(1)(a) Except for the financial, cost, production or sales data and records specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Department of Environmental Quality may not disclose any financial, cost, production or sales data and records of a stewardship organization, or of a specific producer, obtained by the department as part of the approval of a plan, or updated plan, for a statewide architectural paint stewardship program pursuant to ORS § 459A.827 or as part of an annual report submitted pursuant to ORS § 459A.842.

(b) If the Department of Environmental Quality determines that disclosure is necessary for the public to adequately understand the derivation of the architectural paint stewardship assessment described in ORS § 459A.827, the level of the services or associated costs that are anticipated under the assessment or the services or associated costs that are delivered under the assessment, the department may disclose, in aggregate form, information contained in the financial, cost, production or sales data and records related to the level of service and associated costs for the following services offered by the statewide architectural paint stewardship program:

(A) Collection, reuse, transportation, recycling, energy recovery, disposal and other processing of waste paint;

(B) Waste reduction efforts;

(C) Education and promotion; and

(D) Administration.

(2) The Department of Environmental Quality may not disclose the names of brands by specific producers obtained by the department as part of the approval of a plan for a statewide architectural paint stewardship program pursuant to ORS § 459A.827. The department may disclose separate lists indicating participating producers and participating brands of the statewide architectural paint stewardship program.

(3) Nothing in this section shall impose additional reporting obligations on a stewardship organization beyond those specified in ORS § 459A.820 to 459A.855. [2009 c.777 § 7; 2011 c.146 § 1; 2013 c.677 § 11]

See note under 459A.820.