Toughening on FOIA request processing

Going through one of last month's issues of BusinessWeek, I noticed a brief mentioning of a particularly important piece of legislation signed by the President late last year - an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):

Businesses, which account for roughly 60% of FOIA requests, complain that their inquiries are routinely stalled by foot-dragging bureaucrats. But a little-noticed amendment to the FOIA law, adopted late last year, tightens response deadlines and makes it easier for applicants to recover attorneys’ fees if an agency unsuccessfully challenges their requests in court.

The full text of this bill can be found here (the Government Printing Office website).

Will this legislation have any impact on projects similar to Air Force FACTS? As FCW reported back in March 2007,

Air Force FACTS will be a Web-based system, hosted on the Air Force portal, where employees of the service can log on to check the status of requests being processed.