Freedom of Information Act

12 supplement clauses impose it across 8 agencies

Records held by a contractor on an agency's behalf can be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. These clauses set out what the contractor must do when the agency receives a request that reaches contract material.

Supplement clauses that impose it

Each clause below cites this authority in its own text and directs the contractor or offeror to do something about it.

DFARS — Defense (DoD)

DIAR — Interior

DOLAR — Labor

EDAR — Education

EPAAR — Environmental Protection Agency

HHSAR — Health and Human Services

NFS — NASA

NRCAR — Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Clauses that name it without imposing it

These cite the same authority for a different reason — a form that carries a burden statement, or a collection the agency has already had approved — so they are listed apart from the clauses that place a duty on the contractor.

DEAR — Energy

DFARS — Defense (DoD)

DOSAR — State

EDAR — Education

EPAAR — Environmental Protection Agency

GSAM — General Services Administration

HHSAR — Health and Human Services

JAR — Justice

NFS — NASA

TAR — Transportation

VAAR — Veterans Affairs

How this list was built

Every agency FAR supplement published by GSA is parsed in full, and each clause is matched against the statutory authorities cited in its own body text — never its title. A clause counts as imposing the obligation only when a directive addressed to the contractor sits alongside the citation; otherwise it is listed as naming it. That split matters: some clauses mention a statute only because a referenced form carries a burden statement. The controlling version of any clause is the one in the Code of Federal Regulations, linked from that clause's page.