---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 370.5"
title: "7"
number: "370.5"
heading: "Requests for records."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/370.5"
---

# §370.5. Requests for records.

- (a) Requests for APHIS records or information other than material published or made available under the preceding sections, shall be made in writing in accordance with [7 CFR 1.3(a)](/cfr/7/1.3.md?p=a) and submitted to the APHIS Freedom of Information Act Coordinator at the following address:

  The request shall identify each record with reasonable specificity as prescribed in [§ 1.3(b)](/cfr/7/1.3.md?p=b) of this title. The APHIS FOIA Coordinator is hereby delegated authority to make determinations with respect to such requests in accordance with [7 CFR](/cfr/7.md).

- (b) The FOIA Coordinator or his designee is authorized to receive requests and to exercise the authority under [§ 1.4(c)](/cfr/7/1.4.md?p=c) of this title to:
  - (1) Make determinations to grant or deny requests,
  - (2) Extend the administrative deadline,
  - (3) Make discretionary releases of exempt records, and
  - (4) **Make determinations regarding charges pursuant to the fee schedule.**
- (c) In exercising his authority under [§ 1.4(c)](/cfr/7/1.4.md?p=c) of this title to grant and deny requests, the Coordinator will comply with [subsection (b)](#b) of the Freedom of Information Act, as amended ([5 U.S.C. 552(b)](/usc/5/552.md?p=b)), which requires that any reasonably segregable portion of a document shall be provided to a person requesting such document after deletion of any portions which are exempt under the Act. Therefore, unless the disclosable and non-disclosable portions are so inextricably linked that it is not reasonably possible to separate them, the document will be released with the non-disclosable portions deleted, except that the Coordinator may exercise discretion as limited by [§ 1.11](/cfr/7/1.11.md) of this title, to release the entire document, or to make only a minimum number of deletions, e.g., the names of individuals.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 43223, Sept. 19, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 53490, Sept. 14, 1979; 51 FR 30837, Aug. 29, 1986; 59 FR 67611, Dec. 30, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 43223, Sept. 19, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[40 FR 43223, Sept. 19, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 53490, Sept. 14, 1979; 51 FR 30837, Aug. 29, 1986; 59 FR 67611, Dec. 30, 1994]