[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1213.104]

[Page 90-91]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1213_RELEASE OF INFORMATION TO NEWS AND INFORMATION MEDIA--
Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1213.104  Public information coordination and concurrence.

    (a) General. All NASA employees involved in preparing and issuing 
NASA public information are responsible for proper coordination among 
Headquarters and Center offices to include review and clearance by 
appropriate officials prior to issuance. Such coordination will be 
accomplished through procedures developed and published by the NASA 
Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs.
    (b) Coordination. To ensure timely release of public information, 
Headquarters and Center Public Affairs Officers are required to 
coordinate to obtain review and clearance by appropriate officials, keep 
each other informed of changes, delays, or cancellation of releases, and 
provide advance notification of the actual release.
    (c) All public information shall be coordinated through the 
appropriate Headquarters offices, including review by the appropriate 
Mission Directorate Associate Administrator and Mission Support Office 
head, or their designees, to ensure scientific, technical, and 
programmatic accuracy, and review by the Assistant Administrator for 
Public Affairs or his/her designee to ensure that public information 
products are well written and appropriate for the intended audience.
    (d) Centers may, however, without the full coordination of 
Headquarters, issue public information that is institutional in nature, 
of local interest, or has been deemed not to be a Headquarters release. 
These releases must be coordinated through the appropriate Center 
offices and approved by the Center Director and Center Public Affairs 
Director. The Center Public Affairs Director is required to provide 
proper notification to the Office of Public Affairs, NASA Headquarters, 
prior to release. The Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs or his/
her designee will determine which public information will be issued 
nationwide by NASA

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Headquarters and shall publish guidelines for the release of public 
information that may be issued by Centers without clearance from 
Headquarters offices.
    (e) Dispute Resolution. Any dispute arising from a decision to 
proceed or not proceed with the issuance of a news release or other type 
of public information will be addressed and resolved by the Assistant 
Administrator for Public Affairs with the appropriate Mission 
Directorate Associate Administrator, Mission Support Office head, Center 
Director, and others, such as Center Public Affairs Directors, as 
necessary. However, the appropriate Mission Directorate Associate 
Administrator shall be the arbiter of disputes about the accuracy or 
characterization of programmatic, technical, or scientific information. 
Additional appeals may be made to the Chief of Strategic Communications 
and to the Office of the Administrator. When requested by a Center 
Public Affairs Director, an explanation of the resolution will be 
provided in writing to all interested Agency parties.