October 1, 1998 to September 30, 1999
I. Basic Information
- A. Name, title, address, and telephone number of person(s) to be contacted with questions about the report:
- Howard A. Schweitzer, Assistant General Counsel
- for Administration
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- 811 Vermont Avenue, NW
- Washington, DC 20571
- (202) 565-3229
- Joseph A. Sorbera, FOIA Officer
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- 811 Vermont Avenue, NW
- Washington, DC 20571
- (202) 565-3241
- B. Electronic address for report on the World Wide Web:
www.exim.gov/about/library/foia/index.cfm
- C. To receive a hard copy of this report, mail a request to Joseph A. Sorbera
- (see section
I. A.
- of this report, Contacts)
II. How to Make a FOIA Request (See Attachment, Sec. 404.4)
- A. names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all individual agency components and offices that receive FOIA requests
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Freedom of Information Act Office
- 811 Vermont Avenue, NW
- Washington, DC 20571
- (202) 565-3241
- B. Brief description of the agency's response-time ranges (see Attachment, Sec.404.5)
- C. Brief description of why some requests are not granted.
Ex-Im Bank most commonly withholds documents pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(4) and (5).
III. Definitions of Terms and Acronyms Used in the Report
- A. Agency-specific acronyms or other terms
N/A
- B. Basic terms, expressed in common terminology (see Attachment, Sec.404.2)
IV. Exemption 3 Statutes
- A. List of Exemption 3 statutes relied on by agency during current fiscal year.
1
- Brief description of type(s) of information withheld under each statute. Referral from CIA on documents originating with Ex-Im.
- Statement of whether a court has upheld the use of each statute. If so, then cite example N/A
V. Initial FOIA/PA Access Requests
- A. Number of Initial requests
- Number of requests pending as of end of preceding fiscal year 15>
- Number of requests received during current fiscal year 100
- Number of requests processed during current fiscal year 111
- Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year 4
- B. Disposition of initial requests
- Number of total grants 55
- Number of partial grants 17
- Number of denials 8
- (1) Exemption 1
- (2) Exemption 2
- (3) Exemption 3
- (4) Exemption 4
- (5) Exemption 5
- (6) Exemption 6
- (7) Exemption 7(A)
- (8) Exemption 7(B)
- (9) Exemption 7(C)
- (10) Exemption 7(D)
- (11) Exemption 7(E)
- (12) Exemption 7(F)
- (13) Exemption 8
- (14) Exemption 9
- Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 31
- a. no records
- b. referrals
- c. request withdrawn
- d. fee-related reason
- e. records not reasonably described
- f. not a proper FOIA request for some other reason
- g. not an agency record
- h. duplicate request
- i. other
VI. Appeals of Initial Denials of FOIA/PA Requests
- A. Number of Appeals
- Number of appeals received during fiscal year 2
- Number of appeals processed during fiscal year 2
B. Disposition of appeals
- Number completely upheld 1
- Number partially reversed 1
- Number completely reversed 0
- a. number of times each FOIA exemption used
- (1) Exemption 1
- (2) Exemption 2
- (3) Exemption 3
- (4) Exemption 4
- (5) Exemption 5
- (6) Exemption 6
- (7) Exemption 7(A)
- (8) Exemption 7(B)
- (9) Exemption 7(C)
- (10) Exemption 7(D)
- (11) Exemption 7(E)
- (12) Exemption 7(F)
- (13) Exemption 8
- (14) Exemption 9
- Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 0
- a. no records
- b. referrals
- c. request withdrawn
- d. fee-related reason
- e. records not reasonably described
- f. not a proper FOIA request for some other reason
- g. not an agency record
- h. duplicate request
- i. other
VII. Compliance with Time Limits/Status of Pending Requests
- A. Median processing time for requests processed during the year
- Simple requests
- a. number of requests processed
- b. median number of days to process
- Complex requests
- a. number of requests processed
- b. median number of days to process
- Requests accorded expedited processing 0
- a. number of requests processed
- b. median number of days to process
B. Status of pending requests
- Number of requests pending as of end of current fiscal year 4
- Median number of days that such requests were pending as of that date 76
VIII. Comparisons with Previous Years (optional)
IX. Costs/FOIA Staffing
- A. Staffing levels
- Number of full-time FOIA personnel 0
- Number of personnel with part-time or occasional FOIA duties (in total work- years) 3
- Total number of personnel (in work-years) 1.0
- B. Total costs (including staff and all resources)
- FOIA processing (including appeals) $71,000
- Litigation-related activities (estimated) $6,000
- Total costs $77,000
- Comparison with previous year(s)(including percentage of change)(optional)
1998 (10/1/97 to 9/30/98) - $65,000
1999 (10/1/98 to 9/30/99) - $77,000- 18.50% increase from 1998 to 1999.
- C. Statement of additional resources needed for FOIA compliance (optional)
N/A
X. Fees
- A. Total amount of fees collected by agency for processing requests
$361.10
- B. Percentage of total costs
0.47%