There are no fees associated with downloading a previously released FOIA
document. Fees are only associated with new FOIA requests.
Fees :
Duplication
$.10 / page
standard page
$.15 / page
oversize page
actual cost
disks, tapes, photos, etc.
Search/Review
$15 / hour
Non-professional
$30 / hour
Professional/Paralegal
$45 / hour
Attorney
(NOTE: A fee total of
less than $15 will not be charged to the requester.)
Fee categories :
News media, educational, or non-commercial scientific
institutions whose purpose is scholarly or scientific research. There is
no charge for search and review. Only duplication fees are assessed, and the
first 100 pages are provided at no cost.
Commercial use requests generally includes information involving
profit-making activities. Commercial use requesters pay for all search,
review, and duplication fees incurred in processing their requests.
All other requesters includes everyone not covered in the first
two groups. These requesters receive two hours of search, all review, and
the first 100 pages at no cost.
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. Adobe developed PDF to provide an
easy method to distribute an electronic document across platforms while
maintaining the original quality of the document (e.g. fonts, images, etc.).
You can read/search/print a PDF file by downloading a free Adobe Acrobat
reader which are available for numerous platforms (e.g. Windows 3.1/95/NT,
Macintosh, DOS, IRIX, LINUX, Solaris, etc.).
