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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

36 CFR Part 1253

RIN 3095-AA56

 

National Archives at College Park, MD; Location of Records and 
Hours of Use

AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration.

ACTION: Interim final rule.

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SUMMARY: The National Archives and Records Administration is updating 
its regulations on location of records and hours of use to add the 
National Archives at College Park (Archives II) facility which has 
opened in College Park, MD, and to delete the Pickett Street facility 
in Alexandria, VA, which is no longer open for research. The rule is 
being issued as an interim final rule so that the new facility hours 
will be established on the same date as the revised research room hours 
in the National Archives Building. This rule will affect the public.

DATES: The effective date of this rule is March 16, 1994. Comments on 
the interim rule must be received by April 15, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to Director, Policy and Program Analysis 
Division (NAA), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, 
College Park, MD 20740-6001. Comments may also be faxed to (301) 713-
7270.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Ann Hadyka or Nancy Allard on 
(301) 713-6730.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Archives at College Park 
research complex opened to the public on January 3, 1994. Records will 
continue to be moved into the facility over the next two years as NARA 
completes a massive relocation of archival records from its facilities 
in the Washington, DC, area. Upon completion of the move, NARA will 
operate two archival research facilities in the Washington, DC, area: 
The National Archives Building and the National Archives at College 
Park, also known as Archives II. The Pickett Street facility in 
Alexandria, VA, which housed the Nixon Presidential materials and 
Cartographic research rooms, has closed; the Suitland Research Room 
will close for archival records research in 1996 when all archival 
records are relocated.
    NARA is adopting the National Archives Building Central Research 
Room and Microfilm Research Room hours at Archives II. Uniform hours at 
the two facilities will allow adequate coverage in the research rooms. 
We considered selecting different days for the Archives II complex to 
have extended hours; however, we concluded that such an action would 
complicate staffing the research rooms during extended hours without 
providing significant benefit to most researchers. With the allocation 
of records between the National Archives Building and Archives II based 
on grouping of related records in one facility, most researchers will 
use either the National Archives Building or Archives II, but not both.
    This rule is being issued as an interim final rule without prior 
notice of proposed rulemaking as permitted by the Administrative 
Procedures Act (5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B)) when the agency for good cause 
finds that notice and public procedure thereon are impractical, 
unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. NARA finds that the 
public interest would be served by early establishment of extended 
research room hours at the new Archives II facility. Because NARA 
wishes to establish uniform hours for the Archives II research complex 
and the National Archives Building principal research rooms, NARA was 
unable to begin the rulemaking process for the Archives II facility 
until its rulemaking amending research room hours in the National 
Archives Building was completed. The final rule establishing hours for 
the National Archives Building is published elsewhere in today's 
Federal Register.
    NARA will issue a final rule confirming or amending the Archives II 
research complex hours at the close of the comment period for this 
interim rule.
    This rule is not a significant regulatory action for purposes of 
Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 and has not been reviewed 
by the Office of Management and Budget. As required by the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act, it is hereby certified that this rule will not have a 
significant impact on small entities.

List of Subjects in 36 CFR 1253

    Archives and records.

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, chapter XII of title 36, 
Code of Federal Regulations, is amended as follows:

PART 1253--LOCATION OF RECORDS AND HOURS OF USE

    1. The authority citation for part 1253 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 2104(a).

    2. Section 1253.2 is revised to read:


Sec. 1253.2  National Archives at College Park.

    The National Archives at College Park is located at 8601 Adelphi 
Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. Research complex hours are 8:45 a.m. 
to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; 8:45 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, 
Thursday, and Friday; and 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday.

    Dated: February 7, 1994.
Trudy Huskamp Peterson,
Acting Archivist of the United States.
[FR Doc. 94-3361 Filed 2-11-94; 8:45 am]
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