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[CITE: 15USC1155]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 23--DISSEMINATION OF TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING 
                               INFORMATION
 
Sec. 1155. General standards and limitations; preservation of 
        security classification
        
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Secretary 
shall respect and preserve the security classification of any scientific 
or technical information, data, patents, inventions, or discoveries in, 
or coming into, the possession or control of the Department of Commerce, 
the classified status of which the President or his designee or 
designees certify as being essential in the interest of national 
defense, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed as modifying or 
limiting any other statute relating to the classification of information 
for reasons of national defense or security.

(Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 936, Sec. 5, 64 Stat. 824.)
