Sec. 503. Improving FOIA process
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a plan that describes the reforms specified in subsection (b). The Secretary, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall develop, implement, and complete by the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act a cost-effective plan for training and maintaining an appropriate number of officials of the Department in— the identification of marked or unmarked classified information in documents or media subject to requests under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act ), including information originating with the intelligence community; and appropriate procedures for coordinating with intelligence officials to ensure that such officials have an opportunity to make a classification determination regarding the classification status and level, if any, of any information potentially originating with the intelligence community.
Not later than 14 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, in consultation with the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, shall— review the Department’s implementation of the plan required under subsection (a); and submit a report to the relevant congressional committees that assesses the extent to which the Department has implemented the reforms required under subsection (b).