OMB Receives Declassification Final Rule

Yesterday the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that it had received for review the final rule for Declassification of National Security Information from the National Archives and Records Administration. This rule would implement changes to the National Security Information declassification processes mandated by §3.7 of EO 13526.

Actually, I think that this OMB announcement may be in error, I believe that this was the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) not the final rule that was submitted. According to the Spring 2011 Unified Agenda the NPRM was supposed to have been published in June, but I can find no record on the RegInfo.gov web site that it was.

This rule may be of interest to the chemical security community because of its derivative impact on DHS implementation of EO 13549 (Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities [including fusion centers]) and potentially the sharing of intelligence information with the chemical security community.