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[CITE: 10USC130b]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
                 CHAPTER 3--GENERAL POWERS AND FUNCTIONS
 
Sec. 130b. Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely 
        deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying 
        information
        
    (a) Exemption From Disclosure.--The Secretary of Defense and, with 
respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the 
Navy, the Secretary of Transportation may, notwithstanding section 552 
of title 5, authorize to be withheld from disclosure to the public 
personally identifying information regarding--
        (1) any member of the armed forces assigned to an overseas unit, 
    a sensitive unit, or a routinely deployable unit; and
        (2) any employee of the Department of Defense or of the Coast 
    Guard whose duty station is with any such unit.

    (b) Exceptions.--(1) The authority in subsection (a) is subject to 
such exceptions as the President may direct.
    (2) Subsection (a) does not authorize any official to withhold, or 
to authorize the withholding of, information from Congress.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``personally identifying information'', with 
    respect to any person, means the person's name, rank, duty address, 
    and official title and information regarding the person's pay.
        (2) The term ``unit'' means a military organization of the armed 
    forces designated as a unit by competent authority.
        (3) The term ``overseas unit'' means a unit that is located 
    outside the United States and its territories.
        (4) The term ``sensitive unit'' means a unit that is primarily 
    involved in training for the conduct of, or conducting, special 
    activities or classified missions, including--
            (A) a unit involved in collecting, handling, disposing, or 
        storing of classified information and materials;
            (B) a unit engaged in training--
                (i) special operations units;
                (ii) security group commands weapons stations; or
                (iii) communications stations; and

            (C) any other unit that is designated as a sensitive unit by 
        the Secretary of Defense or, in the case of the Coast Guard when 
        it is not operating as a service in the Navy, by the Secretary 
        of Transportation.

        (5) The term ``routinely deployable unit'' means a unit that 
    normally deploys from its permanent home station on a periodic or 
    rotating basis to meet peacetime operational requirements that, or 
    to participate in scheduled training exercises that, routinely 
    require deployments outside the United States and its territories. 
    Such term includes a unit that is alerted for deployment outside the 
    United States and its territories during an actual execution of a 
    contingency plan or in support of a crisis operation.

(Added Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1044(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 
Stat. 761.)
