OGIS Publishes NRC FOIA Compliance Assessment Report

Office of Gov’t Info. Serv., Sept. 17, 2020 

OGIS’s latest agency compliance assessment delivers six findings and 10 recommendations for  improving FOIA compliance and administration at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear medicine.

NRC requested that OGIS review its FOIA program as part of its efforts to improve it. OGIS assessments include an analysis of FOIA data; a review of written materials such as FOIA regulations, standard operating procedures, management reports, Chief FOIA Officer reports and agency FOIA case files; direct observations; and interviews with agency employees and officials with responsibility for FOIA administration. 

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