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Freedom Of Information Act Annual Report October 1, 1997 to September 30, 1998 I. Basic Information A. Name, title, address, and telephone number of person(s) to be contacted with questions about the report: Howard Schweitzer, Counsel for Administration
Peter A. Barton, Assistant Chief Financial Officer
B. Electronic address for report on the World Wide Web: www.exim.gov/about/disclosure/foia.cfmC. To receive a hard copy of this report, mail a request to Howard Schweitzer
II. How to Make a FOIA Request (See Attachment, §404.4) A. names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all individual agency components and
Export-Import Bank of the United States
B. Brief description of the agency's response-time ranges (see Attachment, §404.5) C. Brief description of why some requests are not granted. Ex-Im Bank most commonly withholds documents pursuant to FOIAexemptions (b)(4) and (5). III. Definitions of Terms and Acronyms Used in the Report A. Agency-specific acronyms or other terms N/A
IV. Exemption 3 Statutes A. List of Exemption 3 statutes relied on by agency during current fiscal year. 0 1. Brief description of type(s) of information withheld under each statute. N/A
V. Initial FOIA/PA Access Requests A. Number of Initial requests 1. Number of requests pending as of end of preceding fiscal year 7
B. Disposition of initial requests 1. Number of total grants 69
(1) Exemption 1 2
4. Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 32 a. no records 22
VI. Appeals of Initial Denials of FOIA/PA Requests A. Number of Appeals 1. Number of appeals received during fiscal year 4
B. Disposition of appeals 1. Number completely upheld 4
a. number of times each FOIA exemption used
4. Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 0 a. no records N/A
VII. Compliance with Time Limits/Status of Pending Requests A. Median processing time for requests processed during the year 1. Simple requests a. number of requests processed 85
2. Complex requests a. number of requests processed 41
3. Requests accorded expedited processing 0 a. number of requests processed N/A
B. Status of pending requests 1. Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year 15
VIII. Comparisons with Previous Years (optional) IX. Costs/FOIA Staffing A. Staffing levels 1. Number of full-time FOIA personnel 0
B. Total costs (including staff and all resources) 1. FOIA processing (including appeals) $65,000
C. Statement of additional resources needed for FOIA compliance (optional) N/A X. Fees A. Total amount of fees collected by agency for processing requests $368
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