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CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 12

(a) (b) (1) (2) (3) (c) (d) (e) (1) The fees are likely to exceed $250.00; (2) You do not have a history of payment; (3) You previously failed to pay a FOIA fee to FHFA in a timely fashion, (4) You have an outstanding balance due from a prior request. FHFA will require you to pay the full amount owed plus any applicable interest, as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, or demonstrate that the fee owed has been paid, as well as payment of the full amount of anticipated fees before processing your request. (f) (g) (h) (1) Whether the subject of the requested records concerns the operations or activities of the Federal Government. The subject of the request must concern identifiable operations or activities of the Federal Government with a connection that is direct and clear, not remote or attenuated; (2) Whether the disclosure is likely to contribute significantly to the public understanding of Federal Government operations or activities. This factor is satisfied when the following criteria are met: (i) Disclosure of the requested information must be meaningfully informative about government operations or activities. The disclosure of information that already is in the public domain, in either the same or a substantially identical form, would not be meaningfully informative if nothing new would be added to the public's understanding; and (ii) The disclosure must contribute to the understanding of a reasonably broad audience of persons interested in the subject, as opposed

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 12:§ 1202.11