Fees.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) (b) (c) (1) (ii) OSC charges $5.50 per quarter hour spent by clerical personnel in searching for and retrieving a requested record; $9.00 per quarter hour of search time spent by professional personnel; and $17.50 per quarter hour for search assistance from managerial personnel. (iii) OSC charges the direct costs of conducting electronic searches, including the costs of operator or programmer staff time apportionable to the search. (iv) OSC may charge additional costs in accordance with the applicable billing schedule established by NARA for requests requiring the retrieval of records from any Federal Records Center. (2) (3) (d) (e) (f) (g) (2) OSC may require advance payment up to the amount of the entire anticipated fee before beginning to process the request if OSC determines or estimates that a total fee to be charged under this section will exceed $250.00. (3) OSC may require the requestor to make an advance payment in full of the anticipated fee where a requestor has previously failed to pay a properly charged FOIA fee within 30 business days of the date of billing. (h) (i) Release of the requested records is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government; and (ii) Release of the records is not primarily in the commercial interest of the requestor. (2) To determine whether the first fee waiver requirement is met, OSC will consider the following factors: (i) Whether the

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 1820.7