Sec. 702. Protecting certain voluntarily provided, safety-related information from public disclosure
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Whenever the Administrator collects safety-related information as part of a mishap investigation, under the NASA Safety Reporting System or as part of an organizational safety assessment, the Administration, the Administration shall provide appropriate protections against the dissemination of safety-related information if the Administrator determines that— disclosure of the information would inhibit the voluntary provision of that type of information; and receipt of that information aids in improving the safety of NASA’s programs and NASA’s research related to aeronautics and space; or withholding such information from disclosure is consistent with improving the safety of NASA’s programs and NASA’s research related to aeronautics and space.
If the Administrator provides to the head of another Federal agency safety-related information described in subsection
(a)with respect to which the Administrator has made a determination described in that subsection, the head of that Federal agency shall (notwithstanding any other provision of law) withhold the information from public disclosure. Each determination of the Administration under subsection
(a)shall be made in writing and accompanied by a statement of the basis for the determination. All such determinations and statements of basis shall be available to the public, upon request. The Administrator shall issue regulations to carry out this section. For purposes of section 552 of title 5, this section shall be considered a statute described in subsection (b)(3)(B) of that section.