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FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Cornoration £550 17th St. NW Washington DC, 20428 Legal Divison ‘Adam J. Rappaport Senior Counsel CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) 1 2010 1400 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 450 OCT 01 2010 Washington, D.C. 20005 EDIC FOIA/PA Log No. 10-0544 Dear Mr. Rappaport: This is in final response to your letter of March 22, 2010, requesting, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. §552 ("FOIA"), all correspondence between FDIC and any member, committee, or employee of Congress related to all financial regulatory reform proposals and suggestions, whether initiated within the FDIC or Congress, between March 1, 2008 and the present. Your request listed 5 categories of records, including, (1) The Blueprint for a Modemized Financial Regulatory Structure proposed in March 2008, by then ~Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson; (2) financial regulatory reforms. proposed by President Obama and ‘Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on June 17, 2009; (3) a group of reform bills passed by the house Financial Services Committee from October-December 2009 that were combined into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173) and passed by the House on December 11, 2009, (4) legislation proposed by Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd on November 11, 2009, and (5) new legislation proposed by Chairman Dodd on March 15,2010. We provided you with a partial response electronically on September 9, 2010. Enclosed are copies of the remaining requested documents (127 pages) for categories 2, 3,4, and 5. No records were located for Item 1. The correspondence is being released in its entirety. In accordance with the April 2, 2010 conversation you had with Nik Burgess of my staff, the documents being released to you reflect your agreement to accept the universe of official “paper” correspondence. As he suggested, it is agency policy that all official correspondence with Congress is transmitted through our Office of Legislative Affairs. Consequently, the correspondence record as provided is fully responsive, notwithstanding the no records for Item 1. Because no records were provided for part of your request, should you consider this response to be a denial, this letter constitutes formal notification that you have the right to appeal this determination to the FDIC's General Counsel within 30 business days following receipt of this letter. If you decide to appeal, please submit your appeal in writing to the FOIA/PA Group at the address above. Please refer to the log number and include any additional information that you would like the General Counsel to consider. We hope the above has been helpful to you. Please call Nik Burgess of my staff on 703- 362-2668 if we can be of further assistance. Sincerely, Fackson Counsel Enclosures (127 pages)

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