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LCD-78-109 1 (1978-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawse0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DCCURENT RESUME 0509b - B05454641I e.LiAd ~'/-& -, YJ., -)31 751 Administrative Markinqs by Agencies Not Restricting GAO Access to Government Documents. LCD-78-109; B-39772. kebruary 21, 1978. 3 pp. Report to Rep. qichardson Preyer, Chairman, House Committee on Government Oper'tions: Government Information and Individual Riqhts Subcommittee; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Federal Informpation: National Security Information Contact:. Logistics and Communications Div. Budqet Fanction: General Government: General Property and Records Management (804). Orqanization Concernea: General acccunting Office. congressional Relevance: ouse Committee on Government Operations: Government information and Individual Rights Subcommittee. Rep. Richardson Prejer. Authority: V.P.R. 1-2.407-8. A.S.P.E° 2-407.8. Freedom of Information Act. mnile most Federal agencies use administrative markings and other identification codes to restrict access to Governmant documents, a poll of GAO operating div',sions did not reveal any speciZic instance where these markings restricted access to documents. This does not preclude the possibility that, in some instances, data were not made availatle because of a management decision not to release for review data bearing administrative markings. From time to time, GAO has experienced some problems in gaining access to information in various ig*L%.ies; those restrictions were not related to administrative markings but to questions concerning authority for access to certain types of data. ULder Bid Protest Procedures, access to documentation relevant to the issues raised in the protest and in the possession of tbe contracting agency may be restricted from the public by law, regulation, or administrative markings. The report GAO receives generally contains all pertinent material. Even if such information is not furnished with the report, GAO eLcounters little, if any, difficulty in securing it from the agency upon request. A protester may submit a request to the contractinq agency under the Freedom of Information Act for material not included in its copy of the agency report. Administrative markings did not prevent the publication of material in the 1975-76 Congressional Sourcebook Series; aqencies were told that availability statements could not limit access to data published in the Sourcetooks. (RRS)

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