[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR207.4]

[Page 97]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
  PART 207_INVESTIGATIONS OF WHETHER INJURY TO DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES RESULTS 
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 207.4  The record.

    (a) Maintenance of the record. The Secretary shall maintain the 
record of each investigation conducted by the Commission pursuant to 
title VII of the Act. The record shall be maintained contemporaneously 
with each actual filing in the record. It shall be divided into public 
and nonpublic sections. The Secretary shall also maintain a 
contemporaneous index of all materials filed in the record. All material 
properly filed with the Secretary shall be placed in the record. The 
Commission need not consider in its determinations or include in the 
record any material that is not filed with the Secretary. All material 
which is placed in the record shall be maintained in the public record, 
with the exception of material which is privileged, or which is business 
proprietary information submitted in accordance with Sec. 201.6 of this 
chapter. Privileged and business proprietary material shall be 
maintained in the nonpublic record.
    (b) Audits. The Commission may in its discretion verify information 
received in the course of an investigation. To the extent a verification 
results in new or different information, the Commission shall place such 
information on the record.
    (c) Materials provided by the administering authority. Materials 
received by the Commission from the administering authority shall be 
placed on the Commission's record and shall be designated by the 
Commission as public or nonpublic in conformity with the applicable 
designation of the administering authority. Any requests to the 
Commission either to permit access to such materials or to release such 
materials shall be referred to the administering authority for its 
advice.

[44 FR 76468, Dec. 26, 1979, as amended at 61 FR 37829, July 22, 1996]