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 EO 13392 Title 3--The President (v) As determined by the agency Chief FOIA Officer, in consultation with the FOIA Public Liaisons, each agency shall post appropriate information about its Center or Centers on the agency's website, including contact in- formation for its FOIA Public Liaisons. In the case of an agency without a website, the agency shall publish the information on the Firstgov.gov website or, in the case of any agency with neither a website nor the capa- bility to post on the Firstgov.gov website, in the Federal Register; and (vi) The agency Chief FOIA Officer shall ensure that the agency has in place a method (or methods), including through the use of the Center, to receive and respond promptly and appropriately to inquiries from FOIA requesters about the status of their requests. The Chief FOIA Offi- cer shall also consider, in consultation with the FOIA Public Liaisons, as appropriate, whether the agency's implementation of other means (such as tracking numbers for requests, or an agency telephone or Inter- net hotline) would be appropriate for responding to status inquiries. Sec. 3. Review, Plan, and Report. (a) Review. Each agency's Chief FOIA Officer shall conduct a review of the agency's FOIA operations to determine whether agency practices are consistent with the policies set forth in section 1 of this order. In con- ducting this review, the Chief FOIA Officer shall: (i) evaluate, with reference to numerical and statistical benchmarks where appropriate, the agency's administration of the FOIA, including the agency's expenditure of resources on FOIA compliance and the ex- tent to which, if any, requests for records have not been responded to within the statutory time limit (backlog); (ii) review the processes and practices by which the agency assists and informs the public regarding the FOIA process; (iii) examine the agency's: (A) use of information technology in responding to FOIA requests, in- cluding without limitation the tracking of FOIA requests and commu- nication with requesters; (B) practices with respect to requests for expedited processing; and (C) implementation of multi-track processing if used by such agency; (iv) review the agency's policies and practices relating to the availability of public information through websites and other means, including the use of websites to make available the records described in section 552(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code; and (v) identify ways to eliminate or reduce its FOIA backlog, consistent with available resources and taking into consideration the volume and com- plexity of the FOIA requests pending with the agency. (b) Plan. (i) Each agency's Chief FOIA Officer shall develop, in consultation as ap- propriate with the staff of the agency (including the FOIA Public Liai- sons), the Attorney General, and the OMB Director, an agency-specific plan to ensure that the agency's administration of the FOIA is in accord- ance with applicable law and the policies set forth in section 1 of this order. The plan, which shall be submitted to the head of the agency for approval, shall address the agency's implementation of the FOIA during fiscal years 2006 and 2007. 218

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