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PUBLIC LAW 93-387-AUG. 24, 1974

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collective bar<^ainin^ and the performance of those sectors in restraining' prices; (3) improve wage and price data bases for the various sectors of the economy to improve collective bargaining and encourage price restraint; (4) conduct public hearings necessary to provide for public. P^blic hearscrutiny of inflationary problems in various sectors of the '"^^" economy; (5) focus attention on the need to increase productivity in both the public and private sectors of the economy; (6) monitor the economy as a whole by acquiring as appropriate, reports on wages, costs, productivity, prices, sales, profits, imports, and exports; and (7) review and appraise the various programs, policies, and activities of the departments and agencies of the United States for the purpose of determining the extent to which those programs and activities are contributing to inflation. (b) Nothing in this Act, (1) authorizes the continuation, imposition, or reimposition of any mandatory economic controls with respect to prices, rents, wages, salaries, corporate dividends, or any similar transfers, or (2) affects the authority conferred by the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. i s use 751 SEC. 4. (a) Any department or agency of the United States which "°I^' . ^. n.

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collects, generates, or otherwise prepares or maintains data or mior- avaiiabiuty. mation pertaining to the economy or any sector of the economy shall, note. ^^^ ^^"'^ ^^^l upon the request of the Chairman of the Council, make that data or "" ° information available to the Council. (b) Disclosure of information obtained by the Council Irom sources other than Federal, State, or local government agencies and departments shall be in accordance with the provisions of section 552 of title 5, United States Code. (c) Disclosure by the Council of information obtained from a Federal, State, or local agency or department must be in accord with section 552 of title 5, United States Code, and all the applicable rules of practice and procedure of the agency or department from which the information was obtained. Confidential (d) Disclosure by a member or any employee of the Council of the information. confidential information as defined in section 1905 of title 18, United States Code, shall be a violation of the criminal code as stated therein. icome tax re(e) Consistent with the provisions of section 7213 of the Internal j^J^'^jiscios Revenue Code of 1954, nothing in this Act shall be construed as p"ohibuLn!"'^^' providing for or authorizing any Federal agency to divulge or to make 26 USC 7213. known to the Council the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed solely in any income return, or to permit any income tax return filed pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, thereof, to be ^^^6 USC 1 et seen or examined by the Council. ^^'^" SEC. 5. The Council shall report to the President, and through "him ^^^^^^3°"^ co^-*^^'" to the Congress, from time to time, concerning its activities, findings, gr^ss^" and recommendations with respect to the containment of inflation 12 USC 1904 and the maintenance of a vigorous and prosperous peacetime economy. "°'^ SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed fl'^sc^rQCM" $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to carry out the note. purposes of this Act. SEC. 7. The authority granted by this Act terminates on August 15, Termination. 1975. note. Approved August 24, 1974.

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