We had a 'discussion' about this with the Federal Agency that we work under
contract to who was in the early stages of developing a schedule for ARRA
records to submit to NARA for approval.

I asked why, and what makes these records any different than those already
identified in the GRS or Agency Administrative or Programmatic schedules?

Essentially, the only difference was the source of the funding, and other
than a potential for audits to evaluate the appropriateness of the
expenditures.  As long as you can produce expenditure and budget reports
along with supporting documents, there is no legitimate reason to file or
schedule the documents and records any differently.

The Agency discontinued work on the draft schedule, and instead added a
limited number of 'alpha sub-series' to existing record series for some very
specific funding documents and reports, but these are all at the Agency
level, not  in the Contractors files.

Larry

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Sharon Blackstock <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hello friends:
> I need a little help. I was asked today (by our purchasing division) if I
> knew anything about records retention requirements for ARRA records
> (American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) ... and clearly I don't.  Spent some
> time searching, googling, checking the listserv archives and I've concluded
> that while there are record-keeping requirements for ARRA, there are no regs
> (yet) that address how long records must be kept.
>
> Can someone tell me if I'm on the right street? Thanks for your patience.
>
> Sharon Blackstock, CRM
>


-- 
*Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972*

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