The National Archives and Records Administration published a proposed rule today relating to scheduling Federal records.  This proposal would make existing approved records schedules and future records schedules applicable to bodies of records regardless of the medium in which the records are created and maintained. Both the Federal agency (in submitting the schedule) and NARA (in approving the schedule) would be able to specify that certain disposition authorities are valid only for the current media/format of the records.  The proposed rule is intended to reduce the records scheduling workload for both agencies and NARA, allowing both to focus resources on other critical records management needs.

Comments are due by January 18, 2005 and can be sent to regulations.gov or [log in to unmask]  A copy of the proposed rule is available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-25691.pdf.

A related proposed change to the General Records Schedules was published in the Federal Register on November 16 at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-25327.pdf


Posted by
Nancy Allard
Policy and Communications Staff
NARA

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