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In accordance with the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996, each Department is required to electronically submit available annual reports. The annual reports specify a variety of numerical benchmarks such as:
- The number of requests received and processed
- Reasons why the agency may not have released requested records
- The number of appeals and the results
- Fees collected
- and the number of staff and staff hours devoted to processing requests
Below are the HHS annual reports from Fiscal Year 1998 to the present: