[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR5.51]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 5_FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

            Subpart E_Records Available for Public Inspection

 

Sec.  5.51  Records available.





    (a) Records of general interest. We will make the following records 

of general interest available for your inspection and copying. Before 

releasing them, however, we may delete the names of people, or 

information that would identify them, if release would invade their 

personal privacy to a clearly unwarranted degree. (See Sec.  5.67 of 

this part.)

    (1) Orders and final opinions, including concurring and dissenting 

opinions in adjudications, such as Letters of Finding issued by the 

Office for Civil



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Rights in civil rights complaints, and Social Security Rulings. (See 

Sec.  5.66 of this part for availability of internal memoranda, 

including attorney opinions and advice.)

    (2) Statements of policy and interpretations that we have adopted 

but have not published in the Federal Register.

    (3) Administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that 

affect the public. (We will not make available, however, manuals or 

instructions that reveal investigative or audit procedures as described 

in Sec. Sec.  5.63 and 5.68 of this part.)

    (b) Other records. In addition to such records as those described in 

paragraph (a) of this section, we will make available to any person a 

copy of all other agency records, unless we determine that such records 

should be withheld from disclosure under subsection (b) of the Act and 

Subpart F of this regulation.