Code of Federal Regulations Title 34. Education § 34.5.12 Creation of agency records not required

In response to a FOIA request, the Department produces only those agency records that are not already publicly available and that are in existence at the time it receives a request. The Department does not create new agency records in response to a FOIA request by, for example, extrapolating information from existing agency records, reformatting available information, preparing new electronic programs or databases, or creating data through calculations of ratios, proportions, percentages, trends, frequency distributions, correlations, or comparisons.

(Authority:  5 U.S.C. 552(a), 20 U.S.C. 3474)