[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: 17CFR146.2]

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              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 146_RECORDS MAINTAINED ON INDIVIDUALS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  146.2  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part 146:
    (a) The term Commission means the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission;
    (b) The term Executive Director refers to the executive level staff 
official appointed pursuant to section 2(a)(5) of the Commodity Exchange 
Act.
    (c) The term FOI, Privacy and Sunshine Acts compliance staff refers 
to the staff in the Office of the Secretariat in the Commission's 
principal office in Washington, DC who are assigned to respond to 
requests and handle various other matters under the Freedom of 
Information Act, the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Government in the 
Sunshine Act;
    (d) The term individual means a citizen of the United States or an 
alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence;
    (e) The term maintain includes maintain, collect, use, or 
disseminate;
    (f) The term record means any item, collection, or grouping of 
information about an individual that is maintained by the Commission, 
including but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, and 
criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the 
identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to 
the individual;
    (g) The term system of records means a group of any records under 
the control of the Commission 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;

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    (h) The term system notice means a notice of the existence and 
character of the Commission's system of records published in the Federal 
Register pursuant to Sec.  146.11(a) of these rules;
    (i) The term routine use means, with respect to the disclosure of a 
record, the use of that record for a purpose which is compatible with 
the purpose for which it was collected;
    (j) The term Freedom of Information Act encompasses both the Freedom 
of Information Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552, and the Commission's rules 
contained in part 145 of this title.
    (k) The term agency means any executive department, military 
department, Government corporation, Government controlled corporation or 
other establishment in the Executive branch of the Government or any 
independent regulatory agency.

[41 FR 3212, Jan. 21, 1976, as amended at 45 FR 26954, Apr. 22, 1980]