Sec. 11. Transparency
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Except as provided in subsection (c), not later than 60 days after receiving a report pursuant to section 10(a), the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly make copies of the report available to the public upon request and at a reasonable cost. Except as provided in subsection (c), not later than 60 days after submitting comments pursuant to section 10(e), the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly make copies of such comments available to the public upon request and at a reasonable cost. The President may waive the requirement under subsection
(a)or
(b)with respect to availability to the public of any element in a report submitted pursuant to section 10(a) or any comments submitted pursuant to section 10(e) if the President determines that such waiver is justified for national security reasons. The President shall publish a notice of each waiver made under paragraph
(1)in the Federal Register not later than the date of the submission to the appropriate congressional committees of a report required under section 10(a) or any comments submitted pursuant to section 10(e). Each such report and comments shall specify whether a waiver was made pursuant to paragraph
(1)and which elements in the report or the comments were affected by such waiver.