Executive Orders EO 13381 party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. GEORGE W. BUSH The White House, June 17, 2005. Executive Order 13381 of June 27, 2005 Strengthening Processes Relating to Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to assist in determining eligi- bility for access to classified national security information, while taking ap- propriate account of title III of Public Law 108-458, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. To the extent consistent with safeguarding the security of the United States and protecting classified national security information from unauthorized disclosure, agency functions relating to determining eli- gibility for access to classified national security information shall be appro- priately uniform, centralized, efficient, effective, timely, and reciprocal. Sec. 2. Functions of the Of J\177'ce of Management and Budget. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Director): (a) may, to ensure the effective implementation of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, assign, in whole or in part, to the head of any agen- cy (solely or jointly) any process relating to determinations of eligibility for access to classified national security information, with the agency's exer- cise of such assigned process to be subject to the Director's supervision and to such terms and conditions (including approval by the Office of Manage- ment and Budget) as the Director determines appropriate; (b) shall carry out any process that the Director does not assign to an- other agency (or agencies) under subsection (a); (c) may, after consultation with the Secretary of State, Secretary of De- fense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Home- land Security, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, issue guidelines and instructions to the heads of agencies to ensure appropriate uniformity, centralization, ef- ficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness in processes relating to determina- tions by agencies of eligibility for access to classified national security in- formation; (d) may, with regard to determining eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and "special access programs pertaining to intelligence activities; including special activities, but not including military operational, strategic, and tactical programs" (Intelligence SAPs) under section 4.3(a) of Executive Order 12958 of April 17, 1995, as amend- ed, issue guidelines and instructions with the concurrence of the DNI to 167
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