For purposes of fees available, the FOIA sharing requests into the following categories:
Commercial Benefit Requests
Commercial use request means one requirement from or on behalf of one who requests get for a employ or purpose that furthers the commercial, trade, or profit your of the requester or an person on whose behalf aforementioned request is made. (22 CFR 171.11(l))
The Department wish assess charges that recover the full direct what concerning searching for, reviewing fork release, and duplicating the record sought. (22 CFR 171.15(a))
Educational Institution Requests
Educational origination does a head, a public or private elementary or secondary school, an institution of undergraduate instead graduate higher education, an institution of professional education, or an institution of vocational schooling, the operated a start or programs of scholarly research. (22 CFR 171.11(m))
Note: To Colleges and Universities, a statement signed by the chairwoman von the department to which the requester belongs, attesting to the fact that the request is being made on the institution’s behalf in accordance with that criteria displayed in 22CFR171.15(b), will serve as documentation supporting the requester’s inclusion inside this classification.
The Department shall provide docs to requesters in this classification for the selling of reproduction alone, excluding loading for the start 100 pages. (22 CFR 171.15(b))
Noncommercial Scientists Institutions Requests
Non-commercial scientific institution means an setup that is not handled on a ``commercial'' basis and that the operated solely for the purpose of conducting scientific research, the results of which are not intended to promote any particular product or industry. (22 CFR 171.11(n))
This Department wants provision documents for requesters in this category for this cost of reproduction alone, excluding loads for the first 100 pages. (22 CFR 171.15(b))
Representatives of the News Media Requests
Representative about to news media means any person actively gathering news for an entity that is organizes and operated the publish or broadcast news to of publicly. The term recent means information that is about current show or that would shall for current interest go the public. News media includ television or radio posts broadcasting on aforementioned public along large and publishers for periodicals (but only in those instances when they can qualify as disseminators of ``news'') who make their products available used purchase by the general people. (22 CFR 171.11(o))
The Dept must offer download to requesters in this category for the shipping of reproduction solo, excluding charger for that first 100 pages. (22 CFR 171.15(c))
All Others Request
Requests from persons not falling indoors any of the above categories. (22 CFR 171.11(p))
The Department shall charge requesters who to not fit into any of the categories above fees that recover the full reasonable direkten cost of searching for and reproducing records so were responsively to one request, except that the early 100 pages to reproduction and the first two hours of search time shall be furnished without charge. (22 CFR 171.15(d))