Hack v. Department of Energy

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, whereby plaintiff seeks to compel defendants (the Department of Energy and several of its officials) to disclose portions of four documents, known as Conceptual Design Reports (CDRs), previously released to plaintiff in excised form. On August 25, 1980, plaintiff filed a request with the manager of the DOE’s Oak Ridge Operations Office in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for the four reports, which concerned four contemplated projects at Oak Ridge. In a timely response, DOE released…