---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 297.206"
title: "5"
number: "297.206"
heading: "Fees charged by the Office."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/297.206"
---

# §297.206. Fees charged by the Office.

- (a) No fees will be charged for search and review time expended by the Office to produce a record, or for making a photostatic copy of the record, or for having it personally reviewed by the data subject, when a record is retrieved from a system of records pertaining to that data subject. Additional copies provided may be charged under the Office's established fee schedule.
- (b) When the fees chargeable under this section will amount to more than $25, the requester will be notified and payment of fees may be required before the records are provided.
- (c) Remittance should be made by either a personal check, bank draft, or a money order that is made payable to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and addressed to the appropriate system manager.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a; Pub. L. 115-59, 113 Stat. 1152 (42 U.S.C. 405 note).

### Source

Source: 53 FR 1998, Jan. 26, 1988, unless otherwise noted.