7.12—Administration of subpart.
Authority to administer this subpart and to issue determinations with respect to initial requests is delegated as follows:
(a)
To the General Counsel for the records of the Office of the Secretary other than the Office of Inspector General.
(c)
To the Administrator of each DOT component, who may redelegate to officers of that administration the authority to administer this part in connection with defined groups of records. However, each Administrator may redelegate the duties under subpart D of this part to consider appeals of initial denials of requests for records only to his or her deputy or to not more than one other officer who reports directly to the Administrator and who is located at the headquarters of that DOT component.