Amy:

In March of 2008 there was a presentation at our local ARMA Chapter relating to the implementation entitled, "GAO's Enterprise Electronic Records Management System."  As I remember, they implemented a Big Bucket Schedule that has three buckets.  From my notes they are:

Mission - 5 year retention from the close of the case/file · This bucket holds Testimony, Engagement & Investigation Case Files, Engagement Management Files

Policy & Special Collections - Permanent or Long-term retention - This bucket holds Agency Reports & Publications, Legal Decisions, Historically Significant Engagement Files, Agency Directives,
Senior Executive Files

Administrative - 7 year retention from the close of file or end of year - This bucket holds · Budget, Building & Property Management, Congressional Relations, Equal Employment Opportunity, Finance,
Freedom of Information Act, Library Services, Human Capital, Information Systems & Technology, Procurement, Safety, Travel, Etc.

Hope this helps.  If you need any additional information, contact me and I will try to put you in touch with someone from the organization that gave the presentation.  I know they were on the list late last year (they posted a position they had available in October)

Tod Chernikoff, CRM
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From: "A Judd" [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 13:18
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Subject: [RM] Status of GAO & Big Bucket project

A few years ago, one of the hot topics of RM was the GAO switching to and implementing the Big Bucket retention schedule practices. It was all part of their moving to an ERMS. I can find all sorts of articles and PPTs from that period, but haven't seen much information on the project since. 

Has anyone heard, or does anyone know, how that project is going? Was the switch to Big Bucket sustainable and is it working well?
 
Also, does anyone have a comparison of the old GAO schedule vs. the newer Big Bucket version? I don't know if one was produced during the publicity push.

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