1202.4—What information is exempt from disclosure?
(a) General.
Unless the Director of FHFA, his or her designee, any FHFA regulation, or a statute specifically authorizes disclosure, FHFA will not release records of matters that are—
(1)
Specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, and is in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.
(3)
Specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than 5 U.S.C. 552b ), provided that such statute—
(i)
Requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or
(ii)
Establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld.
(4)
Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.
(5)
Contained in inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters that would not be available by law to a private party in litigation with FHFA.
(6)
Contained in personnel, medical or similar files (including financial files) the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
(7)
Compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information—
(iv)
Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution or an entity that is regulated and examined by FHFA that furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source;
(v)
Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law; or
(8)
Contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports that are prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of an agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions.
(b) Discretion To Apply Exemptions.
Although records or parts of them may be exempt from disclosure, FHFA may elect under the circumstances of any particular request not to apply an exemption. This election does not generally waive the exemption and it does not have precedential effect. FHFA may still apply the exemption to any other records or portions of records, regardless of when the request is received.
(c) Redacted Portion.
If a requested record contains exempt information and information that can be disclosed and the portions can reasonably be segregated from each other, the portion of the record that can be disclosed will be released to the requester after FHFA deletes the exempt portions. If it is technically feasible, FHFA will indicate the amount of the information deleted at the place in the record where the deletion is made and include a notation identifying the exemption that was applied, unless including that indication would harm an interest protected by an exemption.
(d) Exempt and Redacted Material.
FHFA is not required to provide an itemized index correlating each withheld document (or redacted portion) with a specific exemption justification.
(e) Disclosure to Congress.
This section does not allow FHFA to withhold any information from, or to prohibit the disclosure of any information to, the Congress or any congressional committee or subcommittee.