[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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.