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SECY-08-0014

January 28, 2008

• PURPOSE
• BACKGROUND
• DISCUSSION
• COORDINATION

PURPOSE:

This paper conveys to the Commission for its information a copy of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission=s (NRC) annual Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.

BACKGROUND:

With the enactment of the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996, Public Law 104-231, Congress revised the provisions of the FOIA, pertaining to the submission of annual FOIA reports by Federal agencies.  Congress directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, to issue guidelines for Federal agencies to use in preparing and submitting their annual FOIA reports.

Under the guidelines, each Federal agency submits its annual report to the DOJ Office of Information and Privacy, and each report must include the agency-specific uniform resource locator (URL) for Web-based access to its report.  DOJ provides a single point of access on its Web site for all annual FOIA reports, through a link to each agency’s FOIA Web page, and notifies Congress when all reports have been posted on the agency’s Web site.

DISCUSSION:

Enclosed is the NRC's annual FOIA report for FY 2007.  Section VIII (page 7) of the enclosed report compares NRC's FY 2007 data with FY 2006.  The NRC staff will submit the enclosed annual FOIA report for FY 2007 to the DOJ Office of Information and Privacy and place the report on the NRC's public Web site by February 1, 2008.  The URL for the NRC's annual FOIA report for FY 2007 will be http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/foia/foia-privacy.html.

On October 16, 2007, the DOJ's Office of Information and Privacy requested additional information due to the issuance of Executive Order 13392, AImproving Agency Disclosure of Information. The staff included the requested information in Section XII (page 8) of this report.

COORDINATION:

The Office of the General Counsel reviewed this package and has no legal objection.  The Office of the Chief Financial Officer reviewed this package and determined that it has no financial impact.

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