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1 Office of Management and Budget: Ukraine-Related Documents [i] (2020)

handle is hein.presidentsimp/ombukrd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 January 21, 2020 Daniel McGrath American Oversight 1030 15t' Street, NW, Suite B255 Washington, DC 20005 Sent via email: daniel mcgrath @ americanoversight.or. RE: American Oversight v. Office of Management and Budget, et al., No. 19-cv-3213 (D.D.C.) Dear Mr. McGrath: This is an interim response to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from American Oversight, which are the subject of litigation in the above-referenced matter. Specifically, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received the FOIA requests on September 24, 2019, and assigned them tracking numbers 2019-477, 2019-478 and 2019-479. In accordance with the Joint Status Report of December 16, 2019, the parties reached agreement on an expedited production schedule for American Oversight's priority request to OMB. Pursuant to that report, OMB has completed its review of the search results and identified a total of 227 responsive documents. Of those 227 responsive documents, OMB is releasing in full or in part 107 documents. These documents include redactions made pursuant to FOIA Exemptions 3, 5 and 6, 5 U.S.C. §§ 552(b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6). Exemption 3 protects information that is prohibited from disclosure by another Federal statute. Exemption 5 protects attorney-client and interagency or intra-agency pre-decisional and deliberative communications, the disclosure of which would inhibit the frank and candid exchange of views that is necessary for effective government decision-making. Exemption 6 protects against disclosure of information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. With respect to the remaining 120 documents, OMB is withholding these records in full pursuant to FOIA Exemption 5, which protects deliberative, attorney-client, and Presidential communications, the disclosure of which would inhibit the frank and candid exchange of views that is necessary for effective government decision-making. Because your FOIA requests are in litigation, your administrative appellate rights are now moot. If you have any questions about this interim response, please contact Grace Zhou at (202) 616-8267 or Grace. X.Zhou @ usdov. Sinely, Dionne Har rd! FOJA Offic erA Enclosure