5 C.F.R. § 2500.7 Declassification and downgrading.
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
(a) Declassification authority. No one in the Office of Administration has the authority to declassify or downgrade classified information. (b) Mandatory review for declassification. (1) Requests for mandatory review of national security information contained in the records of any Executive Office of the President (EOP) agency for which OA provides services must be in writing and addressed to the Security Officer, OA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Those agencies for which OA provides services include the Council of Economic Advisors, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Administration, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (2) The OA Security Officer will receive and monitor all requests for mandatory review for declassification of information as received by the EOP agencies named above. (3) Requests for mandatory review for declassification of classified information contained in the records of any other Executive Office of the President agency for which OA provides services should be addressed directly to the agency which is the owner of the record, in accordance with that agency's published Information Security Regulation. [44 FR 50039, Aug. 27, 1979; 45 FR 20453, Mar. 28, 1980; 45 FR 22873, Apr. 4, 1980, as amended at 56 FR 8101, Feb. 27, 1991]
Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 2500—INFORMATION SECURITY REGULATION
§ 2500.7 Declassification and downgrading.
