Oliver Salmon Smelt

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* Tracking Number: DOC-NOAA-2020-000658
* Requester Name: Jimmy Tobias
* Date Submitted: 02/05/2020
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:

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

Any written or electronic communications, including email attachments, sent or received by Chris Oliver that contains one or more of the following key words or phrases: "salmon", "smelt", "Bernhardt", "Souza", "biop", "biological opinion", and/or "jeopardy". This request does not seek daily news aggregations or anything of that sort. It is only interested in communications Mr. Oliver has had concerning the Department's handling of the draft and final biological opinions issued in 2019 for salmon and delta smelt in California. For more context, you can read this article from the LA Times about the issue: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-22/trump-weakens-endangered-species-protections-california-salmon-delta-smelt

This request seeks records produced since January 1, 2019. I am a reporter for The Guardian and The Nation.

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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Good morning, we conducted a search with the keywords you sent and identified 10,166 potentially responsive emails. Do you have any suggestions on how we can narrow this to get better results to you?
Thanks,
Ryan

Please see the attached related to your FOIA request.

DOC-NOAA-2020-000658 has been approved for an interim release.

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Please see attached Interim Response Letter for details on this release.

M. Omer Pervaiz

FOIA Coordinator

DOC-NOAA-2020-000658 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: 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. View Records (https://www.foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=DOC-NOAA-2020-000658&type=request)