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Welcome to SBA's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) General Information Page. We hope you already found the information you want or need about SBA on SBA's website or on another government website. Much information about SBA is already publicly available. If not, FOIA gives you the right to access many SBA records. Some information in SBA's records, however, is protected by one or more of nine statutory exemptions (reasons an agency may withhold information from a requester).
The text of the FOIA and SBA's regulations concerning the processing of FOIA requests can be accessed from the FOIA Reference Materials page. The 1996 Amendments (EFOIA) to the FOIA made it easier for the public to access certain documents from government agencies. One of the most beneficial new developments for you as a FOIA requester is the electronic reading room (Library & Resources).
The reading room contains records such as policy statements, final opinions, certain administrative staff manuals and records disclosed in response to a FOIA request that "the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially the same records."
This gives the public the opportunity to access many documents much more quickly and allows the agency to direct its resources to providing requesters with more efficient service when a document does require a written FOIA request. Browse the navigation links for more information on what is available on this website as well as on how to make a FOIA request. (NOTE: If you need an SBA form, visit http://www.sba.gov/tools/Forms/index.html
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