PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Licensees and permittees must keep clear accounting records, following normal accounting rules, that show spending on exploring and recovering hard minerals and enough other details to allow a proper audit. The Administrator and the Comptroller General, or their authorized agents, may inspect any books, papers, or records that are needed to check those expenditures. Licensees and permittees must give the Administrator any data needed to decide on issuing, changing, suspending, or ending a license or permit, to meet the reporting duty in section 1469, or to evaluate their activities. Copies of records the Administrator holds must be shared with anyone who asks, if the request clearly describes the record and follows the Administrator’s rules about time, place, and fees (fees may not exceed direct costs). Information that law (18 U.S.C. 1905) forbids sharing must not be disclosed. Federal employees who unlawfully disclose such information face the penalties in section 1463(b).

Title 30, §1423

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(a)Records and audits

(1)Each licensee and permittee shall keep such records, consistent with standard accounting principles, as the Administrator shall by regulation prescribe. Such records shall include information which will fully disclose expenditures for exploration and commercial recovery, including processing, of hard mineral resources, and such other information as will facilitate an effective audit of such expenditures.

(2)The Administrator and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have access, for purposes of audit and examination, to any books, documents, papers, and records of licensees and permittees which are necessary and directly pertinent to verify the expenditures referred to in paragraph (1).

(b)Submission of data and information

Each licensee and permittee shall be required to submit to the Administrator such data or other information as the Administrator may reasonably need for purposes of making determinations with respect to the issuance, revocation, modification, or suspension of any license or permit; compliance with the reporting requirement contained in section 1469 of this title; and evaluation of the exploration or commercial recovery activities conducted by the licensee or permittee.

(c)Public disclosure

Copies of any document, report, communication, or other record maintained or received by the Administrator containing data or information required under this subchapter shall be made available to any person upon any request which (1) reasonably describes such record and (2) is made in accordance with rules adopted by the Administrator stating the time, place, fees (if any, not to exceed the direct cost of the services rendered), and procedures to be followed, except that neither the Administrator nor any other officer or employee of the United States may disclose any data or information knowingly and willingly required under this subchapter the disclosure of which is prohibited by section 1905 of title 18. Any officer or employee of the United States who discloses data or information in violation of this subsection shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 1463(b) of this title.

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section 1469 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was omitted from the Code.

§1423 Records, Audits, and Public Disclosure

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Title 30, §1423

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