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	Recommendations Upon Declassification
		Upon declassification, the CSE may determine that the effects of a student’s disability may continue to prevent the student from demonstrating the achievement of certain knowledge and skills and, as a result, the student may continue to need the testing accommodations previously documented on the IEP.
		If, prior to declassification, the CSE has determined that a student has a disability which adversely affects the ability to learn a language and has excused the student from the language other than English requirement for graduation, and this has been documented on the IEP, this exemption would continue upon declassification.
		Declassification Support Services to be provided during the first year that a student moves from a special education program to a full-time general education program.
	www.vesid.nysed.gov /specialed/publications/policy/iep/declass.htm (636 words)

	New Executive Order Continues Automatic Declassification \| From the \| John W. Carlin ...
		This long-awaited revision to EO 12958 of 17 April 1995 is significant because it institutionalizes automatic declassification as an essential element of the classification process.
		The major innovation of EO 12958 was the introduction of automatic declassification of non-exempted information after twenty-five years, whether or not it had been reviewed for release.
		Not only does it virtually institutionalize automatic declassification, it also commits agencies to finish cleaning up the backlog of older material of historical value within the next three and a half years.
	www.oah.org /pubs/nl/2003may/carlin.html (1030 words)

	Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Declassification can be very expensive, especially for line-by-line reviews of records that some agencies estimate cost a dollar or more per page.
		Because few agencies see declassification as a primary mission to which resources and expertise should be devoted, timely and cost-effective declassification of older government records of permanent historical value does not occur.
		Certain categories of highly sensitive information, such as compartmented programs, human intelligence sources, and signals intelligence, could be generally exempted from declassification processing at the Center and from the sharing of declassification guidance except in circumstances where the agency head at his or her discretion may choose to do otherwise.
	www.dss.mil /seclib/govsec/chap3.htm (11346 words)

	DECLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS
		Declassification is inevitably a political process: when the government decides what evidence to release, that decision is necessarily determined in large part by political considerations.
		The plausibility of those conjectures about general declassification policy can also be assessed in political terms: one can ask whether it serves a rational political purpose to suppress historical evidence of a particular sort.
		This is the basic reason for being interested in declassification analysis, but there are a couple of other reasons why this method is of value.
	www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/trachtenberg/documents/doclist.html (1670 words)

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		It was concluded that this is not an appropriate criterion for declassification but is an important matter to consider in connection with the publication of information.
		Class II: Information whose declassification would conduce to the national welfare and to long term national security, so that the date of declassification should depend on estimates as to the probability and imminence of war.
		The Committee on Declassification's recommendations on the release of information on small reactors should be interpreted to release only that information which is of particular value for teaching the basic principles of small reactors.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet14/brief14/tab_d/br14d1d.txt (2031 words)

	29CFR14.14.10 - Mandatory review for declassification.
		Requests for mandatory review for declassification should be directed to the Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM), Washington, DC 20210.
		The Committee is authorized to overrule on behalf of the Secretary, Agency determinations in whole or in part, when it decides that continued protection is not required.
		In evaluating requests for declassification the DOL Classification Review Committee will require the DOL office having jurisdiction over the document to prove that continued classification is warranted.
	www.dol.gov /DOL/allcfr/OASAM/Title_29/Part_14/29CFR14.10.htm (423 words)

	Executive Order 12958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Whenever such information is used in the derivative classification process or is reviewed for possible declassification, holders of such information shall coordinate with an appropriate classification authority for the application of omitted markings.
		"Systematic declassification review" means the review for declassification of classified information contained in records that have been determined by the Archivist of the United States ("Archivist") to have permanent historical value in accordance with chapter 33 of title 44, United States Code.
		"Declassification guide" means written instructions issued by a declassification authority that describes the elements of information regarding a specific subject that may be declassified and the elements that must remain classified.
	www.dss.mil /seclib/eo12958.htm (8013 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Energy secretary halts document declassification 05/12/99
		He said there will be an 18-month moratorium on the aggressive declassification efforts involving defense-related documents that were ordered by former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary during President Clinton's first term.
		Declassification efforts were stepped up further after the disclosure in 1993 of improper radiation experiments on people in the early days of the Cold War.
		Now, 10 congressional committees are looking into Energy Department security lapses and the administration's handling of the Los Alamos espionage case, which has focused on alleged activities dating back to the 1980s of a Taiwan-born scientist.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/051299/tec_124-1800.shtml (663 words)

	CHAPTER II
		Declassification authority is not required for simply canceling or changing classification markings in accordance with instructions placed on a document, directions found in a security classification guide or declassification guide, or instructions received from a declassification authority.
		Special control notices, identification of classification sources, and downgrading and declassification instructions must either be marked on the face of the document or be placed on a separate sheet of paper attached to the front of the document.
		If information has been marked for declassification at 10 years from its date of classification and the duration of classification is subsequently extended, the "Declassify on" line shall be changed to show the new declassification instructions, the identity of the OCA or other authority authorizing the extension, and the date of the action.
	www.loyola.edu /dept/politics/intel/reg52001.html (15394 words)

	Declassification Briefing
		Additionally, DIA was required to coordinate the declassification and release of documents originating with the Defense Nuclear Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and intelligence services of coalition Allies.
		Another aim of the declassification program is to assist in identifying health or illness related incidents and events that warrant further examination by the government or the medical community.
		In the declassification of government documents, the originator of the classification is the only authority for declassification of that document.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /wallner_spch.html (2244 words)

	House Limits Declassification Spending
		The committee believes that record declassification is a significantly lower priority for already scarce O&M funds and believes these funds should be spent addressing shortfalls in higher priority areas such as maintenance, training, spare parts, and other key readiness activities.
		Parts of the declassification budget request were scattered across more than 10 budget accounts, and other portions of the declassification budget request were invisible, having been imbedded in other budget lines.
		The committee believes it is necessary that the full DOD declassification budget be visible in the annual budget request, so Congress will be better able to establish appropriate levels for such expenditures.
	www.fas.org /sgp/congress/2000/hr4205de.html (602 words)

	NIMA Declassification - FAQ
		Following this coordination, NIMA recommended declassification in 1998 and paperwork was forwarded to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George J. Tenet for approval.
		This coordination assured the DCI that there would be no perception that this declassification posed even the slightest threat, given the age and/or resolution of the imagery from both systems.
		The scope of this declassification is in consonance with this security principle.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/2002/nima-faq.htm (1514 words)

	Government Executive Magazine - 7/1/00 Assault on the Mountain
		Each declassification operation has to contend with the fears and suspicions of government archivists whose foremost concerns are document integrity and preservation.
		Once Kajax workers finish their in-depth declassification reviews, the documents are sent to an Army employee, who again scans the bar codes and performs another quality assurance check to ensure that Kajax employees made the correct decisions.
		Even though declassification is at odds with the very nature of the secretive agency, many say the CIA is the 1,000-pound gorilla when it comes to declassification under E.O. The CIA has sunk millions of dollars into one of the most technologically advanced declassification programs in government.
	www.govexec.com /features/0700/0700s3.htm (3215 words)

	WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The process of declassification for Guatemala began with a direct request made by the Truth Commission to President Clinton on September 16, 1997.
		Second, providing an expedited interagency declassification of documents in the case of Peru would be consistent with past practice, as noted in the cases of El Salvador and Guatemala.
		Unlike the declassification of documents on Chile or Central America, the U.S. intelligence debacle in Peru took place all too recently and many of those involved are still in positions of power.
	www.wola.org /andes/Peru/peru_declassification_report.htm (3312 words)

	Declassification Board: Named but Unfunded
		The five-year-old Public Interest Declassification Board is still one element short of the recipe, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of advocates of open government.
		It's a mission that has increased in importance since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as the government struggles to find a balance between the secrecy sometimes needed for national security and the openness a democracy depends on to work properly.
		The declassification board was the only recommendation of a two-year commission on government secrecy led in the mid-1990s by then-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) that made it into law.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100599.html (690 words)

	The Paper Trail: Tenet's Statement on Declassification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		I suspect, in fact, that the public has relatively little appreciation of the extent to which the CIA is already involved in declassification efforts.
		Suffice it to say, the demands for declassification review far exceed the capabilities of the personnel who are available under current budgetary limitations to perform it.
		We also will initiate declassification reviews, as soon as resources are available, of the materials involved in the covert actions undertaken during the Korean War, and in the Congo, Laos, and Dominican Republic during the 1960s.
	www.parascope.com /ds/papertrail/tenetStatement.htm (1783 words)

	ISOO 1996 Report to the President
		To meet the President's declassification targets detailed in Executive Order 12958, executive branch agencies were to declassify during fiscal year 1996 at least 15 percent of their total records subject to the Order's automatic declassification provisions.
		In practice, automatic declassification at 25 years (rather than at a later date) means that more information requires review, more information is proposed for exemption, less bulk declassification occurs, and the cost of compliance increases.
		The rate of declassification at several agencies is lagging because of an apparent unwillingness to alter a highly overcautious approach to declassification.
	www.cnss.org /secrecy/isoo96.html (6621 words)

	Restricted Data Declassification Decisions 1946 to the Present (RDD-7)
		Note that the terms "declassification" or "declassification action," as used in this document, refer to changes in classification policy which result in a specific fact or concept that was classified in the past being now unclassified.
		Although the language of the original declassification authorities is cited verbatim as much as possible to preserve the historical intent of the declassifications, this document is not intended nor does it provide the reader sufficient basis or authority to decide whether other documents are classified or not.
		The declassification of an item of information may result in the release of an entire undeleted document; then again, the declassification may have little effect due to the continued classified nature of the remaining document content.
	www.fas.org /sgp/othergov/doe/rdd-7.html (14777 words)

	Platinum today: Declassification delays hold back Norilsk Nickel audit
		The long-running issue of the declassification of Russian platinum group metals (pgm) data has affected a major audit being conducted by Norilsk Nickel.
		One of the world's top platinum producers, the company cannot let contractors who will audit their pgm stocks begin their work, since material in their records which is necessary for a full audit has not yet been declassified.
		It is hoped by declassifying such information the Russian market will become more appealing to foreign investment and remove some of the layers of secrecy that have surrounded the sector for many years.
	www.platinum.matthey.com /media_room/1112346003.html (261 words)

	Spanish Air Force's Declassification Of UFO Files
		The process of declassification of the UFO information was not developed under the general consent of all the researchers.
		And is that with the declassification is ended one of the untruthful myths seated between the UFO believers: the conspiracy and the official cover-up.
		V.J. Ballester Olmos is recognized as the civil driver of this historical declassification, with no preceding in Europe, and coordinates a multidiscipline researchers team with the objective of analyzing the emerging information.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1998/oct/m10-006.shtml (413 words)

	Declassification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In earlier, less sophisticated times, declassification was synonymous with making it publicly releasable.
		However, with the advent of a series of caveats that limited access to information, declassification meant only that the information was no longer classified -- it might still be subject to restrictions on full public release based on the applicability of one or more caveats, despite the information now being unofficially no longer classified.
		However, the DOE Openness Initiative, including the Opennet Database, is a recent step to correct this situation.
	www.asis.org /midyear-97/Proceedings/Presentations/Collins/sld006.htm (101 words)

	Dubious Secrets Update
		The National Security Archive's experience with the U.S. government's declassification process has been a varied one, as it should be given the great diversity of its declassification requests during more than fifteen years of effort.
		Given the earlier declassification, the release of document 10B was anticlimactic, but certainly interesting because of the numerous excisions in the version released by the Nixon Presidential Materials Project.
		As more evidence on the subjectivity of the declassification process, the 1999 CIA release disclosed the title of one section withheld in the Ford Library version but excised the "warning notice" and information on preparation that was released at the Ford Library.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB90 (9395 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Inside Information
		The proposed declassification board would oversee and manage these special requests, like Clinton's February directive ordering federal government agencies to declassify all documents relating to human rights violations and political violence in Chile from 1968 to 1990.
		The board, appointed by the president, would be comprised of experts in history, national security, foreign policy, social science or law from outside the government.
		The board would have the power to recommend specific declassification initiatives to the head of the National Archives, who would have to notify Congress if he decided not to accept a recommendation from the board.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/loeb/loeb.htm (1043 words)

	HRDAP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The DoD Historical Records Declassification Advisory Panel opened its fourth meeting on November 15th, 1996, with a recap of the action items from the previous meeting.
		Declassification is going on but not with the emphasis on quality.
		In future meetings, reports will be requested on progress of declassification work, and there has been progress on disposition of records, transfer to Archives, and accessibility to the records.
	www.defenselink.mil /nii/org/sio/security/hrdap/nov96 (522 words)

	CIA FOIA - Executive Order 12958 - Requesting Declassification or Historical Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		To file a declassification review under the EO, you usually first do research at a Presidential library, NARA, or other place with access to an unclassified index of classified US Government documents.
		The CIA believes that it best serves the entire scholarly community by focusing its resources on declassifying historical records and transferring them to NARA where they are open to all researchers.
		The Agency must be very sparing in approving access to classified CIA records for individual scholars under the "Historical Researchers" program since the substantial Agency support necessary for each scholar--to provide security clearances, escorts, and records--reduces our ability to move forward with the Historical Review Program.
	www.foia.cia.gov /eo_declassification.asp (466 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Senate bill calls for advisory board on declassification (7/27/00)
		The proposed board would advise the President on whether or not certain information should be released to the public, but would not have the authority to declassify documents.
		In 1995, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12958, mandating declassification of historically valuable information that is at least 25 years old.
		To reduce the drain on resources, the Clinton administration has occasionally used a system of "bulk declassifications." One bulk declassification at the Energy Department, however, accidentally released 25 documents containing sensitive nuclear weapons-related data.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0700/072700m1.htm (546 words)

	MOYNIHAN DECLASSIFICATION BOARD APPROVED
		Originally introduced as the Public Interest Declassification Act (S. 1801), the bill was the last vestige of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's once ambitious effort to reform the national security classification and declassification system.
		The legislation which was wrapped into the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2000 (H.R. 5630) creates a Public Interest Declassification Board whose charge is to promote openness, to support Congress in its oversight of declassification, and to make recommendations to the President on classification and declassification policy, practices, and procedures.
		The consensus of many historians and many openness in government advocates was that the leak-language in the redrafted Senate bill was still objectionable, and that it would be better to see the Moynihan provision not enacted this session than to see an objectionable leak provision pass Congress.
	www.jfklancer.com /LNE/moynihan.html (411 words)

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