Most Requested Pages
- DOT FOIA Reference Guide
- DOT FOIA Contacts
- Securely pay your DOT/OST FOIA Fees
- OST Electronic Reading Room
Contact Office of the Secretary (OST) FOIA Officials
FOIA Requester Service Center: (202) 366-4542
OST FOIA Officer: Kathy Ray (202) 366-5546
FOIA Public Liaison: Fern Kaufman (202) 366-8067
About Us
The Office of the Secretary (OST) formulates national transportation policy; prepares needed transportation legislation; helps negotiate and implement international transportation agreements; assures the fitness of U.S. airlines and enforces airline consumer protection regulations. It also issues regulations to prevent alcohol and illegal drug misuse in transportation systems; assures lack of discrimination against people with disabilities; promotes intermodal transportation; issues licenses for commercial expendable space launch vehicle operations and encourages minority enterprises in transportation. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (formerly RITA) is now part of OST, and includes the Volpe National Transportation Center, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and Transportation Safety Institute, and the University Transportation Centers program.
If you are looking for information that we may have on the matters described above, please send your request to the FOIA contact for the Office of the Secretary. If you are interested in information on other areas of transportation, you must direct your request to the Department of Transportation organization that may have those records. See our description of each organization and the list of FOIA contacts.