This document provides a summary of Freedom of Information Act requests received by the EPA during the week of May 19, 2003. It states that the EPA received 167 total FOIA requests that week, with 30 coming to EPA Headquarters. Year-to-date totals as of that week were 1,554 for Headquarters and 8,282 agency-wide. It identifies two significant FOIA requests received that week from Christopher Homer of the Competitive Enterprise Institute regarding EPA's decision to publish a climate report and relating to statements by Governor Whitman and the President about reading another climate report.

1. * Dana M. Perino 0513012003 03:46:41 PM
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Freedom of Information Act (FOTA) Inquiries
During the week of May 19, 2003, the Agency received 167 FOIA requests. Of the total, 30 were
received in Headquarters. Year-to-date totals are 1,554 for Headquarters and 8,282 agency-wide.
Significant FOIA requests received this week include:
(2) Christopher Homer of Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has requested information
regarding EPA's decision to publish, post or otherwise disseminate the "Third National
Communication", or "Climate Action Report 2002" and the governmental decision to attribute
authorship of this report to the State Department;
(3) Christopher Homer of Competitive Enterprise Institute (GEI) has requested documents
relating to EPA's response to June 2002 press reports about statemnentsb$P'Govemor Whitman
that she had not read the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002, and addressing the President's
assertions that he, "read the report put out by the bureaucracy." Also requested were documents
relating to EPA's objection to or other considerations of Ari Fleischer's June 4, 2002, assertion
that, "This report came out of EPA";