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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 
February 6, 1995. Once the appraisal of the records is completed, NARA 
will send a copy of the schedule. The request 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 
proposal 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-94-19). Financial privacy requests 
and financial privacy feeder reports.
    2. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration (N1-511-94-1). Conference and 
demonstration service grant case files.
    3. Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines (N1-70-94-3). 
Environmental impact statement files, commodity files, and minerals 
availability system files.
    4. Department of Justice (N1-60-94-6). Evidentiary documents 
submitted to the Civil Division by persons or entities affected by 
legal proceedings involving the United States.
    5. Department of Justice (N1-60-94-8). Call detail records.
    6. Department of State, Bureau of International Organization 
Affairs (N1-59-95-1). Education and scientific grant files.
    7. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs (N1-59-95-3). 
Administrative records relating to automation and records management 
for Passport Services.
    8. Department of State, Bureau of Administration (N1-59-95-5). 
Reduction in retention period for overseas schools grant files.
    9. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (N1-318-93-2). Case files and 
interagency agreements maintained by the Office of Chief Counsel.
    10. Environmental Protection Agency (N1-412-93-1). Analytical data 
files created by EPA regional laboratories.
    11. Defense Nuclear Agency (N1-374-95-1). Consolidated class lists, 
quotas, and reports of Interservice Nuclear Weapons School.
    12. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (N1-34-94-1). Publication 
subscription files, call report request fulfillment files, files 
created by committees dealing with administrative issues other than the 
reabsorption of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
    13. Interstate Commerce Commission (N1-134-95-1). Reduction in 
retention period Temporary and Emergency Temporary Authority Docket 
Files.
    14. National Security Agency (N1-457-95-1). Non-hired applicant 
psychological files.
    15. Office of Personnel Management (N1-146-84-1). Segments of Civil 
Service Commission ``policy files'' relating to facilitative matters 
and routine administrative action.
    16. United States Information Agency, Bureau of Management (N1-306-
95-1). Records of the Operations and Services Divisions.
    17. Defense Contract Audit Agency (N1-372-94-3). Telephone usage 
records.

    Dated: December 13, 1994.
Trudy Huskamp Peterson,
Acting Archivist of the United States.
[FR Doc. 94-31334 Filed 12-20-94; 8:45 am]
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