The agency shall notify persons completing agency forms of the
use that will be made of personal information, which persons outside the agency
might routinely be provided this information, which parts of the requested
information are required and which are optional, and the consequences of a
failure to provide the information requested. This notice may be given in these
rules, on the form used to collect the information, on a separate fact sheet or
letter, in brochures, in formal agreements, in contracts, in handbooks, in
manuals, verbally, or by other appropriate means. Notice need not be given in
connection with discovery requests in litigation or administrative proceedings,
subpoenas, investigations of possible violations of law, or similar demands for
information.
