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HHS Freedom of Information

Online Request Form

You may not need to make a FOIA request.

Information is now available on World Wide Web (WWW) sites via the Internet.  The HHS Home Page is located at http://www.hhs.gov from where you can access and search electronically available HHS information; you may also go directly to HHS Agencies (also referred to as Operating Divisions (OPDIVs)) home pages.  Other HHS program services, clearinghouses, and information centers’ telephone numbers and Web locations are listed in the HHS Information and Hotline Directory.  

Description of the documents requested

Although you do not have to give a document’s title, you should identify the documents that you want as specifically as possible to increase the likelihood that the agency will be able to locate them.  Any facts you can furnish about the time, authors, events, subjects, and other details of the documents will be helpful to the agency in deciding where to search and in determining which records respond to your request, saving you and the government time and money.  Please identify the HHS Operating/Staff Division(s) from whom you are seeking documents. 


Identify the date range of the documents:

Expedited Processing

Designate only if your request meets one of these categories.


Payment of fees

Select the amount you are willing to reimburse the agency for fees incurred which exceed $25.00.  We will notify you if the fees exceed $500.00.




Fee waiver/reduction in fees

The Freedom of Information Reform Act of 1986 provides that documents are to be furnished without any charge or at a charge reduced below the fees established if disclosure of the information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the Government and is not primarily in the commercial interest of the requestor. 

To evaluate whether the statutory standard authorizing a fee waiver or reduction has been met, we will need additional information upon which to base or determination.  If you would like to request a fee waiver, please provide additional information as justification for a fee waiver and/or reduction in fees: