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STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman
CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware
THOMAS D. PARRY, Chief Counsel STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, General Counsel and Staff Director RANDALL RADER, Counsel
ROBERT FEIDLER, Minority Counsel
(II)
CONTENTS
APPENDIX
PART 1-ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS
The Freedom of Information Reform Act, section-by-section analysis----
Oversight of the administration of the Federal Freedom of Information
Act: Personal report, by Senator Jim Sasser-
Letter to Senator Sasser from James T. O'Reilly, attorney at law----
Paul Fisher, director, Freedom of Information Center, University of Mis-
souri
Page
1
53
103
106
Thomas J. Houser, general counsel, National Association of Manufacturers-
The Freedom of Information Act: Legislation, Litigation, and Agency Prac-
Appendix A-Freedom of Information Act____
109
211
Appendix B-Memorandum concerning Supreme Court's decision in
Chrysler v. Brown-----
216
Appendix C-Concerning current and future litigation under Chrysler
v. Brown__.
223
Financial Executives Institute..
234
The National Meat Association___
238
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America..
245
The National Association of Aircraft & Communications Suppliers, Inc., by
Joseph J. Petrillo, Counsel..
A Remedy to Prevent Injury From Freedom of Information Act Disclosure,
by the Committee on Federal Legislation, of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York..-.
315
Donal W. Paley, Esq., chairman, committee on Customs Law, New York
County Lawyers' Association.
343
Associated Press Managing Editors, by Rober Haiman, president APME
and Paul Janensch, chairman APME FOI Committee..
Food and Beverage Trades Department, AFL-CIO..
Francis J. McNamara, executive director, the Hale Foundation_
383
John H. F. Shattuck, legislative director, American Civil Liberties Union
and Allan Robert Adler, legislative counsel, ACLU Project on National
Security, Center for National Security Studies_.
Edward J. Carels, Ph. D., vice president, Communications Comprehensive
Care Corporation...
474
The Association of American Publishers, Inc..
Fred Wertheimer, president, Common Cause...
476
482
The CIA and the Fee Provision of the Freedom of Information Act, by John
O'Grady
489
PART 2-LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD
To Hon. Orrin G. Hatch, chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution
from:
Charles W. Stewart, president, Machinery and Allied Products Insti-
tute
Nobby Akiha, editor, Sloan Management Review, with an attachment_
The Freedom of Information Act: Strategic Opportunities and
Threats
Edward D. Feigenbaum, staff associate, Indiana University, with an
attachment
The Freedom of Information Act as an Aid to Proposal Analysis__
Stanley M. Brand, general counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives
518
527
528
541
542
546
Kenton Pattie, senior staff vice president, National Audio-Visual Asso-
ciation, Inc___
550
James T. O'Reilly, senior counsel, The Procter & Gamble Company,
with attachment_.
551
Letter from John Anderson, Bureau of Medical Devices to James
T. O'Reilly
552
Saul Herner, president, Herner Company.
553
Daniel L. Bart, staff attorney, General Telephone & Electronics Cor-
poration, with attachment---
555
Letter to William C. Bush from Daniel L. Bart..
556
Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs, De-
partment of Health and Human Services, with attachments...
C. Philip Liechty, with attachment____
Letter to C. Philip Liechty from Admiral Bobby R. Inman--.
Joseph P. Allen, executive director, Intellectual Property Owners,
Inc
Hilton Davis, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America_
Paul L. Perito, of Perito, Duerk, Carlson & Pinco, P. C., attorneys at
law
601
602
Donald S. Dawson, of Dawson, Riddell, Fox, Holroyd & Wilson, P.C.,
attorneys at Law__
604
Franklin P. Perdue, chairman, Perdue Farms Incorporated, with at-
tachment
605
Norvel P. Tyler, TY Co., with attachment_-_.
607
Steuart L. Pittman, of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge_
609
Harold O. Buzzell, president, Health Industry Manufacturers Associa-
tion
611
Herbert Liebenson, president, National Small Business Association__
A. Joan Dannelley, project coordinator, American Association of Meat
Processors
612
614
D. R. Schmidt, manager of legal services, National Electrical Manu-
facturers Association_---
615
Bernard Nash, of Blum & Nash, attorneys at law...
C. Manly Molpus, president, American Meat Institute___
Terry D. Miller, president, Government Sales Consultants, Inc., with
616
619
620
Loren A. Smith, chairman, Administrative Conference of the United
States, with attachments_--
625
Procedures for assessing and collecting Freedom of Information
Act Fees____
627
John E. Maurer, Monsanto Company--
632
C. B. Hedrick, manager employee relations, The Procter & Gamble
Company
634
Charles Leppert, Jr., The Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company-
J. T. Whitman, president, Hospital Financial Management Associa-
635
636
Richard G. Waterman, general patent counsel, The Dow Chemical
Company, with attachment_
637
642
Howard W. Bremer, Society of University Patent Administrators__.
Karl G. Harr, Jr., Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.-
Joseph J. Petrillo, counsel, National Association of Aircraft & Com-
munication Suppliers, Inc., with attachments--.
R. A. Greehkorn, vice president for programs, Purdue University-
Robert D. Evans, acting director, American Bar Association____
643
644
651
652
PART 2-LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD-Continued
William F. Fore, assistant general secretary for communication, Na- Page
tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A‒‒‒‒‒‒‒
Brian H. Rowe, senior vice president and group executive, General
Electric
654
655
Lorraine Petti, legislative coordinator, and Esther Herst, national di-
rector, National Committee Against Repressive Legislation___.
Joan Hoff-Wilson, executive secretary, Organization of American
656
Historians
658
Prospere S. Virden, Jr., senior counsel, Honeywell_
660
Peter V. Berns, Douglas L. Parker, Willard Holt, and Adrienne Hewitt,
Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law
Center
661
Stephen D. Johnson, ADP fund Branch/ADTS, with attachments___
To Hon. Senator Robert Dole, from Shaw Mudge, Shaw Mudge Company,
with attachments____.
To Hon. Senator Strom Thurmond, chairman, Committee on the Judiciary
William M. Schofield, director-government relations, Financial Execu-
tives Institute__.
668
673
681
Sheldon Elliot Steinbach, general counsel, American Counsel on Ed-
ucation, April 30, 1982_-
682
ucation, May 14, 1982__.
684
To Randall R. Rader, counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution, from:
Edward E. Vaill, litigation counsel, Atlantic Richfield Company__
Charles W. Stewart, president, Machinery and Allied Products In-
stitute, with an attachment....
686
694
Letter from William C. Bush to Charles W. Stewart---
Michael A. Brown, of Schmeletzer, Aptaker & Sheppard, P. C., coun-
selors at law.
695
701
Stephen L. Babcock, executive director, Administrative Conference of
the United States, with an attachment__
704
Transcript of the twenty-third plenary session, Dec. 10-11, 1981,
A.C.U.S.
705
Bernard Nash and Ronald Plesser, Blum & Nash, attorneys at law_--
Paul J. Seidman, counsel to National Association of Aircraft & Com-
munications Suppliers, Inc., with attachments_.
768
771
Recommendations of the Small Business Issues Task Force_
To Hon. Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, from Irwin P. Garfinkle, general
patent counsel, AVCO Corporation___
To Hon. Senator Arlen Specter from:
772
778
B. D. Smith, senior vice president and comptroller, United States Steel
Corporation, April 5, 1982___.
779
W. B. Thomas, executive vice president accounting and finance, United
States Steel Corporation, April 26, 1982_.
781
To Lola Secora, Freedom of Information Act officer, Department of Health
and Human Services, from Elaine M. Kokiko, executive vice president,
Moshman Associates, Inc., with attachments_-_-
Letters to Lola Secora from:
783
Martin Shulman_
Jack Moshman....
Elaine M. Kokiko
Dobby Wall....
Leo Marcus_.
Jane Shephered_
Jerry Ackerman__
Barbara J. Davis.
James D. Colliver_
To Senator, from Fred Wertheimer, president, Common Cause__
To Thomas Caster, Neece & Associates, from Shaw Mudge & Company-.
To Mary Candance Fowler, staff attorney, Administrative Conference of
the United States, from David L. Cook, assistant chief, Administrative
Office of the United States Courts, with attachments---
784
786
787
789
790
791
792
793
794
795
797
798
To Henry Christman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, Department
of Defense, the Pentagon, from Joseph J. Petrillo, attorney at law..
To Douglas B. Comer, counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Courts, from
Lorence L. Kessler, counsel to Labor Policy Association----
To Journalist, from Orrin G. Hatch, United States Senator---
809
811
814
PART 3-NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES SUBMITTED FOR THE
RECORD
Does Ambiguous Legislation Stymie U.S. Foreign Policy?, by Peggy Stanto, Page
from Princeton Features___
F.B.I. Informants, by Carl Stern__.
Response to "F.B.I. Informants" submitted to Constitution Subcommittee
by Geoff Stewart, Esq., special counsel, Department of Justice_-_
Statement submitted to Constitution Subcommittee by Geoff Stewart, Esq.,
special counsel, Department of Justice_--
816
817
818
824
How Pentagon secrets find their way into public print, by W. Donald
Stewart, Washington Star, March 31, 1979__.
828
Pentagon Aide Finds Information Act Abuses, by Richard Halloran, The
New York Times, July 19, 1981-
829
Proposed revisions would improve FOIA, by H. Dickson Burton, from the
BYU Daily Universe, Dec. 1, 1981__
Balancing Citizens' Need to Know and Government's Need to Create Sec-
rets, by Jonathan Friendly, The New York Times, December 4, 1981----
Senate Unit Backs Disclosures Safeguards for Sensitive Business Data Given to U.S., by Robert E. Taylor, from the Wall Street Journal, May 21, 1982___
FOIA Reform Proposed .
FOIA Improvement Bill Introduced, from
830
831
832
FOIA Update, December 1981--.
Important changes urged for Freedom of Information Act, by Randall R.
Rader, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, April 24, 1982__.
Washington's New Sleuths from Dun's Review, October 1976_.
Open Season on Open Government", by Allen Weinstein, New York Times
Magazine, June 10, 1979_-_-
833
834
836
Industrial Espionage Made Legal: The Freedom of Information Act, by
Richard A. Mann, from the University of Michigan Business Review,
November 1979_.
Do Sunshine Laws Apply to Police Files?, by Gary Gibbs, from Police
Magazine, January 1980__.
839
847
852
855
but Press Responsibility too, from The Chris-
863
Two Laws That Undermine the Law, by John Barron, from the Reader's
Digest, April 1980_.
Freedom of Information
tian Science Monitor, May 8, 1981--
Security, Police Work Cited by Critics Seeking to Limit Freedom of In-
formation Act, by Laura B. Weiss, from the Congressional Quarterly
Inc., July 11, 1981_-_
Freedom of Information for Whom?, by James J. Kilpatrick.
Industrial Espionage: U.S. Companies are "Soft Targets", by Herchell
Britton, from the World Business Weekly, September 28, 1981_-.
Analyzing the FOIA "Improvements": Not as Antidisclosure as They
Seem, by Aaron I. Reichel, from the National Law Journal, December 14,
1981
Pro and Con: Cut Access to Government Data?, by Antonin Scalia, pro-
fessor of law, University of Chicago; Glenn English, Democratic Rep-
resentative from Oklahoma, from U.S. News & World Report, Inc.,
January 18, 1982___.
864
868
869
871
873
The Freedom of Information Act Has No Clothes, by Antonin Scalia, from
AEI Journal on Government and Society, March/April 1982___.
FOI Act Classic Example of Law That Needs Improving, by Edward C.
Schmults, U.S. Deputy Attorney General, from Viewpoint___
875
880