Bankcard holder listings Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:31:54 -0400 To: "AO - All Administrative Officers" From: "Alice A. Sabatini, Division Administrative Officer" Subject: Bankcard holder listings Cc: "Judy L Claussen, Specifications Writer, Reston, VA" , "Nancy J Hill, Chief, Mgmt Support Section, Reston, VA" , "Celso Puente, Chief, Publications Services, Reston, VA" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" John Peterson, Chief of OAFA, has informed the Division AOs that it has been ruled that the USGS must release our bankcard holder list to vendors via a FOIA web page. This is an issue that the USGS has been fighting for some time to avoid a large influx of junk mail, but it appears that we have lost the battle. John forwarded the following message from Maureen Ackerman in OPS: "Under the new Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) Amendments, FOIA reading room materials created on or after November 1, 1996, must be made available electronically to the public. Currently OAFA provides FOIA requesters with the listing of employees who have IMPAC cards. As of November 1, 1997, the USGS is required, under the new law, to make the listing of IMPAC card holders available to the public in the agency's Electronic FOIA Reading Room. A web site is being set up for the USGS Electronic FOIA Reading Room...." ****************************************************************** * Alice A. Sabatini, Division Administrative Officer * * Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey * * 442 National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive * * Reston, VA 20192 703-648-5027; fax 703-648-5295 * ******************************************************************