[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: 16CFR1101.34]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1101--INFORMATION DISCLOSURE UNDER SECTION 6(b) OF THE CONSUMER 
PRODUCT SAFETY ACT--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart D--Reasonable Steps Commission Will Take To Assure Information 
 
Sec.  1101.34  Reasonable steps to assure information release is 

``reasonably related to effectuating the purposes of the Acts'' the 
Commission administers.

    (a) The steps set forth below are the steps the Commission has 
determined are reasonable to take to assure that the disclosure of 
information to the public effectuates the purposes of the Acts it 
administers.
    (1) Purposes of the CPSA. The Commission will review information to 
determine whether disclosure would be reasonably related to effectuating 
one or more of the specific purposes of the CPSA, as set forth in 
sections 2(b) and 5, 15 U.S.C. 2051(b) and 2054.
    (2) Purposes of the FHSA, FFA, PPPA and RSA. The Commission will 
also review information concerning products subject to the transferred 
acts it administers and to the Commission's specific functions under 
those acts to determine whether disclosure of information would be 
reasonably related to effectuating the purposes of those acts.
    (3) Purposes of the FOIA. FOIA requests will be reviewed to 
determine whether disclosure of the information is reasonably related to 
effectuating one or more of the purposes of the acts administered by the 
Commission. In the event of a close question on this issue, the 
Commission will defer to the purposes of the FOIA. The FOIA establishes 
a general right of the public to have access to information in the 
Commission's possession, particularly information that reveals whether 
the Commission is meeting its statutory responsibilities or information 
upon which the Commission bases a decision that affects the public 
health and safety.
    (b) In reviewing proposed information disclosures, the Commission 
will consider disclosing the material on the basis of whether release of 
the information, when taken as a whole, was prepared or is maintained in 
the course of or to support an activity of the Commission designed to 
accomplish one or more of the statutory purposes.