Sec. 443. Assessment of handling of certain information relating to deliberations of Bureau of Industry and Security
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Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, in coordination with the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an assessment of practices for handling covered information that may, in isolation or in aggregate, cause harm to the national security of the United States. The report under paragraph
(1)shall include recommended steps, should any be necessary, to improve the secure handling of covered information, including with respect to whether the decisions and deliberations of the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce that involve covered information should be solely conducted on classified networks. The report under paragraph
(1)may be submitted in classified form, consistent with the protection of sources and methods. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall conduct an assessment of how covered information is transmitted, stored, and secured. The assessment under paragraph
(1)shall include— the projected cost of installing classified information systems for use by the Bureau of Industry and Security; and the feasibility of identifying secured office space for such systems. Not later than 210 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the findings of the assessment under paragraph (1). In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The term covered information means information provided by an element of the intelligence community to the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce as part of decisions or deliberations by the Bureau or information or material derived from classified deliberative or decisional interagency policy documents.