97 STAT. 1140 PUBLIC LAW 98-180—NOV. 29, 1983 Information, confidentiality. Violations and penalties. enforcement of this subtitle, or any order or regulation issued under this subtitle. All information so obtained shall be kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department, and only such information so obtained as the Secretary deems relevant may be disclosed by them and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the request of the Secretary, or to which the Secretary or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving the order with reference to which the information to be disclosed was ob- tained. Nothing in this subsection may be deemed to prohibit (1) the issuance of general statements, based upon the reports, of the number of persons subject to an order or statistical data collected therefrom, which statements do not identify the information fur- nished by any person, or (2) the publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by such person. No information obtained under the authority of this subtitle may be made available to any agency or officer of the Federal Government for any purpose other than the implementa- tion of this subtitle and any investigatory or enforcement action necessary for the implementation of this subtitle. Any person violat- ing the provisions of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000, or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and, if an officer or employee of the Board or the Department, shall be removed from office. (1) The order shall provide terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this subtitle, as necessary to effectuate the provisions of the order. CERTIFICATION OF ORGANIZATIONS 7 USC 4505. SEC. 114. (a) The eligibility of any organization to represent milk producers, and to participate in the making of nominations under section 113 of this subtitle shall be certified by the Secretary. The Secretary shall certify any organization that the Secretary deter- mines meets the eligibility criteria established by the Secretary under this section and the Secretary's determination as to eligibility shall be final. 0?) Certification shall be based, in addition to other available information, on a factual report submitted by the organization, which shall contain information deemed relevant and specified by the Secretary, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) geographic territory covered by the organization's active membership; (2) nature and size of the organization's active membership including the proportion of the total number of active milk producers represented by the organization; (3) evidence of stability and permanencv of the organization; (4) sources from which the organizations operating funds are derived; (5) functions of the organization; and (6) the organization's ability and willingness to further the aims and objectives of this subtitle. The primary considerations in determining the eligibility of an organization shall be whether its membership consists primarily of milk producers who produce a substantial volume of milk and whether the primary or overriding interest of the organization is in the production or processing of fluid milk and dairy products and
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