[Title 3 CFR 13142]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - January 1, 2000 Edition]
[Title 3 - Presidential Documents]
[Executive Order 13142 - Executive Order 13142 of November 19, 1999]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


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Executive Order 13142 of November 19, 1999

Amendment to Executive Order 12958--Classified National Security 
Information

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 
laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend and 
establish specific dates for the time within which all classified 
information contained in records more than 25 years old that have been 
determined to have historical value under title 44, United States Code, 
should be automatically declassified, and to establish the Information 
Security Oversight Office within the National Archives and Records 
Administration, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12958 is 
amended as follows:
Section 1. In the first sentence of section 3.4(a) of Executive Order 
12958, the words ``within five years from the date of this order'' are 
deleted and the words ``within six and one half years from the date of 
this order'' are inserted in lieu thereof.
Sec. 2. The following new language is inserted at the end of section 
3.4(a): ``For records otherwise subject to this paragraph for which a 
review or as

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sessment conducted by the agency and confirmed by the Information 
Security Oversight Office has determined that they: (1) contain 
information that was created by or is under the control of more than one 
agency, or (2) are within file series containing information that almost 
invariably pertains to intelligence sources or methods, all classified 
information in such records shall be automatically declassified, whether 
or not the records have been reviewed, within 8 years from the date of 
this order, except as provided in paragraph (b), below. For records that 
contain information that becomes subject to automatic declassification 
after the dates otherwise established in this paragraph, all classified 
information in such records shall be automatically declassified, whether 
or not the records have been reviewed on December 31 of the year that is 
25 years from the origin of the information, except as provided in 
paragraph (b), below.''
Sec. 3. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 5.2 are amended to read as 
follows:
``(a) The Director of the Information Security Oversight Office, under 
the direction of the Archivist of the United States and in consultation 
with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and 
the co-chairs of the Security Policy Board, shall issue such directives 
as are necessary to implement this order. These directives shall be 
binding upon the agencies. Directives issued by the Director of the 
Information Security Oversight Office shall establish standards for:
    (1) classification and marking principles;
    (2) agency security education and training programs;
    (3) agency self-inspection programs; and
    (4) classification and declassification guides.
(b) The Archivist of the United States shall delegate the implementation 
and monitorship functions of this program to the Director of the 
Information Security Oversight Office.''
Sec. 4. Subsection (a) and the introductory clause and item (4) of 
subsection (b) of section 5.3 are amended as follows:
    (a) Subsection (a) shall read ``(a) There is established within the 
National Archives and Records Administration an Information Security 
Oversight Office. The Archivist of the United States shall appoint the 
Director of the Information Security Oversight Office, subject to the 
approval of the President.''
    (b) The introductory clause of subsection (b) shall read ``Under the 
direction of the Archivist of the United States, acting in consultation 
with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the 
Director of the Information Security Oversight Office shall:''.
    (c) Item (4) of subsection (b) shall read ``(4) have the authority 
to conduct on-site reviews of each agency's program established under 
this order, and to require of each agency those reports, information, 
and other cooperation that may be necessary to fulfill its 
responsibilities. If granting access to specific categories of 
classified information would pose an exceptional national security risk, 
the affected agency head or the senior agency official shall submit a 
written justification recommending the denial of access to the President 
through the Assistant to the President for National Security

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Affairs within 60 days of the request for access. Access shall be denied 
pending the response,''.
                                                    WILLIAM J. CLINTON  
THE WHITE HOUSE,
    November 19, 1999.