SEC. 208. INFORMATION COLLECTION.
  (a) Manufacturer's Responsibility.-  Every manufacturer of  new
motor  vehicles   or  new   motor  vehicle  engines,   and  every
manufacturer  of new motor vehicle or engine parts or components,
and other persons  subject to  the requirements of  this part  or
part C, shall establish and maintain records, perform tests where
such  testing is  not otherwise  reasonably available  under this
part  and part C (including  fees for testing),  make reports and
provide information the  Administrator may reasonably require  to
determine whether the  manufacturer or other person  has acted or
is acting in compliance with this part and part C and regulations
thereunder,  or to otherwise carry out the provision of this part
and  part C,  and shall, upon  request of an  officer or employee
duly  designated by  the  Administrator, permit  such officer  or
employee  at reasonable  times to  have access  to and  copy such
records.
Sec. 208
  (b) Enforcement Authority.- For  the purposes of enforcement of
this  section,  officers  or  employees duly  designated  by  the
Administrator   upon   presenting  appropriate   credentials  are
authorized-
       (1) to  enter, at  reasonable times, any  establishment of
     the  manufacturer, or  of any  person whom  the manufacturer
     engages to perform any  activity required by subsection (a),
     for  the purposes  of inspecting  or observing  any activity
     conducted pursuant to subsection (a), and
       (2)   to  inspect   records,  files,   papers,  processes,
     controls,  and facilities  used in  performing any  activity
     required by
     subsection (a),  by such manufacturer or by  any person whom
     the manufacturer engages to perform any such activity.
  (c) Availability  to the  Public; Trade Secrets.-  Any records,
reports,  or information obtained under this part or part C shall
be   available  to  the  public,  except   that  upon  a  showing
satisfactory  to the  Administrator by  any person  that records,
reports, or  information, or a particular  portion thereof (other
than emission data), to which  the Administrator has access under
this section, if made public, would divulge  methods or processes
entitled  to  protection as  trade  secrets of  that  person, the
Administrator shall  consider the record, report,  or information
or particular portion thereof confidential in accordance with the
purposes of section  1905 of title 18 of the  United States Code.
Any authorized  representative  of  the  Administrator  shall  be
considered an  employee  of the  United  States for  purposes  of
section 1905 of title  18 of the  United States Code. Nothing  in
this  section  shall  prohibit  the  Administrator or  authorized
representative  of  the  Administrator  from  disclosing records,
reports or information to other officers, employees or authorized
representatives of the United  States concerned with carrying out
this  Act  or when  relevant in  any  proceeding under  this Act.
Nothing  in  this  section  shall authorize  the  withholding  of
information by the Administrator or any officer or employee under
the  Administrator's control from  the duly authorized committees
of the Congress.
[42 U.S.C. 7542]