SBA's Response Letters to Bloomberg's Zachary Mider — Wp Co. v. SBA (D.D.C.)

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia · No. 1:20-cv-01240-JEB · Doc. 1-3 · 2020-05-12 · Docket on CourtListener

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U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
WASHINGTON, DC 20416 
 
 
 
OFFICE OF DISASTER ASSISTANCE 
 
April 21, 2020 
 
Zachary R. Mider 
zmider1@bloomberg.net 
 
Re: FOIA Request - SBA-2020-000557 and SBA-2020-000622 
 
Dear Mr. Mider, 
 
This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request No. SBA-2020-
000557 and SBA-2020-000622 in which you have requested access to and copies of the 
following records (“the Records”): 
1. Records of approved Paycheck Protection Program loans, for each loan approved 
between 3/27/2020 and 4/15/2020. I request data on each loan in the same format as 
currently provided by the SBA for 7(a) loans published on the SBA’s website here: 
https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/open-government/foia#section-header-32 
2. Records of approved Covid-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans, for each loan 
approved between 3/6/2020 and 4/15/2020. I request data on each loan in the same 
format as currently provided by the SBA for EIDL’s (CFDA 59.008) published on 
usaspending.gov. 
3. Records of approved Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loan Grants, as authorized 
under Section 1110 of the CARES Act, for each grant approved between 3/27/2020 
and 4/15/2020. I request data on each loan in a similar format as that provided by the 
SBA for all EIDL’s (CFDA 59.008) published on usaspending.gov. These should 
include but need not be limited to the following fields: value of emergency grant, face 
value of related EIDL loan, action date, recipient name, recipient parent duns, recipient 
parent name, recipient address, recipient city name, recipient county code, recipient 
county name, recipient state code, recipient state name, recipient ZIP code, recipient 
congressional district. 
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 near 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.   
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The statistical information can be found at: https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/open-
government/foia#section-header-32.    
 
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 3rd Avenue, SW – 8th 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 
 
Sincerely, 
 
 
 
James E. Rivera 
Associate Administrator 
for Disaster Assistance 
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