50 CFR § 600.130 - Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s600.130"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 600.130 - Protection of confidentiality of statistics."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "600.130"
section_name: "Protection of confidentiality of statistics."
chapter_name: "FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
part_number: "600"
part_name: "MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 561 and 16 U.S.C. 1801"
regulatory_source: "61 FR 32540, June 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "600"
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# 600.130 Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
Each Council must establish appropriate procedures for ensuring the confidentiality of the information that may be submitted to it by Federal or state authorities and may be voluntarily submitted to it by private persons, including, but not limited to (also see § 600.405):
(a) Procedures for the restriction of Council member, employee, or advisory group access and the prevention of conflicts of interest, except that such procedures must be consistent with procedures of the Secretary.
(b) In the case of information submitted to the Council by a state, the confidentiality laws and regulations of that state.
[61 FR 32540, June 24, 1996, as amended at 89 FR 102013, Dec. 17, 2024]