BLM Office of Energy, Minerals and Realty Management & BLM Office of Law Enforcement and Security - Personnel and Budget Data

Sarah Lamdan filed this request with the Bureau of Land Management of the United States of America.
Tracking #

2017-00578

Status
Completed

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From: Sarah Lamdan

To Whom It May Concern:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:

Records reflecting the current personnel staffing levels and organizational structure (organizational charts, etc.), as well as the personnel budget for the BLM office of Energy, Minerals and Realty Management and for the BLM Office of Law Enforcement and Security. We also request personnel and budget-related records reflecting the personnel organization and budget for these offices from the months of November 2016, December 2016, and January 2016.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

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,

Sarah Lamdan

From: FOIA, BLM_WO

Hello,

Just for clarification, do you mean November 2016, December 2016 and
January 2017 as opposed to November 2016, December 2016 and January 2016?
Please advise.

Thank you,
Maritiza Harris

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: FOIA, BLM_WO

Hello Ms. Lamdan,

Our FOIA office received your FOIA request, dated March 2, 2017. We have
assigned it control number 2017-00578. Please cite this number in any
future communications with our office regarding your request.

In your request you asked for the following:

"Records reflecting the current personnel staffing levels and
organizational structure (organizational charts, etc.), as well as the
personnel budget for the BLM office of Energy, Minerals and Realty
Management and for the BLM Office of Law Enforcement and Security. We also
request personnel and budget-related records reflecting the personnel
organization and budget for these offices from the months of November 2016,
December 2016, and January 2016."

We have classified you as an “other” requester. As such, we may charge you
for some of our search and duplication costs, but we will not charge you
for our review costs; you are also entitled to up to 2 hours of search time
and 100 pages of photocopies (or an equivalent volume) for free. See 43
C.F.R. § 2.39. If, after taking into consideration your fee category
entitlements, our processing costs are less than $50.00, we will not bill
you because the cost of collection would be greater than the fee collected.
See 43 C.F.R. § 2.49(a)(1)

We use Multitrack Processing to process FOIA requests. The Simple track is
for requests that can be processed in one to five workdays. The
Normal track is for requests that can be processed in six to twenty
workdays. The Complex track is for requests that can be processed in
twenty-one to sixty workdays. The Exceptional/Voluminous track is for
requests requiring more than sixty workdays for processing. The
Expedited track is for requests that have been granted expedited
processing. Within each track, requests are usually processed on a
first-in, first-out basis.

This request falls into the complex track. Even though we normally process
requests on a first-in, first-out basis, because of the nature of your
request and the circumstances surrounding this request, we will prioritize
and process your request as the records become available.

If you have any questions, please contact us at BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov or
202-912-7650. Thank you for your interest in public lands and in programs
and activities of the BLM.

Thank you,
Maritiza Harris on behalf of Keiosha Alexander

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: Sarah Lamdan

Hello Ms. Harris and Ms. Alexander. I am sorry for the delay in responding to your May 9, 2017 request for clarification. Thank you, yes, I meant to write January 2017 and did not mean to write January 2016. November 2016 and December 2016 were, as you predicted, correctly set forth.

Also, could you please provide a status for this FOIA request? Thank you. Sarah Lamdan

From: FOIA, BLM_WO

Good afternoon,

We are still currently collecting records for this request. I will send
you an update once we've received all of the records from the respective
program offices and we begin processing your request.

Thank you,
Keiosha Alexander

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: FOIA, BLM_WO

Good afternoon,

As an update to the previous email, we do have documents from one of the
program offices. We will process these and release them to you as an
interim release while we wait on receipt of the additional records.

Thank you,
Keiosha Alexander

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: Sarah Lamdan

Great. Thank you!

From: Bureau of Land Management

Good afternoon,

I am writing up update you on the status of this request. We are still in
the process of gathering all of the records, but we do have some records to
release. We will be making an interim release to you soon.

Thank you,
Keiosha Alexander

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: Bureau of Land Management

Good afternoon,

Please find the attached interim response below for FOIA Request 2017-00578.

Thank you,
Keiosha

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: Bureau of Land Management

On 3/2/17 you submitted a FOIA request to the Bureau of Land Management.

At this time the Bureau is inquiring to see if you have a continuing
interest in receiving records responsive to this request. We are
attempting to best service all of our requesters by working on cases for
which there is an ongoing and continuing need.

If we do not receive your reply in the affirmative within 60 business days
the BLM will assume you are no longer interesting in pursuing this request
and we will administratively close it.

Thank you,
Keiosha Alexander

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

From: Bureau of Land Management

Good Afternoon Ms Lamdan,

Please find attached document below.

Thank you.

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Washington Office FOIA Coordinators
Bureau of Land Management
Phone: 202-912-7650
Fax: 202-245-0027
*BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov <BLM_WO_FOIA@blm.gov>*

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