Another shutdown victim: FOIA rules debate
Michael Doyle, E&E News, Jan. 15, 2019
The partial government shutdown has muted public debate over an Interior Department proposal that would effectively impose new limits on the Freedom of Information Act.
Halfway into a public review period scheduled to end Jan. 28, Interior has logged at least 1,219 comments. That's been enough to periodically vault the department's FOIA proposals into the ranks of "trending" on the federal government's Regulations.gov website.
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