(a) Procedures for Determining Extent of Sharing of
Homeland Security Information.--
(1) The President shall prescribe and implement
procedures under which relevant Federal agencies--
(A) share relevant and appropriate homeland
security information with other Federal
agencies, including the Department, and
appropriate State and local personnel;
(B) identify and safeguard homeland
security information that is sensitive but
unclassified; and
(C) to the extent such information is in
classified form, determine whether, how, and to
what extent to remove classified information,
as appropriate, and with which such personnel
it may be shared after such information is
removed.
(2) The President shall ensure that such procedures
apply to all agencies of the Federal Government.
(3) Such procedures shall not change the
substantive requirements for the classification and
safeguarding of classified information.
(4) Such procedures shall not change the
requirements and authorities to protect sources and
methods.
(b) Procedures for Sharing of Homeland Security
Information.--
(1) Under procedures prescribed by the President,
all appropriate agencies, including the intelligence
community, shall, through information sharing systems,
share homeland security information with Federal
agencies and appropriate State and local personnel to
the extent such information may be shared, as
determined in accordance with subsection (a), together
with assessments of the credibility of such
information.
(2) Each information sharing system through which
information is shared under paragraph (1) shall--
(A) have the capability to transmit
unclassified or classified information, though
the procedures and recipients for each
capability may differ;
(B) have the capability to restrict
delivery of information to specified subgroups
by geographic location, type of organization,
position of a recipient within an