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Email correspondence of certain employees.

Nicholas Kusnetz filed this request with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget of the United States of America.
Tracking #

2020-325
Submitted April 14, 2020
Status
Completed

Communications

From: Nicholas Kusnetz

Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Email correspondence of certain employees.

Email

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Any emails of OMB employees Sam Wice or William Bestani sent to or from any one of the following external people:
-Jim Nolan
-Hilary Moffett
-Marian Marshall
-Ed Coleman
-Susan Blevins
-James Glass
-Dan Cole
-George Baker
-Christopher Hatcher

I’d like to limit this request to emails sent or received within the previous six months from the date this request is received.

Please include any attachments that were a part of these emails, such as Word documents, or PDFs or other types of attachments. Please also include copies of emails in which any of the employees listed above were simply “cc-ed” or “bcc-ed.”

Because the above searches involve a limited number of individuals within your agency, a defined period of time, and a narrow set of outside parties, these should hopefully constitute simple electronic searches.

If you decide to withhold an exempt portion of any record, please release all other segregable parts. If you withhold any record or portion of a record, please specify which statutory exemptions are claimed for each withholding. Please describe each record withheld, including its date and size (e.g., number of pages).

I request that any documents be provided in electronic format, preferably in a searchable format such as PDFs, and that records be provided electronically via email to the address included. This request is particularly important given the current work-from-home orders amid the COVID-19 crisis, and the uncertainty of when offices will reopen to receive mail. If this is not possible, please notify me and I can provide a ground mailing address.

As a representative of the news media I am only required to pay for the direct cost of duplication after the first 100 pages. Please waive any applicable fees. InsideClimate News is a nonprofit news media organization, and release of the requested information will inform the public and serve the public interest, specifically by illuminating an important tax incentive for a critical technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The information will be included in publicly-available news articles and will not be used for commercial interest. If there are any search, review, or duplication fees greater than $100, please inform me before you fill the request.

As I am making this request as a journalist and this information is of timely value, I would appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by email, if you have questions regarding this request. I can be reached at 917-719-0671.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 days.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Kusnetz

From: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request: Email correspondence of certain employees.

Email

Good Morning: This email acknowledges receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) dated and received in this office on April 14, 2020. Your request has been logged in and is being processed. For your reference, the OMB FOIA number is 2020-325.

Thank you,
Dionne Hardy

From: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Subject: Status Update on Your OMB FOIA 2020-325

Email

Good Afternoon:

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received your status inquiry. The current status of your FOIA requests are they have been assigned to a FOIA team member to initiate a search for potentially responsive documents. We ask for your patience as we process your FOIA requests. OMB is experiencing a significant backlog of FOIA requests and we are doing our best to respond to each request as quickly as possible in the order they are received. Toward that end, please note that there are several hundred FOIA requests ahead of yours in our backlog queue. We hope this information is helpful and appreciate your understanding as OMB works through its backlog.

In the meantime, should you have any questions, you can reach OMB's FOIA Office anytime by email at OMBFOIA@omb.eop.gov or by phone at 202-395-FOIA.

Thank you,
Dionne Hardy

From: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Subject: OMB FOIA 20-325

Email

Hello,

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regrets the delay in responding to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Unfortunately, OMB is experiencing a backlog of FOIA requests. Please know that OMB management is very committed to providing responses to FOIA requests and remedying the FOIA backlog.

Given the passage of time, this communication is to confirm whether you are still interested in having the attached FOIA request processed. Please confirm your continued interest by replying to this email within 14 calendar days from the date of this communication, and reference the FOIA number cited above.

If we do not receive a response from you within the specified time frame, we will consider the non-response as an indication that you are no longer interested, and will close your FOIA request.
Sincerely,
Nathaniel T. Durden
FOIA Specialist (Contractor)
Executive Office of the President
Office of Management and Budget
Office of General Counsel

From: Nicholas Kusnetz

Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request: Email correspondence of certain employees.

Email

Dear Nathaniel,
This response is to confirm that I am still interested in the responsive documents to request OMB FOIA 20-325.

Thanks,
Nick

From: Nicholas Kusnetz

Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request: Email correspondence of certain employees.

Email

Dear Nathaniel,
A year ago I received a note from your office asking if I was still interested in this records request. I replied that I was, but have not heard anything since. Can you provide an update please?

Thanks,
Nick

From: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Subject: OMB FOIA 2020-325 RE: Freedom of Information Act Request: Email correspondence of certain employees.

Email

Dear Nicholas Kusnetz,

Thank you for inquiring about the status of your FOIA request, which was received on April 14, 2020, and assigned tracking number 2020-325. Your FOIA request has been assigned to a processor and is in the queue for document review. In terms of timing, please note that OMB has a backlog of over 700 FOIA requests and we are doing our best to respond to each request as quickly as possible in the order they are received. We are aiming to complete the processing of your FOIA request by September 30, 2022.

Thank you for your patience,
OMB’s FOIA Office

From: U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Subject: OMB FOIA 2020-325

Email

Greetings: Please see the attached response letter and enclosure regarding the above OMB FOIA case.

Thank you,
OMB's FOIA Office

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