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2011) (“[A]n agency ‘is required to at least definitively respond to. [a] 2011) (applying 5 USC § 555(b) to an FDA citizen’s petition); Fund for Animals v. 2011) citing 5 USC §§553(e), 555(b), and concluding “an agency is required to at least definitively respond to…[a] petition”). [5] Interior , 794 F.Supp.2d 2d 535,540 (S.D.N.Y
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