United States Department of the Interior

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Washington, D.C. 20240

AUG 16 201Z
Ms. Anne Weismann Chief Counsel, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington 1400 Eye Street, N. W., Suite 450 Washington, D.C. 20005 Re: FOIA Control No. BIA-2011-01014 Dear Ms. Weismann: This letter is in response to your Freedom oflnformation Act request of June 23, 2011. Your request was received in the Indian Affairs FOIA Office on June 24, 2011. In your request you stated that on behalf of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that you are requesting "copies of all FOIA logs or other compilations of FOIA requests made to the Bureau of Indian Affairs from January 2010 to the present, including but not limited to the identity of the requester, and the date and subject of the request." With respect to your request, enclosed is one CD ROM disk containing the FOIA logs for Fiscal years 2010 and 2011, as scanned images (in PDF format). You have indicated that you prefer any response from the Bureau to be delivered by electronic means. Due to the mission of Indian Affairs, the majority of requests received by this office are firstparty and third-party requests and the documents contain personally identifiable information. The "Exempt Information" listed in the FOIA logs are Privacy Act requests. Privacy Act requests pertain only to individuals who are seeking records on themselves, either personally, or through an agency such as an attorney. The Privacy Act permits access to the individual requesting information on him or herself, including all of that person's own personal information. In general, the Privacy Act prohibits release of this information to others. Therefore, the name of the requester and information that would reveal the identity of the requester have been redacted from these reports. We classified your request as an "other use requester." As an "other use" requester the cost for processing a FOIA request (43 C.F.R 2.17(4)) entitles you to receive the first two hours of search time and the first 100 copies duplicated free of charge. In accordance with 43 CFR 2.16, the threshold for fees charged states that the bureau normally will not charge a fee where the fee would be $30.00 or less. However, in this particular instance we are administratively waiving all FOIA fees due to the fact that we were unable to provide a response to your request in the prescribed time frame. This completes our response to your request.

We apologize for this delayed response. If you have any questions please contact Laura Cloud, Indian Affairs FOIA Officer, at (202) 208-4542, by fax at (202) 208-6597, or by e-mail at foia@bia. gov. Sincerely,

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