Uniform administrative requirements for grants New restrictions on lobbying ...... ..... Enforcement of nondiscrimination on the basis of Privacy Act regulations Government in the Sunshine Act regulations of the 131 Nondiscrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance from NSF ...... 133 Governmentwide debarment and suspension Compliance with the National Environmental Pol- 138 156 157 Part 641 650 660 670 671 672 680 681 682 Environmental assessment procedures for proposed Patents 175 Edification ! Security prog Classification 178 189 Li Derivative cl Dovarading Mandatory d Access to cla 197 Airess by Irmer Preside Intergovernmental review of the National Science Enforcement and Hearing Procedures; Tourism NSF conflict-of-interests rules and standards of 683 Other conflicts rules 684 "special employees" 689 Misconduct in science and engineering 690 Protection of human subjects Subject Index to 45 CFR parts 680-684 240follow 262 (b) Encouraging Foundation personnel to challenge those classification decisions they believe to be improper. (c) Issuing directives that ensure classified information is used, processed, stored, reproduced and transmitted only under conditions that will provide adequate protection and prevent access by unauthorized persons. (d) Recommending to the Director appropriate administrative action to correct abuse or violation of any provision of these regulations, including notification by warning letters, formal reprimand, and to the extent permitted by law, suspension without pay and removal. $601.4 Classification Review Committee. The Security Officer (Information) chairs the Foundation's Classification Review Committee which has authority to act on all suggestions and complaints with respect to the Foundation's administration of the regulations. The Assistant Directors and the Heads of other offices reporting to the Director serve as members of the Committee. All suggestions and complaints including those regarding overclassification, failure to classify, or delay in declassifying not otherwise resolved, shall be referred to the Committee for resolution. The Committee shall establish procedures to review and act within 30 days upon all appeals regarding requests for declassification. The Committee is authorized to overrule previous determinations in whole or in part when in its judgment, continued protection is no longer required. If the Committee determines that continued classification is required under the criteria of the Executive Order, it shall promptly so notify the requester and advise him that he may file an application for review with the Foundation. In addition, the Committee shall review all appeals of requests for records under section 552 of title 5 U.S.C. (Freedom of Information Act) when the proposed denial is based on their continued classification under Executive Order 12356. § 601.5 Derivative classification. Distinct from "original" classification is the determination that informa tion is in substance the same as information currently classified, because of incorporating, paraphrasing, restating or generating in new form information that is already classified, and marking the newly developed material consistent with the marking of the source information. Persons who only reproduce, extract, or summarize classified information, or who only apply classification markings derived from source material or as directed by a classification guide, need not possess original classification authority. cessor; a supervisory official of either; (c) The Director shall conduct inter- (a) If a person who applies derivative classification markings believes that the paraphrasing, restating, or summarizing of classified information has changed the level of or removed the basis for classification, that person must consult for a determination an appropriate official of the originating agency or office of origin who has the authority to upgrade, downgrade, or declassify the information. brief sta denial, a the detern Review (d) The Archivist of the United States shall, in accordance with procedures and timeframes prescribed in the Information Security Oversight Of such a fice's directives implementing E.0.Founda 12356, systematically review for declas-be consi sification or downgrading, classified the re records accessioned into the National Archives of the United States. Such in formation shall be reviewed by the Archivist for declassification or down-be for grading 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 informato ch tion, by the Director of Information Security Oversight Office in consulta tion with interested agency heads. (b) The person who applies derivative classification markings shall observe and respect original classification decisions; and carry forward to any newly created documents any assigned authorized markings. The declassification date or event that provides the longest period of classification shall be used for documents classified on the basis of multiple sources. 8601.6 Downgrading and declassifica- Executive Order 12356 prescribes a Par notifi $601.7 Mandatory declassification re- ployee classi th A that (a) The Division of Administrative Services is hereby designated as the of fice to which members of the public or Departments may direct requests for mandatory review for declassification under this provision. In the case of documents originally classified by the Foundation, this office shall, in turn, assign the request to the appropriate office for action within 60 days. In each instance, receipt of the request will be acknowledged in writing immediately by the office that has been assigned action. A request for classification review must reasonably describe the docu (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 12356. (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 suc |