USBR Fresno River Cabinet Contents List Binders 3, 4 and 5

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* Tracking Number: DOI-BOR-2020-005926
* Requester Name: Gurmeet Suman
* Date Submitted: 09/27/2020
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:

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

USBR Fresno River Cabinet Contents List Binders 3, 4 and 5

I am requesting binders 3, 4 and 5. Please see the attached Cabinet Contents List.

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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,

Gurmeet Suman

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Subject: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request – DOI-BOR-2020-005926
Dear Mr. Suman:
This letter is in initial response to your FOIA request dated September 27, 2020. Your request and document were received by the California Great-Basin regional office on October 8, 2020. The request was assigned the FOIA tracking number DOI-BOR-2020-005926. Please use this number in all future communications regarding the request.
The request is for copies of “USBR Fresno River Cabinet Contents List Binders 3,4, and 5” of the Cabinet Contents List – Fresno River (List). Your requester category is evaluated as ‘other,’ and the request will be placed in the ‘normal’ processing track.
Your request did not completely address processing fees. You did ask to be notified in advance if fees will be required. Including your entitlements as an all other category requester, our estimate is that converting the records from paper to electronic will cost $300. The estimate includes 11 hours of conversion time at the clerical rate of $27 per hour. The cost may be more or less than the estimated fee. If it appears the processing fees are likely to exceed the estimate or the amount you are willing to pay, we will stop processing the request at that point and contact you for further authorization.
You must provide in writing a statement of your willingness to pay all or a portion of the estimated fee before we can accept your request. Pursuant to 43 CFR §2.49, if the bureau does not receive your written response containing the additional information that resolves any fee issues, in accordance with paragraphs (b)(2) and/or (b)(4) of this section, within 20 workdays after the bureau has requested it, the bureau will presume that you are no longer interested in the records and will close the file on the request.
The 2007 FOIA amendments created the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) to offer mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. Using OGIS services does not affect your right to pursue litigation. You may contact OGIS in any of the following ways: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, MD 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov, commercial telephone at 202-741-5770, fax: 202-741-5769, or by toll-free telephone at 877-684-6448. Please note that using OGIS services does not affect the timing of filing an appeal with the Department’s FOIA & Privacy Act Appeals Officer.
Pursuant to 43 CFR § 2.19, we are making available our FOIA Public Liaison to assist in resolving any disputes between you and Reclamation. The acting FOIA Public Liaison is
Ms. Cindy Cafaro. The public liaison can be reached by telephone at (888) 603-7119. For correspondence, the mailing address is Department of the Interior FOIA Office, MS-5558, MIB, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240.
If you have any questions about this response, please contact the undersigned at 916-978-5554, or e-mail sha-MPR-FOIA@usbr.gov. (mailto:sha-MPR-FOIA@usbr.gov)
Sincerely,
Christopher Miller
Regional FOIA Officer

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To whom it may concern,

No need to provide payment at this time. The office who is doing the copy job found that the task of converting the records is bigger than expected and they also tell me there is only one clerical person in the office for all their administrative work. They hope to finish by end of next week. Thank you for your patience.

V/R

Regional FOIA Officer
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Region 10 · California-Great Basin
Telephone (916) 978-5554
"Please do not forward attachments unnecessarily"

A letter stating the requester must agree to or prepay assessed or estimated fees in order for the agency to continue processing the request.

To whom it may concern,

The records you have requested have been processed. Please see the attached 'Further Response Letter' and the 'Bill for Collection.' We have processed the records and are ready to provide them to you after we receive the payment of processing fees pursuant to 43 CFR § 2.37 (c). A copy of the letter and Bill have been put in postal mail this afternoon.

Thank you in advance.

V/R

Chris Miller
Regional FOIA Officer
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Region 10 · California-Great Basin
Telephone (916) 978-5554
"Please do not forward attachments unnecessarily"

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Mr. Suman,

If we have not received the check in close to a month then I believe you should put a stop payment on the original check and send another check to the address on the attached bill for collection.

Thank you.

V/R

Christopher S. Miller

Regional FOIA Officer
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Region 10 · California-Great Basin
Telephone (916) 978-5554
"Please do not forward attachments unnecessarily"

Dear Gurmeet Suman,

Your FOIA request DOI-BOR-2020-005926 has been processed. We are awaiting payment from you in the amount of $297.00.

A copy of a letter from you, dated April 7 was forwarded to me on April 27. It is a copy of the email that you sent to my office on April 7. I replied to that email on April 7 (see below) and explained that we have not received any payment from you and for you to re-submit the payment. Please be sure to send your FOIA fee check to the address provided on the Bill for Collection (attached). Please give me a call if you have any questions. Thank you.

V/R

Christopher S. Miller

Regional FOIA Officer
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Region 10 · California-Great Basin
Telephone (916) 978-5554
"Please do not forward attachments unnecessarily"

Gurmeet Suman,

Please give me a call. We will need to close this request as paid or unpaid, very soon.

V/R

Christopher S. Miller

Regional FOIA Officer
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Region 10 · California-Great Basin
Telephone (916) 978-5554
"Please do not forward attachments unnecessarily"

The FOIA
request
- DOI-BOR-2020-005926 has been supplemented with additional supporting files. Additional details for this item are as follows:

* Tracking Number: DOI-BOR-2020-005926
* Requester: Gurmeet Suman
* Submitted Date: 09/27/2020
* Description:
USBR Fresno River Cabinet Contents List Binders 3, 4 and 5

Dear Mr. Suman:

This letter is in final response to your FOIA request dated September 27, 2020.  Your request and document were received by the California Great-Basin regional office on October 8, 2020.  ​This response supplements our previous letter to you dated March 12, 2021.  We received your payment by money order payment on May 24, 2021.  The request is for copies of “USBR Fresno River Cabinet Contents List Binders 3,4, and 5” of the Cabinet Contents List – Fresno River (List).

For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

See 5 U.S.C. 552(c) (2006 & Supp. IV 2010).  This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA.  This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist.

We located 150 records that are considered responsive to your request.  We are providing copies of 149 records with 1,567 pages.  The records, titled Release Portfolio, were uploaded to the FOIA Online website on May 26, 2021.  We were unable to locate copies of two records, 1995_0828 Letter from D. Rathman to J. Turner and 1995_0831 Meeting Notes.  Three records that total six pages have been redacted and one four-page letter has been withheld pursuant to Exemption b(5) of the FOIA.

Exemption 5 of the FOIA allows an agency to withhold inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party in litigation with the agency.  Exemption 5 therefore incorporates the privileges that protect materials from discovery in litigation, including the deliberative process, attorney work-product, attorney-client, and commercial information privileges.  The excised material is attorney client communications and deliberative comments between an attorney and their client seeking legal advice.  The withheld letter is a letter written and mailed by a Department of the Interior attorney to the Bureau of Reclamation for which legal advice was sought.

The partial denial of this information was made after consultation with Ms. Allison B. Mitchell, Attorney – Advisor, Pacific Southwest Region, Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior.  The Reclamation officials responsible for this decision are Ms. Cynthia P. Gaines,

Manager, Administrative Services Division, and the undersigned.  If you consider this partial denial to be a denial of your request pursuant to 43 CFR § 2.57(a)(1), you may submit an appeal by facsimile at 202-208-6677, by electronic mail (FOIA.Appeals@sol.doi.gov), or by mail to:

Department of the Interior

Office of the Solicitor

Attn:  FOIA/Privacy Act Appeals Office

1849 C Street, N.W.

MS 6556 MIB

Washington, DC  20240

If you choose to appeal, the FOIA/Privacy Act Appeals Officer must receive your appeal no later than 90 workdays from the date of this letter.  Appeals arriving or delivered after 5 p.m. EDT, Monday through Friday, will be deemed received on the next workday.  Your appeal must be in writing.  All communications concerning your appeal should be clearly marked with the words “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION APPEAL.”

You must include an explanation of why you believe Reclamation’s response is in error.  You must also include with your appeal copies of all correspondence between you and Reclamation concerning your FOIA request, including your original FOIA request and Reclamation’s response.  Failure to include with your appeal all correspondence between you and Reclamation will result in the Department of the Interior’s rejection of your appeal, unless the FOIA/Privacy Act Officer determines (in the FOIA/Privacy Act Appeals Officer’s sole discretion) that good cause exists to accept the defective appeal.  Please include your name and daytime telephone number (or the name and telephone number of an appropriate contact), email address and fax number (if available) in case the FOIA/Privacy Act Officer needs additional information or clarification of your appeal.

Pursuant to 43 CFR § 2.19, we are making available our FOIA Public Liaison to assist in resolving any disputes between you and Reclamation.  The acting Public Liaison is Ms. Cindy Cafaro.  The public liaison can be reached by telephone at (888) 603-7119.  For correspondence, the mailing address is Department of the Interior FOIA Office, MS-5558, MIB, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC  20240.

The 2007 FOIA amendments created the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) to offer mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation.  Using OGIS services does not affect your right to pursue litigation.  You may contact OGIS in any of the following ways:  Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, MD  20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov, commercial telephone at 202-741-5770, fax: 202-741-5769, or by toll-free telephone at 877-684-6448.  Please note that using OGIS services does not affect the timing of filing an appeal with the Department’s FOIA & Privacy Act Appeals Officer.

If you have any questions about this response, please contact the undersigned at 916-978-5554, or e-mail sha-MPR-FOIA@usbr.gov.

Sincerely,

Christopher S. Miller

Regional FOIA Officer

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