32 C.F.R. § 1908.02

Current through September 30, 2024

Section 1908.02 - Definitions

For purposes of this part, the following terms have the meanings as indicated:

(a)Agency or CIA means the United States Central Intelligence Agency acting through the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator;

(b)Days means calendar days when the Agency is operating and specifically excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays. Three (3) days may be added to any time limit imposed on a requester by this part if responding by U.S. domestic mail; ten (10) days may be added if responding by international mail;

(c)Control means ownership or the authority of the CIA pursuant to Federal statute or privilege to regulate official or public access to records;

(d)Coordinator means the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator who serves as the Agency manager of the information review and release program instituted under the mandatory declassification review provisions of Executive Order 13526;

(e)Federal agency means any executive department, military department, or other establishment or entity included in the definition of agency in 5 U.S.C. 552(f) ;

(f)Information means any knowledge that can be communicated or documentary material, regardless of its physical form that is owned by, produced by or for, or under the control of the United States Government; it does not include:

(1) Information within the scope of the CIA Information Act, or

(2) Information originated by the incumbent President, White House Staff, appointed committees, commissions or boards, or any entities within the Executive Office that solely advise and assist the incumbent President;

(g)Interested party means any official in the executive, military, congressional, or judicial branches of government, United States or foreign, or U.S. Government contractor who, in the sole discretion of the CIA, has a subject matter or physical interest in the documents or information at issue;

(h)NARA means the National Archives and Records Administration;

(i)Originator means the CIA officer who originated the information at issue, or successor in office, or a CIA officer who has been delegated declassification authority for the information at issue in accordance with the provisions of this Order;

(j)Presidential libraries means the libraries or collection authorities established by statute to house the papers of former Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and similar institutions or authorities as may be established in the future;

(k)Referral means coordination with or transfer of action to an interested party;

(l)The Order means Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 and published at 75 FR 707 (or successor Orders);

(m)Agency Release Panel (ARP) refers to the Agency's forum for reviewing information review and release policy, the adequacy of resources available to all Agency declassification and release programs, and hearing appeals in accordance with this section.

32 C.F.R. §1908.02

62 FR 32495, June 16, 1997, as amended at76 FR 59033, Sept. 23, 2011