§7306 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes records, reports, and investigation materials a Team gets available to the public if someone asks and pays a reasonable fee. But they do not have to release information that is exempt under section 552(b) of title 5 or other federal law, or information from NIST or a Team until the report required by section 7307 is issued. Even if other laws allow it, NIST, a Team, and agencies must not share safety information that was given voluntarily if it is not directly about the building failure and the Director finds that sharing it would stop people from volunteering that kind of information. They also must not release information if the Director finds doing so could risk public safety.

Title 15, §7306

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(a)Except as otherwise provided in this section, a copy of a record, information, or investigation submitted or received by a Team shall be made available to the public on request and at reasonable cost.

(b)Subsection (a) does not require the release of—

(1)information described by section 552(b) of title 5 or protected from disclosure by any other law of the United States; or

(2)information described in subsection (a) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or by a Team until the report required by section 7307 of this title is issued.

(c)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a Team, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and any agency receiving information from a Team or the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall not disclose voluntarily provided safety-related information if that information is not directly related to the building failure being investigated and the Director finds that the disclosure of the information would inhibit the voluntary provision of that type of information.

(d)A Team and the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall not publicly release any information it receives in the course of an investigation under this chapter if the Director finds that the disclosure of that information might jeopardize public safety.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (d), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–231, Oct. 1, 2002, 116 Stat. 1471, known as the National

Construction

Safety Team Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 7301 of this title and Tables.

§7306 Disclosure of information