FOIA Cases

The Appellant requested copies of the Benefit Value Studies (Ben-Val Study) for URS/CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) and Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC, “Mercer or AON/Hewitt Studies” and similar information from DOE. Oak Ridge forwarded the request for the...
Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) issued a decision denying an appeal (Appeal) from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) determination issued by the Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office (ROO). The National Security Archive, the Appell...
Cynthia Brown filed an Appeal regarding a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act. In March 2012, Ms. Brown filed a request for records regarding her late mother.
The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) issued a decision granting in part an appeal from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) determination issued by the Department of Energy’s Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).
The National Security Archive filed an Appeal from a determination that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) issued on April 21, 2011. In that determination, NNSA denied in part a request for information that the National Security Archiv...
The Appellant documents related to the “First Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer” held in Helsinki, Finland on May 2-5, 1989. OIR forwarded the request to the Office of Policy and Internation...
The appellant filed a Privacy Act request for his personnel security file. In its determination, IR withheld portions of five documents under Privacy Act Exemption (k)(1) and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Exemptions 1, 3, and 6. Due to the classi...