[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40624-40626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-16236]


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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION


Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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). Once 
approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instructions on 
what happens to records when no longer needed for current Government 
business. They authorize the preservation of records of continuing 
value in the National Archives of the United States and the 
destruction, after a specified period, of records lacking 
administrative, legal, research, or other value. Notice is published 
for records schedules in which agencies propose to destroy records not 
previously authorized for disposal or reduce the retention period of 
records already authorized for disposal. NARA invites public comments 
on such records schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

DATES: Requests for copies must be received in writing on or before 
August 14, 2008. Once the appraisal of the records is completed, NARA 
will send a copy of the schedule. NARA staff usually prepare appraisal 
memorandums that contain additional information concerning the records 
covered by a proposed schedule. These, too, may be requested and will 
be provided once the appraisal is completed. Requesters will be given 
30 days to submit comments.

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of any records schedule identified in 
this notice by contacting the Life Cycle Management Division (NWML) 
using one of the following means:
    Mail: NARA (NWML), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.
    E-mail: [email protected].
    Fax: 301-837-3698.
Requesters must cite the control number, which appears in parentheses 
after the name of the agency which submitted the schedule, and must 
provide a mailing address. Those who desire appraisal reports should so 
indicate in their request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurence Brewer, Director, Life Cycle 
Management Division (NWML), National Archives and Records 
Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. 
Telephone: 301-837-1539. E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year Federal agencies create billions 
of records on paper, film, magnetic tape, and other media. To control 
this accumulation, agency records managers prepare schedules proposing 
retention periods for records and submit these schedules for NARA's 
approval, using the Standard Form (SF) 115, Request for Records 
Disposition Authority. These schedules provide for the timely transfer 
into the National Archives of historically valuable records and 
authorize the disposal of all other records after the agency no longer 
needs them to conduct its business. Some schedules are comprehensive 
and cover all the records of an agency or one of its major 
subdivisions. Most schedules, however, cover records of only one office 
or program or a few series of records. Many of these update previously 
approved schedules, and some include records proposed as permanent.
    The schedules listed in this notice are media neutral unless 
specified otherwise. An item in a schedule is media neutral when the 
disposition instructions may be applied to records regardless of the 
medium in which the records are created and maintained. Items included 
in schedules submitted to NARA on or after December 17, 2007, are media 
neutral unless the item is limited to a specific medium. (See 36 CFR 
1228.24(b)(3).)
    No Federal records are authorized for destruction without the 
approval of the Archivist of the United States. This approval is 
granted only after a thorough consideration of 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 whether 
or not they have historical or other value.
    Besides identifying the Federal agencies and any subdivisions 
requesting disposition authority, this public notice lists the 
organizational unit(s) accumulating the records or indicates agency-
wide applicability in the case of schedules that cover records that may 
be accumulated throughout an agency. This notice provides the control 
number assigned to each schedule, the total number of schedule items, 
and the number of temporary items (the records proposed for 
destruction). It also includes a brief description of the temporary 
records. The records schedule itself contains a full description of the 
records at the file unit level as well as their disposition. If NARA 
staff has prepared an appraisal memorandum for the schedule, it too 
includes information about the records. Further information about the 
disposition process is available on request.

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Schedules Pending

    1. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug 
Administration (N1-88-07-2, 16 items, 13 temporary items). Guidance and 
regulation development records; publication change requests; non-
substantive program subject files; program management files; adverse 
event reports relating to agency regulated products; and regulated 
products registration and listing records. Proposed for permanent 
retention are final guidance documents, internal program directives and 
procedures manuals, and substantive program subject files.
    2. Department of Homeland Security, Management Directorate (N1-563-
08-10, 4 items, 3 temporary items). Classification management records 
relating to declassification plans, requests, and reviews. Proposed for 
permanent retention are security classification guides.
    3. Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and 
Immigration Services (N1-566-08-10, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master 
file associated with an electronic information system that stores 
biometric images (photograph, fingerprint, and signature) used to 
verify the identity of registered resident aliens and for preventing 
illegal entry into the United States.
    4. Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and 
Immigration Services (N1-566-08-15, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master 
file associated with an electronic information system that processes 
and tracks applications by individuals for naturalization and/or 
citizenship. Data in the system is downloaded to the USCIS Central 
Index System, which was previously approved for permanent retention.
    5. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (N1-115-08-9, 
2 items, 2 temporary items). Master files of the Supervisory Control 
and Data Acquisition systems and verification backups of files. These 
systems collect real time data used to operate and maintain water 
storage and hydroelectric power generation.
    6. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey (N1-
57-08-7, 12 items, 6 temporary items). Geology Discipline records 
including geology research project development, demonstration, 
distribution, assessment, testing, and related research functions. 
Proposed for permanent retention are significant research records and 
related indexes.
    7. Department of Justice, Agency-wide (N1-60-08-21, 1 item, 1 
temporary item). Master file for an electronic personnel locator system 
used for collaboration purposes and to contact personnel during 
emergency situations.
    8. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives (N1-436-08-4, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master file of the 
Forensics Administrative Caseload and Evidence Tracking System, which 
tracks caseload status for submitted evidence.
    9. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (N1-65-
08-17, 1 item, 1 temporary item). This schedule requests authority to 
destroy case 29J-PG-70390, which pertains exclusively to the 
investigation of the captioned individual. This request responds to a 
Federal Pre-Trial Diversion Program court order to delete the records 
of the captioned individual.
    10. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (N1-65-
08-18, 1 item, 1 temporary item). This schedule requests authority to 
destroy case 46B-DL-87279, which pertains exclusively to the 
investigation of the captioned individual. This request responds to a 
Federal Pre-Trial Diversion Program court order to delete the records 
of the captioned individual.
    11. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (N1-65-
08-19, 2 items, 2 temporary items). Records of the health care programs 
unit, including equipment maintenance and non-employee individual 
health records.
    12. Department of the Navy, Naval Criminal Investigative Service 
(N1-NU-07-8, 4 items, 4 temporary items). Forensic lab records, 
including reports, case notes, collected data and fingerprint records.
    13. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service (N1-
425-08-1, 32 items, 29 temporary items). Records of the Debt Management 
Services' Office of the Assistant Commissioner and Debt Program 
Division, including reporting records, background files, legislative 
proposal records, program development records, and customer interaction 
files for the Treasury Offset Program. Proposed for permanent retention 
are two series of briefing books covering program administration and 
policies and final debt collection activity reports. The proposed 
disposition instructions are limited to paper records, except where an 
electronic format is specified, including Disclosure Awareness Training 
records.
    14. Environmental Protection Agency, Agency-wide (N1-412-08-8, 3 
items, 3 temporary items). Web site records, including site management 
and operations records, log files, and Web content that is not unique 
(i.e., the record copy is captured elsewhere).
    15. Federal Communications Commission, Office of Engineering and 
Technology (N1-173-08-2, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master files of an 
electronic information system used to track applications for 
experimental licenses.
    16. Federal Communications Commission, Office of Engineering and 
Technology (N1-173-08-3, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master files of an 
electronic information system documenting technical reports.
    17. Federal Communications Commission, Office of Engineering and 
Technology (N1-173-08-6, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master file of an 
electronic information system used to track the receipt and disposition 
of information related to equipment authorization enforcement.
    18. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Agency-wide (N1-138-08-1, 
6 items, 1 temporary item). This schedule authorizes the agency to 
apply the existing disposition instructions to records series 
regardless of the recordkeeping medium. Included are Secretary's 
meeting folders containing agendas and drafts of documents discussed 
and considered. Paper recordkeeping copies of these records were 
previously approved for disposal. Also included are minutes of formal 
Commission meetings and transcripts and digital recordings, for which 
paper and analog recordkeeping copies previously were approved as 
permanent.
    19. Federal Maritime Commission, Office of the General Counsel (N1-
358-08-8, 8 items, 8 temporary items). International affairs files, 
court and docket case files, legislative correspondence, and subject 
files.
    20. Millennium Challenge Corporation, Agency-wide (N1-561-08-4, 5 
items, 5 temporary items). Master files and outputs for electronic 
information systems used by the agency for performance measuring, 
evaluation of policy performance of candidate countries, and sharing of 
information on countries requesting agency partnerships.
    21. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, 
Agency-wide (N1-220-08-2, 9 items, 9 temporary items). Correspondence 
files, subject files, task force files, and related records documenting 
program activities relating to library and information science. The 
records will be donated to the Special Collections Library at the 
University of Michigan. The proposed disposition instructions are 
limited to paper records.

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    22. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Federal and State 
Materials and Environmental Management Programs (N1-431-08-7, 1 item, 1 
temporary item). Master file of an electronic information system used 
to manage information on requests from licensees for authorization to 
dispose of low level nuclear wastes.
    23. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Federal and State 
Materials and Environmental Management Programs (N1-431-08-8, 3 items, 
3 temporary items). Master file and outputs of an electronic 
information system used to track requests for reciprocity between 
jurisdictions in regard to licensing of radioactive materials for 
medical and industrial testing uses.

    Dated: July 10, 2008.
Michael J. Kurtz,
Assistant Archivist for Records Services--Washington, DC.
[FR Doc. E8-16236 Filed 7-14-08; 8:45 am]
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