[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR370.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 370--FREEDOM OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 370.5  Requests for records.

    (a) Requests for APHIS records or information other than material 
published or made available under the preceding sections, shall be made 
in writing in accordance with 7 CFR 1.3(a) and submitted to the APHIS 
Freedom of Information Act Coordinator at the following address:

Freedom of Information Act Coordinator, (FOIA Request), Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, Legislative and Public Affairs, Freedom of 
Information, 4700 River Road, Unit 50, Riverdale, Maryland 20737-1231.


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    The request shall identify each record with reasonable specificity 
as prescribed in Sec. 1.3(b) of this title. The APHIS FOIA Coordinator 
is hereby delegated authority to make determinations with respect to 
such requests in accordance with 7 CFR.
    (b) The FOIA Coordinator or his designee is authorized to receive 
requests and to exercise the authority under Sec. 1.4(c) of this title 
to:
    (1) Make determinations to grant or deny requests,
    (2) Extend the administrative deadline,
    (3) Make discretionary releases of exempt records, and
    (4) Make determinations regarding charges pursuant to the fee 
schedule.
    (c) In exercising his authority under Sec. 1.4(c) of this title to 
grant and deny requests, the Coordinator will comply with subsection (b) 
of the Freedom of Information Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552(b)), which 
requires that any reasonably segregable portion of a document shall be 
provided to a person requesting such document after deletion of any 
portions which are exempt under the Act. Therefore, unless the 
disclosable and non-disclosable portions are so inextricably linked that 
it is not reasonably possible to separate them, the document will be 
released with the non-disclosable portions deleted, except that the 
Coordinator may exercise discretion as limited by Sec. 1.11 of this 
title, to release the entire document, or to make only a minimum number 
of deletions, e.g., the names of individuals.

[40 FR 43223, Sept. 19, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 53490, Sept. 14, 1979; 
51 FR 30837, Aug. 29, 1986; 59 FR 67611, Dec. 30, 1994]