---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6906"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6906"
heading: "Financial disclosure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6906"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §6906. Financial disclosure

- (a) **Statement—** Each officer or employee of the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) who—
  - (1) performs any function or duty under this chapter; and
  - (2) has any known financial interest in any [person](/usc/42/6903.md?p=15) who applies for or receives financial assistance under this chapter

  shall, beginning on February 1, 1977, annually file with the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) a written statement concerning all such interests held by such officer or employee during the preceding calendar year. Such statement shall be available to the public.

- (b) **Action by Administrator—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall—
  - (1) act within ninety days after October 21, 1976—
    - (A) to define the term “known financial interest” for purposes of [subsection (a)](#a) of this section; and
    - (B) to establish the methods by which the requirement to file written statements specified in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section will be monitored and enforced, including appropriate provision for the filing by such officers and employees of such statements and the review by the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) of such statements; and
  - (2) report to the Congress on June 1, 1978, and of each succeeding calendar year with respect to such disclosures and the actions taken in regard thereto during the preceding calendar year.
- (c) **Exemption—** In the rules prescribed under [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) may identify specific positions within the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) which are of a nonpolicy-making nature and provide that officers or employees occupying such positions shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
- (d) **Penalty—** Any officer or employee who is subject to, and knowingly violates, this section shall be fined not more than $2,500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 1007, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2802.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of reporting provisions in subsec. (b)(2) of this section, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and the 14th item on page 164 of House Document No. 103–7.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Administrator or other official of Environmental Protection Agency under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 6903 of this title.