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FOIA Request #08-040
FOIA Request #08-040
Action Assigned to: Code(s) l!AsA(;ISJ Date: ~1/O3 *SUSPENSE DATE: ;;1/3) o"i}
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D Additional records located at the National Records Center will be retrieved by this office
and copies will be provided to the FOIA Office for review. (Contact the FOIA Office if
records are determined to be voluminous.)
D Estimated volume of additional records: (No. of Boxes)
D Estimated additional time needed to retrieve records:
*The suspense date is assigned to allow for adequate review and processing time by the FOIA Office
and the Legal Office to ensure issuance of a response in compliance within the 20 working days as
required by law. All records provided by the action office are reviewed and release determination
is based on NASA FOIA Regulations as published in the Federal Register under Title 14,
Chapter V, Part 1206 (14CFR Part 1206)
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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552 et seq., please provide
us within twenty (20) days copies of all records, documents, internal communications and
other relevant covered material created by, provided to, received and/or sent by an
official of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) that cites, references,
discusses or otherwise relates to the content, importance or propriety of posts or entries
by this individual on the weblog or "blog" http://www.realclimate.org/. alternately styled
in correspondence as "ReaIClimate", "Real Climate", "RC", or "the blog".
Responsive documents do not include mere copies of, but reference to, such posts.
This request contemplates documents in electronic format if you possess them as such,
otherwise photocopies are acceptable.
Please also identify and inform us of all responsive or potentially responsive documents
within the statutorily prescribed time, and the basis of any claimed exemptions and to
which specific responsive or potentially responsive document(s) such objection applies.
Further, please inform us of the basis of any partial denials or redactions.
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Phone: (202) 331-1010 . Fax: (202) 331-0640. E-mail: [email protected] . Web site: http://www.cei.org
Documents covered by this Request will have been received or produced by your
office(s) and/or otherwise dated between 1stJanuary 2007 and the date you comply
with the request (see Horner et al. v. EPA, DC DC 2001).
We request your office(s) waive any fees associated with this request on the basis that
CEI is a nonprofit, tax-exempt public interest organization, with formal research,
educational and publication functions as part of its mission, and because release of these
records will serve the public interest by contributing significantly to the public's
understanding of the role of public officials and taxpayer resources in public advocacy,
and because such a release is not primarily in our organization's commercial interest.
If our fee waiver request is denied we are willing to pay up to $150.00, and in the event
of any appeal as appropriate and regardless of that outcome or your response to this fee
waiver request we request the search and document production proceed in the interim.
CEl's interest in the documents derives from its efforts to educate the public, scholars
and state and federal legislatures on particular matters of governmental operation,
including but not limited to "climate" policy, data integrity and the interaction of
government with private individuals and/or associations of individuals in science and
policy, and public pronouncements on same. Further, the issue of civil servants speaking
publicly about climate change is increasingly of public interest, including through calls
for (certain) spokesmen to cease posting on even official weblogs or "blogs".
Neither CEI nor any foreseeable party will derive economic benefit from the requested
material.
The general and policy-oriented public will benefit through the dissemination of the
findings and works produced as a result of the information received. A fairly widespread
portion of the public at large, as opposed to a narrow spectrum of individuals, will
receive this benefit, primarily through CEI whose professionals are widely published and
have an extensive media and internet presence to discuss topical policy matters.
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Phone: (202) 331-1010 . Fax: (202) 331-0640. E-mail: [email protected] . Web site: http://www.cei.org
No "specialized use" of the documents is anticipated outside of that described herein.
3) Dissemination of Information
CEI publishes that upon which it works via print and electronic media, as well as
newsletters to legislators, education professionals and other interested parties. Those
activities are in fulfillment of CEl' s mission.
We are mindful of the narrowness of the search that this Request requires of NASA.
Sincerely,