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https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title3-vol1/pdf/CFR-2010-title3-vol1-eo13526.pdf
Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall information
be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to
be declassified in order to:
(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;
(3) restrain competition; or
(4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection
in the interest of the national security.
(b) Basic scientific research information not clearly related to the national
security shall not be classified.
(c) Information may not be reclassified after declassification and release
to the public under proper authority unless:
(1) the reclassification is personally approved in writing by the agency
head based on a document-by-document determination by the agency
that reclassification is required to prevent significant and demonstrable
damage to the national security;
(2) the information may be reasonably recovered without bringing undue
attention to the information;
(3) the reclassification action is reported promptly to the Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) and
the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office; and
(4) for documents in the physical and legal custody of the National Archives
and Records Administration (National Archives) that have been
available for public use, the agency head has, after making the determinations
required by this paragraph, notified the Archivist of the
United States (Archivist), who shall suspend public access pending approval
of the reclassification action by the Director of the Information Security
Oversight Office. Any such decision by the Director may be appealed
by the agency head to the President through the National Security
Advisor. Public access shall remain suspended pending a prompt decision
on the appeal.
(d) Information that has not previously been disclosed to the public
under proper authority may be classified or reclassified after an agency has
received a request for it under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552), the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2204(c)(1), the Privacy Act of
1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), or the mandatory review provisions of section 3.5 of
this order only if such classification meets the requirements of this order
and is accomplished on a document-by-document basis with the personal
participation or under the direction of the agency head, the deputy agency
head, or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4 of this
order. The requirements in this paragraph also apply to those situations in
which information has been declassified in accordance with a specific date
or event determined by an original classification authority in accordance
with section 1.5 of this order.
(e) Compilations of items of information that are individually unclassified
may be classified if the compiled information reveals an additional association
or relationship that:
(1) meets the standards for classification under this order; and
(2) is not otherwise revealed in the individual items of information.