PUBLIC LAW 100-449—SEPT. 28, 1988
102 STAT. 1885
extraordinary challenge committee is convened under Annex 1904.13 of the United States-Canada Agreement, the administering authority or the Commission, as appropriate, may make available to authorized persons, under a protective order described in paragraph (2), a copy of all proprietary material (but not privileged material as defined by the rules of procedure referred to in article 1904(14) of the United States-Canada Agreement) in the administrative record made during the proceeding in question. "(B) AUTHORIZED PERSONS.—For purposes of this subsection, the term "authorized persons" means— "(i) the members of, and the appropriate staff of, the binational panel or the extraordinary challenge committee, as the case may be, and the Secretariat, "(ii) counsel for parties to such panel or committee proceeding, and employees of such counsel, and "(iii) any officer or employee of the United States Government designated by the administering authority or the Commission, as appropriate, to whom disclosure is necessary in order to implement the United StatesCanada Agreement with respect to such proceeding. "(C) REVIEW.—A decision concerning the disclosure or nondisclosure of material under protective order by the administering authority or the Commission shall not be subject to judicial review, and no court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review such decision on any question of law or fact by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise. "(2) CONTENTS OF PROTECTIVE ORDER.—Each protective order issued under this subsection shall be in such form and contain such requirements as the administering authority or the Commission may determine by regulation to be appropriate. The administering authority and the Commission shall ensure that regulations issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be designed to provide an opportunity for participation in the binational panel proceeding equivalent to that available for judicial review of determinations by the administering authority or the Commission that are not subject to review by a binational panel. "(3) PROHIBITED ACTS.—It is unlawful for any person to violate, or to induce the violation of, any provision of a protective order issued under this subsection or to violate, or to induce the violation of, any provision of an undertaking entered into with an authorized agency of Canada to protect proprietary material during binational panel review pursuant to article 1904 of the United States-Canada Agreement. "(4) SANCTIONS FOR VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDERS.—Any
person who is found by the administering authority or the Commission, as appropriate, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with section 554 of title 5, United States Code, to have committed an act prohibited by paragraph (3) shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty and shall be subject to such other administrative sanctions, including, but not limited to, debarment from practice before the administering authority or the Commission, as the administering authority or the Commission determines to be appropriate. The amount of the civil penalty shall not exceed $100,()00 for each
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