(b) Final opinions (including concurring or dissenting opinions) and orders made in the adjudication of cases and issued from within the Office of the Secretary. (c) Any policy or interpretation issued within the Office of the Secretary, including any policy or interpretation concerning a particular factual situation, if that policy or interpretation can reasonably be expected to have precedential value in any case involving a member of the public in a similar situation. (d) Any administrative staff manual or instruction to staff, issued from within the Office of the Secretary, that affects any member of the public, including the prescribing of any standard, procedure, or policy that when implemented requires or limits any action of any member of the public or prescribes the manner of performance of any activity by any member of the public. (e) DOT Orders. DOT orders which are issued by the Department of Transportation and used primarily to promulgate internal DOT policy, instructions, and general guid ance. (f) DOT Notices. DOT notices which are issued by the Department of Transportation and contain short-term instructions or information which is expected to remain in effect for less than 90 days or for a predetermined period of time normally not to exceed one year. (g) OST Orders. OST orders which are issued by the Office of the Secretary and used primarily to promulgate internal OST policy, instructions, and general guidance. (h) OST Notices. OST notices which are issued by the Office of the Secretary and contain short-term instructions or information which is expected to remain in effect for less than 90 days or for a predetermined period of time normally not to exceed one year. 4. Requests for records under Subpart E of this part. Each person desiring to inspect a record, or to obtain a copy thereof, may submit his request in writing to the Director of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20590. [Amdt. 7-10, 40 FR 20276, May 9, 1975] APPENDIX B-UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 1. General. This appendix describes the document inspection facilities of the U.S. Coast Guard, the kinds of records that are available for public inspection and copying at those facilities and the procedures by which members of the public may make requests for identifiable records. 2. Document inspection facilities. The document inspection facilities are located at the offices of the Commandant and District Commanders. These facilities are open to the public during regular working hours at the following addresses; Commandant (A), U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. 20591. The facility is located at Coast Guard Headquarters, Office of Public and International Affairs, 400 7th Street, SW. District Office, Commander, 1st Coast Guard District, 150 Causeway Street, Boston, Mass. 02114. Commander, 2d Coast Guard District, Federal Building, 1520 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. 88102. Commander, 3d Coast Guard District Governors Island, New York, New York 10004. Commander, 5th Coast Guard District, Federal Building, 431 Crawford Street, Portsmouth, Va. 23705. Commander, 7th Coast Guard District, Federal Building, Room 1012, 51 SW. First Ave., Miami, Florida. Commander, 8th Coast Guard District, Customhouse, New Orleans, La. 70130. Commander, 9th Coast Guard District, 1240 East Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44199. Commander, 11th Coast Guard District, Heartwell Building, 19 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90802. Commander, 12th Coast Guard District, 630 Sansomo Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94126. Commander, 13th Coast Guard District, 618 Second Avenue, Seattle, Wash. 93104. Commander, 14th Coast Guard District, PO. Box 48, FPO San Francisco 96610. Commander, 17th Coast Guard District, FPO Seattle 98771. 3. Records available at document inspections facilities. (a) The following records are available at any U.S. Coast Guard document inspection facility: (1) Final opinions and orders made in the adjudication of cases by the Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard. (2) U.S. Coast Guard numbered publications that affect any member of the public, including the prescribing of any standard, procedure, or policy that, when implemented, requires or limits any action of any member of the public or prescribes the manner of performance of any activity by any member of the public. (b) Opinions and orders of administrative law judges are available at the document inspection facility of the Office of the Commandant and the district in which the administrative law judge is located. (c) Policies and interpretations issued within the U.S. Coast Guard (including any policy or interpretation concerning a particular factual situation, if that policy or interpretation can reasonably be expected to have precedential value in any case involving a member of the public in a similar situation) are available at the document inspec tion facility of the Office of the Commandant. (d) An index of the records located at each facility is maintained at that facility. (e) The records and the index may be inspected, at the facility, without charge. Copies of records may be obtained upon payment of the fee prescribed in Subpart H of this part. 4. Requests for identifiable records under Subpart E of this part. Each person desiring to inspect a record, or obtain a copy thereof, must submit his request in writing to the U.S. Coast Guard office from which such record may be made available. The addresses of the offices of the Commandant and District Commanders are listed in section 2 of this appendix. If the appropriate office to submit a request for a particular record is unknown, the request may be submitted to the Office of the Commandant at the address listed in section 2 of this appendix. The following table gives illustrations of types of records and specifies where requests for such records are appropriately addressed: (a) Examples of records for which requests may properly be made to either the Office of the Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard or office of the appropriate District Commander include the following: (1) Marine Casualty investigation records (2) Records of certificates and licenses issued (3) Merchant vessel inspection records (4) Records of merchant vessel documentation and recording of sales and other dispositions (5) Records of Coast Guard property and contracts (b) Examples of records for which requests may properly be made to the Office of the Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard include the following: (1) Central files of merchant seamen (2) Merchant vessel shipping articles (3) Merchant vessel equipment approvals (4) Merchant Marine Council proceedings (5) Recreational boating records (6) Great Lakes Pilotage records (7) Records pertaining to bridges over navigable waters (8) Central files of Coast Guard personnel (9) Coast Guard courts martial records (10) Coast Guard vessel and shore station log books more than 1 year old on January 1 of the year the request is made. (c) Examples of records for which requests may properly be made to the office of the appropriate District Commander include the following: (1) Navigation and Vessel Inspection penalty action records (2) Search and rescue records (3) Coast Guard vessel and shore station log books for the current calendar year and the calendar year immediately preceding the current year (4) Port safety and waterfront facility records (5) Aids to navigation records (6) Records of bridges over navigable waters (7) Merchant vessel logbooks and shipping articles (8) Shipment and discharge of seamen records (9) Shipyard and factory inspection records 5. Officials having initial authority to deny requests. The following officials have authority to make initial determinations to deny requests for records: (a) District Commanders or their designees including: (1) Commander, First Coast Guard District (2) Commander, Second Coast Guard District (3) Commander, Third Coast Guard District (4) Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District (5) Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District (6) Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District (7) Commander, Ninth Coast Guard District (8) Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District (9) Commander, Twelfth Coast Guard District (10) Commander, Thirteenth Coast Guard District (11) Guard District (12) Guard District Commander, Commander, Fourteenth Seventeenth Coast Coast (b) Coast Guard Headquarters officials or their designees including: (1) Chief of Staff (2) Chief, Office of Public and International Affairs (3) Chief, Office of Boating Safety (4) Chief, Office of Research and Development (5) Chief, Office of Engineering (6) Chief, Office of Comptroller (7) Chief, Office of Civil Rights (8) Chief, Office of the Chief Medical Officer (9) Chief, Office of Chief Counsel (10) Chief, Office of Merchant Marine Safety (11) Chief, Office of Operations (14) Chief, Office of Marine Environment and Systems 6. Reconsideration of determinations not to disclose records. Any person who has been notified that a record or part of a record he has requested cannot be disclosed may apply in writing, to the Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, for reconsideration of that request. The decision of the Commandant or his designee is administratively final. (5 U.S.C. 552 as amended by Pub. L. 93-502, 88 Stat. 1565; 49 CFR 7.1(d). [Amdt. 7-10, 40 FR 20277, May 9, 1975, as amended by CGD 78-024A, 43 FR 48646, Oct. 19, 1978] APPENDIX C-FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 1. General. This appendix describes the document inspection facilities of the Federal Aviation Administration, the kinds of records that are available for public inspection and copying at these facilities, and the procedures by which members of the public may make requests for reasonably described records. 2. Document inspection facilities. Document inspection facilities are maintained for FAA Headquarters, each FAA regional office, the Aeronautical Center, and the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center. The document inspection facility for the European Region is located at FAA Headquarters. These facilities are open to the public during regular working hours at the following addresses: FAA Headquarters, 800 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20590. Alaskan Region, 632 Sixth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501. Central Region, 601 East 12th Street, Kansas City, Mo. 64106. Southern Region, 3400 Whipple Street, East Point, Ga. (Mailing Address: Post Office Box 20636, Atlanta, Ga. 30320). Southwest Region, 4400 Blue Mound Road (Mailing Address: Post Office Box 1689), Fort Worth, Tex. 76101. Western Region, 5651 West Manchester Pacific Region, 1833 Kalakaua Avenue (Mailing Address: Post Office Box 4009), Honolulu, Hawaii 96812. Aeronautical Center, 6400 South MacAr thur Boulevard (Mailing Address: Post Office Box 25082), Oklahoma City, Okla. 73125. National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center, Tilton Road, Route 563 (near Pomona, N.J.) (Mailing Address: Atlantic City, N.J. 08405). New England Region, 154 Middlesex Street, Burlington, MA 01803. Great Lakes Region, 3166 Des Plaines Avenue, Des Plaines, IL 60018. Rocky Mountain Region, 10255 East 25th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80010. Northwest Region, FAA Building, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 98108. 3. Documents available under Subpart E at document inspection facilities. (a) The following records under Subpart E of this part are available at Federal Aviation Administration document inspection facilities: (1) Final opinions and orders made in the adjudication of cases by the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration. (2) Policies and interpretations, including any policy or interpretation concerning a particular factual situation, if that policy or interpretation can reasonably be expected to have precedential value in any case involving a member of the public in a similar situation. All such policies and interpretations made by the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, Associate Administrators, Directors and Heads of Offices are available at the FAA Headquarters document inspection facility; only those policies and interpretations made by the Administrator, Deputy Administrator and the Regional or Center Director concerned shall be available at Regional and Center document inspection facilities. (3) Administrative staff manuals or instructions to staff that affect any member of the public, including the prescribing of any standard, procedure, or policy that, when implemented, requires or limits any action of any member of the public or prescribes the manner of performance of any activity by any member of the public. Such documents are available at the inspection facility of the organizational unit which has issued them. (b) An index of the records located at each document inspection facility is maintained at that facility. (c) The records and the index may be inspected, at the facility, without charge. Copies of records may be obtained upon payment of the fee prescribed in Subpart H of this part. 4. Requests for reasonably described records under Subpart E of this part. Each person desiring to inspect a record, or obtain a copy thereof, must submit his request in writing to the Assistant Administrator, Office of Information Services, FAA Headquarters, or the Director of the Region or Center in which it is located. The addresses of FAA Headquarters and the Regions and Centers are listed in paragraph 2 of this appendix. If the location of the record is not known, the request may be submitted to the Assistant Administrator, Office of Information Services, FAA Headquarters. Each request must be accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed in 40-139 0-79——5 Subpart I of this part. In some instances, the amount of the fee will have to be determined after the request has been received due to the circumstances peculiar to each case. The following table gives illustrations of types of records and where they are located: a. Records pertaining to the issue, amendment, suspension or revocation of certificates, permits, authorizations, and approvals such as: (1) Airman certificates and ratings for pilots, flight instructors, flight navigators, flight engineers, aircraft dispatchers, mechanics, repairmen, air traffic control operators, parachute riggers and ground instructor certificates are maintained at the Aeronautical Center. (2) Aircraft registration certificates, and airworthiness certificates are maintained at the Aeronautical Center. (3) Aircraft type certificates and production certificates are maintained at the regional office within which the issuance was made. (4) Ferry permits and special flight authorizations are maintained at the district office of the region within which the issuance was made. (5) Air carrier operating certificates, commercial operator certificates, agricultural aircraft operator certificates, repair station certificates, parachute loft certificates, pilot school certificates, and mechanic school certificates are maintained at the district office of the region within which the certification was taken. b. Records of designations of representatives of the Administrator are located at FAA Headquarters. c. Records covering civil rights violations determinations under title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964 are located at FAA Headquarters. d. Records relating to Federal-aid Airport Grants are located at the regional office within which the grant was made. e. Records of approvals of navigational facilities under FAR Part 171 are located at the regional office within which the approval was issued. f. Records relating to civil penalty actions and seizure of aircraft are located at the regional office within which the action was taken. 5. Reconsideration of determination not to disclose records. Any person to whom a record is not made available within the time limits set forth in § 7.21 or any extension thereof under § 7.25 of Subpart C, and any person who has been notified that a record he has requested cannot be disclosed may apply, in writing, to the Assistant Administrator, Office of Information Services at FAA Headquarters, for reconsideration of that request. Application for reconsideration must be made within 60 days from the expiration of the time limitations set forth in Subpart C or the receipt of denial and follow the procedures and requirements set forth in Subpart G. For all purposes, including that of judicial review, the decision of the Assistant Administrator, Office of Information Services is administratively final as the decision of the Federal Aviation Administration. [Amdt. 7-10, 40 FR 20277, May 9, 1975] APPENDIX D-FEDERAL HIGHWAY 1. General. This appendix describes the location and hours of operation of document inspection facilities of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); the kinds of records that are available for public inspection and copying at these facilities; and the procedures by which members of the public may make requests for records. 2. Document Inspection Facilities. Document inspection facilities are maintained at the FHWA Headquarters office, each FHWA regional office, and each FHWA division office. These facilities are open to the public during regular FHWA working hours which are included parenthetically after each address below. Written requests for information should be sent to the appropriate office, and the envelope in which the request is sent must be prominently marked with the letters "FOIA." WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS Records Officer, Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590 (7:45-4:15 Eastern Time). REGIONAL OFFICES Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 1, Federal Highway Administration, 4 Normanskill Boulevard (Elsmere), Delmar, NY 12504 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 3, Federal Highway Administration, 31 Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore, MD 21201 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 4, Federal Highway Administration, 1720 Peachtree Road NW., Atlanta, GA 30309 (7:45-4:15 Eastern Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 5, Federal Highway Administration, 18209 Dixie Highway, Homewood, IL 60430 (8-4:30 Central Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 6, Federal Highway Administration, 819 Taylor Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102 (8-4:30 Central Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 7, Federal Highway Administration, 6301 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64131 (7:45-4:15 Central Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 8, Federal Highway Administration, P.O. Box 25246, Building 40, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 (7:454:15 Mountain Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 9, Federal Highway Administration, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36096, San Francisco, CA 94102 (7:45-4:15 Pacific Time). Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 10, Federal Highway Administration, Rm. 412, Mohawk Bldg., 222 SW. Morrison St., Portland, OR 97204 (8:004:45 Pacific Time). Regional Engineer, Region 15, Federal Highway Administration, 1000 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201 (7:454:15 Eastern Time). DIVISION OFFICES Alabama, 441 High Street, Montgomery, AL Arizona, 3500 N. Central Avenue, Suite 201, Arkansas, Room 3128, Federal Office Building, 700 West Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201 (7:45-4:30 Central Time). California, Federal Bldg., 2nd Floor, 801 I Street, Sacramento, CA 94814 (7:45-4:30 Pacific Time). Colorado, 10488 W. 6th Place, Denver, CO 80215 (7:45-4:15 Mountain Time). Connecticut, 990 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Delaware, Federal Office Bldg., 2nd Floor, 300 South New Street, Dover, DE 19901 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). District of Columbia, 425 13th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20004 (7:45-4:15 Eastern Time). Florida, Ackerman Bldg., 223 W. College Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32301 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Georgia, Suite 700, 1422 Peachtree Street, Hawaii, Pacific International Gold Bond Iowa, 105 Sixth Street, Ames, IA 50010 (7:45-4:30 Central Time). Kansas, 1263 Topeka Avenue, Topeka, KS 66612 (8-4:30 Central Time). Kentucky, 151 Elkhorn Court, Frankfort, Maine, Federal Building, U.S. Post Office, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy Federal Michigan, Federal Building, 315 West Allegan Street, Room 211, Lansing, MI 48901 (8-4:45 Eastern Time). Minnesota, Metro Square Building, Suite Missouri, 209 Adams Street, Jefferson City, New Jersey, Suburban Square Building, 25 New Mexico, 117 U.S. Courthouse, Santa Fe, North Carolina, 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27611 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). North Dakota, New Federal Bldg., P.O. Box 1755, Bismarck, ND 58501 (7:45-4:30 Central Time). Ohio, Bryson Building, Room 333, Columbus, OH 43215 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Oklahoma, 2409 North Broadway, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 (8-4:45 Central Time). Oregon, Standard Insurance Building, 477 Cottage Street, NE Salem, OR 97308 (7:45-4:30 Pacific Time). Pennsylvania, 228 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, PA 17108 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). Puerto Rico, Caso Building, Room 805, 1225 Ponce de Leon Avenue, San Juan, PR 00907 (8-4:30 Atlanta Time-7-3:30 Eastern Time). Rhode Island, Gardner Building, Third Floor, 40 Fountain Street, Providence, RI 02903 (8-4:30 Eastern Time). South Carolina, 2001 Assembly Street, Suite 203, Columbia, SC 29201 (8:15-4:45 Eastern Time). |