Opinion ID: 77938
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Daniel Scheidt Testimony

Text: Daniel Scheidt, a senior water quality scientist at the EPA, testified with respect to the February request that he conducted a similar search of his electronic and hard copy documents. Scheidt indicated that he read the entire document request, numberby-number, looked at each numbered request to determine whether or not he had any documents in his possession that may be responsive, and if he did have any responsive documents, copied them and, produced them. Scheidt indicated that he did not produce publicly available documents because his understanding was that the Tribe did not seek documents in that category. However, during his deposition, Scheidt testified that he realized there may have been some internal EPA notations on certain publicly available documents that would be responsive to the Tribe's request because they would not be in the public domain. Accordingly, after his deposition, Scheidt again reviewed his files and produced thirty additional documents. While Scheidt could not recall personally receiving the Tribe's June FOIA request, he stated in his affidavit that any documents in his possession that were responsive to the. June request would have been produced in response to the February FOIA request.