1. The Classification Office has the capability to identify that information (knowledge, data, equipment) which is classified, Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), and Export Controlled Information (ECI). These terms will be defined below.

    

2. Employees, program/project managers, re-industrialization partners and others doing work at Oak Ridge will find classified, UCNI, and ECI information embodied in documents; materiel, equipment and in burial grounds at the plants and laboratories; certain work products at the plants; in speeches and everyday conversations; etc.

    

3. It is important that employees understand what is classified, UCNI, or ECI about their work and take appropriate measures to protect that information in accordance with DOE security rules and national law. Sources of information about what information is classified, UCNI, or ECI include

 

1. Your supervisor
   
   
2. Your division authorized derivative classifier (ADC) or UCNI Reviewing Official
   
   
3. The Classification Office, here are the federal staff members: 

    

	Gabriel (Gabe) Marciante, ORO Classification Officer, tel. 865-576-0754,  e-mail: marciantegj@oro.doe.gov
	Nettie Hudson, International Security Program Specialist, specializing in Export Control issues, tel. 865-576-1918, e-mail: hudsonnb@oro.doe.gov
	Larry Sparks, Classification Analyst, specializing in enrichment technologies and the East Tennessee Technology Park, (ETTP), tel. 865-576-2659, e- mail: sparkslm@oro.doe.gov

4. The Classification Office is ready to support worker and environmental stakeholders, environmental restoration specialists and other DOE program managers to define what is classified or technologically sensitive about their work and to explore release of as much information or excess materiel to the American people as possible.

   DECLASSIFICATION AND PUBLIC RELEASE

   The DOE has launched a major initiative to review and declassify documents which no longer contain classified, UCNI, or ECI information. Documents which contain environmental, safety, and health information, (ES&H) are of particular interest. The Classification Office is staffed with headquarters-licensed declassifiers, who can review a classified document and determine if it is no longer classified. If you have a document that you wish to have declassified or sanitized, for release to the public please call 865-576-0754. The Department has established special liberal rules for the release of health related information, (it is never classified when expressed "at the site level"), see this office for assistance.

   Please keep in mind that whenever you wish to publicly release or even widely disseminate within DOE, an unmarked (i.e., no classification, UCNI, or ECI markings) document which may contain classified or otherwise sensitive technology or security-related information, it is your responsibility to have that document reviewed first by the Classification Office. A review by your division ADC is not sufficient.

   Public release of materiel, buildings and equipment is a process that generally proceeds conjointly between the Oak Ridge Offices Office of Safeguards and Security and Property Management. Early coordination is the best path to success.

    

5. Classified and UCNI can only be discussed or committed to written or electronic form in a DOE-secure environment. The Classified Matter Protection and Control (CMPC) Operations Manual contains the requirements for these secure environments.

    

6. As you go about your work, please keep in mind that you may come upon documents that contain classified information, but which are not marked as such. It is your responsibility to protect such documents in a secure mode and bring them as soon as possible to an ADC for marking.

   WHAT INFORMATION IS CLASSIFIED, UCNI, AND ECI ?

    

7. During its 50-year history, much of ORO's activities have been classified. This includes nuclear weapons production at the Y-12 Plant and the research and deployment of methodologies for enriching uranium for commercial reactors and nuclear weapons, namely:
   

1. The Oak Ridge (K-25) Gaseous Diffusion Plant, (now the ETTP), and the Portsmouth, and Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plants
   
2.  Work one at K-25 and Portsmouth on gas centrifuge
       
3.  Work done at ORNL, K-25 and Y-12 Plant on the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation Technology.

In addition, most of the plants and the Laboratory have engaged in classified work for other agencies and in other nuclear-sensitive technologies such as plutonium production and naval reactor design and fuel reprocessing. Most of the above activities still have classified aspects to them.

Most, also, are controlled with UCNI and ECI to protect their dissemination to those who might use information to create weapons of mass destruction. Classified information can be given only to those with a need-to-know and an appropriate clearance, UCNI is generally limited to US citizens with a need to know. The CMPC Operations Manual contains complete limitations. ECI can generally only be provided to US citizens. Some of our technologies (e.g. gaseous diffusion and nuclear weapons) have some aspects that are classified, some aspects that are UCNI and some that are ECI, dependent on the nature and technical detail of the information.

There is also much ECI that is not necessarily nuclear related such as sophisticated computers, software, military devices, technology and materiel, etc. Become informed about your responsibilities before you disseminate technical information , items or materiel with nuclear or military/commercial significance!