[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 217 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56620-56621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27776]



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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 
December 26, 1995. 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, 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 
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 Energy, Office of Environmental Health and Safety 
(N1-434-96-1). Routine administrative records including document 
receipts and responses to public inquiries relating to human radiation 
experimentation.
    2. Department of Energy (N1-434-95-5). Administrative and 
housekeeping records relating to Cooperative Research and Development 
Agreements, Cost Sharing Agreements, and work done by the Department of 
Energy for other government agencies.
    3. Department of Justice (N1-60-95-1). Reference files and general 
correspondence, chiefly involving professional invitations, accumulated 
by the Solicitor General, 1983-93.
    4. Administrative Conference of the United States (N1-451-95-1). 
Comprehensive records schedule for textual records.

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    5. American Battle Monuments Commission (N1-117-96-1). Photographic 
materials that are duplicate, routine and facilitative, or technically 
inferior.
    6. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Enforcement 
(N1-412-94-6). Reduction in retention period for import and export 
notification files.
    7. Panama Canal Commission (N1-185-95-1). Facilitative, 
duplicative, and routine records of the Engineering and Construction 
Bureau.
    8. Securities and Exchange Commission (N1-266-94-1). Tapes 
containing data from various electronic systems which are duplicated in 
other cumulative tapes scheduled for permanent retention.
    10. Tennessee Valley Administration (N1-142-95-18). Still 
Photographs of Electrical Substations and Related Locations.
    11. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (N1-115-94-
7). General administrative records, pertaining to environmental 
compliance and management.

    Dated: November 2, 1995.
James W. Moore,
Assistant Archivist, for Records Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-27776 Filed 11-8-95; 8:45 am]
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