Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act grants you the right to access many government records about how the government operates.
Under FOIA, any person has a right to obtain copies of certain records possessed by the executive offices, agencies,
corporations, administrations, commissions, boards and services. However, some records are protected from disclosure,
such as sensitive personal, commercial, and internal governmental information.
Under the Privacy Act, if an agency files information about you by your name or any other means that identifies you
(such as social security number), you have certain rights:
- to see the information;
- to keep other people from seeing it; and
- to correct it if it is wrong.
A FOIA request shall be made in accordance with Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR), Part 7.
A copy of Title 49 CFR Parts 1 - 99 can be obtained from the
Government Printing Office
nearest you, or can be viewed in its entirety from
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-retrieve.html#page1
.
Note:
It helps if you can tell us in some detail what information you are trying to obtain.
Direct all Hazardous Materials Safety FOIA requests to:
Freedom of Information Coordinator
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, PHH-60
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE East Building, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20590
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