Revisions to Freedom of Information Act Implementing Regulations

This rulemaking would amend the NRC’s FOIA implementing regulations, to improve the clarity of the existing requirements by using plain language, promote agency accountability, improve efficiency in responding to FOIA requests, update roles and responsibilities, and align the regulations with current Federal best practices for implementing FOIA. This rulemaking would address OGIS’s recommendation that the NRC update its FOIA regulations as well as provide the NRC the opportunity to incorporate the DOJ’s model language for FOIA regulations, where appropriate.