[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 31]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1602.3]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
       CHAPTER VI--CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
 
PART 1602_PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND ACCESS TO INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1602.3  Responsibility for responding to requests for access to records.

    (a) In general. In determining which records are responsive to a 
request, the CSB ordinarily will include only those records in its 
possession as of the date the CSB begins its search for them. If any 
other date is used, the CSB will inform the requester of that date.
    (b) Authority to grant or deny requests. The CSB's General Counsel, 
or his/her designee, is authorized to grant or deny any request for 
access to a record of the CSB.
    (c) Consultations and referrals. When the CSB receives a request for 
access to a record in its possession, it will determine whether another 
agency of the Federal Government is better able to determine whether the 
record is exempt from access under the Privacy Act. If the CSB 
determines that it is best able to process the record in response to the 
request, then it will do so. If the CSB determines that it is not best 
able to process the record, then it will either:
    (1) Respond to the request regarding that record, after consulting 
with the agency best able to determine whether the record is exempt from 
access and with any other agency that has a substantial interest in it; 
or
    (2) Refer the responsibility for responding to the request regarding 
that record to another agency that originated the record (but only if 
that agency is subject to the Privacy Act). Ordinarily, the agency that 
originated a record will be presumed to be best able to determine 
whether it is exempt from access.

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    (d) Notice of referral. Whenever the CSB refers all or any part of 
the responsibility for responding to your request to another agency, it 
ordinarily will notify you of the referral and inform you of the name of 
each agency to which the request has been referred and of the part of 
the request that has been referred.
    (e) Timing of responses to consultations and referrals. All 
consultations and referrals shall be handled according to the date the 
Privacy Act access request was initially received by the CSB, not any 
later date.