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 113 STAT. 762 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 "(1) any member of the armed forces assigned to an overseas unit, a sensitive unit, or a routinely deployable unit; and "(2) any employee of the Department of Defense or of the Coast Guard whose duty station is with any such unit. "(b) EXCEPTIONS.— (1) The authority in subsection (a) is subject to such exceptions as the President may direct. "(2) Subsection (a) does not authorize any official to withhold, or to authorize the withholding of, information from Congress. "(c) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: "(1) The term 'personally identifying information', with respect to any person, means the person's name, rank, duty address, and official title and information regarding the person's pay. "(2) The term 'unit' means a military organization of the armed forces designated as a unit by competent authority. "(3) The term 'overseas unit' means a unit that is located outside the United States and its territories. "(4) The term 'sensitive unit' means a unit that is primarily involved in training for the conduct of, or conducting, special activities or classified missions, including— "(A) a unit involved in collecting, handling, disposing, or storing of classified information and materials; "(B) a unit engaged in training— "(i) special operations units; "(ii) security group commands weapons stations; or "(iii) communications stations; and "(C) any other unit that is designated as a sensitive unit by the Secretary of Defense or, in the case of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, by the Secretary of Transportation. "(5) The term 'routinely deployable unit' means a unit that normally deploys from its permanent home station on a periodic or rotating basis to meet peacetime operational requirements that, or to participate in scheduled training exercises that, routinely require deplojnnents outside the United States and its territories. Such term includes a unit that is alerted for deployment outside the United States and its territories during an actual execution of a contingency plan or in support of a crisis operation.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT. —The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "130b. Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying information.". SEC. 1045. NONDISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN OPERATIONAL FILES OF THE NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY. (a) AUTHORITY TO WITHHOLD. —Subchapter II of chapter 22 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

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