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RCED-85-101 1 (1985-04-24)

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    Z ;  Thi     UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                       -    5, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY.                      7
AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
     DIVISION

       B-21 7906                                            APRIL24,1985




       The Honorable Glenn English
       Chairman, Subcommittee on Government
         Information, Justice, and Agriculture
       Committee on Government Operations
       House of Representatives

       Dear Mr. Chairman:

            Subject: Concerns Regarding the Nuclear Regulatory
                      Commission's Implementation of the Freedom of
                      Information Act (GAO/RCED-85-101)


            In an October 3, 1984, letter, you requested that we review
       the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) implementation of the
       Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552) with respect to
       allegations made during testimony before your Subcommittee on
       June 20, 1984. A representative of the Nuclear Information and
       Resource Service (Information Service), a clearinghouse for
       information on nuclear power plants, charged that NRC frequently
       ignores and violates the FOIA by

            --removing or destroying documents to avoid disclosure;

            --abusing exemption 5 of the FOIA, which applies to
              pre-decisional documents;

            --consistently failing to meet the time limits specified in
              the FOIA; and

            --running its FOIA operations using unwritten and
              erratic rules.

            On January 24, 1985, we provided a briefing to your office on
       the results of our survey work. At that time, we were told that
       you would not require any further work on this subject and we were
       asked to summarize the problems and concerns that were raised
       about NRC's FOIA operations. The following is a discussion of our
       survey results, including our objective, scope, and methodology,
       and background on the FOIA.



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