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HHS Fiscal Year 2009 Freedom of Information Annual Report

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XII. BACKLOGS, CONSULTATIONS, AND COMPARISONS [PDF] [XML]
- Table A [CSV] [XLS]
- Table B [CSV] [XLS]
- Table C [CSV] [XLS]
- Table D [CSV] [XLS]
- Table D2 [CSV] [XLS]
- Table E [CSV] [XLS]
- Table E2 [CSV] [XLS]
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XII. BACKLOGS, CONSULTATIONS, AND COMPARISONS

A. Backlogs of FOIA Requests and Administrative Appeals

	Number of Backlogged Requests as of End of Fiscal Year	Number of Backlogged Appeals as of End of Fiscal Year
OS	722	299
ACF	699	N/A
AOA	0	N/A
CMS	10,312	150
OIG	21	N/A
OPHS/PSC	196	N/A
AHRQ	0	N/A
CDC	488	N/A
FDA	4,818	N/A
HRSA	30	N/A
IHS	31	N/A
NIH	70	N/A
SAMHSA	83	N/A
HHS Total	17,470	449

B. Consultations on FOIA Requests – Received, Processed, and Pending Consultations

	Number of Consultations Received from Other Agencies that Were Pending at Your Agency as of Start of the Fiscal Year	Number of Consultations Received from Other Agencies During the Fiscal Year	Number of Consultations Received from Other Agencies that Were Processed by Your Agency During the Fiscal Year	Number of Consultations Received from Other Agencies that Were Pending at Your Agency as of End of the Fiscal Year
OS	0	0	0	0
ACF	0	0	0	0
AOA	0	0	0	0
CMS	0	0	0	0
OIG	0	0	0	0
OPHS/PSC	0	0	0	0
AHRQ	0	1	1	0
CDC	0	0	0	0
FDA	0	13	13	0
HRSA	0	0	0	0
IHS	0	0	0	0
NIH	0	1	0	1
SAMHSA	0	0	0	0
HHS Total	0	15	14	1

C. Consultations on FOIA Requests – Ten Oldest Consultations Received from Other Agencies and Pending at Your Agency

	10^th Oldest Request And Number of Days Pending	9^th	8^th	7^th	6^th	5^th	4^th	3^rd	2^nd	Oldest Request And Number of Days Pending
OS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
ACF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
OAO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CMS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
OIG	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
OPHS/PSC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
AHRQ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CDC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FDA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
HRSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
IHS	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
NIH	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7/16/09 53
SAMHSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
HHS Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7/16/09 53

D. Comparison of Numbers of Requests from Previous and Current Annual Report – Requests Received, Processed, and Backlogged

D.(1) Comparison Numbers of Requests from Previous and Current Annual Report - Requests Received and Processed

	Number of Requests Received		Number of Requests Processed
	Number Received During Fiscal Year from Last Year’s Annual Report	Number Received During Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report	Number Processed During Fiscal Year from Last Year’s Annual Report	Number Processed During Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report
OS	882	1,018	1,320	964
ACF	328	486	146	177
AOA	14	10	15	11
CMS	43,792	32,541	41,260	32,706
OIG	124	419	109	410
OPHS/PSC	474	566	321	664
AHRQ	61	72	63	68
CDC	1,539	1,272	1,357	1,370
FDA	9,432	10,337	20,348	12,087
HRSA	305	338	303	334
IHS	36	97	64	115
NIH	1,146	1,270	1,165	1,306
SAMHSA	157	133	107	125
HHS Total	58,290	48,564	66,578	50,337

D.(2) Comparison Numbers of Requests from Previous and Current Annual Report - Requests Backlogged

	Number of Backlogged Requests as of End of the Fiscal Year from Previous Annual Report	Number of Backlogged Requests as of End of the Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report
OS	686	722
ACF	408	699
AOA	1	0
CMS	10,477	10,312
OIG	3	21
OPHS/PSC	292	196
AHRQ	0	0
CDC	586	488
FDA	6,568	4,818
HRSA	28	30
IHS	49	31
NIH	100	70
SAMHSA	51	83
HHS Total	19,249	17,470

E. Comparison of Numbers of Administrative Appeals from Previous and Current Annual Report – Appeals Received, Processed, and Backlogged

(1) Comparison of Numbers of Administrative Appeals from Previous and Current Annual Report – Appeals Received, Processed

	Number of Appeals Received		Number of Appeals Processed
	Number Received During Fiscal Year from Last Year’s Annual Report	Number Received During Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report	Number Processed During Fiscal Year from Last Year’s Annual Report	Number Processed During Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report
OS	163	153	97	170
CMS	36	7	273	4
HHS Total	199	160	370	174

(2) Comparison of Numbers of Administrative Appeals from Previous and Current Annual Report – Appeals Backlogged

	Number of Backlogged Administrative Appeals as of End of the Fiscal Year from Previous Annual Report	Number of Backlogged Administrative Appeals as of End of the Fiscal Year from Current Annual Report
OS	316	299
CMS	147	150
HHS Total	463	449