SECTION 11. DISCLOSURE OF

INFORMATION

.01 Announcement . Section 48C(d)(5) provides that the Service shall, upon making a certification, publicly disclose the identity of the applicant and the amount of the credit certified with respect to such applicant. Accordingly, the Service will publish the results of the allocation process, and disclose the following information in the event a qualifying advanced energy project credit is allocated to the taxpayer’s project: (a) the name of the taxpayer and (b) the amount of the qualifying advanced energy project credit allocated to the project.

.02 In General . An application for DOE recommendation, an application for § 48C certification, any other documentation submitted by the taxpayer pursuant to section 7.02 of this notice, and any documentation generated by the Service or DOE as part of this process are return information

subject to § 6103. Except for the items of information that § 48C(d)(5) requires the Service to make available to the public, the other material remains the applicant’s confidential return information, which is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 USC § 552(b)(3), in conjunction with § 6103. Other FOIA exemptions may also apply. For example, FOIA includes exemptions for trade secrets and commercial or financial information (5 USC § 552 (b)(4)), as well as personal information (5 USC § 552(b)(6)).

.03 FOIA requests. Anyone interested in submitting a request for records under the FOIA with respect to the qualifying advanced energy project program under § 48C (including a request for records relating to the application for DOE recommendation) should direct a request that conforms to the Service’s FOIA regulations, found at 26 C.F.R. § 601.702, to the following address:

IRS FOIA Request Baltimore Disclosure Office Room 940 31 Hopkins Plaza Baltimore, MD 21201