Any person or organization, public or private, submitting an application to the agency for a grant of public funds, shall include in such application, or as an attachment thereto, all information deemed necessary by the agency.
     Neither the Office of Consumer Services or any successor department, office, officer, or agency, nor any entity succeeding to possession of information submitted by an applicant shall disclose information submitted by an applicant except to the same extent and under the same conditions that a federal agency is permitted to disclose information under the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 1897, 5 U.S.C. § 552a).