[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 217 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56620-56621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27776]
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments
AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of Records
Administration.
ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed records schedules; request
for comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency
requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Records
schedules identify records of sufficient value to warrant preservation
in the National Archives of the United States. Schedules also authorize
agencies after a specified period to dispose of records lacking
administrative, legal, research, or other value. Notice is published
for records schedules that (1) propose the destruction of records not
previously authorized for disposal, or (2) reduce the retention period
for records already authorized for disposal. NARA invites public
comments on such schedules, as required by 44 USC 3303a(a).
DATES: Request for copies must be received in writing on or before
December 26, 1995. Once the appraisal of the records is completed, NARA
will send a copy of the schedule. The requester will be given 30 days
to submit comments.
ADDRESSES: Address requests for single copies of schedules identified
in this notice to the Records Appraisal and Disposition Division (NIR),
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD 20740.
Requesters must cite the control number assigned to each schedule when
requesting a copy. The control number appears in the parentheses
immediately after the name of the requesting agency.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year U.S. Government agencies create
billions of records on paper, film, magnetic tape, and other media. In
order to control this accumulation, agency records managers prepare
records schedules specifying when the agency no longer needs the
records and what happens to the records after this period. Some
schedules are comprehensive and cover all the records of an agency or
one of its major subdivisions. These comprehensive schedules provide
for the eventual transfer to the National Archives of historically
valuable records and authorize the disposal of all other records. Most
schedules, however, cover records of only one office or program or a
few series of records, and many are updates of previously approved
schedules. Such schedules also may include records that are designated
for permanent retention.
Destruction of records requires the approval of the Archivist of
the United States. This approval is granted after a thorough study of
the records that takes into account their administrative use by the
agency of origin, the rights of the Government and of private persons
directly affected by the Government's activities, and historical or
other value.
This public notice identifies the Federal agencies and their
subdivisions requesting disposition authority, includes the control
number assigned to each schedule, and briefly describes the records
proposed for disposal. The records schedule contains additional
information about the records and their disposition. Further
information about the disposition process will be furnished to each
requester.
Schedules Pending
1. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
(N1-434-96-1). Routine administrative records including document
receipts and responses to public inquiries relating to human radiation
experimentation.
2. Department of Energy (N1-434-95-5). Administrative and
housekeeping records relating to Cooperative Research and Development
Agreements, Cost Sharing Agreements, and work done by the Department of
Energy for other government agencies.
3. Department of Justice (N1-60-95-1). Reference files and general
correspondence, chiefly involving professional invitations, accumulated
by the Solicitor General, 1983-93.
4. Administrative Conference of the United States (N1-451-95-1).
Comprehensive records schedule for textual records.
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5. American Battle Monuments Commission (N1-117-96-1). Photographic
materials that are duplicate, routine and facilitative, or technically
inferior.
6. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Enforcement
(N1-412-94-6). Reduction in retention period for import and export
notification files.
7. Panama Canal Commission (N1-185-95-1). Facilitative,
duplicative, and routine records of the Engineering and Construction
Bureau.
8. Securities and Exchange Commission (N1-266-94-1). Tapes
containing data from various electronic systems which are duplicated in
other cumulative tapes scheduled for permanent retention.
10. Tennessee Valley Administration (N1-142-95-18). Still
Photographs of Electrical Substations and Related Locations.
11. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (N1-115-94-
7). General administrative records, pertaining to environmental
compliance and management.
Dated: November 2, 1995.
James W. Moore,
Assistant Archivist, for Records Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-27776 Filed 11-8-95; 8:45 am]
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