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 94 STAT. 388

Information disclosure in adjudicative or judicial proceedings.

Exemption from disclosure.

PUBLIC LAW 96-252—MAY 28, 1980 "(D) the disclosure to a Federal agency of disaggregated information obtained in accordance with section 3512 of title 44, United States Code, except that the recipient agency shall use such disaggregated information for economic, statistical, or policymaking purposes only, and shall not disclose such information in an individually identifiable form. "(2) Any disclosure of relevant and material information in Commission adjudicative proceedings or in judicial proceedings to which the Commission is a party shall be governed by the rules of the Commission for adjudicative proceedings or by court rules or orders, except that the rules of the Commission shall not be amended in a manner inconsistent with the purposes of this section. "(e) Nothing in this section shall supersede any statutory provision which expressly prohibits or limits particular disclosures by the Commission, or which authorizes disclosures to any other Federal agency. "(f) Any material which is received by the Commission in any investigation, a purpose of which is to determine whether any person may have violated any provision of the laws administered by the Commission, and which is provided pursuant to any compulsory process under this Act or which is provided voluntarily in place of such compulsory process shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code.". REGULATORY ANALYSES; JUDICIAL REVIEW; REGULATORY AGENDAS

15 USC 57b-3. "Rule." 15 USC 46, 57a.

"Rulemaking." Preliminary regulatory analysis, contents.

SEC. 15. The Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), as amended in section 13 and section 14, is further amended by inserting after section 21 the following new section: "SEC. 22. (a) For purposes of this section: "(1) The term 'rule* means any rule promulgated by the Commission under section 6 or section 18, except that such term does not include interpretive rules, rules involving Commission management or personnel, general statements of policy, or rules relating to Commission organization, procedure, or practice. Such term does not include any amendment to a rule unless the Commission— "(A) estimates that such amendment will have an annual effect on the national economy of $100,000,000 or more; "(B) estimates that such amendment will cause a substantial change in the cost or price of goods or services which are used extensively by particular industries, which are supplied extensively in particular geographic regions, or which are acquired in si^ificant quantities by the Federal Government, or by State or local governments; or "(C) otherwise determines that such amendment will have a significant impact upon persons subject to regulation under such amendment and upon consumers. "(2) The term 'rulemaking' means any Commission process for formulating or amending a rule. "(b)(1) In any case in which the Commission publishes notice of a proposed rulemaking, the Commission shall issue a preliminary regulatory analysis relating to the proposed rule involved. Each preliminary regulatory analysis shall contain— "(A) a concise statement of the need for, and the objectives of, the proposed rule;

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