---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 100707"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "100707"
heading: "Confidentiality of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/100707"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1007 — Resource Management"
  - "Subchapter I — System Resource Inventory and Management"
---

# §100707. Confidentiality of information


Information concerning the nature and specific location of a [System](/usc/54/100102.md?p=5) resource that is endangered, threatened, rare, or commercially valuable, of mineral or paleontological objects within [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6), or of objects of cultural patrimony within [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6), may be withheld from the public in response to a request under [section 552 of title 5](/usc/5/552.md) unless the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) determines that—

- (1) disclosure of the information would further the purposes of the [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) in which the resource or object is located and would not create an unreasonable risk of harm, theft, or destruction of the resource or object, including individual organic or inorganic specimens; and
- (2) disclosure is consistent with other laws protecting the resource or object.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3106.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 100707 | 16 U.S.C. 5937. | Pub. L. 105–391, title II, § 207, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3501. |