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B-173761 1 (1978-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 99 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFIc OF GENERAL. COUNSEL B173761 JAN 5 WS Mr. Marty w. K. Taylor Attorney at Law S P.0. sox 827 Saipan, Worthen Marita= Islands 96950 Dear Wr. Taylor: This is in reply to yor letter of December 9,.'1977, requesting copies of all docuants, recordsi, letters, notes, and reports cow-oca g our audit relating to the )ytcronasian Claims Comission. Your letter cites the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. £552. AM an agency responsibIe to the Cogress, the General Accounting Office (GAO) is not subject to. the provisions of tUat Act4 It is or policy bowevr, to make our records available to the public to the extent disclosure is consIst*nt with our function and respmslbilities to the Congress and is not prohibited by law. We have. ismsed rteulations con- carning the availability of GAO records to the public. These repUlations are contained in Fart 81 of title 4 of the Cod of Federal Regulations. We have consi4aord your request as having been oade under these regulstioas. GAO's International Division has in proces a report tentatively titled Coopennting Hicrontaia War Claims# tlnber ID-77-62. That report is still in draft form, and will not be issued In final until early 1978. we will be happy to furnish you a copy of the final reportp once published should you desire. I und arW.4 fr*u our International Division auditors that the report does not name or identify you* or discuss )ur post employ- mont with the Micronestan Claim. Coniasliom. The warkpapere underlying the draft report are exwapt from disclosure under section 81.6(a)(5) of our rezulatioso uhich provides the foLloxing exception to disclosure of G40 records: 'ecords containing interagency or intragency mnorandums or letters Adch ould not be avail- able by low to a private party in ,littgation with the agency. This exemption eover internal c nwncation h iich ould not routinly be availAble to a p4uty Lu litiation with the W-ncy, such a3 p b I

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