[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR612.1]

[Page 120-121]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
 
PART 612_AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 612.1  General provisions.




Sec.
612.1 General provisions.
612.2 Public reading room.
612.3 Requirements for making requests.
612.4 Processing requests.
612.5 Timing of responses to requests.
612.6 Responses to requests.
612.7 Exemptions.
612.8 Business information.
612.9 Appeals.
612.10 Fees.
612.11 Other rights and services.

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended.

    Source: 65 FR 11741, Mar. 6, 2000, unless otherwise noted.


    This part contains the rules that the National Science Foundation 
follows in processing requests for records under the Freedom of 
Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552. Information routinely made 
available to the public as part of a regular Foundation activity (for 
example, program announcements and solicitations, summary of awarded 
proposals, statistical reports on U.S. science, news releases) may be 
provided to the public without reliance on this part. As a matter of 
policy, the Foundation also makes discretionary disclosures of records 
or information otherwise exempt under the FOIA whenever disclosure would 
not foreseeably harm an interest protected by a FOIA exemption. This 
policy, however, does not

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create any right enforceable in court. When individuals seek records 
about themselves under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, NSF 
processes those requests under both NSF's Privacy regulations at part 
613 of this chapter, and this part.