[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48124-48125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19636]



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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

[NARA-2015-057]


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 agencies with mandatory 
instructions for what to do with records when agencies no longer need 
them for current Government business. The instructions authorize 
agencies to preserve records of continuing value in the National 
Archives of the United States and to destroy, after a specified period, 
records lacking administrative, legal, research, or other value. NARA 
publishes notice in the Federal Register for records schedules in which 
agencies propose to destroy records not previously authorized for 
disposal or to 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: NARA must receive requests for copies in writing by September 
10, 2015. Once NARA appraises the records, we will send you a copy of 
the schedule you requested. We usually prepare appraisal memoranda that 
contain additional information concerning the records covered by a 
proposed schedule. You may also request these. If you do, we will also 
provide them once we have completed the appraisal. You have 30 days 
after we send you these requested documents in which to submit 
comments.

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of any records schedule identified in 
this notice by contacting Records Management Services (ACNR) using one 
of the following means:
    Mail: NARA (ACNR); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001 
Email: [email protected].
    FAX: 301-837-3698.
    You must cite the control number, which appears in parentheses 
after the name of the agency that submitted the schedule, and a mailing 
address. If you would like an appraisal report, please include that in 
your request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Hawkins, Director, by mail at 
Records Management Services (ACNR); National Archives and Records 
Administration; 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001, by 
phone at 301-837-1799, or by email at [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. These schedules provide for timely transfer into the National 
Archives of historically valuable records and authorize 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 
otherwise specified. An item in a schedule is media-neutral when an 
agency may apply the disposition instructions to records regardless of 
the medium in which it has created or maintains the records. Items 
included in schedules submitted to NARA on or after December 17, 2007, 
are media-neutral unless the item is specifically limited to a specific 
medium. (See 36 CFR 1225.12(e).)
    No agencies may destroy Federal records without the approval of the 
Archivist of the United States. The Archivist grants this approval only 
after thorough consideration of the records' administrative use by the 
agency of origin, the rights of the Government and of private people 
directly affected by the Government's activities, and whether or not 
the records have historical or other value.
    In addition to identifying the Federal agencies and any 
subdivisions requesting disposition authority, this notice states that 
the schedule has agency-wide applicability (in the case of schedules 
that cover records that may be accumulated throughout an agency) or 
lists the organizational unit(s) accumulating the records, 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), and 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 also 
includes information about the records. You may request additional 
information about the disposition process at the addresses above.

Schedules Pending

    1. Department of the Army, Agency-wide (DAA-AU-2015-0035, 2 items, 
2 temporary items). Master files of an electronic information system 
that contains drug testing records including specimen tracking and 
tests results.
    2. Department of the Army, Agency-wide (DAA-AU-2015-0036, 1 item, 1 
temporary item). Master files of an electronic information system that 
contains records relating to work performance reviews.
    3. Department of Defense, Army Air Force Exchange Service (DAA-
0334-2015-0001, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Daily financial transaction 
logs created at point-of-sale sites in military exchanges.
    4. Department of Defense, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DAA-0372-
2015-0001, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master files of an electronic 
information system used to manage professional training for auditors.
    5. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service 
(DAA-0513-2015-0006, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Epidemiological 
outbreak investigation records, including reports, surveys, studies, 
results, internal correspondence, and after action reports.
    6. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service 
(DAA-0513-2015-0007, 2 items, 2 temporary items). Facility construction 
project files, to include internal correspondence, estimates, 
agreements, summaries, and reports.
    7. Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and 
Immigration Services (DAA-0566-2015-0002, 2 items, 2 temporary items). 
Copies of intake forms from organizations providing resettlement 
services for eligible Cuban and Haitian refugees, and related 
statistical reports.
    8. Department of the Interior, Agency-wide (DAA-0048-2015-0002, 1 
item, 1 temporary item). Routine surveillance recordings.
    9. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (DAA-
0065-2015-0005, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Health and medical records 
for persons not employed by the Bureau, including non-hired applicants, 
contractors,

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visitors to Bureau facilities, family members of Bureau employees, 
subjects in custody, and members of the public.
    10. Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons (DAA-0129-2015-0002, 
11 items, 11 temporary items). Treatment files of inmates in re-entry 
facilities, and treatment staff vendor contracts.
    11. Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps (DAA-0127-
2013-0014, 2 items, 2 temporary items). Master files of an electronic 
information system used to manage the enlistment process for individual 
Marines, including records relating to non-selected prospective 
personnel.
    12. Department of the Treasury, United States Mint (DAA-0104-2013-
0002, 4 items, 4 temporary items). Master files and outputs of an 
electronic information system used to track criminal incidents that 
occur on agency property.
    13. Department of the Treasury, United States Mint (DAA-0104-2013-
0003, 4 items, 4 temporary items). Records collected in the 
investigation of criminal activity committed by juvenile offenders on 
agency property.

    Dated: August 3, 2015.
Laurence Brewer,
Director, National Records Management Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-19636 Filed 8-10-15; 8:45 am]
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