2016-05150: Records Management
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NARA proposes to revise its records management regulations to reflect changes in technology, practice, and organizational structure. This is phase I of the revisions and includes changes to provisions in regulations on managing vital records, records disposition programs, general records schedules, emergency authorization to destroy records, transfer of records to records storage facilities, transfer, use, and disposition of records in a NARA Federal Records Center, and program assistance and inspections.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 7 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 36 CFR 1223 Managing Vital Records
- 36 CFR 1224 Records Disposition Programs
- 36 CFR 1227 General Records Schedules
- 36 CFR 1229 Emergency Authorization to Destroy Records
- 36 CFR 1232 Transfer of Records to Records Storage Facilities
- 36 CFR 1233 Transfer, Use, and Disposition of Records in a NARA Federal Records Center
- 36 CFR 1239 Program Assistance and Inspections
Rulemaking docket
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