United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-10-12 monographic deposited born digital 21 p. GA 1.13:GAO-02-34 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34 P0b002ee18037ba6a f:d0234 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34 GAO-02-34 Fees Freedom of information Military cost control Archives Other Written Product A02290 The National Defense Authorization Act for 2001 authorized the military department secretaries to (1)charge fees to persons requesting information from the military archives and (2) retain collected fees to help defray costs of providing the information. The military archives also have authority under the User Charge Statute and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to charge for general information provided to the public. With the act authorizing, but not requiring, action by the four primary military archives, the archives have responded differently. Although none has yet implemented a fee pursuant to the act, one archive plans to do so by October 2001. The Department of Defense's (DOD) archives and other offices are also authorized under both the User Charge Statute and FOIA to charge for information provided to the public. However, neither of these statutes authorizes an agency to retain the fees collected for providing general information to the public. The four designated archives are charging fees to public requesters but are not using the fee schedule mandated by the DOD regulation implementing the User Charge Statute. Similarly, DOD's fee schedules for charges under FOIA are outdated. DOD's inconsistent use of the authority to charge fees and the use of outdated DOD fees schedules result in uncollected fees of a million dollars or more annually and inconsistent handling of public requests for historical information. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34.pdf GAO-02-34 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-34 Other Written Product GAO-02-34; User Fees: DOD Fees for Providing Information Not Current and Consistent; Fees Freedom of information Military cost control Archives