---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7035"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7035"
heading: "Confidentiality"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7035"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Department of Agriculture Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter X — Freedom to E-File"
---

# §7035. Confidentiality


In carrying out this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/7/6902.md?p=3)—

- (1) may not make available any information over the Internet that would otherwise not be available for release under section [552](/usc/5/552.md) or [552a](/usc/5/552a.md) of title 5; and
- (2) shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the confidentiality of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) is maintained.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–222, § 6, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 355.)