[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR3b.2]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 3b_COLLECTION, MAINTENANCE, USE, AND DISSEMINATION OF RECORDS OF 
IDENTIFIABLE PERSONAL INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3b.2  Definitions.

    In this part:
    (a) Agency, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 551(1) as ``* * * each authority 
of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or 
subject to review by another agency, * * *'', includes any executive 
department, military department, Government corporation, Government 
controlled corporation, or other establishment in the executive branch 
of the Government (including the Executive Office of the President), or 
any independent regulatory agency [5 U.S.C. 552(e)];
    (b) Individual means a citizen of the United States or an alien 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence;
    (c) Maintain includes, maintain, collect, use, or disseminate;
    (d) Record means any item, collection or grouping of information 
about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not 
limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and 
criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the 
identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to 
the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph;
    (e) System of records means a group of any records under the control 
of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the 
individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying 
particular assigned to the individual;
    (f) Statistical record means a record in a system of records 
maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not 
used in whole or in part in making any determination about an 
identifiable individual, except as provided by section 8 of title 13 of 
the United States Code;
    (g) Routine use means, with respect to the disclosure of a record, 
the use of

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such record for a purpose which is compatible with the purpose for which 
it was collected; and
    (h) Disclosure means either the transmittal of a copy of a record or 
the granting of access to a record, by oral, written, electronic or 
mechanical communication.