Executive Order 13142

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend and establish specific dates for the time within which all classified information contained in records more than 25 years old that have been determined to have historical value under title 44, United States Code, should be automatically declassified, and to establish the Information Security Oversight Office within the National Archives and Records Administration, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12958 is amended as follows:

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 * In the first sentence of section 3.4(a) of Executive Order 12958, the words "within five years from the date of this order" are deleted and the words "within six and one half years from the date of this order" are inserted in lieu thereof.

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 * The following new language is inserted at the end of section 3.4(a):

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 * Subsections (a) and (b) of section 5.2 are amended to read as follows:

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 * Subsection (a) and the introductory clause and item (4) of subsection (b) of section 5.3 are amended as follows:

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, November 19, 1999. [FR Doc. 99–30687 Filed 11–22–99; 8:45 am] Billing Code 3195–01–P