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UNITED STATES NAVY (NAVY)
COMPONENTS WITH OUTSTANDING REQUESTS AS OLD AS 3 YEARS,
BUT UNABLE TO DETERMINE AGENCY BACKLOG
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Recordkeeping Issues - NAVY informed the Archive
that it maintains a highly decentralized system. In the Archive's
experience, NAVY is generally one of the more responsive FOIA
offices, but it indicated that the agency maintains no central
or consolidated database that lists all FOIA requests received
by NAVY or at what stage they are in their processing. Accordingly,
the original request was limited to the Navy Chief of Naval
Operations. Requests were later submitted to the five NAVY
components that receive the greatest number of FOIA requests.
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Ten Oldest - The initial request to the Navy, as
amended to be limited to the Navy Chief of Naval Operations
has received no response. The Naval Facilities Engineering
Command and U.S. Pacific Fleet reported no pending FOIA requests.
Naval Sea Systems reported ten requests from May 25, 2000
to July 27, 2001. Naval Education and Training reported one
request from July 25, 2003. Naval Air Systems reported ten
requests from January 13, 2003 through June 12, 2003. |
Workload Statistics - NAVY's reported statistics
from 1998 through 2002 indicate that the agency has received
a decreasing number of FOIA requests (down 10.15% from 23,066
in 1998 to 20,725 in 2002). The number processed each year
also has decreased (down 17.38% from 24,895 processed in 1998
to 20,567 processed in 2002). NAVY's processing rate per year
-- a comparison of the number of requests processed to the
number received -- decreased from 107.93% in 1998 to 99.24%
in 2002. |
Backlog Statistics - NAVY's backlog of pending FOIA
requests has increased (from 1054 FOIA requests pending at
the end of 1998 to 1665 FOIA requests pending at the end of
2002). NAVY's backlog as a percentage of FOIA requests processed
each year has increased from 4.23% in 1998 to 8.10% in 2002.
Its backlog rate per year -- a comparison of the number of
requests pending at the end of the year to the number received
during that year -- has increased from 4.57% in 1998 to 8.03%
in 2002. |
Processing Time - While its median days to process
simple requests has ranged from 10-19 days over the 1998-2002
period, the median days to process complex requests has ranged
from 37-89 days over the 1998-2002 period. The median days
that backlogged requests have been pending has ranged from
21-68 days over the 1998-2002 period. Expedited requests have
a median processing time range of 2-12 days over the 1998-2002
time period. |
TEN
OLDEST REQUESTS
Naval
Education Training
Navy
NET Response Letter
Navy NET July 25, 2003 Letter
Naval
Facilities Engineering Command
Navy
NFEC Response Letter
Naval
Sea Systems Command
Navy
NSSC Response Letter
Navy
NSSC May 25, 2000 Letter
Navy
NSSC August 23, 2000 Letter
Navy
NSSC October 26, 2000 Letter
Navy
NSSC February 26, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC July 9, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC July 27, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC August 6, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC September 7, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC September 11, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC September 18, 2001 Letter
Navy
NSSC October 10, 2001 Letter
U.S.
Pacific Fleet
Navy
U.S. Pacific Fleet Response Letter
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