[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1203.409]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1203_INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart D_Guides for Original Classification
 
Sec. 1203.409  Exceptional cases.

    (a) In those cases where a person not authorized to classify 
information orginates or develops information which is believed to 
require classification, that person should safeguard the material as 
though it were classified until it has been evaluated and a decision 
made by an appropriate classifying authority. For NASA employees the 
classifying authority is normally the Installation Security 
Classification Officer. Persons other than NASA employees should 
forward, under appropriate safeguards, material in which NASA has 
primary interest to the NASA Information Security Program Committee, 
Security Division, Washington, DC 20546 for a classification 
determination.
    (b) Information in which NASA does not have primary interest shall 
be returned promptly, under appropriate safeguards, to the sender in 
accordance with Sec. 1203.405.
    (c) Material received from another agency for a NASA security 
classification determination shall be processed within 30 days. If a 
classification cannot be determined during that period, the material 
shall be sent, under appropriate safeguards, to the Director, 
Information Security Oversight Office, GSA, for a determination.