[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR5.56]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 5--PRODUCTION OR DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart D--Described Records
 
Sec. 5.56  Extension of time limits.

    In unusual circumstances as specified in this section, the time 
limits prescribed in Secs. 5.52 and 5.55 may be extended by an official 
named in Sec. 5.54(a) who will provide written notice to the requestor 
setting forth the reasons for such extension and the date on which a

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determination is expected. Such notice will specify no date that would 
result in an extension of more than ten work days. In unusual 
circumstances, the Headquarters FOIA Officer may authorize more than one 
extension, divided between the initial request stage and the appeals 
stage, but in no event will the combined periods of extension exceed ten 
work days. As used in this section, ``unusual circumstances'' include 
only those circumstances where extension of time is reasonably necessary 
to the proper processing of the particular request. Examples include:
    (a) 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; or
    (b) The need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine a 
voluminous amount of separate and distinct records which are demanded in 
a single request; or
    (c) The need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all 
practicable speed, with another agency or with a non-Federal source 
having a substantial interest in the determination of the request or 
among two or more components of FEMA having substantial subject matter 
interest therein.