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HHS Fiscal Year 2009 Freedom of Information Annual Report

V. FOIA Request [PDF] [XML]
- TABLE A [CSV] [XLS]
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V. FOIA Requests

A. Received, Processed and Pending FOIA Requests

	Number of Requests Pending as of Start of Fiscal Year	Number of Requests Received in Fiscal Year	Number of Requests Processed in Fiscal Year	Number of Requests Pending as of End of Fiscal Year
OS	668	1,018	964	722
ACF	¹432	467	177	722
AOA	1	10	11	0
CMS	10,477	32,541	32,706	10,312
OIG	15	419	410	24
OPHS/PSC	²315	566	664	217
AHRQ	5	72	68	9
CDC	568	1,272	1,370	488
FDA	6,568	10,337	12,087	4,818
HRSA	26	338	334	30
IHS	49	97	115	31
NIH	³151	1,270	1,306	115
SAMHSA	51	157	125	83
HHS Total	19,344	48,564	50,337	17,571

¹ The ACF reported 556 pending requests last year; inaccuracies were identified while implementing new FOIA system.
² The OPHS reported 296 pending requests last year; inaccuracies were identified while implementing new FOIA system.
³ The NIH reported 152 pending requests last year; one (1) inaccuracy was identified this year.

B. (1) Disposition of FOIA Requests - All Processed Requests

	Number of Full Grants	Number of Partial Grants/ Partial Denials	Number of Full Denials Based on Exemp- tions	Number of Full Denials Based on Reasons Other than Exemptions
				No Records	All Records Referred to Another Compo- nent or Agency	Request With- drawn	Fee- Related Reason	Records not Reason- ably Described	Im- proper FOIA Request for Other Reason	Not Agency Record	Dupli- cate Request	*Other Explain in chart below”**	TOTAL
OS	119	109	17	12	640	11	8	4	27	13	4	0	964
ACF	3	116	0	2	15	1	1	0	0	0	23	16	177
AOA	6	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
CMS	26,390	55	1,301	2,160	466	565	125	119	1,206	0	1	318	32,706
OIG	111	66	35	85	27	30	4	2	13	26	6	5	410
OPHS/ PSC	180	146	8	64	61	133	0	12	17	2	4	37	664
AHRQ	22	20	1	9	7	4	0	1	1	3	0	0	68
CDC	337	250	16	341	62	183	50	37	15	14	32	33	1,370
FDA	8,592	135	111	934	36	1,158	228	14	129	3	216	531	12,087
HRSA	276	27	2	14	5	4	3	0	0	3	0	0	334
IHS	7	32	4	8	2	2	0	0	5	2	2	51	115
NIH	831	103	6	125	12	142	44	22	6	11	4	0	1,306
SAMHSA	5	99	3	8	0	3	2	2	0	0	3	0	125
HHS Total	36,879	1,159	1,504	3,764	1,335	2,236	465	213	1,419	77	295	991	50,337

B. (2) Disposition of FOIA Requests – Other Reasons for “Full Denials
Based on Reasons Other than Exemptions” from Section V, B (1)

Component	Description of “Other” Reasons for Denials from Chart B (1) & Number of Times Those Reasons Were Relied upon	TOTAL
OS	N/A	0
ACF	Closed under the Privacy Act	16
AOA	N/A	0
CMS	Administrative Closures	318
OIG	Records on OIG Webpage No response from Requester	1 4
OPHS/PSC	No response from Requester	37
AHRQ	N/A	0
CDC	Not Perfected	33
FDA	Available on internet	531
HRSA	N/A	0
IHS	No response from Requester	51
NIH	N/A	0
SAMHSA	N/A	0
HHS Total		991

B. (3) Disposition of FOIA Requests - Number of times exemptions applied

	Ex. 1	Ex. 2	Ex. 3	Ex. 4	Ex. 5	Ex. 6	Ex. 7(A)	Ex. 7(B)	Ex. 7(C)	Ex. 7(D)	Ex. 7(E)	Ex. 7(F)	Ex. 8	Ex. 9
	Ex. 1	Ex. 2	Ex. 3	Ex. 4
OS	0	14	2	21	47	71	37	1	51	2	2	0	0	0
ACF	0	0	0	15	35	133	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
AOA	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CMS	0	1	0	1	9	1,349	1	0	5	0	3	0	0	0
OIG	0	20	3	13	33	58	29	0	32	1	15	0	0	0
OPHS/PSC	0	6	7	46	17	92	4	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
AHRQ	0	0	1	14	5	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CDC	0	64	13	122	54	143	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FDA	0	4	48	126	15	32	111	0	12	1	3	0	0	0
HRSA	0	1	2	18	5	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
IHS	0	0	0	11	7	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NIH	0	1	2	14	31	49	0	0	11	1	0	0	0	0
SAMHSA	0	0	3	18	4	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
HHS Total	0	111	81	420	262	2,046	199	1	116	5	20	0	0	0