---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 2400.43"
title: "32"
number: "2400.43"
heading: "Heads of offices."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/2400.43"
---

# §2400.43. Heads of offices.


The Head of each unit is responsible for the administration of this regulation within his area. These responsibilities include:

- (a) Insuring that national security information is properly classified and protected;
- (b) Exercising a continuing records review to reduce classified holdings through retirement, destruction, downgrading or declassification;
- (c) Insuring that reproduction of classified information is kept to the absolute minimum;
- (d) Issuing appropriate internal security instructions and maintaining the prescribed control and accountability records on classified information under their jurisdiction.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: E.O. 12356 and Information Security Oversight Office Directive No. 1.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 10821, Mar. 15, 1983, unless otherwise noted.