Fees to be charged—general.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

OMB will charge fees that recoup the full allowable direct costs it incurs. Moreover, it will use the most efficient and least costly methods to comply with requests for documents made under the FOIA. For example, employees should not engage in line-by-line search when merely duplicating an entire document would prove the less expensive and quicker method of complying with a request. Search should be distinguished, moreover, from review of material in order to determine whether the material is exempt from disclosure. When documents that would be responsive to a request are maintained for distribution by agencies operating statutory-based fee schedule programs ( (a) (1) For each quarter hour spent by personnel searching for requested records, including electronic searches that do not require new programming, the fees will be charged as follows: Professional—$10.00; and clerical/administrative—$4.75. (2) Requesters shall be charged the direct costs associated with conducting any search that requires the creation of a new computer program to locate the requested records. Requesters shall be notified of the costs associated with creating such a program and must agree to pay the associated costs before the costs may be incurred. (b) (c) (d) (1) Certifying that records are true copies; or (2) Sending records by special methods, such as express mail. (e) (f) (g) (h) (1) If OMB has determined that unusual circumstances, as defined by the FOIA, apply, and OMB provided timely written n

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 1303.91