§ 1250.39 - Review fees.

(a) NARA will not charge review fees for time spent resolving general legal or policy issues regarding the application of exemptions.

(b) The review fee is $24 per hour or fraction thereof, for time spent in activities set forth in paragraphs (d)(1), (d)(2), and (d)(3) of this section.

(c) NARA will charge only commercial-use requesters review fees.

(d) NARA may charge for the time spent engaged in the following activities to determine “review time” subject to review fees:

(1) Time spent examining all documents that are responsive to a request to determine whether any portion of any document is exempt from mandatory disclosure regardless of whether any information is ultimately withheld.

(2) Time spent excising information and otherwise preparing records for release (except preparing the copies that will be made available to the requester).

(3) The aggregate of all time spent in reviewing documents to determine whether any portion of any document is permitted to be withheld when NARA reasonably believes that a requester or group of requesters is dividing a request into a series of requests to evade the assessment of applicable fees.

(e) A fee of $.20 per page will be charged for making working copies of pages from which information must be excised.