[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
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[CITE: 3CFR]

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Memorandum of September 8, 2007

Assignment of Reporting Functions Relating to the Information Sharing
Environment

Memorandum for the Secretary of State[,] the Secretary of Defense[,] the
Attorney General[,] the Secretary of Energy[,] the Secretary of Homeland
Security[, and] the Director of National Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws
of the United States, including section 301 of title 3, United States
Code,

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the reporting functions of the President under subsections (h) and (j)
of section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
of 2004 (Public Law 108-458), as amended by the Implementing
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53)
(IRTPA), are hereby assigned to the Director of National Intelligence
(Director). The Director shall consult the Secretaries of State,
Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, and the Attorney General in
performing such functions.
Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law,
furnish to the Director information that the Director requests to
perform such functions, in the format and on the schedule specified by
the Director.
The Director shall perform such functions in a manner consistent with
the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the
disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national security,
the deliberative processes of the Executive, and the performance of the
Executive's constitutional duties.
Any reference in this memorandum to the provision of IRTPA shall be
deemed to include references to any hereafter-enacted provision of law
that is the same or substantially the same as such provision.
The Director is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in
the Federal Register.
GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,
    Washington, September 8, 2007.