registration requirement may be found in the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (Public Law 92-516), which sets forth 
a detailed procedure for registration of pesticides. 
2. On the issue of protection of proprietary information submitted 
to the Government as part of the registration process, while the Freedom 
of Information Act (FOIA) provides in general that records in the 
possession of Government agencies are available to the public upon 
request, the FOIA does not apply to, among other things, " . . .trade 
secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person 
and privileged or confidential. . ." (exemption 4). Moreover, 18 U.S.C. 
§1905, part of the Federal criminal code, makes it illegal for a 
Government employee to disclose " . . .to any extent not authorized 
by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment. . . 
which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes, 
operations, style of work, or apparatus. . .of any person, firm, 
partnership, corporation, or association. ..." In Charles River Park 
"A," Inc., et al, v. The Department of Housing and Urban Development , 
et al ., a 1975 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia held that, where an agency record is exempt from 
FOIA disclosure by virtue of exemption 4 and the record contains infor- 
mation covered by section 1905, the record would be subject to the 
prohibition against disclosure in section 1905. 
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