The Classification Office is ready to support worker and environmental stakeholders, environmental restoration specialists and other DOE program managers to define what is classified or technologically sensitive about their work and to explore release of as much information or excess materiel to the American people as possible. The DOE has launched a major initiative to review and declassify documents which no longer contain classified, UCNI, or ECI information. The Classification Office is staffed with headquarters-licensed declassifiers, who can review a classified document and determine if it is no longer classified. A review by your division ADC is not sufficient. Public release of materiel, buildings and equipment is a process that generally proceeds conjointly between the Safeguards and Security Division and Property Management.
Early coordination is the best path to success.
Classified and UCNI can only be discussed or committed to written or electronic form in a DOE-secure environment. Operations Manual contains the requirements for these secure environments. As you go about your work, please keep in mind that you may come upon documents that contain classified information, but which are not marked as such. It is your responsibility to protect such documents in a secure mode and bring them as soon as possible to an ADC for marking. During its 50-year history, much of ORO's activities have been classified.