[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR201.18]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                 CHAPTER II--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 201--RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart C--Availability of Information to the Public Pursuant to 5 
                               U.S.C. 552
 
Sec. 201.18  Denial of requests, appeals from denial.

    (a) Written requests for inspection or copying of records shall be 
denied only by the Secretary or Acting Secretary, or, for records 
maintained by the Office of Inspector General, the Inspector General. 
Denials of written requests shall be in writing, shall specify the 
reason therefor, and shall advise the person requesting of the right to 
appeal to the Commission. Oral requests may be dealt with orally, but if 
the requester is dissatisfied he shall be asked to put the request in 
writing.
    (b) An appeal from a denial of a request must be received within 
sixty days of the date of the letter of denial and shall be made to the 
Commission and addressed to the Chairman, United States International 
Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. Any such 
appeal shall be in writing, and shall clearly indicate both on the 
envelope and in the letter that it is a ``Freedom of Information Act 
Appeal.''
    (c) Except when expedited treatment is requested and granted, 
appeals will be decided in the order in which they are filed, but in any 
case within twenty days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays) unless an extension, noticed in writing with the reasons 
therefor, has been provided to the person making the request. Notice of 
the decision on appeal and the reasons therefor will be made promptly 
after a decision. Requests for expedited treatment should conform with 
the requirements in Sec. 201.17(c) of this part.
    (d) The extensions of time mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of 
this section shall be made only for one or more of the following 
reasons:
    (1) The need to search for and collect the requested records from 
field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the 
office processing the request;
    (2) The need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine a 
voluminous amount of separate and distinct records which are requested 
in a single communication; or
    (3) The need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all 
practicable speed, with another agency having a substantial interest in 
the determination of the request or among two or more components of the 
agency having a substantial subject-matter interest therein.
    (e) The extensions of time mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of 
this section shall not exceed ten working days in the aggregate.

[40 FR 8328, Feb. 27, 1975, as amended at 54 FR 13678, Apr. 5, 1989; 60 
FR 37336, July 20, 1995; 63 FR 29348, May 29, 1998]