This part applies to demands and requests for factual or expert testimony or for official records or information in legal proceedings, except that it does not apply to:

(a) Demands upon or requests for an NEH employee to testify as to facts or events that are in no way related to his or her official duties or to the functions of NEH;

(b) Demands upon or requests for a former NEH employee to testify as to matters in which the former employee was not directly or materially involved while at NEH;

(c) Requests for the release of records under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, or the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a;

(d) Congressional demands and requests for testimony or records; and

(e) Legal proceedings to which the United States is a party.