BPLA (Contents)

Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)

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public access to budget data¹⁰⁶

Sec.203.¹⁰⁷ (a) Right To Copy.—Except as provided in subsections (c)¹⁰⁸ and (d),¹⁰⁹ the Director shall make all08 information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under sections 201(d)¹¹⁰ and 201(e)¹¹¹ available for public copying during normal business hours, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, and shall to the extent practicable, at the request of any person, furnish a copy of any such information, data, estimates, or statistics upon payment by such person of the cost of making and furnishing such copy.

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[Notes to Subsection (a)]

106. Compare the similar provisions intended to govern the Senate Budget Committee in section 102(d) (see supra note 69), and of the Government in the Sunshine Act, Pub. L. 94-409, 90 Stat. 1241 (1976) (codified as amended at 5 U.S.C. §§ 551, 552, 552b, 556, 557 & 39 U.S.C. § 410 (1988)).

107. Section 203 is codified as amended at 2 U.S.C. § 603 (1988).

108. See infra pp. 41-42.

109. See infra p. 42.

110. See supra p. 31.

111. See supra p. 32.

 

[Subsection (b)]

(b) Index.—The Director shall develop and maintain filing, coding, and indexing systems that identify the information, data, estimates, and statistics to which subsection (a)¹¹² applies and shall make such systems available for public use during normal business hours.

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[Notes to Subsection (b)]

112. See supra p. 41.

 

[Subsection (c)]

(c) Exceptions.—Subsection (a)¹¹³ shall not apply to Information, data, estimates, and statistics [p. 42]—

(1) which are specifically exempted from disclosure by law; or

(2) which the Director determines will disclose—

(A) matters necessary to be kept secret in the Interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the United States;

(B) Information relating to trade secrets or financial or commercial Information pertaining specifically to a given person if the information has been obtained by the Government on a confidential basis, other than through an application by such person for a specific financial or other benefit, and is required to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the competitive position of such person; or

(C) personnel or medical data or similar data the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; unless the portions containing such matters, information, or data have been excised.

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[Notes to Subsection (c)]

113. See supra p. 41.

 

[Subsection (d)]

(d) Information Obtained For Committees and Members.—Subsection (a)¹¹⁴ shall apply to any information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained at the request of any committee, joint committee, or Member unless such committee, joint committee, or Member has instructed the Director not to make such information, data, estimates, or statistics available for public copying.

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[Notes to Subsection (d)]

114. See supra p. 41.

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