§ 20131. Public access to information

• (a) Information obtained or developed by the Administrator in the performance of the Administrator’s functions under this chapter shall be made available for public inspection, except information—
  • (1) authorized or required by Federal statute to be withheld;
  • (2) classified to protect the national security; or
  • (3) described in subsection (b).
• (b)
  • (1) The Administrator, for a period of up to 5 years after the development of information described in paragraph (2), may provide appropriate protections against the dissemination of such information, including exemption from subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5.
  • (2) Information referred to in paragraph (1) is information that results from activities conducted under an agreement entered into under subsections (e) and (f) of section 20113 of this title , and that would be a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential under the meaning of section 552(b)(4) of title 5 if the information had been obtained from a non-Federal party participating in such an agreement.
• (c) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the withholding of information by the Administrator from the duly authorized committees of Congress.