ED 570% 1; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :25 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20450 0 ge?ou?ws. "If Prime-0 0 7 oFFIce oF Mr. Jasou Leopold INercTon GENERAL BuzzFeed News 1669 Benedict Canyon Drive Beverly Hills, California 90210 Re: Freedom of Information Act Request Interim Disposition Letter #1 Dear Mr. Leopold: This letter responds to your Freedom of Information Act request to the Environmental Protection Agency Of?ce of Inspector General dated April 9. 2018, seeking disclosure of. in part: 1. Any and all records in possession of the EPA OIG describing, memorializing and/Or constituting death threats leveled against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his family; 2. A copy of the concluding document.. .concerning investigations relating or referring to death threats against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his family; and 6. All statistical data relating or referring to death threats against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. A search was conducted for records created between January 1. 2017 and April 11, 2018. Documents responsive to parts I, 2.. and 6 of your request are enclosed. Some redactions of information have been made to the documents pursuant to the FOIA. 5 U.S.C. 552. Subsections (NORA). {blt7)(C) and Certain material you requested is part of one or more open law enforcement file(s). Exemption exempts from disclosure records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes to the extent that the production of such records could reasonably be expected to interfere with ongoing enforcement proceedings. Exemption 5 exempts from disclosure inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda Or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency. This exemption generally allows agencies to exempt those documents that are privileged in the context of civil discovery. EPA 01G is invoking the deliberative process privilege of Exemption 5 to protect information that falls within that privilege?s domain. Documents related to conversations between an attorney and client have been withheld as attorney-client privileged pursuant to Exemption 5. Exemption 6 exempts from disclosure any information the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Exemption provides protection for personal information in law enforcement records the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to constitute an This interim response is applicable to parts I. 2, and 6 of your April 9, 2013 Freedom Oflnformation Act request. Parts 3, 4 and 5 of your request Will take additional tIme gm I ctr-re was Vegetab-e DII Based lens on tom-L. Postconsimoi, Process F'aa Recycled Paper unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. The names of individuals, and any information which may identify them have been withheld pursuant to both Exemptions 6 and Exemption allows agencies to protect from disclosure all law enforcement information that would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions or which would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigation or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law. For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c) (2006 3.: Supp. IV 2010). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist. The EPA 01G will continue to process parts 3, 4, and 5 of your FOIA request; however, we have found that an initial production of records often satis?es a request. Please contact our office if you no longer are seeking records related to the pending portions of your request. You may appeal this decision to the Counsel to the Inspector General, Of?ce of Counsel, Of?ce of Inspector General, 1200 Avenue NW, Mail Code (2411T), Washington, D.C. 20460 or via email at oig?foia@epa. gov. The appeal must be made in writing and must be submitted no later than 90 calendar days from the date of this letter. The appeal letter and envelope should include the FOIA tracking number listed above and be marked ?Freedom of Information Act Appeal.? Additionally, you make seek diSpute resolution services from either the EPA FOIA Public Liaison (hq.foia@epa.gov; 202-566-1667) or the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS). OGIS serves as a bridge between FOIA requesters and agencies and can be reached by email at ogis@nara.gov, by phone at 1-877-684-6448, or by fax at (202) 741-5769. If you have any questions concerning this matter, you may contact me at (202) 566-1512 or oig_foia@epa. gov. Sincerely, W23 Scott Levine Associate Counsel I 01G FOIA Coordinator Enclosures