[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1203.202]

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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 B_NASA Information Security Program
 
Sec.  1203.202  Responsibilities.

    (a) The Chairperson, NASA Information Security Program Committee 
(Subpart I of this part), is responsible for:
    (1) Directing the NASA Information Security Program in accordance 
with NASA policies and objectives and applicable laws and regulations.
    (2) Ensuring effective compliance with and implementation of ``the 
Order'' and the Information Security Oversight Office Directive No. 1 
relating to security classification matters.

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    (3) Reviewing, in consultation with the NASA Information Security 
Program Committee, questions, suggestions, appeals and compliance 
concerning the NASA Information Security Program and making 
determinations concerning them.
    (4) Coordinating NASA security classification matters with NASA 
installations, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and 
other Government agencies.
    (5) Issuing Security Classification Guides for NASA programs and 
projects.
    (6) Developing, maintaining and recommending to the Administrator 
guidelines for the systematic review covering 30-year-old classified 
information under NASA's jurisdiction.
    (7) Reviewing and coordinating with appropriate offices all appeals 
of denials of requests for records under sections 552 and 552a of Title 
5, United States Code (Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts) when the 
denials are based on the records continued classification.
    (8) Recommending to the Administrator appropriate administrative 
action to correct abuse or violations of any provision of the NASA 
Information Security Program, including notifications by warning letter, 
formal reprimand and to the extent permitted by law, suspension without 
pay and removal.
    (b) All NASA employees are responsible for bringing to the attention 
of the Chairperson of the NASA Information Security Program Committee 
any information security problems in need of resolution, any areas of 
interest wherein information security guidance is lacking, and any other 
matters likely to impede achievement of the objectives prescribed 
herein.
    (c) Each NASA official to whom the authority for original 
classification is delegated shall be accountable for the propriety of 
each classification (see subpart H) and is responsible for:
    (1) Ensuring that classification determinations are consistent with 
the policy and objectives prescribed above, and other applicable 
guidelines.
    (2) Bringing to the attention of the Chairperson, NASA Information 
Security Program Committee, for resolution, any disagreement with 
classification determinations made by other NASA officials.
    (3) Ensuring that information and material which no longer requires 
its present level of protection is promptly downgraded or declassified 
in accordance with applicable guidelines.
    (d) Other Officials-in-Charge of Headquarters Offices are 
responsible for:
    (1) Ensuring that classified information or material prepared within 
their respective offices is appropriately marked.
    (2) Ensuring that material proposed for public release is reviewed 
to eliminate classified information.
    (e) Directors of Field Installations are responsible for:
    (1) Developing proposed Security Classification Guides.
    (2) Ensuring that classified information or material prepared in 
their respective installations is appropriately marked.
    (3) Ensuring that material proposed for public release is reviewed 
to eliminate classified information.
    (4) Designating Security Classification Officers at their respective 
installations, to whom responsibilities listed in paragraphs (e)(1), 
(2), and (3) of this section may be reassigned.
    (f) The Senior Security Specialist, NASA Security Office, NASA 
Headquarters, who serves as a member and Executive Secretary of the NASA 
Information Security Program Committee, is responsible for the NASA-wide 
coordination of security classification matters.
    (g) The Director, NASA Security Management Office, is responsible 
for establishing procedures for the safeguarding of classified 
information or material (e.g., accountability, control, access, storage, 
transmission, and marking) and for ensuring that such procedures are 
systematically reviewed; and those which are duplicative or unnecessary 
are eliminated.

[44 FR 34913, June 18, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 3888, Jan. 21, 1980; 48 
FR 5890, Feb. 9, 1983; 53 FR 41318, Oct. 21, 1988; 64 FR 72535, Dec. 28, 
1999]

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