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    "abbr": "FAA",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "state": "DC",
    "state_name": "District of Columbia",
    "country": null,
    "country_code": null,
    "category": "transportation",
    "agency_type": "component",
    "parent": "dot",
    "parent_name": "Department of Transportation",
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/faa",
    "website": null,
    "reading_room": "https://www.faa.gov/foia/reading-room",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
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      "citation": "5 U.S.C. § 552",
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      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 90
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.foia.gov/agency-search.html",
        "label": "National FOIA Portal",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": "National FOIA Portal, HTTP 200 check 2026-09-03",
        "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": true,
        "reliability": "high",
        "instructions": "File via the National FOIA Portal agency search (verified live); select this agency to route."
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "Federal Aviation Administration FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208",
        "label": "Postal Mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": "address never confirmed; use certified mail",
        "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
        "automatable": false,
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        "reliability": "medium",
        "instructions": "Certified mail with return receipt recommended for paper-first offices."
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      "recommended_channel": "portal",
      "checked_at": "2026-09-03",
      "notes": "Route via recommended_channel; confirm endpoint before bulk filing."
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      "contracts",
      "reports",
      "emails",
      "memoranda",
      "data",
      "policies"
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      "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"
    ],
    "tracking": "Agency tracking number via acknowledgement letter; check PAL or agency portal.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Imported from AlethecaData. Institutions are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified. See /coverage."
  },
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  "components": [],
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "ALT-2026-1055",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/requests/faa-radar-data-controller-voice-recordings-facility-logs-and-5z1jun-2026-1055",
      "request_group_id": "dfdade11-85e1-464d-9153-39f292fca876",
      "request_group_position": 1,
      "title": "FAA radar data, controller voice recordings, facility logs and inquiry files for Phoenix-area airspace, 13–14 March 1997",
      "scope": "Records of the Air Traffic Organization and its 1997 predecessor (Air Traffic Services / Western-Pacific Region, AWP) concerning the evening of 13 March 1997 and the early hours of 14 March 1997, specifically: (a) any continuous data recording, NTAP or equivalent radar target history for Phoenix TRACON (P50), Phoenix Sky Harbor tower and Albuquerque ARTCC (ZAB) sectors covering the Phoenix metropolitan area and the corridor south toward the Barry M. Goldwater Range, 0200Z–0600Z on 14 March 1997; (b) any controller voice recordings, transcripts or reduced-tape transcriptions for those positions in the same window; (c) daily records of facility operation and position/watch logs (FAA Form 7230-4 or successor) for P50, PHX tower and ZAB for 13–14 March 1997; (d) any pilot report, UFO or unidentified-traffic report, or flight-assist record generated at those facilities on those dates, and any transmittal of such a report to another agency; (e) records showing whether any radar or voice media for that period were impounded, retained, copied or transferred, and if not, the records-retention schedule and destruction authority applied to them; (f) correspondence, congressional and public inquiry files, and public-affairs talking points held by the Western-Pacific Regional Office or the Administrator's office concerning the 13 March 1997 Arizona sightings, 13 March 1997 through 31 December 1998. If any category no longer exists, we request the retention schedule, the destruction certification if one exists, and a description of the record systems searched.",
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      "terminal": false,
      "channel": "fax",
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      "filed_at": "2026-09-09T08:26:49.997Z",
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      "fee_waiver": "pending",
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      "origin": {
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      "tags": [],
      "cost_cents": 1500
    }
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}