§ 773. — Public disclosure of information.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC773]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 16B--FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 773. Public disclosure of information
(a) Analyses, data, information, reports, and summaries; objectives of
disclosure
The Administrator shall make public, on a continuing basis, any
statistical and economic analyses, data, information, and whatever
reports and summaries are necessary to keep the public fully and
currently informed as to the nature, extent, and projected duration of
shortages of energy supplies, the impact of such shortages, and the
steps being taken to minimize such impacts.
(b) Freedom of Information Act applicable; disclosure of confidential
information or trade secrets; disclosure of matter included in
public annual reports to Securities and Exchange Commission and
matter excepted from such disclosure
Subject to the provisions of this chapter, section 552 of title 5
shall apply to public disclosure of information by the Administrator:
Provided, That notwithstanding said section, the provisions of section
1905 of title 18, or any other provision of law, (1) all matters
reported to, or otherwise obtained by, any person exercising authority
under this chapter containing trade secrets or other matter referred to
in section 1905 of title 18, may be disclosed to other persons
authorized to perform functions under this chapter solely to carry out
the purposes of the chapter, or when relevant in any proceeding under
this chapter, and (2) the Administrator shall disclose to the public, at
a reasonable cost, and upon a request which reasonably describes the
matter sought, any matter of the type which could not be excluded from
public annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant
to section 78m or 78o(d) of this title by a business enterprise
exclusively engaged in the manufacture or sale of a single product,
unless such matter concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes,
operations, style of work, or apparatus of a business enterprise.
(c) Guidelines and procedures for handling information pertaining to
individuals; access of individuals to such personal information
To protect and assure privacy of individuals and confidentiality of
personal information, the Administrator is directed to establish
guidelines and procedures for handling any information which the
Administration obtains pertaining to individuals. He shall provide, to
the extent practicable, in such guidelines and procedures a method for
allowing any such individual to gain access to such information
pertaining to himself.
(Pub. L. 93-275, Sec. 14, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 108.)
Transfer of Functions
Federal Energy Administration terminated and functions vested by law
in Administrator thereof transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless
otherwise specifically provided) by sections 7151(a) and 7293 of Title
42, The Public Health and Welfare.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 42 section 6274.
