U.S. Geological Survey
Component of Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — component of Department of the Interior.
No scorecard yet
Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Be the first to file.
How it takes requests
- 01portalAgency FOIA Portalverified
https://pal.foia.gov
- 02emailEmailunconfirmed
usgs@foia.usgs.gov
- 03mailPostal mailunconfirmed
U.S. Geological Survey FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208
Routes marked unconfirmed are inferred from the agency’s domain pattern in the source dataset and have not been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca confirms an endpoint before the first request goes to it and records the confirmation as a public event — a request sent to a plausible-looking address that bounces silently is worse than no request at all.
What it holds
- correspondence
- contracts
- reports
- emails
- memoranda
- data
- policies
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- Be specific on date range and custodians
- Cite public-interest fee waiver and news-media status if applicable
- Request Vaughn index for withholdings
- Ask for rolling release