ASSISTANT SECXETARI 

Mr. Clay Johnson, 111 

Chairman 

Presidential Management Committee 

Office of Management and Budget 

Washington, DC 20503 

Dcar Mr. Johnson: 

On June 1,2007, the Attorney General issued a second report to the President pursuant to 

E.O. 13392. The report stated that each agency that reported a deficiency in meeting one 

or more milestones in the FOIA Improvement Plan shall submit to the President's 

Management Council an updated statns report that describes the progress the agency is 

making in correcting the deficiency or deficiencies. 

Attached are the final milestones and the conespondmg corrective actions for your 

revlcw in accordance wlth the Dcpar-tment of Justice's memo to all Chief FOIA Officers 

If you or a member of your staff has any questions about the above, please contact Hugh 

Gilmore, Director Disclosure Services at 202-622-0676. 

Sincerely, 

Wesley T. Foster '\ 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Management and 

Chief FOIA Officer 

Attachments 
UPDATED STATUS REPORT 

TO THE PRESIDENT'S MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 

U.S. Department of the Treasury 

FINCEN 

August 1,2007 

1. Identify the FOIA Improvement Plan area to which your deficient milestone relates. 

FNCEN's deficient milestone relates to backlog reduction. 

2. Identify the deficient milestone (including the original target date listed in the 

agency's FOIA Improvement Plan). 

FINCEN failed to meet the milestone of a 5% reduction in backlog by December 31, 

2006; instead a 1.1% increase was noted. FOIA tasks were assigned to one full-time 

employee who was absent the first three weeks of the fiscal year. This coupled with an 

increase in FOIA requests were reasons for the setback. 

3. Describe the specific steps you have taken to date to correct the deficiency, including 

the dates by which you completed these steps (this should include every corrective 

step listed in your FY06 Annual FOIA Report that you have since completed). 

Corrective measures taken were to reassign an additional full-time employee devoted to 

fast track requests and by revising the tracking system to better monitor fast tracks. This 

was designed to accomplish the 5% goal which was achieved by March 31,2007. 

FINCEN has now closed almost 90% of its requests. As of June 30,2006, FinCEN had 

an inventory of 69 over aged cases. As of June 30,2007, FinCEN had an inventory of 7 

over aged cases. This is a reduction of 89.9%. FinCEN will continue to strive to reduce 

the over aged cases by the planned 10% each year. 

4. Describe any additional steps that you will be taking in the future to correct the 

deficiency, including the dates by which you will complete these steps (this should 

include every eorrective step listed in your EY06 Annual FOIA Report that you 

have not yet completed). 

Continued monitoring of the corrective measures and revision of the multi-track system 

results will be reviewed at the next milestone, September 30,2007. 
UPDATED STATUS REPORT 

TO THE PRESIDENT'S MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 

U.S. Department of the Treasury 

Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) 

August 1,2007 

1. Identify the FOIA Improvement Plan area to which your deficient milestone relates. 

OTS's deficient milestone relates to backlog reduction. 

2. Identify the deficient milestone (including the original target date listed in the 

agency's FOIA Improvement Plan). 

As of June 30,2006, OTS had a backlog of 95 FOIA requests. OTS failed to meet the 

milestone of a 5% reduction in backlog by December 3 1,2006, and instead reported an 

additional seven backlogged requests (an increase of 7.4%). On March 19,2007, OTS 

reduced its backlog to 81 requests (a decrease of 14.7%), and as of June 30,2007, further 

reduced its backlog to 74 requests, thus achieving an additional 7.4% reduction in 

backlog. Altogether, OTS has reduced its backlog from June 30, 2006, to June 30, 2007, 

by 22.1%. 

3. Describe the specific steps you have taken to date to correct the deficiency, including 

the dates by which you completed these steps (this should include every corrective 

step listed in your FY06 Annual FOIA Report that you have since completed). 

To correct the deficiency, OTS's FOIA staff worked additional hours beyond their 

normal tours of duty, thus enabling OTS to exceed the 5% reduction in backlog on March 

19,2007. As of July 9,2007, certain non-FOIA duties were reassigned to other 

personnel, thus allowing one part-time FOIA staff member to now deal with FOIA 

matters on a full-time basis. 

4. Describe any additional steps that you will be taking in the future to correct the 

deficiency, including the dates by which you will complete these steps (this should 

include every corrective step listed in your FY06 Annual FOIA Report that you 

have not yet completed). 

Continued monitoring of progress will be compared with results taken on next milestone. 

OTS is on target for meeting the milestone of a 10% reduction in backlog by September 

30, 2007.