[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR73.735-803]

[Page 173]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 73--STANDARDS OF CONDUCT--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart H--Financial Interest
 
Sec. 73.735-803  Prohibition against involvement in financial transactions based on information obtained through Federal employment.

    An employee shall not engage in, directly or indirectly, a financial 
transaction as a result of, or in primary reliance upon, any information 
gained through his or her official duties. Information gained through 
official duties are those facts and other data that relate to the 
employee's official duties or to the functions of the employing 
component and would not be available to the employee were he or she not 
an officer of the Federal government.

    Example 1: An employee working part-time for a consulting firm that 
does no business with the employee's principal operating component, in 
the area of health care planning advises it, based upon his or her 
knowledge of a new health care planning program about to be initiated by 
the Public Health Service. The employee's knowledge of the program was 
acquired solely through reading policy statements and other PHS 
literature available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. 
In such case, the employee would not violate this regulation if the 
outside activity was otherwise approvable under Subpart G.
    Example 2: A contracting officer with detailed knowledge of a 
negotiated procurement contract invests in a corporation that is likely 
to indirectly profit from the award of that contract. The officer's 
decision to invest is based upon technical details of the successful 
contract proposal that would not otherwise be available to a private 
citizen. The officer would violate this regulation in such a situation.