View all text of Chapter 53 B [§ 4351 - § 4357]
§ 4352. Responsibility for preparation of FRUS series
(a) In general
(1)
(A) The Historian of the Department of State shall be responsible for the preparation of the FRUS series, including the selection of records, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(B) The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation shall review records, and shall advise and make recommendations to the Historian concerning all aspects of preparation and publication of the FRUS series, including, in accordance with the procedures contained in section 4353 of this title, the review and selection of records for inclusion in volumes of the series.
(2) Other departments, agencies, and other entities of the United States Government shall cooperate with the Office of the Historian by providing full and complete access to the records pertinent to United States foreign policy decisions and actions and by providing copies of selected records in accordance with the procedures developed under section 4353 of this title, except that no access to any record, and no provision of any copy of a record, shall be required in the case of any record that was prepared less than 20 years before the date of a request for such access or copy made by the Office of the Historian.
(b) National Archives and Records Administration
(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title IV, § 402, as added Pub. L. 102–138, title I, § 198(a), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 685; amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, title LV, § 5504(1), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2376.)