[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1015.16]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1015--PROCEDURES FOR DISCLOSURE OR PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION UNDER 
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B--Exemptions From Production and Disclosure Under 5 U.S.C. 
                                 552(b)
 
Sec.  1015.16  Exemptions (5 U.S.C. 552(b)).

    (a) Records specifically authorized under criteria established by an 
Executive Order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or 
foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such 
Executive Order.
    (b) Records related solely to the internal personnel rules and 
practices of the Commission.
    (c) Records specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other 
than section 552b of Title 5, United States Code), provided that such 
statute either requires that the matters be withheld from the public in 
such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or establishes 
particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of 
matters to be withheld.
    (d) Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained 
from a person and privileged or confidential.
    (e) Interagency or intra-agency memoranda or letters which would not 
be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with 
the agency.
    (f) Personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of 
which would consititute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal 
privacy.
    (g) Records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, 
but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement 
records or information:
    (1) Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement 
proceedings,
    (2) Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an 
impartial adjudication,
    (3) Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted 
invasion of personal privacy,
    (4) Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a 
confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or 
authority or any private institution which furnished information on a 
confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled 
by criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal 
investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security 
intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential 
source,
    (5) Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement 
investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law 
enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could 
reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or
    (6) Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical 
safety of any individual.
    (h) Records contained in or related to examinations, operating, or 
condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of an agency 
responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions.
    (i) Records of geological and geophysical information and data, 
including maps, concerning wells.

[42 FR 10490, Feb. 22, 1977, as amended at 52 FR 44597, Nov. 20, 1987]

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