45 CFR § 1171.3 - Information policy.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t45/s1171.3"
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title: "45 CFR § 1171.3 - Information policy."
title_number: 45
title_name: "Public Welfare"
section_number: "1171.3"
section_name: "Information policy."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES"
part_number: "1171"
part_name: "PUBLIC ACCESS TO NEH RECORDS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 552; 20 U.S.C. 959; 31 U.S.C. 3717; E.O. 12600."
regulatory_source: "79 FR 9415, Feb. 19, 2014, unless otherwise noted."
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# 1171.3 Information policy.

The NEH may provide information the agency routinely makes available to the public through its regular activities (for example, program announcements and solicitations, press releases, and summaries of awarded grant applications) without following this part. As a matter of policy, the NEH makes discretionary disclosures of records or information otherwise exempt under the FOIA whenever disclosure would not foreseeably harm an interest protected by a FOIA exemption. This policy, however, does not create any right enforceable in court.