Yes. Actually, it's one of the things I'm most pleased about. Between 2008 and 2009—the first year of implementation under our new guidelines—the backlog went down across the government by about 60,000 requests, so almost half. Almost half of the backlog was reduced. It was really a tremendous reduction in backlog, and that backlog trend is continuing. We're seeing that the backlog continues to go down.
Definitely the focus on backlogs is certainly one of the.... We have many planks to the guidelines that we have under the Freedom of Information Act, but one of the planks is backlog reduction, and we are seeing concrete statistics that show us that the backlog is going down. Then we balance that against the other key thing we're trying to accomplish, which is to just be more transparent. That means not only increasing proactive disclosure, the data sets that Beth has been talking about, but also just having agencies work to anticipate interest in records and to put to records on the website before the flood of FOIA requests comes in.
We have a really nice example of agencies doing that in response to the BP oil spill. Agencies immediately started establishing websites devoted to the effects of the oil spill, and across the government we had multiple agencies with their own websites containing information connected with the oil spill: water samples, soil samples, air quality, etc.