Document Edw5zMja4anvKwoqV39jj8Bgx

(201) 359-2777 &> Amboy jcrni.n;ilinn Company Post Office Box S75 Perth Amboy, N.J 08862. ATTN: Mr. David Romaine - Safety Supervisor Wo have received your letter of August 18, 1970 requesting information concerning our investigation of Amboy Tormina ling Company, 560 State Street, Perth Amboy, N.J. The case file has been reviewed and all disclosable portions of the file are attached. The total charge for the attached copies is as follows: 1 SEARCH TIME ProfessionalG $10.00' per hour Clerical Copies G 5.00 per hour 13 $1.30 A .10 per copy . $ 1.30 TOTAL . *- ngraohs were not taken fcc) Photographs are available If you. desire copies of the photographs, there will be an addition- 1 charge. We have deleted from the copies furnished herewith, the .investigators opinions as permitted by exemption. 5 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and 29CFR 70.25- Exemption 5 permits the withholding of opinions and views as well as conclusions and recommendations of agency staff members so as to preserve the full and franJc exchange of ideas and re.commendations necessary for the effective functioning of the government and the maintenance, of a coherent agency policy. RNW 0505 Also pursuant to exemptions 7(C) and (1j) und 29CKJ< 70.27 name;;. and , ol:linr identify) i'.<j information hove boon deleted on various pages of. the report, exemption 7(C) recognizes that names of persons may become purt of an investigative file and that individuals have a right to have their .identities withheld .in order to he protected from possible hurrossment or unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy. Exemption 7(D) protects the names and any information whicli would tend to identify a person who gave information to the investigator in confidence. Failure of the government to protect its confidential sources would soon become ):novn so that few people would come forward voluntarily to give .information from fear of harrassment or reluctance to become emberoiled in a controversy. Ia the event you wish to appeal this decision, you have 90 days from the diate of this letter to notify the Solicitor of babor. Department of Labor, Washington) D . C. 20210 in writing of your appeal. "'dib'S VJ. CONLON Area Director Belle Mead, N. J RNW 0506