Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 4.djvu/957

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PUBLIC LAW 104-231—OCT. 2, 1996 110 STAT. 3053 the following: "The amount of information deleted shall be indicated on the released portion of the record, unless including that indication would harm an interest protected by the exemption in this subsection under which the deletion is made. If technically feasible, the amount of the information deleted shall be indicated at the place in the record where such deletion is made.". SEC. 10. REPORT TO THE CONGRESS. Section 552(e) of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(e)(1) On or before February 1 of each year, each agency shall submit to the Attorney General of the United States a report which shall cover the preceding fiscal year and which shall include— "(A) the number of determinations made by the agency not to comply with requests for records made to such agency under subsection (a) and the reasons for each such determination; "(B)(i) the number of appeals made by persons under subsection (a)(6), the result of such appeals, and the reason for the action upon each appeal that results in a denial of information; and "(ii) a complete list of all statutes that the agency relies Lists. upon to authorize the agency to withhold information under subsection (b)(3), a description of whether a court has upheld the decision of the agency to withhold information under each such statute, and a concise description of the scope of any information withheld; "(C) the number of requests for records pending before the agency as of September 30 of the preceding year, and the median number of days that such requests had been pending before the agency as of that date; "(D) the number of requests for records received by the agency and the number of requests which the agency processed; "(E) the median number of days taken by the agency to process different types of requests; "(F) the total amount of fees collected by the agency for processing requests; and "(G) the number of full-time staff of the agency devoted to processing requests for records under this section, and the total amount expended by the agency for processing such requests. "(2) Each agency shall make each such report available to the public including by computer telecommunications, or if computer telecommunications means have not been established by the agency, by other electronic means. "(3) The Attorney General of the United States shall make each report which has been made available by electronic means available at a single electronic access point. The Attorney General Notification. of the United States shall notify the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives and the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committees on Governmental Affairs and the Judiciary of the Senate, no later than April 1 of the year in which each such report is issued, that such reports are available by electronic means. "(4) The Attorney General of the United States, in consultation Guidelines, with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall 29-194O-96 -32:QL3Part4