Dove Schedule/ Itinerary

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* Tracking Number: DOI-FWS-2020-005960
* Requester Name: Jimmy Tobias
* Date Submitted: 09/29/2020
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:

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

All available calendars, daily itineraries, and schedules of activities for William "Billy" Dove, a political appointee at FWS, from January 1, 2019 through the date this request is processed.

I am a reporter for The Guardian and other outlets, and the requested documents will be made available to the general public. This request is not being made for commercial purposes.

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,

Jimmy Tobias

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REF: DOI-FWS-2020-005960
Dear Mr. Tobias:

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) FOIA office received your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated September 29, 2020 and assigned it tracking number DOI-FWS-2020-005960.  Please cite this number in any future communications with our office regarding your request.  You requested a ll available calendars, daily itineraries, and schedules of activities for William "Billy" Dove, a political appointee at FWS, from January 1, 2019 through the date this request is processed.

We have classified you as a representative of the news media.  As such, we may charge you for some of our duplication costs, but we will not charge you for our search or review costs; you also are entitled to up to 100 pages of photocopies (or an equivalent volume) for free. See .  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. (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=0fc3ab3499768eebc2e3691c8cf88dec&rgn=div5&view=text&node=43:1.1.1.1.2&idno=43#43:1.1.1.1.2.7.5.3) 43 C.F.R. § 2.39 See 43 C.F.R. § 2.37(g)

We use Multitrack Processing to process FOIA requests.  The Simple track is for requests that would generally take one to five workdays to process.  The Normal track is for requests that would generally take six to twenty workdays to process.  The Complex track is for requests that would generally take twenty-one to sixty workdays to process.  The Extraordinary track is for requests that would generally take more than sixty workdays to process.  The Expedited track is for requests that have been granted expedited processing, which are processed as soon as practicable.  Within each track, requests are usually processed on a first-in, first-out basis.

Your request falls into the Normal processing track.  There are 295 requests pending ahead of yours in this processing track.  Presuming that our current FOIA capacity and burden remain constant, we expect that we will dispatch a determination to you by November 7, 2021.

If you have any questions about our response to your request, you may contact me, by email at fwhq_foia@fws.gov, or by mail at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; ATTN: FOIA Office; 5275 Leesburg Pike; MS: IRTM; Falls Church, VA 22041. (mailto:fwhq_foia@fws.gov)

Sincerely,
Barbara Beckett
FWS FOIA Coordinator

Dear Mr. Tobias:

Please see the attached letter and enclosures reference Freedom of Information Act DOI-FWS-2020-005960 which has been processed with the following final disposition: Partial Grant/Partial Denial.

Records were released to the public as a result of this request. You may retrieve these records immediately using the following link: View Records Over the next 2 hours, these records are also being added to FOIAonline's search pages, further enabling you to retrieve these documents associated with your FOIA request at any time. (https://www.foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=DOI-FWS-2020-005960&type=request)

For additional information please feel free to contact me at fwhq_foia@fws.gov.

Thank you,
Barb