§ 19.1 - Responsibility for oversight.

The Office of Inspector General is responsible for conducting an oversight program that will ensure effective implementation of Executive Order (EO) 12356. Specifically the Assistant Inspector General for Investigation will ensure that the oversight program provides for:

(a) Issuing departmental directives ensuring that classified information is processed, used, reproduced, stored, destroyed, and transmitted only under conditions that provide adequate protection and prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access.

(b) Directing Department-wide security training and educational programs in personnel security and document security.

(c) Recommending administrative action to correct violations of any provisions of these regulations, including notification by warning letters, formal reprimand, and, to the extent permitted by law, suspension without pay and removal.

(d) Receiving questions, suggestions, and complaints regarding all elements of this program.

(e) Designating the Office of Inspector General as having sole responsibility for changes to the program and for assuring that the program is consistent with EO 12356.

(f) Designating the Department's official contact for declassification requests submitted under provisions of EO 12356, the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), and the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a).