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NOTE: links to newly added items are live on this page. Permanent storage of links will remain on the main index pages available through either the "DOCUMENTS" or "FOIA LOGS" links above.
Newly added files listings/links:

NEW List of Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Internal Directives 2021 - [PDF 510 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Memos about the $1 Trillion Coin Proposal 2013-2023 - [PDF 610 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Housing Strategy and Migration Plan for FDA Headquarters, 2018 - [PDF 7.5 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Transition Briefings for the Incoming Biden Administration 2020 - [PDF 40.6 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Records Disposition Handbook 2022 - [PDF 1.2 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Cover page and Table of Contents for engineering reports for the Orion Module Parachute Recovery System 2019 - [PDF 640 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Human Capital Plans 2013-2020 - [PDF 7.5 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Reports on Robocalls 2021-2022 - [PDF 9 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Library Card Catalog 2022 - [PDF 7.9 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Records provided by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) the FMSHRC to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during 2022 in response to a request - [PDF 1.5 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) External Affairs Tracking Log for the 116th and 117th Congresses, 2019-2023 - [PDF 464 KB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Withdrawal Procedures - OPS 121, 2020 - [PDF 464 KB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Board Order 036: Incident Screening and Selection Process (2012); Board Order 046: Advocacy Program (2023) - [PDF 750 KB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW Federal Reserve Bank of New York Historical Materials List (HML) 2024 - [PDF 1.7 MB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Inside the Loop: Terrorist Insider Trading as Attack Indicator (July 2005) - Thesis - [PDF 1.2 MB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Interrogation of Japanese POWs in WWII: U.S. Response to a Formidable Challenge (July 2007) - Thesis - [PDF 5.8 MB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Covert Ops in the 1800s: The Acquisition of East Florida from Spain and the Seminoles (June 2007) - Thesis - [PDF 2.3 MB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) The Games They Play: Russian Stra tegic Political Deceptions (July 2008) - Thesis - [PDF 1.2 MB - 25-Nov-2024]

NEW A copy of all letter correspondence between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research (OFR), January 1, 2017 - 2021 (Records referred to the Federal Reserve Board) (some records undated) - [PDF 3.2 MB - 18-Nov-2024]

NEW District of Columbia (DC) Office of Risk Management (ORM) - Each email (TO, FROM, CC) in the email account of the Director of the DC Office of Risk Management between December 20, 2020 and January 6, 2021 that contains ANY of the following words: guard, riot, rioting, rioters, Amendment, permit, permits, parade, parades, demonstration, demonstrations, gather, gathering, congregate, congregating, congregates, or support. - [PDF 139 MB - 18-Nov-2024]
NOTE: This is a large file; 139 Megabytes

NEW District of Columbia Office of Risk Management (ORM) - each email sent or received by the Director of the Office of Risk Management during the time period January 4 - January 6, 2021 - [PDF 23.5 MB - 18-Nov-2024]

NEW Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Title Page and First Page of Multiple DEA Bulletins on gangs and drugs 2015-2017 - [PDF 2 MB - 18-Nov-2024]

NEW Department of Transportation (DOT) Urine Specimen Collection Guidelines, Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance 2018 and Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form 2024 - [PDF 1.4 MB - 18-Nov-2024]

NEW Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 2019 - [PDF 1.2 MB - 18-Nov-2024]

NEW US Army Bibliography of Technical Reports at Dugway Proving Ground 1946-1960, 2011 - [PDF 6.4 MB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Draft Risk Assessment Report of Silver Released from Nano-Enabled Consumer Products (record undated) - [PDF 1.4 MB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) Records regarding mystery seed packages received by Americans in 2020 - [PDF 2.3 MB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) Office of Information Technology (OIT) Strategic Plan, 2018 - [PDF 850 KB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW List of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Intelligence Reports 1997-2015, 2015 - [PDF 4 MB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Inspector General (OIG) Semi-Annual Reports - 1996-2004 - [PDF 7.4 MB - 11-Nov-2024]

NEW Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Safety Risks from Lithium Batteries 2018-2019 - [PDF 1.6 MB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW Department of State Declassification Guide 2019 - [PDF 1 MB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Suggestions from the Public for the 2019 Research Agenda - [PDF 460 KB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) (Records are undated - [PDF 2.5 MB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Complaints to the SEC about Trump Media in 2024 - [PDF 1.1 MB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) IQC (USTDA's Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract for Conferences, Workshops, Reverse Trade Missions, Training and Other Events) (aka Orientation Visit Handbook) - [PDF 700 KB - 04-Nov-2024]

NEW Department of Justice (DOJ) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Office of Information Policy (OIP) 2021 (some records undated) - [PDF 1.4 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

NEW Department of Justice (DOJ) Ethics Waivers March - May 2017 - [PDF 2.8 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

NEW Department of Labor (DOL) Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) Agency Management Plans FY2022 and FY2023 - [PDF 2.9 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

NEW Department of Labor (DOL) Various Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Procedures documents for the DOL Office of Administrative Law Judges (OAL) 2015 - [PDF 2.9 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

NEW Department of Agriculture (USDA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Rural Development (RD) component of USDA (Some Records Undated) - [PDF 1.9 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

NEW Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Program Outreach Materials 2021 (Some Records Undated) - [PDF 3.4 MB - 28-Oct-2024]

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