§ 9800.3 - Definitions.

§ 9800.3 Definitions.

The following definitions apply to this part:

Appeal means a requester's written disagreement with an adverse determination under the FOIA.

CIGIE means the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency and includes its predecessor agencies, the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE) and the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE).

Confidential commercial information means records obtained by CIGIE from a business submitter that may contain information exempt from release under Exemption 4 of FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).

Days, unless stated as “calendar days,” are working days and do not include Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays.

Employee, for the purposes of this regulation, means any person currently or formerly holding an appointment to a position of employment with CIGIE, or any agent or independent contractor acting on behalf of or performing work for CIGIE.

FOIA Officer and Chief FOIA Officer are persons designated by the CIGIE Chairperson to grant or deny requests for records under FOIA.

IC means the CIGIE Integrity Committee established under section 11(d) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App), as amended.

Perfected request means a written FOIA request that meets all of the criteria set forth in § 9800.6.

Reading room means a location where records are available for review pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(2).

Record means a document or documentary material maintained in any form, which CIGIE:

(1) Created or received under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business;

(2) Preserved or determined is appropriate for preservation as evidence of operations or activities of CIGIE, or due to the value of the information it contains; and

(3) Controls at the time it receives a FOIA request.

Requester means any person, partnership, corporation, association, or foreign or State or local government, which has made a demand to access a CIGIE record under FOIA.

Submitter means any person or entity providing confidential commercial information to the Federal Government.

Unusual circumstances means CIGIE must:

(1) Search for or collect records from agencies, offices, facilities, or locations that are separate from the office processing the request;

(2) Search, review, or duplicate a voluminous number of records in order to process a single request; or

(3) Consult with another agency or component that has a substantial interest in the determination of a request.