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STANDARDS - OPENNESS - ACCESSIBILITY - ACCOUNTABILITY
Report Under the Freedom of Information Act for the Year 2003
Initial FOIA/PA Access Requests
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Transmittal letter

I. Basic Information

II. How to make a request

III. Definition of Terms

IV. Exemption 3 Statutes

V. Initial Access Requests

VI. Appeals

VII. Compliance

VIII. Previous Years

IX. Costs & FOIA Staffing

X. Fees

XI. FOIA Regulations


Report for 2002

Report for 2001

Report for 2000

Viewing the Report for the Year 2003 in PDF format requires Acrobat Reader.

V. Initial FOIA/PA Access Requests. 

Due to the independent nature of the office of Inspector General (OIG), requests for information that are directed to the OIG are handled by that office and are separately reported below.

A.  Numbers of initial requests.
1. Number of requests pending as of end of preceding fiscal year
      RRB - 0 OIG - 0  
2. Number of requests received during current fiscal year
      RRB - 86 OIG - 5  
3. Number of requests processed during current fiscal year
      RRB - 86 OIG - 5  
4. Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year
      RRB - 0 OIG - 0  
 B.  Disposition of initial requests.
1. Number of total grants
      RRB - 57 OIG - 3  
  2. Number of partial grants
      RRB - 2 OIG - 0  
3. Number of denials  
      RRB - 17 OIG - 1  
  a.  Number of times each FOIA exemption used (counting each exemption once per request)
      RRB OIG
    (1)  Exemption 1 0 0
    (2)  Exemption 2  0 0
    (3)  Exemption 3 4 0
    (4)  Exemption 4  2 0
    (5)  Exemption 5 0 0
    (6)  Exemption 6 3 0
    (7)  Exemption 7(A) 0 1
    (8)  Exemption 7(B) 0 0
    (9)  Exemption 7(C)  0 0
    (10) Exemption 7(D) 0 0
    (11) Exemption 7(E)  0 0
    (12) Exemption 7(F) 0 0
    (13) Exemption 8 0 0
    (14) Exemption 9 0 0
4. Other reasons for nondisclosure (total)  11
       RRB       OIG
  a. no records  3 1
  b. referrals 2 0
  c. request withdrawn  0 0
  d. fee-related reason 5 0
 

e. records not reasonably described

0 0
 

f. not a proper FOIA request for some other reason

0 0
  g. not an agency record 0 0
  h. duplicate request 0 0
  i. other (specify)  0 0
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