CFR > Title 35 - Panama Canal > CHAPTER I—PANAMA CANAL REGULATIONS 1 > SUBCHAPTER A—ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION (parts 3 to 10) > PART 9—ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, AND AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS—PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION > SUBPART A—Organization and Functions of the Commission; Availability of Information and Official Records (§9.1 to §9.16) > 9.5—The Freedom of Information Act.

9.5—The Freedom of Information Act.

(a) The Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) is a law which creates a procedure for any person to request official records from United States Government agencies. The rest of the rules in this subpart explain how you may request official records from the Panama Canal Commission.
(b) The Freedom of Information Act requires every United States Government agency to make official records available to any person who requests them, unless the records that the person requests fall within one of more of the exceptions to availability listed in the law. For more details about these exceptions, see subsection (b) of section 552, Title 5, United States Code, available in libraries.
(c) The Freedom of Information Act does not require an agency to create records or compile information that you would like to have. The law deals only with making existing records available.

Code of Federal Regulations

[44 FR 75309, Dec. 19, 1979, as amended at 52 FR 31397, Aug. 20, 1987; 53 FR 16256, May 6, 1988]