rowly tailored to maximize public access to in-
formation. 
(B) Procedures for providing specified 
Federal officials with authority to utilize the in-
formation control designations, including train-
ing and certification requirements. 
(C) Categories of information that may be 
assigned the information control designations. 
(D) The duration of the information con-
trol designations and the process by which they 
will be removed. 
(E) Procedures for identifying, marking, 
dating, and tracking information assigned the 
information control designations, including the 
identity of officials making the designations. 
(F) Specific limitations and prohibitions 
against using the information control designa-
tions. 
(G) Procedures for members of the public 
to challenge the use of the information control 
designations. 
(H) The manner in which the use of the 
information control designations relates to the 
procedures of each agency or office under sec-
tion 552 of title 5, United States Code.
(3) REGULATION
TO
CONSTITUTE
SOLE
AU-
THORITY.—A regulation promulgated pursuant to 
this subsection shall constitute the sole authority by 
which Federal agencies, offices, or contractors are 
permitted to control information for the purposes of 
safeguarding information prior to review for disclo-
sure, other than authority granted by Federal stat-
ute or by an Executive order relating to the classi-
fication of national security information. 
(c) REVIEW OF STATUTORY BARRIERS TO PUBLIC 
ACCESS TO INFORMATION.— 
(1) REVIEW OF STATUTES.—As part of the re-
port required under subsection (a), the Archivist 
shall examine existing Federal statutes that allow 
Federal agencies, offices, or contractors to control, 
protect, or otherwise withhold information based on 
security concerns. 
(2) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The report shall 
make recommendations on potential changes to the 
Federal statutes examined under paragraph (1) that 
would improve public access to information governed 
by such statutes. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘congressional committees’’ 
means the Committees on Government Reform, Ju-
diciary, Homeland Security, and Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Committees 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 
Judiciary, and Appropriations of the Senate. 
(2) The term ‘‘pseudo-classification designa-
tions’’ means information control designations, in-
cluding ‘‘sensitive but unclassified’’ and ‘‘for official 
use only,’’ that are not defined by Federal statute, 
or by an Executive order relating to the classifica-
tion of national security information, but that are 
used to manage, direct, or route Government infor-
mation, or control the accessibility of Government 
information, regardless of its form or format. 
SEC. 6. RESTORATION OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO PRESI-
DENTIAL RECORDS. 
Executive Order number 13233, dated November 1, 
2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 56025), shall have no force or effect, 
and Executive Order number 12667, dated January 18, 
1989 (54 Fed. Reg. 3403), shall apply by its terms. 
SEC. 7. PROHIBITION ON SECRET ADVISORY COMMITTEES. 
(a) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘Presidential inter- 
agency advisory committee’’ is any committee or task force 
that—
(1) is composed wholly of full-time, or perma-
nent part-time, officers or employees of the Federal 
Government; 
(2) includes officers or employees of at least 
two separate Federal agencies; 
(3) is established or utilized to provide advice, 
ideas, or recommendations to the President or Vice 
President on a specified topic or topics; and 
(4) has at least one officer or employee as-
signed full-time as a staff member of the committee 
to support the functions of the committee. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) The President shall ensure that the names 
of the members of the committee are published in 
the Federal Register. 
(2) The committee must make public each sub-
stantive contact between the advisory committee, or 
individual members of the advisory committee acting 
on the committee’s behalf, and any person who is 
not a full-time or permanent part-time officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government, including— 
(A) the date of the contact; 
(B) the form of the contact (in person, by 
telephone, by e-mail, or in writing);
(C) the names and affiliations of the par-
ties involved; and 
(D) the substance of the communication 
and the communication itself, if in electronic or 
written form. 
(3) For purposes of this subsection, a contact 
shall be considered substantive if the information 
conveyed influenced or was reflected in any way in 
the committee’s advice, recommendations, or report 
to the President or Vice President. 
(c) APPLICABILITY.—The requirements of this sec-
tion do not apply to substantive contacts exclusively with 
the President or the Vice President or their immediate 
personal staff. 
SEC. 8. PROMOTION OF TIMELY DECLASSIFICATION OF 
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 
(a) FUNDING.—Section 708 of the Public Interest 
Declassification Act of 2000 (title VII of Public Law 106– 
567; 50 U.S.C. 435 note; 114 stat. 2856) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) FUNDING.—For any fiscal year in which funds 
appropriated pursuant to the authorization in subsection 
(a) are insufficient, as determined by the Archivist of the 
United States, to support the activities of the Board, the 
Archivist shall levy from each agency, and may retain, a