Document: 10 CFR Part 73
Document ID: 9c68c0d6-d7cd-4526-9d0c-7e589496f464
Document Type: cfr
Title: Protection of Safeguards Information: Specific requirements.
Source: 10 CFR Part 73
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-73/section-73.22
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Section ID: 73.22
CFR Part: 73
CFR Title: 10

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originally containing Safeguards Information must be removed from the Safeguards Information category at such time as the information no longer meets the criteria contained in this part. Care must be exercised to ensure that any document or other matter decontrolled not disclose Safeguards Information in some other form or be combined with other unprotected information to disclose Safeguards Information. The authority to determine that a document or other matter may be decontrolled will only be exercised by the NRC, with NRC approval, or in consultation with the individual or organization that made the original determination. ( i ) Destruction of matter containing Safeguards Information. Documents or other matter containing Safeguards Information shall be destroyed when no longer needed. The information can be destroyed by burning, shredding or any other method that precludes reconstruction by means available to the public at large. Piece sizes no wider than one quarter inch composed of several pages or documents and thoroughly mixed are considered completely destroyed. [ 73 FR 63574 , Oct. 24, 2008, as amended at 80 FR 67275 , Nov. 2, 2015; 88 FR 15890 , Mar. 14, 2023]