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 106 STAT. 3450 PUBLIC LAW 102-526—OCT. 26, 1992 affiliation, 5 citizens to serve as members of the Review Board to ensure and facilitate the review, transmission to the Archivist, and public disclosure of Government records related to the assassination of President John F, Kennedy. (2) The President shall make nominations to the Review Board not later than 90 calendar days after the date of enactment of this Act. (3) If the Senate votes not to confirm a nomination to the Review Board, the President shall make an additional nomination not later than 30 days thereafter. (4)(A) The President shall make nominations to the Review Board after considering persons recommended by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of American Archivists, and the American Bar Association. (B) If an organization described in subparagraph (A) does not recommend at least 2 nominees meeting the qualifications stated in paragraph (5) by the date that is 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall consider for nomination the persons recommended by the other organizations described in subparagraph (A). (C) The President may request an organization described in subparagraph (A) to submit additional nominations. (5) Persons nominated to the Review Board— (A) shall be impeirtial private citizens, none of whom is presently employed by any branch of the Government, and none of whom shall have had any previous involvement with any official investigation or inquiry conducted by a Federal, State, or local government, relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; (B) shall be distinguished persons of high national professional reputation in their respective fields who are capable of exercising the independent and objective judgment necessary to the fulfillment of their role in ensuring and facilitating the review, transmission to the public, and public disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and who possess an appreciation of the value of such material to the public, scholars, and government; and (C) shall include at least 1 professional historian and 1 attorney. (c) SECURITY CLEARANCES. — (1) All Review Board nominees shall be granted the necessary security clearances in an accelerated manner subject to the standard procedures for gremting such clearances. (2) All nominees shall qualify for the necessary security clearance prior to being considered for confirmation by the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate. (d) CONFIRMATION HEARINGS.— (1) The Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate shall hold confirmation hearings within 30 days in which the Senate is in session afl«r the nomination of 3 Review Board members. Reports. (2) The Committee on Governmental Affairs shall vote on the nominations within 14 days in which the Senate is in session after the confirmation hearings, and shall report its results to the full Senate immediately.

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