PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005
119 STAT. 1837
‘‘(h) MANDATORY RESPONSE AUTHORITY FOR FREIGHT DATA COLLECTION.—Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in charge of any freight corporation, company, business, institution, establishment, or organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Director or other authorized officer, employee, or contractor of the Bureau, to answer completely and correctly to the best of the individual’s knowledge all questions relating to the corporation, company, business, institution, establishment, or other organization, or to make available records or statistics in the individual’s official custody, contained in a data collection request prepared and submitted under the authority of subsection (c)(1), shall be fined not more than $500; but if the individual willfully gives a false answer to such a question, the individual shall be fined not more than $10,000. ‘‘(i) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.—The Secretary may make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, public and nonprofit private entities (including State transportation departments, metropolitan planning organizations, and institutions of higher education) for— ‘‘(1) investigation of the subjects specified in subsection (c)(5) and research and development of new methods of data collection, standardization, management, integration, dissemination, interpretation, and analysis; ‘‘(2) demonstration programs by States, local governments, and metropolitan planning organizations to coordinate data collection, reporting, management, storage, and archiving to simplify data comparisons across jurisdictions; ‘‘(3) development of electronic clearinghouses of transportation data and related information, as part of the National Transportation Library under subsection (f); and ‘‘(4) development and improvement of methods for sharing geographic data, in support of the database under subsection (g) and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. ‘‘(j) LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed— ‘‘(1) to authorize the Bureau to require any other department or agency to collect data; or ‘‘(2) to reduce the authority of any other officer of the Department to collect and disseminate data independently. ‘‘(k) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN DISCLOSURES.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An officer, employee, or contractor of the Bureau may not— ‘‘(A) make any disclosure in which the data provided by an individual or organization under subsection (c) can be identified; ‘‘(B) use the information provided under subsection (c) for a nonstatistical purpose; or ‘‘(C) permit anyone other than an individual authorized by the Director to examine any individual report provided under subsection (c). ‘‘(2) COPIES OF REPORTS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—No department, bureau, agency, officer, or employee of the United States (except the Director in carrying out this section) may require, for any reason, a copy of any report that has been filed under
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