[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1210.352]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1210_WATERMELON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION PLAN--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart A_Watermelon Research and Promotion Plan
 
Sec. 1210.352  Confidential treatment.

    (a) All information obtained from the books, records, or reports 
required to be maintained under Sec. Sec. 1210.350 and 1210.351 shall 
be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed to the public by any 
person. Only such information as the Secretary deems relevant shall be 
disclosed to the public 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 Plan: Except that nothing in this subpart 
shall be deemed to prohibit:
    (1) The issuance of general statements based on the reports of a 
number of handlers or importers subject to this Plan if such statements 
do not identify the information furnished by any person; or
    (2) The publication by direction of the Secretary of the name of any 
person violating this Plan together with a statement of the particular 
provisions of this Plan violated by such person.
    (b) Any disclosure of confidential information by any employee of 
the

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Board, except as required by law, shall be considered willful 
misconduct.

[54 FR 24545, June 8, 1989, as amended at 60 FR 10799, Feb. 28, 1995]

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