§ 7.67 - Records exempted from disclosure by statute.  


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  • (a) Records relating to matters that are specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code) include, but are not limited to, those covered by the following:

    (1) Section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, in conjunction with Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, protecting grand jury material.

    (2) Section 106 of the Highway Safety Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-564, 80 Stat. 731), protecting information identifying individuals who are the subject of highway traffic accident investigations.

    (3) Section 206(c)(1) of the National Driver Register Act of 1982 (23 U.S.C. 401 (note)) and the National Driver Register Act, Public Law 86-660, as amended (23 U.S.C. 313 (note)), protecting information concerning individuals included in reports of State driver licensing officials to the Department.

    (4) Section 3315(b) of title 46, United States Code, protecting the source of reports of defects and imperfections of vessels.

    (5) Section 7319 of title 46, United States Code, protecting the names, addresses, and next of kin of merchant seamen and entries made in records pertaining to merchant seamen.

    (6) Section 10311(d) of title 46, United States Code, protecting records of the discharge of merchant seamen.

    (7) Section 1173(c)(1)(D)(3) of title 46, United States Code, protecting wage and benefit cost data for employees covered by collective-bargaining agreements for vessels receiving operating-differential subsidy payments.

    (8) Section 1173(d) of title 46, United States Code, protecting certain foreign wage cost computations associated with the operation of foreign vessels.

    (9) Section 6102 of title 46, United States Code, protecting information derived from boating safety accident reports compiled by a State.

    (10) Section 316(d)(2) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1357(d)(2)), protecting information obtained or generated in the conduct of research and development of systems and procedures to protect persons and property aboard aircraft.

    (11) Section 902(f) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1472(f)), relating to information obtained by examining the accounts, records, or memoranda of an air carrier.

    (12) Section 1001 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1481), so far as it relates to the secrecy of acts and proceedings when requested on grounds of national defense.

    (13) Section 1104 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1504), protecting information, which, if disclosed, would prejudice the formulation and presentation of positions of the United States in international aviation negotiations or adversely affect the competitive position of any United States air carrier in foreign air transportation.

    (b) [Reserved]