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FOIA Annual Reports

In accordance with the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996, each Department is required to submit electronically available annual reports.  The annual reports specify a variety of numerical benchmarks such as the number of requests received and processed; the types of requests received, the number of requests where the agency did not release the requested records and the reasons for these decisions; the number of appeals the results, the amount of fees collected; and the number of staff and staff hours devoted to processing requests. Below are the HHS annual reports from Fiscal Year 1998 to the present.