Agencies have one year to respond to a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request, compared with 20 working days for an initial FOIA response (with up to 10 additional working days allowed in unusual circumstances).
Sources
- Using FOIA to Access Intelligence Community Records (archives.gov)
- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-32/subtitle-B/chapter-XX/part-2001/subpart-D/section-2001.33 (ecfr.gov)
- https://foia.wiki/wiki/Mandatory_Declassification_Review (foia.wiki)
- https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-552 (justice.gov)
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