[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 30]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1515.1]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
 
PART 1515_FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1515.1  What are these procedures?




                                 Purpose

Sec.
1515.1 What are these procedures?

                           Organization of CEQ

1515.2 What is the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)?
1515.3 How is CEQ organized?

                    Procedures for Requesting Records

1515.5 How to make a Freedom of Information Act request.

                       Availability of Information

1515.10 What information is available, and how can it be obtained?

                                  Costs

1515.15 What fees may be charged, and how should they be paid?

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended by Pub. L. 93-502.

    Source: 42 FR 65158, Dec. 30, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

                                 Purpose


    The Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552, commonly known as 
FOIA) is a law which creates a procedure for

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any person to request official documents and other records from United 
States Government agencies. The law requires every Federal agency to 
make available to the public the material requested, unless the material 
falls under one of the limited exceptions stated in section 552(b)(5) of 
the Act, and the agency has good reason to refuse the request. These 
procedures explain how the Council on Environmental Quality--one of 
several offices in the Executive Office of the President--will carry out 
the Freedom of Information Act. They are written from the standpoint of 
a member of the public requesting material from the Council.

                           Organization of CEQ