ML20052F705
| ML20052F705 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 05/29/1981 |
| From: | Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Czapanskiy K JUSTICE, DEPT. OF |
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| ML20052F704 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-82-169 NUDOCS 8205130433 | |
| Download: ML20052F705 (4) | |
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'i NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHING TON, D. C. 205$5 f[\\
02 'JJi! RECD MAY 2 91981 Ms. Karen Czapanskiy, Acting Director Office of Infonnation Law and Policy Department of Justice Washington, DC 20530
Dear Ms. Czapanskiy:
This is in response to your memorandum of May 7,1981 requesting legislative proposals for amending the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), cost data on administering the F0IA, and statistical infonnation concerning the actual users of the F0IA.
As Mr. John Carr, Chief, Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts Branch, NRC, indicated to you on the telephone, the NRC has no new legislative proposals for amending the F0IA.
The costs to the NRC for administering the F0IA in 1980 are shown in Appendix A.
In developing the cost data, we have used the same guidelines contained in Mr. Robert L. Saloschin's memorandum of Jaunary 15, 1979.
Us.ing those guidelines, the costs for administering the F0IA in 1980
/ere$1,531,194 compared to $947,976 in 1978.
However, as we pointed out inWr to Mr. Saloschin dated March 22, 1979,'a substantial
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amount of these costs relate to the maintenance of the NRC Public Document Room in Washington, DC and over 140 local document collections throughout
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the U.S.
This program started in the 1950's, prior to the enactment of the FOIA, in order to make available to the public documents considered by the staff in its licensing and regulatory activities.
Similarly, a large portion of the 1980 costs relate to the NRC's Document Control System, which was established primarily to make licensing information more readily available to the technical staff.
The actual manpower c,sts associated with processing F0IA requests in 1980, including overhead and fringe benefits, totaled approximately $593,285.
Appendices B and C show the number of requests received by requester category and the amount of time spent processing requests by requester category for 1976 to 1980.
If you have any questions, please telephone me on 492-7211.
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J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration
Enclosures:
As stated 8205130433 820412 PDR FOIA ULLMAN 82-169 PDR
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Costs of Administering the FOIA in 1980
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3 Direct Costs
$1,223,364 (Includes personnel costs, (plus overhead and fringe benefits), operation of.NRC document rooms, printing and distribution of agency decisions and regulations, reproduction, and equipment)
Other Costs 307,930--
(Including FOIA portion of the document control system, training, and F0IA publications)
TOTAL
$1,531,194 Z:::::.
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission LISTING 0F F01A REQUESTS RECElVED BY REQUESTER CA,TEGORY R_E0VESTER GROUP liUMBER OF F01A REQUESTS RECEly_ED_
1978 1979 1980 Private Citizen (s) 45 138
- 197, Media 31 48 39'!/
NRC Employee 16 39 64 Commercial Enterprises -
58 71 76 -
NRC Contract Bidder 26
'30 38 -
Law Firms 28 107 89 Colleges / Universities 11 19 16 /
State and Local Government 11 8
12 Union 4
4 20 stural Resources Defense Council 37 28 7
.fublic interest 60 67 65-
{6 Public Interest Research Group 0
3 Critical Mass 4
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2-Union of Concerned Scientists 18 1
8 TOTAL 349 566 639 APPENDIX B e
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission BREAKDOWN OF TIME BY. REQUESTER CATEGORY
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1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 7iTEREST GROUPS 10,215 14,429 7,348 6,526 3,737 Natural Resources Defense Council (685)
(2,647)
(2,992)
(2,644)
(1,347)
Public Interest Research Group (816)
(759)
(0)
(256)
(11)
Union of Concerned Scientists (6,126)
(5,223)
(1,620)
(1,002)
(76)
Center for Science in the Public Interest (3,511)
(269)
(6)
(0)
Critical Mass /
(305)
(99)
(53) a Other Interest Groups (2,588)
(2,289)
(2,162)
(2,519)
(2,250)
MEDIA.
80 6,422 - 2,646 1,731 904 LAW FIRMS
. 544 5,122 911 2,556 3,444 COMPANIES 84 1,151 1,559 1,479 1,322 NRC EMPLOYEES 382 744 271 1,474
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1,109 992 3,399 3,175 f
TMIVERSITIES 442 382 686 424 CONTRACTORS 1,837 721 553 338 STATE AND' LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 4,990f 394.
535 501 319 b
UNIONS 165 0
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TOTAL 16,730 31,288' ~16,003 17,702 l5,445
_a/1976 and 1977 hours0.0229 days <br />0.549 hours <br />0.00327 weeks <br />7.522485e-4 months <br /> reported under "Other Interest Groups" b/ Includes 4,961 hours0.0111 days <br />0.267 hours <br />0.00159 weeks <br />3.656605e-4 months <br /> for the requests by the State on New York for GESM3 documents.
A similar request was made by a law firm on behalf
. of an industrial requester.
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APPENDIX C
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