---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 1017.12"
title: "10"
number: "1017.12"
heading: "Prohibitions on identifying Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/1017.12"
---

# §1017.12. Prohibitions on identifying Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information.


Information, documents, and material must not be identified as being or containing UCNI in order to:

- (a) Conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
- (b) Prevent embarrassment to a person or organization;
- (c) Restrain competition; or,
- (d) **Prevent or delay the release of any information that does not properly qualify as UCNI.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 2168; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 32641, June 10, 2008, unless otherwise noted.