Submitter’s Response Form

Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4), protects trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person which is privileged or confidential. Please complete this form to submit your responses to the Federal Register Notice regarding your EEO-1 data.

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FOIA Questionnaire
1. Do you consider information from your EEO-1 report to be a trade secret or commercial information? If yes, please explain why.
2. Do you customarily keep the requested information private or closely-held? If yes, please explain what steps have been taken to protect data contained in your reports, and to whom it has been disclosed.
3. Do you contend that the government provided an express or implied assurance of confidentiality? If yes, please explain. If no, skip to question 4.
4. If you answered “no” to question 3, were there expressed or implied indications at the time the information was submitted that the government would publicly disclose the information? If yes, please explain.
5. Do you believe that disclosure of this information could cause harm to an interest protected by Exemption 4 (such as by causing genuine harm to your economic or business interests)? If yes, please explain.

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