54 U.S.C. § 100707 — Confidentiality of information
submitted 12 years ago by Pub. L. 113-287 to r/title-54-NATIONAL-PARK-SERVICE-AND-RELATED-PROGRAMS · 115 words · no verdicts yet
The Park Service can keep secret the exact location of endangered, rare, or valuable park resources, including minerals, fossils, and culturally important objects. This applies to public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act. The Service can only release this location information if it would help the park and other protective laws, and would not risk harm or theft.
Information about the nature and exact location of certain System* resources can be withheld from the public when someone files a request under section 552 of title 5 (the Freedom of Information Act). This covers: a resource that is endangered, threatened, rare, or commercially valuable; mineral or paleontological (fossil) objects within a unit; and objects of cultural patrimony within a unit.
The Secretary* can only disclose this location information if both of these are true:
(1) disclosure would help fulfill the purposes of the unit where the resource or object is, and would not create an unreasonable risk that the resource or object — including individual organic or inorganic specimens — would be harmed, stolen, or destroyed; and
(2) disclosure fits with other laws that protect the resource or object.
Information concerning the nature and specific location of a System* resource that is endangered, threatened, rare, or commercially valuable, of mineral or paleontological objects within System units, or of objects of cultural patrimony within System units, may be withheld from the public in response to a request under section 552 of title 5 unless the Secretary* determines that—
disclosure of the information would further the purposes of the System unit* in which the resource or object is located and would not create an unreasonable risk of harm, theft, or destruction of the resource or object, including individual organic or inorganic specimens; and
disclosure is consistent with other laws protecting the resource or object.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3106.)
- 2014Enacted · Pub. L. 113-287 · 128 Stat. 3106
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