94-16655. Notice of Transfer of Function to NTIS

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

 

Notice of Transfer of Function to NTIS

    In the spirit of the National Performance Review, the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS) 
and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will team 
up to demonstrate how government can operate more effectively.
    The National Audiovisual Center at NARA will be transferred to NTIS 
under an agreement which will consolidate much of the Federal 
government's capability for audio, visual, and multimedia materials 
production and dissemination.
    At a time when NARA has developed a strategic vision of its future 
calling for a sharpening of its focus on the archival aspects of its 
programs, the need for service support for audiovisual and multimedia 
across government is rapidly increasing. Merging the complimentary 
strengths of the NARA National Audiovisual Center with the existing 
NTIS which has been congressionally mandated to collect and disseminate 
scientific and technical information will result in better services to 
agencies and the public.
    The new National Audiovisual Center at NTIS will be ideally 
positioned to serve as a hub for access to Federally developed media 
and training materials. By combining resources with the NARA center, 
NTIS will now be able to provide Federal training technology transfer 
services to both the public and private sectors.
    The transfer of the National Audiovisual Center from NARA to NTIS 
will be effective October 1, 1994.
    Written questions regarding this functional transfer may be sent to 
Charles W. Bender, Deputy Assistant Archivist for Public Programs (NE), 
National Archives, 7th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20408.

    Dated: June 30, 1994.
Trudy Huskamp Peterson,
Acting Archivist of the United States.
[FR Doc. 94-16655 Filed 7-8-94; 8:45 am]
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