Freedom of Information Act

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT-APPENDIX

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

S. 587, S. 1235, S. 1247, S. 1730, and S. 1751

96-159 O

JULY 15, 22, 31, SEPT. 24, OCT. 15,
NOV. 12, AND DEC. 9, 1981

Volume 2

Serial No. J-97-50

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1982

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware

THOMAS D. PARRY, Chief Counsel
STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, General Counsel and Staff Director
RANDALL RADER, Counsel

ROBERT FEIDLER, Minority Counsel

(II)

CONTENTS

APPENDIX

PART 1—ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS

The Freedom of Information Reform Act, section-by-section analysis----

Oversight of the administration of the Federal Freedom of Information

Act: Personal report, by Senator Jim Sasser.

Letter to Senator Sasser from James T. O'Reilly, attorney at law---

Paul Fisher, director, Freedom of Information Center, University of Mis-

souri_.

Page

103

106

Thomas J. Houser, general counsel, National Association of Manufacturers_

The Freedom of Information Act: Legislation, Litigation, and Agency Prac-

Appendix A-Freedom of Information Act---

109

211

Appendix B-Memorandum concerning Supreme Court's decision in

Chrysler v. Brown__.

216

Appendix C-Concerning current and future litigation under Chrysler

v. Brown__.

223

Financial Executives Institute.

234

The National Meat Association_.

238

Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America....

245

The National Association of Aircraft & Communications Suppliers, Inc., by

Joseph J. Petrillo, Counsel.

A Remedy to Prevent Injury From Freedom of Information Act Disclosure,

by the Committee on Federal Legislation, of the Association of the Bar of

the City of New York---

315

Donal W. Paley, Esq., chairman, committee on Customs Law, New York

County Lawyers' Association_.

343

Associated Press Managing Editors, by Rober Haiman, president APME

and Paul Janensch, chairman APME FOI Committee__

Food and Beverage Trades Department, AFL-CIO_.

Francis J. McNamara, executive director, the Hale Foundation_.

383

John H. F. Shattuck, legislative director, American Civil Liberties Union

and Allan Robert Adler, legislative counsel, ACLU Project on National

Security, Center for National Security Studies..

Health, Industry Manufacturers Association__

The Association of American Publishers____.

The American Meat Institute___.

Edward J. Carels, Ph. D., vice president, Communications Comprehensive

Care Corporation____.

474

The Association of American Publishers, Inc__

Fred Wertheimer, president, Common Cause---

476

482

The CIA and the Fee Provision of the Freedom of Information Act, by John

O'Grady-

489

PART 2-LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

To Hon. Orrin G. Hatch, chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution

from:

Charles W. Stewart, president, Machinery and Allied Products Insti-

tute

Nobby Akiha, editor, Sloan Management Review, with an attachment_

The Freedom of Information Act: Strategic Opportunities and

Threats

Edward D. Feigenbaum, staff associate, Indiana University, with an

attachment

The Freedom of Information Act as an Aid to Proposal Analysis__

Stanley M. Brand, general counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Repre-

Kenton Pattie, senior staff vice president, National Audio-Visual Asso-

ciation, Inc__

550

James T. O'Reilly, senior counsel, The Procter & Gamble Company,

with attachment_--

551

Letter from John Anderson, Bureau of Medical Devices to James

T. O'Reilly____

552

Saul Herner, president, Herner Company-

553

Daniel L. Bart, staff attorney, General Telephone & Electronics Cor-

poration, with attachment__

555

Letter to William C. Bush from Daniel L. Bart....

556

Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs, De-

partment of Health and Human Services, with attachments...

C. Philip Liechty, with attachment_

563

575

Letter to C. Philip Liechty from Admiral Bobby R. Inman....

Joseph P. Allen, executive director, Intellectual Property Owners,

Inc

576

593

Edward E. Vaill, Atlantic Richfield Company-

594

Hilton Davis, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America_

Paul L. Perito, of Perito, Duerk, Carlson & Pinco, P. C., attorneys at

law

601

602

Donald S. Dawson, of Dawson, Riddell, Fox, Holroyd & Wilson, P.C.,

attorneys at Law..

604

Franklin P. Perdue, chairman, Perdue Farms Incorporated, with at-

tachment

605

Norvel P. Tyler, TY Co., with attachment_-.

607

Steuart L. Pittman, of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge_____

Harold O. Buzzell, president, Health Industry Manufacturers Associa-

tion

609

611

Herbert Liebenson, president, National Small Business Association__

A. Joan Dannelley, project coordinator, American Association of Meat

Processors

612

614

D. R. Schmidt, manager of legal services, National Electrical Manu-

facturers Association___.

615

Bernard Nash, of Blum & Nash, attorneys at law.

616

C. Manly Molpus, president, American Meat Institute--

619

Terry D. Miller, president, Government Sales Consultants, Inc., with

attachment

620

Loren A. Smith, chairman, Administrative Conference of the United

States, with attachments__.

625

Procedures for assessing and collecting Freedom of Information

Act Fees_-_.

627

John E. Maurer, Monsanto Company.

632

C. B. Hedrick, manager employee relations, The Procter & Gamble

Company

634

Charles Leppert, Jr., The Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company-

J. T. Whitman, president, Hospital Financial Management Associa-

tion

635

636

Richard G. Waterman, general patent counsel, The Dow Chemical

Company, with attachment_---

637

Howard W. Bremer, Society of University Patent Administrators__

Karl G. Harr, Jr., Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.

Joseph J. Petrillo, counsel, National Association of Aircraft & Com-

munication Suppliers, Inc., with attachments___

642

643

644

R. A. Greehkorn, vice president for programs, Purdue University.

Robert D. Evans, acting director, American Bar Association___.

651

652

PART 2-LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD-Continued

William F. Fore, assistant general secretary for communication, Na-

tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A----

Brian H. Rowe, senior vice president and group executive, General

Electric

Lorraine Petti, legislative coordinator, and Esther Herst, national di-

rector, National Committee Against Repressive Legislation______

Joan Hoff-Wilson, executive secretary, Organization of American

Historians

Prospere S. Virden, Jr., senior counsel, Honeywell..

Peter V. Berns, Douglas L. Parker, Willard Holt, and Adrienne Hewitt,

Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law

Center

Stephen D. Johnson, ADP fund Branch/ADTS, with attachments_.

To Hon. Senator Robert Dole, from Shaw Mudge, Shaw Mudge Company,

To Hon. Senator Strom Thurmond, chairman, Committee on the Judiciary

from:

William M. Schofield, director-government relations, Financial Execu-

tives Institute___

681

Sheldon Elliot Steinbach, general counsel, American Counsel on Ed-

ucation, April 30, 1982_

682

Sheldon Elliot Steinbach, general counsel, American Counsel on Ed-

ucation, May 14, 1982.

684

To Randall R. Rader, counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution, from:

Edward E. Vaill, litigation counsel, Atlantic Richfield Company--

Charles W. Stewart, president, Machinery and Allied Products In-

stitute, with an attachment_.

686

694

Letter from William C. Bush to Charles W. Stewart--

Michael A. Brown, of Schmeletzer, Aptaker & Sheppard, P. C., coun-

selors at law..

695

701

Stephen L. Babcock, executive director, Administrative Conference of

the United States, with an attachment_.

704

Transcript of the twenty-third plenary session, Dec. 10-11, 1981,

A.C.U.S.

705

Bernard Nash and Ronald Plesser, Blum & Nash, attorneys at law_-

Paul J. Seidman, counsel to National Association of Aircraft & Com-

munications Suppliers, Inc., with attachments___.

768

771

Recommendations of the Small Business Issues Task Force_-.

To Hon. Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, from Irwin P. Garfinkle, general

patent counsel, AVCO Corporation_.

772

778

To Hon. Senator Arlen Specter from:

B. D. Smith, senior vice president and comptroller, United States Steel

Corporation, April 5, 1982__

779

W. B. Thomas, executive vice president accounting and finance, United

States Steel Corporation, April 26, 1982_-_-

781

To Lola Secora, Freedom of Information Act officer, Department of Health

and Human Services, from Elaine M. Kokiko, executive vice president,

Moshman Associates, Inc., with attachments__

Letters to Lola Secora from:

To Senator, from Fred Wertheimer, president, Common Cause..

To Thomas Caster, Neece & Associates, from Shaw Mudge & Company.

To Mary Candance Fowler, staff attorney, Administrative Conference of

the United States, from David L. Cook, assistant chief, Administrative

Office of the United States Courts, with attachments__

To Henry Christman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, Department

of Defense, the Pentagon, from Joseph J. Petrillo, attorney at law___

To Douglas B. Comer, counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Courts, from

Lorence L. Kessler, counsel to Labor Policy Association---.

To Journalist, from Orrin G. Hatch, United States Senator-----

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