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Initial FOIA/PA Access Requests
"" Appeals of Initial Denials of FOIA/PA Requests
"" Comparisons with Previous Year(s)
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"" Costs/FOIA Staffing
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Report under the Freedom of Information Act for
Fiscal Year 2001
Initial FOIA/PA Access Request
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Due to the independent nature of the office of Inspector General (OIG), requests for information which are directed to the OIG are handled by that office and are separately reported below.

Numbers of initial requests

  RRB OIG
Number of requests pending as of end of preceding fiscal year 2 3
Number of requests received during current fiscal year 112 6
Number of requests processed during current fiscal year 113 6
Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year 1 3

Disposition of initial requests

  RRB OIG
Number of total grants 468 0
Number of partial grants 4 6
Number of denials 19 0
''Number of times each FOIA exemption used
''(counting each exemption once per request)
   
''Exemption 1  0 0
''Exemption 2  1 3
''Exemption 3  4 0
''Exemption 4  3 0
''Exemption 5  0 1
''Exemption 6  4 5
''Exemption 7(A) 0 0
''Exemption 7(B)  0 0
''Exemption 7(C) 0 4
''Exemption 7(D) 0 1
''Exemption 7(E) 0 1
''Exemption 7(F)  0 0
''Exemption 8  0 0
''Exemption 9  0 0
Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 22    
''no records 6 1
''referrals 2 0
''request withdrawn 1 1
''fee-related reason� 10 0
''records not reasonably described 1 0
''not a proper FOIA request for some other reason 0 0
''not an agency record 0 0
''duplicate request� 0 0
''other (specify) 0 0

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Date posted: 03/08/2006
Date updated: 03/08/2006