[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1215.62]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1215_POPCORN PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND CONSUMER INFORMATION--Table of 
 
  Subpart A_Popcorn Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order
 
Sec.  1215.62  Confidential treatment.

    (a) All information obtained from books, records, or reports under 
the Act, this subpart, and the rule and regulations issued thereunder 
shall be kept confidential by all persons, including all employees, 
agents, and former employees and agents of the Board; all officers, 
employees, agents, and former officers, employees, and agents of the 
Department; and all officers, employees, agents, and former officers, 
employees, and agents of contracting and subcontracting agencies or 
agreeing parties having access to such information. Such information 
shall not be available to Board members or processors. Only those 
persons having a specific need for such information to administer 
effectively the provisions of this part shall have access to such 
information. Only such information so obtained as the Secretary deems 
relevant shall be disclosed by them, and then only in a suit or 
administrative hearing brought at the direction, or on the request, of 
the Secretary, or to which the Secretary or any officer of the United 
States is a party, and involving this part.
    (b) No information obtained under the authority of this part may be 
made available to any agency or officer of the Federal Government for 
any purpose other than the implementation of the Act and any 
investigatory or enforcement action necessary for the implementation of 
the Act.
    (c) Nothing in paragraph (a) of this section may be deemed to 
prohibit:
    (1) The issuance of general statements based upon the reports of the 
number of persons subject to this part or statistical data collected 
therefrom, which statements do not identify the information furnished by 
any person;
    (2) The publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of 
any person who has violated this part, together with a statement of the 
particular provisions of this part violated by such person.
    (d) Any person who knowingly violated the provisions of this 
section, on conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than 
$1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both, or if the 
person is an officer, employee, or agent of the Board or the Department, 
that person shall be removed from office or terminated from employment 
as applicable.

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