[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 30, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24739-24740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11104]


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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

[NARA-2017-040]


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 agencies no longer need them for current 
Government business. The records schedules 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 they no longer need to conduct agency business. NARA 
invites public comments on such records schedules.

DATES: NARA must receive requests for copies in writing by June 29, 
2017. Once NARA finishes appraising 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 to 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 Appraisal and Agency Assistance 
(ACRA) using one of the following means:
    Mail: NARA (ACRA); 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 Appraisal and Agency Assistance (ACRA), 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: NARA publishes notice in the Federal 
Register for records schedules they no longer need to conduct agency 
business. NARA invites public comments on such records schedules, as 
required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).
    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 records retention 
periods and submit these schedules for NARA's approval. These schedules 
provide for timely transfer into the National Archives of historically 
valuable records and authorize the agency to dispose 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 creates or maintains the records. Items included 
in schedules submitted to NARA on or after December 17, 2007, are media 
neutral unless the item is expressly limited to a specific medium. (See 
36 CFR 1225.12(e).)
    Agencies may not destroy Federal records without Archivist of the 
United States' approval. The Archivist approves destruction only after 
thoroughly considering 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

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requesting disposition authority, this notice lists the organizational 
unit(s) accumulating the records (or notes that the schedule has 
agency-wide applicability when schedules cover records that may be 
accumulated throughout an agency); 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 Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (DAA-0145-2017-
0001, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Records related to the Organic 
Certification Cost Share Program, including participant folders and 
reports.
    2. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (DAA-0145-2017-
0003, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Records related to the Emergency 
Forest Restoration Program, including producer folders and 
correspondence.
    3. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (DAA-0145-2017-
0004, 4 items, 4 temporary items). Records related to the Conservation 
Reserve, Grassroots Source Water Protection, Biofuels Infrastructure 
Partnership, and Geographically Disadvantaged Farmers or Ranchers 
programs. The records consist of producer folders and correspondence.
    4. Department of the Air Force, Agency-wide (DAA-AFU-2017-0006, 1 
item, 1 temporary item). Records relating to temperature uniformity 
surveys and system accuracy tests for heat treatment facilities and 
metals processing shops.
    5. Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DAA-0361-2017-
0003, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Records accounting for small arms from 
receipt to destruction.
    6. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security 
Administration (DAA-0560-2017-0005, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Records 
related to routine internal audits of purchase card and check 
transactions.
    7. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review 
(DAA-0582-2017-0001, 5 items, 5 temporary items). Records related to 
immigration fraud and abuse prevention, including complaints, 
investigative case files, tracking data, internal newsletters, and 
working files.
    8. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review 
(DAA-0582-2017-0002, 7 items, 7 temporary items). Records related to 
immigration attorney discipline cases and misconduct complaints.
    9. Department of the Navy, Agency-wide (DAA-NU-2015-0013, 15 items, 
11 temporary items). Aeronautical and astronautical records including 
routine correspondence, maintenance records, working papers, daily 
operations, and related matters. Proposed for permanent retention are 
records relating to policy, engineering drawings, technical reports and 
publications, and experimental aircraft flight summaries.
    10. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Agency-wide (DAA-0180-
2013-0005, 6 items, 3 temporary items). Reparations and enforcement 
cases involving dispute resolution between futures customers and 
futures trading professionals from 1989 to 2010 that were not appealed; 
the master file of an electronic information system used to track 
cases; and procedural letters and orders, notices of proceeding and 
appeals, exhibits, transcripts, and other working papers for 
reparations and enforcement cases starting in October 2010 and ongoing. 
Proposed for permanent retention are records of reparations and 
enforcement cases appealed to the Commission from 1989 to 2010; 
rulings, orders, complaints, sanction letters, and settlement documents 
for reparations and enforcement cases starting in 2010 and ongoing; and 
all reparations and enforcement cases from circa 1950 to 1988.
    11. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National 
Counterterrorism Center (N1-576-15-1, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Source 
data used to determine whether individuals are engaged in or suspected 
of involvement in terrorist activities.
    12. Office of Government Ethics, Agency-wide (DAA-0522-2017-0001, 4 
items, 4 temporary items). Master files of an electronic information 
system used for collecting and reviewing public financial disclosure 
reports, including periodic public reports of certain financial 
transactions, and supporting documentation.

    Dated: May 19, 2017.
Laurence Brewer,
Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government.
[FR Doc. 2017-11104 Filed 5-26-17; 8:45 am]
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