[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1602.5]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER XVI--LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
 
PART 1602--PROCEDURES FOR DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1602.5  Public reading room.

    (a) The Corporation will maintain a public reading room at its 
office at 750 First Street, NE., Washington DC 20002-4250. This room 
will be supervised and will be open to the public during the regular 
business hours of the Corporation for inspecting and copying records 
described in paragraph (b) of this section.
    (b) Subject to the limitation stated in paragraph (c) of this 
section, the following records will be made available in the public 
reading room:
    (1) All final opinions, including concurring and dissenting 
opinions, and orders issued in the adjudication of cases;
    (2) Statements of policy and interpretations adopted by the 
Corporation that are not published in the Federal Register;
    (3) Administrative staff manuals and instructions to the staff that 
affect the public or recipients;
    (4) Copies of records, regardless of form or format, released to any 
person in response to a public request for records pursuant to 
Sec. 1602.8 which the Corporation has determined are likely to become 
subject to subsequent requests for substantially the same records, and a 
general index of such records;
    (5) The current index required by Sec. 1602.7;
    (6) To the extent feasible, other records considered to be of 
general interest to recipients or members of the public in understanding 
activities of the Corporation or in dealing with the Corporation in 
connection with those activities.
    (c) Certain records otherwise required by FOIA to be available in 
the public reading room may be exempt from mandatory disclosure pursuant 
to section 552(b) of the FOIA and Sec. 1602.9. Such records will not be 
made available in the public reading room. Other records maintained in 
the public reading room may be edited by the deletion of identifying 
details concerning individuals to prevent a clearly unwarranted invasion 
of personal privacy. In such cases, the record shall have attached to it 
a full explanation of the deletion. The extent of the deletion shall be 
indicated, unless doing so would harm an interest protected by the 
exemption under which the deletion is made. If technically feasible,

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the extent of the deletion shall be indicated at the place in the record 
where the deletion was made.
    (d) Records required by the FOIA to be maintained and made available 
in the public reading room that are created by the Corporation on or 
after November 1, 1996, shall be made available electronically. This 
includes the index of published and reading room records, which shall 
indicate which records are available electronically.
    (e) Most electronic public reading room records will also be made 
available to the public on the Corporation's websites at http://
www.lsc.gov and http://oig.lsc.gov.