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Union Calendar No. 21 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1309 
[Report No. 110–45] 
To promote openness in Government by strengthening section 552 of title 
5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Informa-
tion Act), and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2007 
Mr. CLAY (for himself, Mr. PLATTS, and Mr. WAXMAN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform 
MARCH 12, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Insert the part printed in italic] 
A BILL 
To promote openness in Government by strengthening section 
552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred 
to as the Freedom of Information Act), and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Protection of fee status for news media. 
Sec. 4. Recovery of attorney fees and litigation costs. 
Sec. 5. Disciplinary actions for arbitrary and capricious rejections of requests. 
Sec. 6. Time limits for agencies to act on requests. 
Sec. 7. Individualized tracking numbers for requests and status information. 
Sec. 8. Specific citations in exemptions. 
Sec. 9. Reporting requirements. 
Sec. 10. Openness of agency records maintained by a private entity. 
Sec. 11. Office of Government Information Services. 
Sec. 12. Accessibility of critical infrastructure information. 
Sec. 13. Report on personnel policies related to FOIA. 
Sec. 14. Promotion of public disclosure. 
Sec. 15. Requirement to describe exemptions authorizing deletions of material 
provided under FOIA. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) the Freedom of Information Act was signed 
into law on July 4, 1966, because the American peo-
ple believe that— 
(A) our constitutional democracy, our sys-
tem of self-government, and our commitment to 
popular sovereignty depends upon the consent 
of the governed; 
(B) such consent is not meaningful unless 
it is informed consent; and 
(C) as Justice Black noted in his concur-
ring opinion in Barr v. Matteo (360 U.S. 564 
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(1959)), ‘‘The effective functioning of a free 
government like ours depends largely on the 
force of an informed public opinion. This calls 
for the widest possible understanding of the 
quality of government service rendered by all 
elective or appointed public officials or employ-
ees.’’; 
(2) the American people firmly believe that our 
system of government must itself be governed by a 
presumption of openness; 
(3) the Freedom of Information Act establishes 
a ‘‘strong presumption in favor of disclosure’’ as 
noted by the United States Supreme Court in 
United States Department of State v. Ray (502 U.S. 
164 (1991)), a presumption that applies to all agen-
cies governed by that Act; 
(4) ‘‘disclosure, not secrecy, is the dominant ob-
jective of the Act,’’ as noted by the United States 
Supreme Court in Department of Air Force v. Rose 
(425 U.S. 352 (1976)); 
(5) in practice, the Freedom of Information Act 
has not always lived up to the ideals of that Act; and 
(6) Congress should regularly review section 
552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly re-
ferred to as the Freedom of Information Act), in 
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order to determine whether further changes and im-
provements are necessary to ensure that the Govern-
ment remains open and accessible to the American 
people and is always based not upon the ‘‘need to 
know’’ but upon the fundamental ‘‘right to know’’. 
SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF FEE STATUS FOR NEWS MEDIA. 
Section 552(a)(4)(A)(ii) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘In making a determination of a representative of the 
news media under subclause (II), an agency may not deny 
that status solely on the basis of the absence of institu-
tional associations of the requester, but shall consider the 
prior publication history of the requester. Prior publica-
tion history shall include books, magazine and newspaper 
articles, newsletters, television and radio broadcasts, and 
Internet publications. If the requestor has no prior publi-
cation history or current affiliation, the agency shall con-
sider the requestor’s stated intent at the time the request 
is made to distribute information to a reasonably broad 
audience.’’. 
SEC. 4. RECOVERY OF ATTORNEY FEES AND LITIGATION 
COSTS. 
Section 552(a)(4)(E) of title 5, United State Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘For pur-
poses of this section only, a complainant has substantially 
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have entered into a contract or have received a grant 
under this title for the provision of services for the preven-
tion and treatment of, and control of the complications 
resulting from, diabetes among Urban Indians. 
‘‘(b) GOALS.—Each grant made pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall set forth the goals to be accomplished 
under the grant. The goals shall be specific to each grant 
as agreed to between the Secretary and the grantee. 
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA.—The Secretary 
shall establish criteria for the grants made under sub-
section (a) relating to— 
‘‘(1) the size and location of the Urban Indian 
population to be served; 
‘‘(2) the need for prevention of and treatment 
of, and control of the complications resulting from, 
diabetes among the Urban Indian population to be 
served; 
‘‘(3) performance standards for the organiza-
tion in meeting the goals set forth in such grant 
that are negotiated and agreed to by the Secretary 
and the grantee; 
‘‘(4) the capability of the organization to ade-
quately perform the activities required under the 
grant; and 
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(vii) in item number 152 by inserting 
‘‘Metropolitan Bus Authority’’ after ‘‘Puer-
to Rico’’; 
(viii) in item number 416 by striking 
‘‘Improve marine intermodal’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Improve marine dry-dock and’’; 
(ix) by adding at the end— 
(I) in the project description col-
umn ‘‘666. New York City, NY, reha-
bilitation of subway stations to in-
clude passenger access improvements 
including escalators or installation of 
infrastructure for security and surveil-
lance purposes’’; and 
(II) in the FY08 column and the 
FY09 column by inserting ‘‘$50,000’’; 
(x) in item number 457— 
(I) by striking ‘‘$65,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$0’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘$67,500’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$0’’; and 
(xi) in item number 458— 
(I) by striking ‘‘$65,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$130,000’’; 
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110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1143 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease 
certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, 
and for other purposes.
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1143 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin 
Islands National Park, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain 
lands in Virgin Islands National Park, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. LEASE AUTHORIZED. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after the 
retained use estate at Virgin Islands National Park on the 
date of the enactment of this Act has been terminated and 
the improvements on such lands have been donated to the 
United States, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
a lease with the person holding the retained use estate 
on the date of the enactment of this Act for the use of 
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such lands and improvements on terms and conditions de-
termined by the Secretary to be reasonable. 
Æ 
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quests for information under section 552 of title 5, United 
States Code, filed on or after that effective date. 
SEC. 8. SPECIFIC CITATIONS IN EXEMPTIONS. 
Section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by 
statute (other than section 552b of this title), pro-
vided that such statute— 
‘‘(A) if enacted after the date of enactment 
of the Freedom of Information Act Amend-
ments of 2007, specifically cites to this section; 
and 
‘‘(B)(i) requires that the matters be with-
held from the public in such a manner as to 
leave no discretion on the issue; or 
‘‘(ii) establishes particular criteria for 
withholding or refers to particular types of mat-
ters to be withheld;’’. 
SEC. 9. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) ANNUAL
REPORT
REQUIREMENTS.—Section 
552(e)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) 
by striking ‘‘fiscal year and which’’ and inserting 
‘‘fiscal year. Information in the report shall be ex-
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pressed in terms of each principal component of the 
agency and for the agency overall, and’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting after 
the first comma the following, ‘‘the number of occa-
sions on which each statute was relied upon,’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by inserting after 
‘‘median’’ the following: ‘‘and average’’; 
(4) in subparagraph (E), by inserting before the 
semicolon the following: ‘‘, based on the date on 
which each request was initially received by the 
agency’’; and 
(5) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) and 
(G) as subparagraphs (N) and (O), respectively, and 
inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new 
subparagraphs: 
‘‘(F) the average number of days for the agency 
to respond to requests beginning on the date on 
which each request was initially received by the 
agency, the median number of days for the agency 
to respond to such requests, and the range in num-
ber of days for the agency to respond to such re-
quests; 
‘‘(G) based on the number of business days that 
have elapsed since each request was initially received 
by the agency— 
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(c) TRANSFERS.—A lessee or any other person who 
has any direct or indirect interest in, or who derives a 
benefit from, a lease shall not be eligible to obtain by sale 
or other transfer (including through a swap, spinoff, serv-
icing, or other agreement) any covered lease, the economic 
benefit of any covered lease, or any other lease for the 
production of oil or natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico 
under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.), unless— 
(1) the lessee or other person has— 
(A) renegotiated all covered leases of the 
lessee or other person; and 
(B) entered into an agreement with the 
Secretary to modify the terms of all covered 
leases of the lessee or other person to include 
limitations on royalty relief based on market 
prices that are equal to or less than the price 
thresholds described in clauses (v) through (vii) 
of section 8(a)(3)(C) of the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(a)(3)(C)); or 
(2) the lessee or other person has— 
(A) paid all fees established by the Sec-
retary under subsection (b) that are due with 
respect to each covered lease for which the per-
son is a lessee; or 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bankruptcy Technical 
Corrections Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS RELATING TO AMEND-
MENTS MADE BY PUBLIC LAW 109–8. 
(a) TITLE 11 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 
11 of the United States Code is amended— 
(1) in section 101— 
(A) in paragraph (13A)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A) by inserting 
‘‘if used as the principal residence by the 
debtor’’ after ‘‘structure’’ the 1st place it 
appears, and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B) by inserting 
‘‘if used as the principal residence by the 
debtor’’ before the period at the end, 
(B) in paragraph (35) by striking ‘‘(23) 
and (35)’’ and inserting ‘‘(21B) and (33)(A)’’, 
(C) in paragraph (40B) by striking ‘‘writ-
ten document relating to a patient or a’’ and in-
serting ‘‘record relating to a patient, including 
a written document or a’’, 
(D) in paragraph (42) by striking ‘‘303, 
and 304’’ and inserting ‘‘303 and 1504’’, 
(E) in paragraph (51B) by inserting 
‘‘thereto’’ before the period at the end,
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(II) by striking ‘‘$67,500’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$135,000’’; and 
(xii) in item number 57 by striking 
the project description and inserting ‘‘Wil-
mington, NC, maintenance, operations and 
administration, transfer facilities’’; 
(xiii) in item number 460 by striking 
the matters in the project description, 
FY08 column, and FY09 column and in-
serting ‘‘460. Mid-Region Council of Gov-
ernments, New Mexico, public transpor-
tation buses, bus-related equipment and fa-
cilities, and intermodal terminals in Albu-
querque and Santa Fe’’, ‘‘$500,000’’, and 
‘‘$500,000’’, respectively. 
(xiv) in item number 138 strike ‘‘De-
sign’’ and insert ‘‘Determine scope, engi-
neering, design,’’; 
(xv) in item number 23 by striking 
‘‘Construct’’ and inserting ‘‘Design, engi-
neering, right-of-way acquisition, and con-
struction’’; 
(xvi) in item number 439 by inserting 
before ‘‘Central’’ the following: ‘‘Design, 
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Union Calendar No. 323 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1143 
[Report No. 110–532] 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease 
certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, 
and for other purposes. 
FEBRUARY 28, 2008 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and 
construction’’; 
(xvii) in item number 453 by inserting 
before ‘‘Central’’ the following: ‘‘Design, 
engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and 
construction’’; 
(xviii) in item number 371 by striking 
the project description and inserting ‘‘Re-
gional 
Transportation 
Commission 
of 
Southern Nevada, Sunset Bus Mainte-
nance Facility’’; 
(xix) in item number 487 by striking 
‘‘Central Arkansas Transit Authority Fa-
cility Upgrades’’ and inserting ‘‘Central 
Arkansas Transit Authority Bus Acquisi-
tion’’; 
(xx) in item number 491 by striking 
the 
project 
description 
and 
inserting 
‘‘Pace, IL, Cermak Road, Bus Rapid 
Transit, and related bus projects, and al-
ternatives analysis’’; 
(xxi) in item number 512 by striking 
‘‘Corning, NY, Phase II Corning Preserve 
Transportation Enhancement Project’’ and 
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Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (Public Law 109– 
148). 
SEC. 8105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on a contract, 
grant, or cooperative agreement (or similar arrangement) 
entered into by the Department of Defense and an entity 
in excess of 20 percent of the total direct cost of the con-
tract, grant, or agreement (or similar arrangement) if the 
purpose of such contract, grant, or agreement (or similar 
arrangement) is to carry out a program or programs of 
mutual interest between the two parties: Provided, That 
this limitation shall apply only to funds made available 
in this Act for basic research. 
SEC. 8106. Any request for funds for a fiscal year 
after fiscal year 2008 for an ongoing military operation 
overseas, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, 
shall be included in the annual budget of the President 
for such fiscal year as submitted to Congress under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 8107. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended to provide award fees to any defense contractor 
contrary to the provisions of section 814 of the National
to disaster assistance provided before, on, or after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(2) LIMITATION.—In the case of disaster assist-
ance provided under sections 403, 406, and 407 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act, the Federal share provided by subsection 
(a) shall be limited to assistance provided for projects 
for which project worksheets have been approved by 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency before 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. CANCELLATION OF LOANS. 
(a) COMMUNITY DISASTER LOAN ACT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2(a) of the Commu-
nity Disaster Loan Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–88) 
is amended by striking ‘‘Provided further, That not-
withstanding section 417(c)(1) of the Stafford Act, 
such loans may not be canceled:’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall be effective on the date of enact-
ment of the Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005 
(Public Law 109–88). 
(b) EMERGENCY
SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS 
ACT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 of title II of the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for De-
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fense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Re-
covery, 2006 (Public Law 109–234) is amended under 
the heading ‘‘FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGE-
MENT 
AGENCY–DISASTER
ASSISTANCE
DIRECT 
LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT’’ by striking ‘‘Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding section 417(c)(1) of such 
Act, such loans may not be canceled:’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall be effective on the date of enact-
ment of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hur-
ricane Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109–234). 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to waive the 
non-Federal share of the cost of certain disaster assist-
ance provided in connection with Hurricanes Katrina, 
Rita, and Wilma.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 141 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1144 
[Report No. 110–228] 
A BILL 
To waive the non-Federal share of the cost of cer-
tain disaster assistance provided in connection 
with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and for other 
purposes. 
JULY 11, 2007 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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SEC. 14. PROMOTION OF PUBLIC DISCLOSURE. 
Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h)(1) The policy of the Federal Government is to 
release information to the public in response to a request 
under this section— 
‘‘(A) if such release is required by law; or 
‘‘(B) if such release is allowed by law and the 
agency concerned does not reasonably foresee that 
disclosure would be harmful to an interest protected 
by an applicable exemption. 
‘‘(2) All guidance provided to Federal Government 
employees responsible for carrying out this section shall 
be consistent with the policy set forth in paragraph (1).’’. 
SEC. 15. REQUIREMENT TO DESCRIBE EXEMPTIONS AU-
THORIZING DELETIONS OF MATERIAL PRO-
VIDED UNDER FOIA. 
Section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
ed in the matter appearing after paragraph (9)— 
(1) in the second sentence, by inserting after 
‘‘amount of information deleted’’ the following: ‘‘, and 
the exemption under which the deletion is made,’’; 
and 
(2) in the third sentence, by inserting after 
‘‘amount of the information deleted’’ the following: ‘‘, 
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and the exemption under which the deletion is 
made,’’. 
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(B) entered into an agreement with the 
Secretary under which the person is obligated 
to pay such fees. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) COVERED
LEASE.—The term ‘‘covered 
lease’’ means a lease for oil or gas production in the 
Gulf of Mexico that is— 
(A) in existence on the date of enactment 
of this Act; 
(B) issued by the Department of the Inte-
rior under section 304 of the Outer Continental 
Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act (43 
U.S.C. 1337 note; Public Law 104–58); and 
(C) not subject to limitations on royalty re-
lief based on market price that are equal to or 
less than the price thresholds described in 
clauses (v) through (vii) of section 8(a)(3)(C) of 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1337(a)(3)(C)). 
(2) LESSEE.—The term ‘‘lessee’’ includes any 
person or other entity that controls, is controlled by, 
or is in or under common control with, a lessee. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
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Union Calendar No. 21 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1309 
[Report No. 110–45] 
A BILL 
To promote openness in Government by strength-
ening section 552 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly referred to as the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act), and for other purposes. 
MARCH 12, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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