[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR601.6]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

 

PART 601_CLASSIFICATION AND DECLASSIFICATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY 

INFORMATION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 601.6  Downgrading and declassification.



    Executive Order 12958 prescribes a uniform system for classifying, 

declassifying, and safeguarding national security information.

    (a) Information shall be declassified or downgraded as soon as 

national security considerations permit. The National Science Foundation 

shall coordinate their review of classified information with other 

agencies that have a direct interests in the subject matter. Information 

that continues to meet the classification requirements prescribed by 

Section 1.3 despite the passage of time will continue to be protected in 

accordance with Executive Order 12958.

    (b) Foundation documents may be declassified or downgraded by the 

official who authorized the original classification, if that official is 

still serving in the same position; the originator's successor; a 

supervisory official of either; or officials delegated such authority in 

writing by the Director.

    (c) The Director shall conduct internal systematic review programs 

for classified information originated by the Foundation contained in 

records determined by the Archivist to be permanently valuable but that 

have not been accessioned into the National Archives of the United 

States.

    (d) The Archivist of the United States shall, in accordance with 

procedures and timeframes prescribed in the Information Security 

Oversight Office's directives implementing Executive Order 12958, 

systematically review for declassification or downgrading, classified 

records accessioned into the National Archives of the United States. 

Such information shall be reviewed by the Archivist for declassification 

or downgrading in accordance with systematic review guidelines that 

shall be provided by the head of the agency that originated the 

information, or in the case of foreign government information, by the 

Director of Information Security Oversight Office in consultation with 

interested agency heads.



[47 FR 57284, Dec. 23, 1983, as amended at 61 FR 51021, Sept. 30, 1996]