---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 2710.4"
title: "7"
number: "2710.4"
heading: "Initial request for records."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/2710.4"
---

# §2710.4. Initial request for records.

- (a) **Background.** The Information Access and Disclosure Officer is authorized to:
  - (1) **Grant or deny requests for OIRM records.**
  - (2) Make discretionary releases of OIRM records when it is determined that the public interests in disclosure outweigh the public and/or private ones in withholding.
  - (3) **Reduce or waive fees to be charged where determined to be appropriate.**
- (b) **Procedure.** Persons wishing to request records from the Office of Information Resources Management may do so as follows:
  - (1) **How.** Submit each initial request for OIRM records as prescribed in [7 CFR 1.3(a)](/cfr/7/1.3.md?p=a).
  - (2) **Where.** Submit each initial request to the Information Access and Disclosure Officer, Office of Information Resources Management, USDA, 14th and Independence Ave., SW., Room 407-W, Washington, DC 20250.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552; 7 CFR 1.1-1.16.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 39129, Sept. 7, 1982, unless otherwise noted.