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 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

DATES: Request for copies must be received in writing on or before

April 25, 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 the Army (N1-AU-90-23). Wage survey data used to

set wages for wage rate civilian employees.

2. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service.

(N1-513-92-1). Comprehensive schedule covering records relating to

Staff Services.

3. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service.

(N1-513-92-2). Comprehensive records schedule relating to Management

Services.

4. Department of Justice, Office of Alien Property (N1-131-93-1).

Valueless seized securities.

5. Department of State, Foreign Buildings Operations (N1-59-94-9).

Routine and facilitative records relating to real estate matters.

6. Department of the Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision (N1-

483-92-8). Records documenting and tracking consumer complaints.

7. ACTION, Office of Management and Budget (N1-362-94-1). Travel,

transportation and telephone records.

8. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (N1-507-93-2). Routine

administrative records.

9. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N1-255-94-2).

Records relating to industry relations and procurement, and to

financial management, audits and investigations (Chapters 5 and 9 of

the NASA Records Retention Handbook).

10. National Archives and Records Administration (N2-70-94-1). Raw

data notebooks from Bureau of Mines drilling site experiment stations,

1926-1958.

11. National Achives and Records Administration (N2-182-94-1).

Internal disposal of fragmentary, routine, and facilitative records of

the War Trade Board.

12. On-Site Inspection Agency (N1-330-93-4, N1-330-93-5). Routine

administrative records (treaty monitoring files are proposed as

permanent).

13. Tennessee Valley Authority, Corporate Relations & Development

(N1-142-93-9). Original x-rays that have deteriorated beyond usefulness

prior to their scheduled date of destruction.

Dated: March 3, 1994.

Raymond A. Mosley,

Acting Archivist of the United States.

[FR Doc. 94-5650 Filed 3-10-94; 8:45 am]

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