Agency secondments

Todd Feathers filed this request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States of America.

It is a clone of this request.

Tracking #

DOC-NIST-2021-001806

24-FC-0029

DOC-NIST-2021-001806

Status
Completed

Communications

From: Todd Feathers

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1) Documentation of all secondments that have been approved by NIST since Jan. 1, 2015. Secondments are agreements that allow an employee of an outside business, organization, or government agency to work with/for NIST, or vice versa.

2) All agency policies regarding secondments.

I ask that all fees be waived as I am a journalist and intend to use the requested records to publish articles in the public interest about the workings of government. In the event you choose to impose fees, I request a detailed breakdown of the fees, including the hourly wage of each employ involved and an explanation justifying the employee hours required to fulfill the request.

Should you choose to reject this request or redact portions of it, I ask that you provide a detailed breakdown of the statutory exemptions and associated case law underlying your decision to withhold each/any portions from public review.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Todd Feathers

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Afternoon Mr. Feathers,

Please find, (attached), our office correspondence of Acknowledgement Letter for your recently received FOIA request.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Afternoon Mr. Feathers,

Please find, (attached), our office correspondence of Fee Waiver Letter for your recently received FOIA request.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

  • DOC-NIST-2021-001806_FeeWaiverDenial+UnderThreshold_7-27-2021

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

Please find, (attached), our office correspondence of Extension Letter for your recently received FOIA request.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

The status of your request is that we have recently received responsive documents submitted from the office of record to the FOIA office for processing. We are currently sorting and processing the documents and performing any additional review as required in accordance with the FOIA. We will notify you officially as soon as we have reached the next stage in the process, or sooner should any additional questions arise that would require your attention.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Afternoon Mr. Feathers,

The initial volume of responsive documents we received from the office of record were pulled back for an addition to their submission and, on (9/27), they resubmitted their official response to our office. We are now in the process of reviewing their submission in the FOIA office and will be able to inform you officially as soon as we have reached the next stage of the process.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Afternoon Mr. Feathers,

We are still working with the responsive office of record regarding the responsive documents that are required for your FOIA request. We will be in contact with you to provide you with our official correspondence as soon as we have reached the next stage of the FOIA process.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

At this time, we are in process of reviewing the documents responsive to your request as they were received by the office of record. Following our review, we will then be organizing them for their submission to our legal department for the final review. As soon as we are able, we will be in contact with you to provide you with our official correspondence, (as well as any applicable document attachments), once we have reached and cleared that stage of the FOIA process.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

As a courtesy to you for the interim, I wanted to inform you that the responsive documents have been delivered to our legal department for their review. We hope to receive a response from them soon. Thank you for your continued patience throughout this process.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: Todd Feathers

Thank you very much for the update, I appreciate it!

Todd

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

We expect to have an interim response to provide to you, with a portion of your requested documents, very soon. Following the clearance of our necessary oversight responsibility, I expect to have the interim package out to you this week.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Mail Stop: 1710
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

The status of this request is that we have the responsive documents received in our FOIA office and are processing them for review and release. An unforeseen circumstance arose during the course of our review process that the office of record informed and presented to us new information belonging to other entities that they had overlooked in their initial submission to our office. This offset our previous endeavors to ensuring accuracy and our requirement to oversight in protecting any associated parties. Having now incorporated this new information into our hold of responsive documents for this request, we are again proceeding with the review process and will continue to keep you updated with our progress towards fulfillment as soon as we are able.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Morning Mr. Feathers,

We are still working on review of Responsive Documents and they will be forwarded to you on a rolling basis as they become available.
We understand and appreciate your continued patience.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/Mgmt. & Org. Office
https://www.nist.gov/office-director/freedom-information-act
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Good Afternoon Mr. Feathers,

I have been working diligently with 'many' offices for the responsive documents of your request. The status of this request is that we have received responsive documents in the FOIA office and those documents are currently with other entities for their outside review and determination. Documents will be released to you on a rolling basis as soon as they are made available for dissemination to you.

*(PLEASE NOTE): In the interim, please send all future communications for your FOIA request to our main FOIA inbox: FOIA@NIST.gov<mailto:FOIA@NIST.gov>. As of tomorrow morning, I will be out of the office and I am thereafter undertaking temporary assignment with another office in my agency. The FOIA Officer will be making reassignment of my casefile workload in the very near future and I wished to inform you of this to ensure that you have the best in customer service with regard to maintaining open communications with our office.

Thank you, Respectfully

Charles A. Wasil
Management Analyst
NIST/OD/M&O Office/FOIA
Phone#: (301) 975-3111 - (Option #8)

Customer Service: How was my service today? Please take a moment to share your feedback with my supervisor, Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov<mailto:Catherine.Fletcher@nist.gov>.

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thank you for writing to check on the status of your FOIA request. I was re-assigned to this request and am reviewing the records. We are still going through the submitter notification process and will send you documents on a rolling basis as soon as they are available for release.

Sincerely,

Amy Egan
Management and Organization Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
301-975-2819

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

We are still working through the submitter notification process and I anticipate having an interim response with some of the documents to send to you soon.

Thank you,

Amy Egan
Management and Organization Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
301-975-2819

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Please see the attached interim response letter. I am sending the actual documents to you via our secure file transfer. You will receive a second email that will appear to come from itac@nist.gov<mailto:itac@nist.gov>. You may need to create an account to access the files. Please let me know if you have any difficulty accessing the files.

Additional documents will be sent on a rolling basis as they are available for release.

Thank you,

Amy Egan
Management and Organization Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
301-975-2819

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

"Per my email, please see the attached documents.

Thank you,

Amy Egan

NIST FOIA Office"

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

"Per my email, please see the attached documents.

Thank you,

Amy Egan

NIST FOIA Office"

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Please see the attached interim response letter. I am sending the actual documents to you via our secure file transfer. You will receive a second email that will appear to come from itac@nist.gov<mailto:itac@nist.gov>. You may need to create an account to access the files. Please let me know if you have any difficulty accessing the files.

Additional documents will be sent on a rolling basis as they are available for release.

Thank you,

Amy Egan
Management and Organization Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
301-975-2819

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dear Todd Feathers,

Case Number 24-FC-0029 has been assigned to the request you submitted. In all future correspondence regarding this request please reference case number 24-FC-0029.
Regards,
OSD/JS or DLA FOIA Requester Service Center

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dear Todd Feathers,
The status of your Consultation request #24-FC-0029 has been updated to the following status 'Received'. To log into the PAL Application click on the Application URL below.

https://pal.whs.mil

Sincerely,
OSD/JS or DLA FOIA Requester Service Center

From: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Please see the attached final response and responsive documents.

Thank you,

Amy Egan
Management and Organization Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology
301-975-2819

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