USDA Agency Records Officers create policies and procedures for managing agency records. They control, organize, direct, and train records management staff to achieve agency information resources goals and objectives. Agency Records Officers coordinate and promote records management programs with program officials, information resource managers, and senior agency management.

National Archives and Records Administration Appraisal Work Group, has record scheduling and appraisal responsibilities.

National Archives and Records Administration Records Center Program provides storage and service of official records, including:

• Transfers, reference requests, secure disposals, document conversions;
  
  
• Implementing, modifying, and removing records disposal freezes in response to court orders, supporting freeze implementation across the entire records system;



• Working with NARA's Life Cycle Management Division to automatically update records retention schedules without agency intervention, assuring current disposition standards are used in disposal actions

NARA's Office of Regional Records Services headquarter-based records professional: Agency Liaison. Ms. Tillery is our liaison between the agencies and the 16 NARA records centers across the country

NARA's Washington National Records Center (WNRC) at Suitland, MD, is the first stop for records after they are no longer actively used by the Federal agency of origin. Agency records stay at the WNRC, where they are tracked through an automated database, until they are either destroyed through recycling or accepted by NARA as permanent records. Access to most records stored at the facility is controlled by the agency of origin, however court records are open to the public.

NARA's Centers Information Processing System (CIPS). Federal agencies can request the return of their records, excluding official personnel folders and employee medical folders, from Regional Records Services facilities and from the Washington National Records Center (WNRC), Suitland, Maryland, via the World Wide Web or dial-out modem, using NARA's Centers Information Processing System (CIPS). Records are normally mailed within 24 hours of receipt of an agency's request. Overnight service, at agency expense, can be arranged.

NARA's National Personnel Records Center is a central repository of personnel-related records, both military and civil service.

We welcome your comments and suggestions about these pages. For information related to the USDA Records Management Program, please contact Colleen Snyder.

http://www.ocio.usda.gov/records/contacts_records.html
Last Modified: 05/15/2006