Source: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/foia/annual-reports/2005.html
Timestamp: 2016-05-04 06:03:13
Document Index: 729793637

Matched Legal Cases: ['§253', '§2161', '§253', '§2167', '§2161', 'art 9', 'art009']

NRC: Annual Freedom of Information Act Report Fiscal Year 2005 Skip to Main Page Content
Annual Freedom of Information Act Report Fiscal Year 2005 Basic Information Regarding Report
41% within 4 weeks
61% within 6 weeks
73% within 8 weeks
To protect privacy (34%)
To prevent compromise of a pending investigation or proceeding (10%)
To protect the agency's pre-decisional deliberative process or attorney-client privilege, or attorney work products (25%)
To protect proprietary information (13%)
Partial grant -- an agency decision to disclose a record in part in response to a FOIA request, deleting information determined to be exempt under one or more of the FOIA’s exemptions; or a decision to disclose some records in their entireties, but to withhold others in whole or in part.
Denial -- an agency decision not to release any part of a record or records in response to a FOIA request because all the information in the requested records is determined by the agency to be exempt under one or more of the FOIA’s exemptions, or for some procedural reason (such as because no record is located in response to a FOIA request).
41 U.S.C. §253b(m)(1), Contractor Proposals
42 U.S.C. §2161-2165, Restricted or Formerly Restricted Data
41 U.S.C. §253b(m)(1) - Hornbostel v. U.S. Department
of Interior, 305 F Supp. 2d21 (DDC 2003)
42 U.S.C. §2167 - Va. Sunshine Alliance v. NRC, 509 F. Supp. 863 (D.D.C. 1981) aff'd, 669 F.2d 788 (D.C. Cir. 1981)
42 U.S.C. §2161-2165, Meeropol v. Smith, No. 75-1121 (D.D.C., February 29, 1984)
Number of requests pending as of end of preceding fiscal year (09/30/04)
Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year (09/30/05)
other (no response to identity verification (5), no response to release authorization (3), lack of response (2), outside (1)
FY 2005 median day calculations are based on working days.
Simple requests (Track A).
Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year: 80 Track A
FY 04 to FY 05
Number of requests received 372
Number of requests processed 389
Median number of days requests were pending as of end of fiscal year 54
Several internal agency service levels are used to enhance the agency’s processing timeliness. Reports showing the status of open cases are provided to offices in an effort to heighten management awareness of pending cases.
In addition to providing general public access to material released under the FOIA, in FY 05 the NRC placed over 59,000 of its official agency records in its Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). These documents are available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the NRC Library). This extensive voluntary release program has resulted in 2.8 million documents being made publicly available either in paper, microfiche or electronically.
Number of personnel with part-time or occasional FOIA duties (in total work-years) 4
Total number of personnel (in work-years) 9
FOIA processing (including appeals) $ 1,016,677
Litigation-related activities (estimated) $ 00
Total costs $ 1,016,677
Comparison with previous year(s): FY 04
(9.8% decrease) $ 1,127,003
10 CFR Part 9 (www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part009/index.html)
Fee Schedule (2005)
$82.93/hr
$1.38/min
$48.49/hr $0.81/min
$23.64/hr $0.39/min
$15.00 (No fee will be charged unless total fee is equal to or greater than $15.00)