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. Office of Classification Mission. Develops, policies, procedures, and guidance to identify: (1)information that must be classified or controlled under statute (RD,FRD and UCNI) or executive order (NSI) to protect the national security(2)classified or controlled information that may be declass
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1. Presentation to the Public Interest Declassification Board Andrew Weston-Dawkes
James Wendt
Office of Classification
Office of Health, Safety and Security
U.S. Department of EnergyOctober 13, 2006
5. Office of Classification HS-90
7. Examples of Classification Training to DOE personnel Classification Managers -- Classification Officers/Representatives Course (Three days)
Classification/Declassification Authorities
Original Classifier – Desk-side briefing
Derivative Classifiers (DC)
Policy Course (One day)
Performance-based Test (Covers guides that DC will use)
Recertification Testing (Every three years)
Derivative Declassifiers (DD)
DD Policy Course (Two days)
Recertification testing (Every three years)
8. EO and Kyl-Lott Training DOE Specific Training (Reviewers trained to meet E.O. 12958 and Kyl-Lott requirements)
Intermediate Document Reviewers Course (Sixteen weeks)
National Security Information Reviewers Course (Eight weeks)
DOE Training for Other Agency Reviewers
Historical Record Restricted Data Reviewers Course (HRRDRC) (Four days)
RD Recognition and Records Processing Seminar (One day)
HRRDRC Refresher Training (Half day)
9. Kyl-Lott Related Training Total Total
Course Courses Students
HRRDR 110 1,308
HRRDR 39 439
Refresher
Half-Day NA* 1,113
Seminar
* Most competed by reviewing video and completing an exercise
10. Quality Assurance Review Program Provides oversight to agencies conducting historical records reviews pursuant to E.O.12958
On-site visits
Review of plans and data submitted to DOE
Ensures compliance with DOE-NARA Special Historical Records Review Plan that implements Public Laws 105-261 and 106-65
Focuses on process and adherence to training requirements – not document reviews
Generates report identifying results and recommended corrective actions
Annual report to Congress on year’s activities required
11. Quality Assurance Review Program 1999-2005
19 Agencies visited
25 QARs conducted
5 Reports submitted to Congress to date
2006
6 Agencies submitted questionnaires and were evaluated
Follow up visits being considered
12. Document Review Efforts Mr. Jim Wendt
Director, Office of Document Reviews
Office of Classification
13. Review 25-year-old DOE permanent classified records subject to EO 12958, Section 3.3
Confirm whether NSI documents should be declassified
Identify unmarked documents containing current NSI
Identify RD/FRD/UCNI - excluded from EO requirement Executive Order Program
14. Executive Order Program Initiated in 1995, expect review complete – October 31, 2006 – 12.7M pages
All records originated prior to December 31, 1981
Review referred records by December 31, 2009
Thereafter, as records become 25 years old, review by December 31st of that year
135K pages (estimate) for FY-07
15. Executive Order Program THE PROCESS LOOKS SIMPLEM, BUT IT ISN’T. THE FIRST THING WE DO IS TO LOCATE THE RECORD. WE THEN
DETERMINE OUR AUTHORITY OF THAT RECORD AND WHETHER IT CAN BE DECLASSIFIED. WE CAN ONLY MAKE
DECISIONS ON AIR FORCE INFORMATION. THE REFERRAL PROCESS I THE DIFFICULT PART—RECOGNIZING AND
TRAINING OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE OTHER AGENCY INFORMATION. ONLY THEN, WILL BE HAVE A STRONG AND
VIABLE PROGRAM TO REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY.
JOINT REFERRAL CENTER.THE PROCESS LOOKS SIMPLEM, BUT IT ISN’T. THE FIRST THING WE DO IS TO LOCATE THE RECORD. WE THEN
DETERMINE OUR AUTHORITY OF THAT RECORD AND WHETHER IT CAN BE DECLASSIFIED. WE CAN ONLY MAKE
DECISIONS ON AIR FORCE INFORMATION. THE REFERRAL PROCESS I THE DIFFICULT PART—RECOGNIZING AND
TRAINING OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE OTHER AGENCY INFORMATION. ONLY THEN, WILL BE HAVE A STRONG AND
VIABLE PROGRAM TO REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY.
JOINT REFERRAL CENTER.
16. Executive Order Program
17. Historical Records Audit Program
18. Complete audit of records previously made available to the public that may contain RD/FRD
PL 105-261: Requires plan to prevent inadvertent release of RD/FRD
PL 106-65: Extends reviews to cover all releases underEO 12958
Surveyed 213M pages
Removed for Audit 37M pages
Complete Audit October, 2006 Historical Records Audit Program
19. Historical Records Audit Program
20. Prepare Quarterly Progress Reports for Congress
PL 106-398: Provides for quarterly reports to Congress
Completed 22 Reports to-date and unclassified versions are available to Public at:
http://www.osti.gov/opennet/eo12958.jsp
Final report (25th) scheduled for May, 2007
Historical Records Audit Program
21. Historical Records Audit Program THE PROCESS LOOKS SIMPLEM, BUT IT ISN’T. THE FIRST THING WE DO IS TO LOCATE THE RECORD. WE THEN
DETERMINE OUR AUTHORITY OF THAT RECORD AND WHETHER IT CAN BE DECLASSIFIED. WE CAN ONLY MAKE
DECISIONS ON AIR FORCE INFORMATION. THE REFERRAL PROCESS I THE DIFFICULT PART—RECOGNIZING AND
TRAINING OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE OTHER AGENCY INFORMATION. ONLY THEN, WILL BE HAVE A STRONG AND
VIABLE PROGRAM TO REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY.
JOINT REFERRAL CENTER.THE PROCESS LOOKS SIMPLEM, BUT IT ISN’T. THE FIRST THING WE DO IS TO LOCATE THE RECORD. WE THEN
DETERMINE OUR AUTHORITY OF THAT RECORD AND WHETHER IT CAN BE DECLASSIFIED. WE CAN ONLY MAKE
DECISIONS ON AIR FORCE INFORMATION. THE REFERRAL PROCESS I THE DIFFICULT PART—RECOGNIZING AND
TRAINING OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE OTHER AGENCY INFORMATION. ONLY THEN, WILL BE HAVE A STRONG AND
VIABLE PROGRAM TO REFER TO THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY.
JOINT REFERRAL CENTER.
22. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Required by 5 USC 552 as amended by Public Law No. 104-231
Backlog at 206 requests
For FY 2007, Resources transferred to eliminate backlog > 1 year old
Statutory Reviews Program
23. Mandatory Reviews
Required by section 3.5 of EO 12958
Backlog at 188 requests
For FY 2007, Resources transferred to eliminate backlog > 1 year old
Patent Secrecy Reviews
Required by Title 35, U.S. Code, Section 181
Litigation Reviews
Required by specific court orders
Statutory Reviews Program
24. Statutory Reviews Program Other reviews conducted on Congressional materials, Security (compromise) investigations, health/safety records, in-house authors, etc.
Primary customers
DOE, NNSA, Other Govt. Agencies, Am. Public, Presidential Libraries, and Foreign Governments
Approximately 70% of reviews “time sensitive”
25. FY07 Plans Support National Declassification Initiative
Complete Referrals as required
Complete QCR’s as required
Review DOE records that become 25 yrs old in FY07
Complete Quarterly Reports to Congress
Make significant progress in reducing FOIA and Mandatory backlogs that are:
not out for Coordinate review
more than 1 year old.