SBA's Response to WSJ Reporter Rolfe Winkler — WP Co. v. SBA

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia · No. 1:20-cv-01240-JEB · Doc. 1-6 · 2020-05-12 · Docket on CourtListener

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OFFICE OF CAPITAL ACCESS

April 20, 2020

Rolfe Winkler

rolfe.winkler@wsj.com

Re: SBA-2020-000580 Request Response
Dear Mr. Winkler,

This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request No. SBA-2020-
000580 in which you have requested the following:

“a summary database of information for all APPROVED loans under the Paycheck
Protection Program of the 2020 CARES Acct from the time the program began accepting
applications through the end of business on April 13, 2020. Please include all data fields
the Small Business Administration tracks for each loan that it determines is information
generally disclosed under FOIA, including but not limited to: 1) names, commercial
street addresses, and e-mail addresses of recipients of approved loans, 2) names of
officers, directors, stockholders or partners of recipient firms, 3) kinds and amounts of |
loans, loan terms, interest rates, maturity dates, general purpose, etc., 4) business type 5)
bank name and bank commercial street address, 6) approval date, 7) disbursement date,
8) NAICS description, 9) franchise name and franchise code, if applicable”

The Small Business Administration (“Agency”) is providing statistical information on the
Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (“EIDL”) in an
effort to keep the public informed of the assistance and actions both it and the thousands of
lenders across the country are taking at this difficult time. At this time, the Agency is focusing its
efforts on assisting small businesses during this unprecedented disruption to the economy due to
the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) outbreak. The Agency recognizes the need to balance the
interests of transparency with the privacy and confidentiality issues release of loan information
raises. In the future, we will be able to turn our efforts to providing loan specific data to the
public but hope that all understand the need for the Agency to focus its efforts fulfilling the
needs of the small businesses. This information will be added to the SBA.gov website as it
becomes available.

The statistical information can be found at:
https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/open-government/foia#section-header-32. Please select
“COVID-19 Information” located under Frequently requested records to obtain the data that is
currently available.

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Mr. Rolfe Winkler
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If you are dissatisfied with the Agency’s decision, you may file an administrative appeal within
90 days of the date of this letter to:

Office of Hearings and Appeals
Attention: Delorice Ford, FOIA Officer
409 3™ Avenue, SW — 8" Floor
Washington, DC 20416

If you are unable to resolve your FOIA dispute through our FOIA Public Liaison in the Office of
Hearings and Appeals, the Office of Government Information Services (“OGIS”), the Federal
FOIA Ombudsman’s office, offers mediation services to help resolve disputes between FOIA
requesters and Federal agencies. The contact information for OGIS is:

Office of Government Information Services
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road--OGIS

College Park, MD 20740-6001

ogis@nara.gov

ogis.archives.gov

202-741-5770

877-684-6448

Sincefely,

William Bryggs

Deputy Associate Administrator
Office of Capital Access

Small Business Administration

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