Freedom of Information Request: FOIA logs 2019 - DOI (Bureau of Reclamation)

This message is to confirm your request submission to the FOIAonline application: View Request. Request information is as follows: (https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=DOI-BOR-2022-002505&type=request)

* Tracking Number: DOI-BOR-2022-002505
* Requester Name:
Judy Silber
* Date Submitted: 03/07/2022
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:

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

Your agency's FOIA request log covering 2019, which includes a field showing the subject of each request and a field for the final disposition.

Further, I request that this document be sent in any digital formats in which it exists (such as PDF and Excel). Under the terms of the E-FOIA Amendments of 1996, Section 5, if a document exists in electronic format, it must be released in that format upon request.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Judy Silber

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Judy Silber:

DOI-BOR-2022-002505 has been processed with the following final disposition: Full Grant.

Records were released to the public as a result of this request. You may retrieve these records immediately using the following link: View Records Over the next 2 hours, these records are also being added to FOIAonline's search pages, further enabling you to retrieve these documents associated with your FOIA request at any time. (https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=DOI-BOR-2022-002505&type=request)

The Bureau of Reclamation FOIA office received three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, dated March 7 and March 8, 2022, and assigned them control numbers DOI-BOR-2022-002505, DOI-BOR-2022-002506, and DOI-BOR-2022-002507.

You will notice this communication combines or aggregates more than one of your requests.  We may aggregate requests for administrative reasons without charging fees accordingly when we reasonably believe that you, or a group of requesters acting in concert with you, are dividing a single request into a series of requests on a single subject or related subjects.

Because your three requests were on a single subject and made within a 30-day period, we reasonably believe that a single request was divided into a series of requests.

Therefore, we are processing your request under DOI-BOR-2022-002505. Please cite this number in any future communications with our office regarding your request. You requested FOIA logs for 2019, 2020, and 2021.

We are writing today to respond to your requests on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation. Enclosed are 3 files containing the FOIA Logs for 2019, 2020, and 2021, which are being released to you in their entirety.

We do not bill requesters for FOIA processing fees when their fees are less than $50.00, because the cost of collection would be greater than the fee collected.  See 43 C.F.R. § 2.37(g).   Therefore, there is no billable fee for the processing of this request.

Exclusions

For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist.

Office of Government Information Services

The 2007 FOIA amendments created the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) to offer mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. Using OGIS services does not affect your right to pursue litigation. You may contact OGIS in any of the following ways:

Office of Government Information Services
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road - OGIS
College Park, MD 20740-6001
E-mail: ogis@nara.gov
Web: https://www.archives.gov/ogis
Telephone: 202-741-5770
Fax: 202-741-5769
Toll-free: 1-877-684-6448

Please note that using OGIS services does not affect the timing of filing an appeal with the Department’s FOIA & Privacy Act Appeals Officer.

If you have any questions about our response to your request, you may contact Michelle Piland by phone at 303-910-5136; by email at borfoia@usbr.gov; by fax at 303-445-6575; or by mail at P.O. Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007.

Contact information for the Department’s FOIA Public Liaison, who you may also seek dispute resolution services from, is available at https://www.doi.gov/foia/foiacenters.

Thank you,

Michelle Piland
Bureau FOIA Officer
Bureau of Reclamation