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Subtitle D-Regulations Relating to Telecommunications and Information

The requestor shall be informed date of receipt of the request. ate will be the basis for the time specified in paragraph (b) of ction.

If the request does not reasonescribe the information sought, questor shall be notified that, additional information is proor the request is made more speho further action will be taken. Review. (1) The requestor shali ormed of the Special Trade RepCative's determination within days of receipt of the initial re

If the determination is to withsome or all of the material reed, the requestor may appeal the mination. The requestor shall be med that such an appeal must be in writing within sixty days of ot of the denial and should be aded to the chairperson of the e of the Special Representative Trade Negotiations Classification ew Committee.

The requestor shall be informed e appellate determination within y days of receipt of the appeal. Fees. (1) Fees for the location and duction of information that is ubject of a mandatory review reI shall be assessed according to ollowing schedule:

Search for records: $5.00 per hour a the search is conducted by a cal employce; $8.00 per hour when search is conducted by a profesI employee. No fee shall be asd for searches of less than one

Reproduction of documents: Docts will be reproduced at a rate of per page for all copying of four s or more. No fee shall be assessed eproducing documents that are e pages or less, or for the first = pages of longer documents.

When fees chargeable under this on will amount to more than $25, he requestor has not indicated in nce a willingness to pay fees er than that amount, the requeshall be promptly notified of the nt of the anticipated fee or such on thereof as can readily be estid. In instances where the estimates will greatly exceed $25, an ad

vance deposit may be required. Dispatch of such a notice or request shall suspend the running of the period for response by the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations until a reply is received from the requestor.

(3) Remittances shall be in the form either of a personal check or bank draft drawn on a bank in the United States, or a postal money order. Remittances shall be made payable to U.S. Treasurer and mailed to the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, 1800 G St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

(4) A receipt for fees paid vill be given only upon request. No refund of fees paid for services actually rendered will be made.

(5) The Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations may waive all or part of any fee provided for in this section when it is deemed to be in the interest of either the Agency or the general public.

§ 2008.12 Foreign government information.

The Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations shall, in consultation with the Archivist and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3-404 of Executive Order 12065, develop systematic review guidelines for review of foreign government information for declassification thirty years from the date of original classification.

§ 2008.13 Systematic review guidelines.

Within 180 days after the effective date of the Order, the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations shall, after consultation with the Archivist of the United States and review by the Information Security Oversight Office, issue and maintain guidelines for systematic review of classified information originated by the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations twenty years from the date of original classification. These guidelines shall state specific limited categories of information which, because of their national security sensitivity, should not be declassified automatically but should be reviewed item-by-item to de

rmine whether continued protection eyond twenty years is needed. Inforation not identified in these guidenes as requiring review and for which prior automatic declassification date as not been established shall be deassified automatically twenty years om the date of original classification.

Subpart E-Safeguards

2008.14 Storage.

The Office of the Special Repreentative for Trade Negotiations shall tore all classified material in accordnce with ISOO Directive of October , 1978 (43 FR 46281).

2008.15 General restrictions on access. Access to classified information shall e restricted as required by Section 4of Executive Order 12065.

2008.16 Security education program.

(a) The Office of the Special Repreentative for Trade Negotiations will nform agency personnel having access o classified information of all requirerents of Executive Order 12065 and SOO Directive I.

(b) The Director, Office of Managenent, shall be charged with the implementation of this security education program and shall issue detailed procedures for the use of the agency personnel in fulfilling their day-to-day security responsibilities.

§2008.17 Historical researchers and former Presidential appointees.

The requirement in Section 4-101 of Executive Order 12065 with respect to access to classified information may be waived for historical researchers and former Presidential appointees in accordance with Section 4-301 of that Order.

Subpart F-Implementation and Review

§ 2008.18 Information Security Oversight Committee.

The Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations Information Security Oversight Committee shall be co-chaired by the General Counsel of the Office of the Special

Representative for Trade Negotiations and the Director, Office of Management. The chairs shall also be responsible with the Committee for conducting and active oversight program to ensure effective implementation of Executive Order 12065, and ISOO implementing directives. The Committee shall

(a) Establish a security education program to inform personnel who have access to classified information with the requirements of Executive Order 12065, and ISOO implementing directives.

(b) Establish controls to ensure that classified information is used, processed, stored, reproduced, and transmitted only under conditions that will provide adequate protection and prevent access by unauthorized persons.

(c) Act on all suggestions and complaints concerning the administration of the information security program.

(d) Establish and monitor policies and procedures within the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations to ensure the orderly and effective declassification of documents.

(e) Recommend to the Special Trade Representative appropriate administrative action to correct abuses or violations of any provision of Executive Order 12065.

(f) Consider and decide other questions concerning classification and declassification that may be brought before it.

§ 2008.19 Classification Review Committee.

The Classification Review Committee shall be chaired by the Special Trade Representative. The Committee shall decide appeals from denials of declassification requests submitted pursuant to Section 3-5 of Executive Order 12065. The Committee shall consist of Special Representative, two Deputys and the General Counsel.

Note. This proposal has been reviewed under STR criteria established to implement Executive Order 12044, "Improving Government Regulations" and a determination has been made that these regulations are not "significant”.

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