[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 235 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62891-62892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29854]



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

DATES: Request for copies must be received in writing on or before 
January 22, 1996. 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 Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (N1-
310-95-2). Background records and input and source documents for 
applied human nutrition projects.
    2. Department of Energy, Superconducting Super Collider Project 
Office (N1-434-95-4). Administrative, routine facilities, and interim 
construction records associated with the Superconducting Super Collider 
Project.
    3. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service 
(N1-513-94-1). Comprehensive schedule of major electronic data systems.
    4. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (N1-115-94-5). 
General administrative records pertaining to economics, repayment, and 
water sales and rights.
    5. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (N1-115-94-6). 
General administrative records pertaining to land operations and realty 
functions.
    6. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service 
(N1-85-96-1). Service Center receipt files.
    7. Department of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs 
(N1-59-94-36). Duplicative records maintained in all bureau offices.
    8. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (N1-59-94-
43). Routine, facilitative, and duplicative records. Policy records are 
scheduled as permanent.
    9. The Administrative Conference of the United States (N1-451-96-
1). Unrecoverable electronic roster and unidentified/uncaptioned still 
photographs.
    10. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (N1-82-95-1). 
Comprehensive schedule for the Federal Open Market Committee.
    11. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (N1-436-96-1). 
Requisition requests for firearms explosives forms.
    12. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (N1-465-94-1). Special 
project or task force case files that are non-precedent in nature.
    13. Tennessee Valley Authority (N1-142-93-13). Reduction in 
retention period for employee rehabilitation case files.
    14. Tennessee Valley Authority (N1-142-93-17). Employee service 
surveys and suggestions.
    15. Tennessee Valley Authority (N1-142-95-2). Heavy equipment 
contract files.
    16. Tennessee Valley Authority (N1-142-95-7). Oscillogram and 
transient recorder record created in monitoring power generation 
equipment and facilities.

    Dated: November 28, 1995.
James W. Moore,
Assistant Archivist for Records Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-29854 Filed 12-6-95; 8:45 am]
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