Houston CCS and Labor Meetings (Department of Labor)
| Tracking # |
2022-F-09040 2022-F-08821 |
| Multi Request | Houston CCS and Labor Meetings |
| Submitted | March 24, 2022 |
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From: Nicholas Kusnetz
Dear FOIA officer,
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
-Any agendas or notes associated with any meetings between Deanna Archuleta, an employee of ExxonMobil, and any staff at the Wage and Hour Division, Office of the Secretary and Office of Labor Management Standards.
I would like to limit my request to meetings that occurred during the months of April, May and June of 2021.
Please include any attachments to any files produced, such as Word documents, or PDFs or other types of attachments.
Because the above searches involve only one outside party and cover only three months, 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.
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: Department of Labor
Dear Nicholas Kusnetz,
The tracking number 2022-F-08821 has been assigned to the request you submitted. In all future correspondence regarding this request please reference the tracking number 2022-F-08821.
Regards,
DOL FOIA
From: Nicholas Kusnetz
Dear FOIA Officer,
I'm writing about request 2022-F-08821. I have since learned additional information that can help narrow and target this request. I have learned that the meeting in question took place in June 2021 and was attended by Katherine Eyster- Advisor for DOL Private Sector engagement. It was a virtual meeting.
I would like amend this request to limit it to any meetings between Eyster and Archuleta.
Thank you
From: Department of Labor
Dear Nicholas Kusnetz,
Your request has been received by the DOL FOIA. The request has been assigned the tracking # '2022-F-09039', please log into your account and review your submission.
The application address is https://efoia.dol.gov.
Thank you,
DOL FOIA
From: Department of Labor
Dear Nicholas Kusnetz,
Your request has been received by the DOL FOIA. The request has been assigned the tracking # '2022-F-09040', please log into your account and review your submission.
The application address is https://efoia.dol.gov.
Thank you,
DOL FOIA
From: Department of Labor
Hello:
This acknowledges the receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, in which you requested any agendas or notes associated with any meetings between Deanna Archuleta, an employee of ExxonMobil, and any staff at the Wage and Hour Division, Office of the Secretary and Office of Labor Management Standards. You later amended your request to limit the search to any meetings between Eyster and Archuleta. You also requested a date range of 4/01/2021 – 6/30/2021 for this search.
Your request was received in our office on 5/17/22 and assigned FOIA tracking number 2022-F-08821.
This letter is to inform you the Office of the Secretary is unable to respond to your request within the time limits established by the FOIA. Our ability to process your request is delayed because we are experiencing a backlog of requests. Please be advised, however, that your request is being handled as equitably as possible and that all documents that can be released will be made available at the earliest possible date. We will keep you informed of our progress. We expect to complete processing your request on or before 40 days from the date of this acknowledgment.
The Department of Labor has transitioned to a new data platform and the interface of the FOIA Portal has changed. By using the tracking number above, you may track the status of your FOIA request online at https://efoia.dol.gov/app/CheckStatus.aspx. Case files numbers must be entered exactly as provided. For example, FOIAXpress assigns alpha numeric tracking numbers (2020-F-00001), while SIMS-FOIA assigns six digit tracking numbers (887686). If you have been assigned an SIMS-FOIA tracking number, you can check the status of your FOIA request by clicking on the “legacy case search portal<https://www.dol.gov/foia>” link.
If you need to contact OSEC about it for any reason, please submit your inquiry via email at OSEC-FOIA@DOL.GOV<mailto:OSEC-FOIA@DOL.GOV>. In addition, it would be helpful to include the tracking number in the Subject line of any submission made.
Sincerely,
Toya A. Peets
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of the Secretary
(202) 693-6112
From: Department of Labor
The attached document(s) are official correspondence from the U.S.Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) in response toyour request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.§ 552. If you have problems opening the attachments, cannot read the attachments,or have received this communication in error, please notify OLMS by electronicmail ( OLMS-FOIA@dol.gov ) immediately.
From: Department of Labor
Dear Mr. Kusnetz,
This letter responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of May 12, 2022 in which you requested any agendas or notes associated with any meetings between Deanna Archuleta, an employee of ExxonMobil, and any staff at the Wage and Hour Division, Office of the Secretary and Office of Labor Management Standards from April 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021. You later amended your request to limit the search to any meetings between Katherine Eyster and Deanna Archuleta.
Your request was received in our office on May 17, 2022 and assigned FOIA tracking number 2022-F-08821. A search for responsive records of the Office of the Secretary (OSEC) was conducted based on your request. Results from the search presented the below attached responsive records:
* 9 pages are being released without redactions, and
* 15 pages which have been redacted in part under to 5 U.S.C. § 522(b)(6) which permits the withholding of personnel, medical and similar files when disclosure of such information would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
If you have questions about this response, you may contact the Office of the Secretary (OSEC) FOIA point of contact at OSEC-FOIA@dol.gov<mailto:OSEC-FOIA@dol.gov> or the DOL FOIA Public Liaison, Thomas Hicks, at 202-693-5427 or by email at hicks.thomas@dol.gov<mailto:hicks.thomas@dol.gov>. Alternatively, you may contact the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), within the National Archives and Records Administration, to inquire about the mediation services they offer. The contact information for OGIS is as follows: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. You can also reach that office by e-mail at ogis@nara.gov<mailto:ogis@nara.gov>, by phone at 202-741-5770, by fax at 202-741-5769, or by calling toll-free at 1-877-684-6448.
Additionally, if you are not satisfied with the response to this request, you may administratively appeal by writing to the Solicitor of Labor within 90 days from the date of this letter. The appeal must state in writing the grounds for the appeal, and it may include any supporting statements or arguments, but such statements are not required. In order to facilitate processing of the appeal, please include your mailing address and daytime telephone number, as well as a copy of the initial request and copy of this letter. The envelope and letter of the appeal should be clearly marked “Freedom of Information Act Appeal.” Any amendment to the appeal must be made in writing and received prior to a decision. The appeal should be addressed to the Solicitor of Labor, Division of Management and Administrative Legal Services, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N2420, Washington, DC 20210. Appeals may also be submitted by email to foiaappeal@dol.gov<mailto:foiaappeal@dol.gov>. Appeals submitted to any other email address will not be accepted.
Sincerely,
Toya A. Peets
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of the Secretary
(202) 693-6112
From: Department of Labor
Mr. Kuznetz,
OLMS responded to your May 12, 2022 FOIA request number 2022-F-09040 on May 26, 2022 to requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>, which is the email address you provided for your request. Our message was sent to you from no-reply@dol.gov<mailto:no-reply@dol.gov>. Please check you junk mail. This is not the first time that you have indicated that you did not receive our response from our office. Since you use a different email account for each FOIA request you submit to us, we suggest that you add no-reply@dol.gov<mailto:no-reply@dol.gov> to your contacts prior to submitting your request. This may solve the problem. Otherwise, you may want to use your nicholas@muckrock.com<mailto:nicholas@muckrock.com> account and likewise add our address to your contacts.
I have attached our message here, which includes our response.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Denise
Denise Diminuco
Program Specialist and FOIA Coordinator
U.S. Department of Labor
OLMS - Division of Interpretations and Regulations
Washington, DC 20210
(202) 693-0221
diminuco.denise@dol.gov<mailto:diminuco.denise@dol.gov>
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