H.R. 14135, 'TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.'

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2005
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H. R. 14135, To establish a National Resource Information System,
and for other purposes. " [Rep. Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (D. , N. J. )]
1. H. R. 14135 establishes a National Resource Information System to
maintain a central information bank on all natural resources affecting the
United States. The purpose is to provide Government, industry, and the public
information to assist in developing national policies, to conserve resources, to aid
the economy and technology, to protect the environment and to better operate
regulatory systems. A Bureau of National Resource Information is established
within the Department of Commerce. Natural resource companies would be
required under the bill to provide information upon demand. Refusal or providing
false information can result in fine and imprisonment.
2. The bill establishes three categories of files: public, confidential, and
secret. The confidential files would contain information provided by a private
company if the information concerns national security or might benefit a competitor.
The secret files contain the same information but it is of such high sensitivity that
it must be wholly suppressed or published only in statistical form. Only employees
of the new Bureau and of Commerce as designated may have access to secret
files. Confidential files are open to all branches of Government. Under established
criteria, information may be transferred from one category to another. All
information, under section 208(e), is to be released at the end of twenty-five years
unless a hearing is requested. Under section 208(f) any information must be made
public if it in any way has come into public domain. Section 209 provides penalty
of $2, 000 fine and two years imprisonment for the unauthorized disclosure of
information by an employee. If the disclosure is made with intent to harm the
U. S. national security; to affect a company competitively; or to invade a right of
privacy, the fine is increased to $20, 000 and imprisonment to twenty years.
3. Section 702 of the bill amends the Freedom of Information Act to
provide that nothing in that Act shall prevent any agency from providing the new
Bureau of National Resource Information any natural resource information,
regardless from whom or when it was obtained.
4. Section 703 amends the Federal Reports Act of 1942, title 44 U. S. C.
sections3504-8, and establishes the Bureau of National Resource Information as
the collecting agency for national resources information. The collecting program
is to be established in coordination with other agencies having a need and interest
in the information. There is a proviso that requests upon any agency for resource
information must not prevent or unreasonably delay any agency from collecting
any information which it is expressly directed to collect by law.
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