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FOIA News: FOMC finalizes rule amending FOIA regulations

The Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee ("FOMC") finalized its interim final rule amending the agency's FOIA regulations in today's issue of the Federal Register.  The changes are required to comply with the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016.  Other minor technical modifications were introduced, too.  FOMC received one comment from the Office of Government Information Services.  The new FOIA regulations are effective November 1, 2017.