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15 U.S.C. § 1516 — Statistical information
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The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
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The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department; and he shall have the power and authority to rearrange the statistical work of the bureaus and offices confided to the Department of Commerce, and to consolidate any of the statistical bureaus and offices above described. He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) the term “agency” means an agency as defined in [section 551(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section551/1&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) the term “rule” means any rule for which the agency publishes a general notice of proposed rulemaking pursuant to [section 553(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section553/b&num=0&edition=prelim), or any other law, including any rule of general applicability governing Federal grants to State and local governments for which the agency provides an opportunity for notice and public comment, except that the term “rule” does not include a rule of particular applicability relating to rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services, or allowances therefor or to valuations, costs or accounting, or practices relating to such rates, wages, structures, prices, appliances, services, or allowances;
(3) the term “small business” has the same meaning as the term “small business concern” under section 3 of the Small Business Act, unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such definition(s) in the Federal Register;
(4) the term “small organization” means any not-for-profit enterprise which is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field, unless an agency establishes, after opportunity for public comment, one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such
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**(a) In general** In the case of information furnished under a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), neither the Secretary of Agriculture, any other officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or agency thereof, nor any other person may—
(1) use such information for a purpose other than the development or reporting of aggregate data in a manner such that the identity of the person who supplied such information is not discernible and is not material to the intended uses of such information;
(2) disclose such information to the public, unless such information has been transformed into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person who supplied particular information; or
(3) in the case of information collected under the authority described in paragraph (12) or (13) of subsection (d), disclose the information to any person or any Federal, State, local, or tribal agency outside the Department of Agriculture, unless the information has been converted into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow the identification of the person that supplied particular information.
**(b) Duty of Secretary; immunity from disclosure; necessary consent**
(1) In carrying out a provision of law referred to in subsection (d), no department, agency, officer, or employee of the Federal Government, other than the Secretary of Agriculture, shall require a person to furnish a copy of statistical information provided to the Department of Agriculture.
(2) A copy of such information—
(A) shall be immune from mandatory disclosure of any type, including legal process; and
(B) shall not, without the consent of such person, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative pr
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 1515
otherwise, such living and working quarters
and facilities as may be necessary to carry out
its authorized work at remote localities not
on foreign soil where such living and working
accommodations are not otherwise available.
(Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 733, 63 Stat. 907; Aug. 30, 1954,
ch. 1076, § 1(11), 68 Stat. 967; Pub. L. 93–608, § 1(3),
Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1967.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 596a of
Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by
Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
AMENDMENTS
1975—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–608 struck out proviso re-
quiring an annual report to Congress of the total ex-
penditures made for such supplies and total proceeds
from resales.
1954—Subsec. (c). Act Aug. 30, 1954, struck out proviso
requiring the Secretary of Commerce to submit annu-
ally to Congress a report showing the expenditures for
the establishment, maintenance, and operation of
messing facilities in Alaska and other points outside
the continental United States.
Executive Documents
CHANGE OF NAME
Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Na-
tional Weather Bureau in 1965 to form Environmental
Science Services Administration by Reorg. Plan No. 2
of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318. Envi-
ronmental Science Services Administration abolished
in 1970 and its personnel, property, records, etc., trans-
ferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35
F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out as a note under section
1511 of this title. By order of Acting Associate Adminis-
trator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi
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