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 114 STAT. 2856 PUBLIC LAW 106-567—DEC. 27, 2000 50 USC 1801 note. Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000. Records. Reports. 50 USC 435 note. "(b) TIMING OF BRIEFINGS. —Briefings under subsection (a) with respect to a case shall occur— "(1) as soon as practicable after the Department of Justice and the United States attorney concerned determine that a prosecution or potential prosecution could result; and "(2) at such other times thereafter as are necessary to keep the senior agency official concerned fully and currently informed of the status of the prosecution. "(c) SENIOR AGENCY OFFICIAL DEFINED. — In this section, the term 'senior agency official' has the meaning given that term in section 1.1 of Executive Order No. 12958.". SEC. 608. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this title (including an amendment made by this title), or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this title (including the amendments made by this title), and the application thereof, to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. TITLE VII—DECLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000". SEC. 702. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) It is in the national interest to establish an effective, coordinated, and cost-effective means by which records on specific subjects of extraordinary public interest that do not undermine the national security interests of the United States may be collected, retained, reviewed, and disseminated to Congress, policymakers in the executive branch, and the public. (2) Ensuring, through such measures, public access to information that does not require continued protection to maintain the national security interests of the United States is a key to striking the balance between secrecy essential to national security and the openness that is central to the proper functioning of the political institutions of the United States. SEC. 703. PUBLIC INTEREST DECLASSIFICATION BOARD. (a) ESTABLISHMENT. —There is established within the executive branch of the United States a board to be known as the "Public Interest Declassification Board" (in this title referred to as the "Board"). (b) PURPOSES. —The purposes of the Board are as follows: (1) To advise the President, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and such other executive branch officials as the Board considers appropriate on the systematic, thorough, coordinated, and comprehensive identification, collection, review for declassification, and release to Congress, interested agencies, and the public of declassified records and materials (including donated historical materials) that are of

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