PUBLIC LAW 106-567 —DEC. 27, 2000 114 STAT. 2841 the date on which the Director certifies under subsection (a) that the covered element involved is in full compliance with the directives referred to in that subsection. (e) WAIVER BY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. —(1) The Director of Central Intelligence may waive the applicability of the prohibition in subsection (d) to an element of the Department of State otherwise covered by such prohibition if the Director determines that the waiver is in the national security interests of the United States. (2) The Director shall submit to appropriate committees of Reports. Congress a report on each exercise of the waiver authority in paragraph (1). (3) Each report under paragraph (2) with respect to the exercise of authority under paragraph (1) shall set forth the following: (A) The covered element of the Department of State addressed by the waiver. (B) The reasons for the waiver. (C) The actions that will be taken to bring such element into full compliance with the directives referred to in subsection (a), including a schedule for completion of such actions. (D) The actions taken by the Director to protect any covered classified material to be handled, retained, or stored by such element pending achievement of fall compliance of such element with such directives. (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: (1) The term "appropriate committees of Congress" means the following: (A) The Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. (B) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives. (2) The term "covered classified material" means any material classified at the Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level. (3) The term "covered element of the Department of State" means each element of the Department of State that handles, retains, or stores covered classified material. (4) The term "material" means any data, regardless of physical form or characteristic, including written or printed matter, automated information systems storage media, maps, charts, paintings, drawings, films, photographs, engravings, sketches, working notes, papers, reproductions of any such things by any means or process, and sound, voice, magnetic, or electronic recordings. (5) The term "Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level", in the case of classified material, means a level of classification for information in such material concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analjdiical processes that requires such information to be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of Central Intelligence. SEC. 310. DESIGNATION OF DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN PLACE. 40 USC 1101 (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that— "°^ "
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