COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman CHET HOLIFIELD, California L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR., California CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Director MILES Q. ROMNEY, Associate General Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Minority Professional Staff FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBCOMMITTEE PORTER HARDY, JR., Virginia OGDEN R. REID, New York VINCENT J. AUGLIERE, Staff Administrator (II) PREFACE The Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) required affected Government agencies to publish in the Federal Register implementing regulations. For the convenience and guidance of those concerned with the availability of Government records under the law, there has been assembled in this single volume the public access provisions of regulations published by selected agencies, a master index of the citations in the Code of Federal Regulations of all the published public information regulations and other reference material pertinent to the law. Comments and observations set forth in the first three sections of the committee print are based on a preliminary staff study and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of individual members of the subcommittee. The staff will continue an analysis and study of the effectiveness of implementing regulations as a prelude to formal subcommittee examination at a future date. JOHN E. Moss, Chairman, Foreign Operations and (III) |