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... FOIA is subject to exceptions for the purposes of protecting such interests as personal privacy, trade secrets, national security, personnel records, and privileged communications. The law underlying FOIA-based public access to research data is reflected in the Supreme Court's 1980 decision in Forsham v.
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... The Shelby Amendment took the form of a two-sentence rider to the Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY1999, Public Law 105-277, which reads as follows: Provided further that the Director of OMB amends Circular A-110 to require Federal awarding agencies to ensure that all data produced under an award will be made available to the public through the procedures established under the Freedom of Information Act.4 This amendment, which takes its name from its sponsor, Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, precipitated a highly charged public debate, but only after it became law. Industry and regulated communities supported the measure as a fair way to challenge scientific studies that support costly regulations, tort suits, and dubious/questionable risk estimates.
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... In an earlier version the OMB limited the rule to actions with an economic impact of $100 million or more, but this limitation was dropped in the final version. The OMB further defined research data as the factual material commonly accepted by the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings.
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... Even if a project has only a relatively small amount of federal funding, all data must still be produced. Notably, OMB did not require access to data produced by privately funded research, even if that research was used by a federal agency as the basis for a legal ruling.
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