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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
20 DAYS TO RESPOND TO ARCHIVE; OUTSTANDING REQUESTS AS OLD
AS 1 YEAR
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Ten Oldest - NRC responded approximately 20 business
days after the request was made; it reported ten FOIA requests
ranging from May 7, 2002 to October 17, 2002. The requests
included ones for records pertaining to the removal of information
from Web sites, reading rooms or other repositories after
the September 11 attacks, environmental complaints and conservation
actions at addresses in Hicksville, New York, records concerning
the Modular High-Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HNTGR) and
the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MFR), the NRC commissioners'
travel and telephone logs, calendars, and meetings with representatives
of industry, a contract with Sylvania Corning Nuclear Corporation
to produce uranium fuel and nuclear materials licenses issued
to the same company, records regarding the research and production
facility at Hicksville, New York owned and operated by Sylvania
Corning Nuclear Corporation and others including documents
from 1948 to the present, all correspondence and communications
between the agency and a list of current and past high level
government officials and presidential candidates, information
about several employment discrimination cases, and records
regarding the significance determination process for the reactor
vessel head degradation at Davis Besse. |
Workload Statistics - NRC's reported statistics from
1998 through 2002 indicate that the agency saw a reduction
in FOIA request for 1999-2001, but recently received an increase
in the number of FOIA requests (down 5.86% from 461 in 1998
to 434 in 2002). The number processed each year has followed
a similar pattern (down 4.91% from 448 processed in 1998 to
426 processed in 2002). NRC's processing rate per year --
a comparison of the number of requests processed to the number
received -- increased from 97.18% in 1998 to 98.16% in 2002.
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Backlog Statistics - NRC's backlog of pending FOIA
requests has remained relatively stable (from 53 FOIA requests
pending at the end of 1998 to 55 FOIA requests pending at
the end of 2002). NRC's backlog as a percentage of FOIA requests
processed each year has increased from 11.83% in 1998 to 12.91%
in 2002. Its backlog rate per year -- a comparison of the
number of requests pending at the end of the year to the number
received during that year -- has remained relatively stable
from 12.15% in 1998 to 12.67% in 2002. |
Processing Time - While its median days to process
simple requests has ranged from 14-19 days over the 1998-2002
period, its median days to process complex requests has ranged
from 15-75 days over the 1998-2002 period. The median days
that backlogged requests have been pending has is reported
as 22-218 days for 2002. Expedited requests have a median
processing time range of 16-203 days over the 2000-2002 time
period. NRC's FY 2002 annual FOIA report indicates that it
has increased internal reporting to heighten management awareness
of pending cases and added records to its publicly accessible
electronic reading room in an effort to improve its timeliness
and reduce its backlog. |
TEN
OLDEST REQUESTS
NRC Response Letter
NRC May 7, 2001 Letter
NRC June 24, 2002 Letter
NRC July 8, 2002 Letter
NRC July 9, 2002 Letter
NRC August 16, 2002 Letter
NRC August 20, 2002 Letter
NRC September 3, 2002 Letter
NRC September 19, 2002 Letter
NRC October 4, 2002
(1) Letter
NRC October 4, 2002
(2) Letter
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