[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR145.0]

[Page 518]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 145_COMMISSION RECORDS AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  145.0  Definitions.




Sec.
145.0 Definitions.
145.1 Information published in the Federal Register.
145.2 Records available for public inspection and copying; documents 
          published and indexed.
145.3 [Reserved]
145.4 Public records available with identifying details deleted; 
          nonpublic records available in abridged or summary form.
145.5 Disclosure of nonpublic records.
145.6 Commission offices to contact for assistance; registration records 
          available.
145.7 Requests for Commission records and copies thereof.
145.8 Fees for records services.
145.9 Petition for confidential treatment of information submitted to 
          the Commission.

Appendix A to Part 145--Compilation of Commission Records Available to 
          the Public
Appendix B to Part 145--Schedule of Fees
Appendix C to Part 145 [Reserved]

    Authority: Pub. L. 99-570, 100 Stat. 3207; Pub. L. 89-554, 80 Stat. 
383; Pub. L. 90-23, 81 Stat. 54; Pub. L. 98-502, 88 Stat. 1561-1564 (5 
U.S.C. 552); Sec. 101(a), Pub. L. 93-463, 88 Stat. 1389 (5 U.S.C. 
4a(j)); unless otherwise noted.


    For the purposes of part 145 the following definitions are 
applicable:
    Assistant Secretary--refers to the Assistant Secretary of the 
Commission for FOI, Privacy and Sunshine Acts Compliance.
    Compliance staff--refers to the FOI, Privacy and Sunshine Acts 
Compliance staff of the Office of the Secretariat at the Commission's 
principal office in Washington, DC assigned to respond to requests for 
information and to handle various other matters under the Freedom of 
Information Act, the Privacy Act of 1974, and the Government in the 
Sunshine Act.
    Public records--in addition to the records described in Sec.  145.1 
(material published in the Federal Register) and in Sec.  145.2 (records 
required to be made publicly available under the Freedom of Information 
Act), includes those records that have been determined by the Commission 
to be generally available to the public directly upon oral or written 
request from the Commission office or division responsible for the 
maintenance of such records. A compilation of Commission records 
routinely available to the public upon request appears in appendix A to 
this part 145.
    Nonpublic records--are records not identified in Sec.  145.1, Sec.  
145.2, or Appendix A of this part 145. Nonpublic records must be 
requested, in writing, in accordance with the provisions of Sec.  145.7.
    Record--is any information or agency record maintained by the 
Commission in any format, including an electronic format. It includes 
any document, writing, photograph, sound or magnetic recording, 
videotape, microfiche, drawing, or computer-stored information or output 
in the possession of the Commission. The term ``record'' does not 
include personal convenience materials over which the Commission has no 
control, such as appointment calendars and handwritten notes, which may 
be retained or destroyed at an employee's discretion.

[62 FR 17069, Apr. 9, 1997]