NAC513.070. Confidentiality of information.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, any information submitted to the Administrator pursuant to the provisions of NAC 513.010 to 513.120, inclusive, may be classified as confidential by the person submitting the information. If the person submitting the information wishes the Administrator to consider the information confidential, the claim must be asserted at the time of submission by stamping or writing confidential business information on each page containing the information.

     2. If a claim is asserted, the information so kept must remain confidential except that the information may be used in connection with other data if use of that information would not disclose the identity of the confidential information.

     3. If a claim is not made at the time of submission, the Administrator may make the information available to the public without further notice.

     4. The Administrator will not classify as confidential any information required to be submitted to him or her pursuant to the provisions of NAC 513.010 to 513.120, inclusive, if the information relates to:

     (a) The name and address of the person conducting the operation of the mine;

     (b) The annual production of the commodity;

     (c) The amount of the tax on the net proceeds of a mine and the amount of the tax on the property of the operation; or

     (d) The number of persons employed by a mine.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Mineral Resources, eff. 2-18-88)