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Re: Declaration in Bryant V CIA

Central Intelligence Agency · 2010-01-15 · 58 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency filing is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, in Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It supports the CIA's motion for summary judgment. It traces Larry W. Bryant's 2008 FOIA request for records of a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japanese 747 encounter over Alaska and records of similar airborne UFO encounters. It also describes the fee dispute and the searches the CIA ran. No records of the meeting were found, and three documents from other agencies were referred to them.

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is not primarily in the commercial interest of
the requester; the Agency shall consider the
following factors when making this
determination:
(i) Whether the subject of the request
concerns the operations or activities of the
United States Government; and, if so,
(ii) Whether the disclosure of the '
_
requested documents is likely to contribute to
an understanding of United States Govemment
operations or activities; and, if so, .
(iii) Whether the disclosure of the
requested documents will contribute to public
understanding of United States Government
operations or activities; and, if so,
(iv) Whether the disclosure of the
requested documents is likely to contribute
significantly to public understanding of United
States Government operations and activities;
and
(v) Whether the requester has a
commercial interest that would be furthered by
the requested disclosure; and, if so,
(vi) Whether the disclosure is primarily in
the commercial interest of the requester.
(c) Fee waiver appeals. Denials of _
requests for fee waivers or reductions may be
appealed*to the Chair of the Agency Release
Panel via the Coordinator. A requester is
encouraged to provide any explanation or
argument as to how his or her request satisfies
the statutory requirement set forth above.
(d) Time for fee waiver requests and
appeals. It is suggested that such requests and
appeals be made and resolved prior to the
initiation of processing and the incurring of
costs. However, fee waiver requests will be
accepted at any time prior to the release of
documents or the completion of a case, and fee
waiver appeals within forty-five (45) days of
our initial decision subject to the following
condition: if processing has been initiated,
then the requester must agree to be responsible
for costs in the event of an adverse
administrative or judicial decision.
(e) Agreement to pay fees. In order to
protect requesters from large andlor
unanticipated charges. the Agency will request
specific commitment when it estimates that
fees will exceed $100.00. The Agency will
hold in abeyance for forty-five (45) days
requests requiring such agreement and will
thereafter deem the request-closed. This
action, of course, would not prevent an
individual from refiling his or her FOIA
request with a fee commitment at a subsequent
date.
(fl Deposits. The Agency may require an
advance deposit of up to 100 percent of the
estimated fees when fees may exceed $250.00
and the requester has no history of payment. or
when, for fees of any amount, there is evidence
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that the requester may not pay the fees which
would be accrued by processing the request.
The Agency will hold in abeyance for forty-
five (45) days those requests where deposits
have been requested.
(g) Schedule affees - 1) In general. The
schedule of fees for services performed in
responding to requests for records is
established as follows:
Personnel Search and Review
i
Clerical/Technical Quarter
hour
$5.00
Professional Quarter
/Supervisory hour
l0.00
Manager/Senior Quaner
Professional hour
18.00
Computer Search and Production
Search (on-line) Flat rate 10.00
30.00Search (off-line) Flat rate
Other activity ~ Per minute 10.00
Tapes (mainframe Each
cassette)
9.00
Tapes (mainframe Each
cartridge)
9.00
Tapes (mainframe
reel)
Each _
20.00
Tapes (PC 9mm) Each 25 .00
Diskette (3.S”) Each 4.00
CD (bulk recorded) Each 10.00
CD (recordable) Each 20.00
Telecommunications Per minute .50
Paper (mainframe Per page
printer)
.10
Paper (PC blw laser Per Page
printer) ~
.10
printer
Paper PC color Per page 1.00
Paper Production
Photocopy (standard Per page
or legal) _
.l0
Microfiche Per frame .20
Pre-printed »
Per I00
(if available) pages
5.00
(tr available)
'
Published Per item NTIS
(2) Application of schedule. Personnel
search time includes time expended in either
manual paper records searches, indices
searches, review of computer search results for
relevance, personal computer system searches,
and various reproduction services. In any
event where the actual cost to the Agency of a
particular item is less than the above schedule
(e.g., a large production or run of a document
resulted in a cost of less than $5.00 per
hundred pages). then the actual lesser cost will
be charged. items published and available at
the National Technical information Service
(NTIS) are also available from CIA pursuant
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to this part at the NTIS price as authorized by
stalme.
(3) Other services. For all other types of
output, production, or reproduction (e g..
photographs, maps, or published reports),
actual cost or amounts authorized by statute.
Determinations of actual cost shall include the
commercial cost of the media, the personnel
time expended in making the item to be
released, and an allocated cost of the
equipment used in making the item, or, if the
production is effected by a commercial
service, then that charge shall be deemed the
actual cost for purposes of this part.
(h) Limitations on collection offee-s. --
(1) In general. No fees will be charged ii’ the
cost of collecting the fee is equal to or greater
than the fee itself. That cost includes the
administrative costs to the Agency of billing,
receiving, recording, and processing the fee for
deposit to the Treasury Department and, as of
the date of these regulations, is deemed to be
$10.00.
(2) Requests for personal information.
No fees will be charged for requesters seeking
records about themselves under the FOIA;
such requests are processed in accordance with
both the FOlA and the Privacy Act in order to
ensure the maximum disclosure without
charge.
(i) Fee categories. There are four
categories of FOIA requesters for fee
purposes: "C0mnwrcial use ” requesters,
"educational and non-commercial scientific
institution" reqnesters, "representatives of the
news media" requesters, and "all other"
requesters. The categories are defined in
§l900.02, and applicable fees, which are the
same in two of the categories, will be assessed
as follows:
(l) "Commercial use " requesters:
Charges which recover the full direct costs of
searching for, reviewing, and duplicating
responsive records (if any);
(2) "Educational and non-commercial
sclenriflc institution" requesters as well as
"representatives of the news media"
requesters: Only charges for reproduction
beyond the first 100 pages;
(3) "All other" requesters: Charges which
recover the full direct cost of searching for and
reproducing responsive records (if any)
beyond the first 100 pages of reproduction and
the first two (2) hours of search time, which
will be furnished without charge.
(i) Associated requests. A requester or
associated requesters may not file a series of
multiple requests, which are merely discrete
subdivisions of the information actually sought
for the purpose of avoiding or reducing
applicable fees. in such instances, the Agency
may aggregate the requests and charge the
applicable fees.
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