Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

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

April 8, 1994. 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, Washington, DC 20408.

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 Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (N1-241-90-

5). Electronic and textual records of the Automated Patent Search

System.

2. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (N1-370-93-2). Comprehensive records schedule for the

Arabian Gulf Program Office.

3. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and

Improvement (N1-441-94-1). Data filed relating to kindergarten, 1971-

1975.

4. Department of Education, Routine and facilitative financial and

administrative records relating to the Federal real property assistance

program (N1-441-93-5).

5. Department of Health and Human Service, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (N1-442-91-11). Comprehensive schedule for

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health electronic

records.

6. Department of Health and Human Service, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. (N1-442-91-12). Comprehensive schedule of

electronic records of the Center for Infectious Diseases.

7. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service,

National Institutes of Health (N1-443-93-1). Medical Staff credentials.

8. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of the

Secretary (N1-235-93-1). Completed job satisfaction surveys filled out

by Departmental employees, 1971.

9. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (N1-57-93-1).

Hard copy seismograms.

10. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines (N1-70-93-1).

Revisions to the records schedule for the Division of Organization and

Management.

11. Department of Labor, Office of the Executive Secretariat (N1-

174-93-3). Miscellaneous subject files, 1991-1993.

12. Department of State, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs (N1-

59-94-2). Compliance tracking system used by the Office of Defense

Trade Controls.

13. Department of Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision (N1-483-

92-7). Records of the Controller's Division.

14. Department of Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision (N1-483-

93-16). Summary reports on financial institutions.

15. Department of Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision (N1-483-

93-18). Summary reports produced by the Branch Office Survey System.

16. ACTION, Office of Management and Budget (N1-362-94-3). General

correspondence of the Inspector General.

17. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticides (N1-412-

93-3). Records relating to the National Pesticides Survey.

18. National Archives and Records Administration (N2-107-94-1).

Routine and facilitative records accumulated by the Office of the

Secretary of War.

19. National Archives and Records Administration (N2-145-94-1).

Routine sound recordings used for training by the Agricultural

Stabilization & Conservation Service.

20. Peace Corps (N1-490-93-2). Volunteer training evaluation files

relating to projects in El Salvador and Honduras, 1965-67.

21. Securities and Exchange Commission. (N1-266-93-1). Records

relating to the Study of Investment Trusts and Companies, 1935-38.

22. Tennessee Valley Authority, Resource Group (N1-142-92-17.

Computer cassette tapes and engineering drawings relating to the

Ammonia from Coal Project.

Dated: February 10, 1994.

Trudy Huskamp Peterson,

Acting Archivist of the United States.

[FR Doc. 94-3917 Filed 2-18-94; 8:45 am]

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