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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services7500 Security Boulevard, Mail Stop N2-20-16Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850

Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs/Freedom of Information Group Refer to: Control Number 122020137058 and PIN C5ZP

5/1/2015

William F. Marshall

Judicial Watch

425 Third St., SW, Suite 800

Washington, DC 20024

Dear Mr. Marshall:

This is the fourth interim response to your December 20, 2013 Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA) request addressed to the CMS FOIA Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

(CMS), Freedom of Information Group. Your request sought access to the following records:

Any and all records related to, regarding or in connection with the securityof healthcare.gov web portal including, but not limited to, studies, memoranda,

correspondence, electronic communications (emails), and slide presentations from

January 1, 2012 to the present date.

On June 13, 2014, you modified the scope of your FOIA request to exclude records consisting of

lines of computer code and records that would otherwise leave the healthcare.gov websitevulnerable to attack if released to the public. You emphasized that this modification coverstechnical documents only, and that HHS records merely stating or generally discussing the

existence of a potential problem with the website were still within the parameters of your

request.

In this interim response, forty-five pages are released in the entirety, seventy-four pages are

released in part, and twenty are withheld in full. All of these pages are enclosed and have beenbates numbered. Three have been intentionally blank.

Comprised within the seventy-five pages redacted in part, is either, 1. Within the scope of June13, 2014 modification and considered responsive to your request or 2. Exempt from disclosure

pursuant to the deliberative process privilege of exemption 5 or 3. Exempt from disclosure

pursuant to Exemption 6.

Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc.

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Exemption b(5), Deliberative Process Privilege: FOIA Exemption 5 permits a federal agency to

withhold inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by

law to a party other than an agency in litigation with an agency.

Exemption 6: FOIA Exemption 6 permits a federal agency to withhold information about

individuals in personnel and medical files and similar files when the disclosure of suchinformation would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Please be advised that CMSs review of records located which may be responsive to your

modified request remains active and ongoing. As additional responsive records are reviewed,CMS will promptly release all non-exempt records that are responsive to your request.

Sincerely yours,

Hugh Gilmore

DirectorFreedom of Information Group

Enclosure (141 pages)


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