§ 2162.
(e)
Joint determination on atomic energy programs
(1)
The Commission shall remove from the Restricted Data category such information concerning the atomic energy programs of other nations as the Commission and the Director of National Intelligence jointly determine to be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 102(d) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended,
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and can be adequately safeguarded as defense information.
(2)
The Commission may restore to the Restricted Data category any information concerning atomic energy programs of other nations removed under paragraph (1) if the Commission and the Director of National Intelligence jointly determine that—
(A)
the programmatic requirements that caused the information to be removed from the Restricted Data category are no longer applicable or have diminished;
(B)
the information would be more appropriately protected as Restricted Data; and
(C)
restoring the information to the Restricted Data category is in the interest of national security.
(3)
In carrying out paragraph (2), information concerning atomic energy programs of other nations shall be restored to the Restricted Data category in accordance with regulations prescribed for purposes of such paragraph.
([Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724], title I, § 142, as added [Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1], [68 Stat. 941]; amended [Pub. L. 102–484, div. C, title XXXI, § 3152], Oct. 23, 1992, [106 Stat. 2644]; renumbered title I, [Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8)], Oct. 24, 1992, [106 Stat. 2944]; [Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XXXI, § 3155(c)(2)], (3), Oct. 5, 1994, [108 Stat. 3092]; [Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, § 3163], Jan. 2, 2013, [126 Stat. 2205].)