---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 C.F.R. § 4.11"
title: "12"
number: "4.11"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/12/4.11"
---

# §4.11. Purpose and scope.

- (a) **Purpose.** This subpart sets forth the standards, policies, and procedures that the OCC applies in administering the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ([5 U.S.C. 552](/usc/5/552.md)) to facilitate the OCC's interaction with the banking and savings association industries and the public.
- (b) **Scope.**
  - (1) This subpart describes the information that the FOIA requires the OCC to disclose to the public ([§ 4.12](/cfr/12/4.12.md)), and the three methods by which the OCC discloses that information under the FOIA (§§ [4.13](/cfr/12/4.13.md), [4.14](/cfr/12/4.14.md), and [4.15](/cfr/12/4.15.md)).
  - (2) This subpart also sets forth predisclosure notice procedures that the OCC follows, in accordance with Executive Order 12600 ([3 CFR](/cfr/3.md), 1987 Comp., p. 235), when the OCC receives a request under [§ 4.15](/cfr/12/4.15.md) for disclosure of records that arguably are exempt from disclosure as confidential commercial information ([§ 4.16](/cfr/12/4.16.md)). Finally, this subpart describes the fees that the OCC assesses for the services it renders in providing information under the FOIA ([§ 4.17](/cfr/12/4.17.md)).
  - (3) This subpart does not apply to a request for records pursuant to the Privacy Act ([5 U.S.C. 552a](/usc/5/552a.md)). A person requesting records from the OCC pursuant to the Privacy Act should refer to [31 CFR part 1](/cfr/31/part1.md), [subpart C](/cfr/12/subpartC.md), and appendix J of subpart C.

## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 57322, Nov. 15, 1995, as amended at 76 FR 43561, July 21, 2011; 81 FR 94244, Dec. 23, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552; 12 U.S.C. 1, 93a, 161, 481, 482, 484(a), 1442, 1462a, 1463, 1464 1817(a), 1818, 1820, 1821, 1831m, 1831p-1, 1831o, 1833e, 1867, 1951 et seq., 2601 et seq., 2801 et seq., 2901 et seq., 3101 et seq., 3401 et seq., 5321, 5412, 5414; 15 U.S.C. 77uu(b), 78q(c)(3); 18 U.S.C. 641, 1905, 1906; 29 U.S.C. 1204; 31 U.S.C. 5318(g)(2), 9701; 42 U.S.C. 3601; 44 U.S.C. 3506, 3510; E.O. 12600 (3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 235).

### Source

Source: 60 FR 57322, Nov. 15, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[60 FR 57322, Nov. 15, 1995, as amended at 76 FR 43561, July 21, 2011; 81 FR 94244, Dec. 23, 2016]