Security-in-depth'' means a determination by the agency head 
that a facility's security program consists of layered and complementary 
security controls sufficient to deter and detect unauthorized entry and 
movement within the facility. Examples include, but are not limited to, 
use of perimeter fences, employee and visitor access controls, use of an 
Intrusion Detection System (IDS), random guard patrols throughout the 
facility during non-working hours, closed circuit video monitoring or 
other safeguards that mitigate the vulnerability of open storage areas 
without alarms and security storage cabinets during non-working hours.
    (r) ``Tab'' means a narrow paper sleeve placed around a document or 
group of documents in such a way that it would be readily visible.
    (s) ``Transferred Records'' means records transferred to agency 
storage facilities or a federal records center.
    (t) ``Temporary Records'' means federal records approved by NARA for 
disposal, either immediately or after a specified retention period. Also 
called disposable records.
    (u) ``Unscheduled Records'' means federal records whose final 
disposition has not been approved by NARA. All records that fall under a 
NARA approved records control schedule are considered to be scheduled 
records.
    (v) ``Vault'' means an area approved by the agency head which is 
designed and constructed of masonry units or steel lined construction to 
provide protection against forced entry. A modular vault approved by the 
General Services Administration (GSA) may be used in lieu of a vault as 
prescribed in the first sentence of this paragraph (e). Vaults shall be 
equipped with a GSA-approved vault door and lock.