[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 36, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 36CFR1252.2]



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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY

 

        CHAPTER XII--NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1252_PUBLIC USE OF RECORDS, DONATED HISTORICAL MATERIALS, AND 

FACILITIES; GENERAL--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 1252.2  Definitions.



    The following definitions are established for terms used in this 

subchapter.

    Archives or archival records mean Federal records that have been 

determined by NARA to have sufficient historical or other value to 

warrant their continued preservation by the U.S. Government, and have 

been transferred to the National Archives of the United States.

    Director means the head of a Presidential library, the head of a 

Presidential Materials Staff, the head of a NARA division, branch, 

archival center, or unit responsible for servicing archival records, the 

head of a regional archives, or the head of a Federal records center.

    Documents mean, for purposes of part 1254 of this chapter, archives, 

FRC records, donated historical materials, Nixon Presidential historical 

materials, and Presidential records, regardless of the media on which 

they are contained. Document form may include paper, microforms, 

photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, maps, drawings, and 

electronic files.

    Donated historical materials means books, correspondence, documents, 

papers, pamphlets, magnetic tapes, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, 

films, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other documental media 

having historical or commemorative value accepted by NARA from a source 

other than an agency of the U.S. Government.

    Federal records center includes the Washington National Records 

Center, the National Personnel Records Center, and the Federal records 

centers listed in Sec. 1253.6 of this chapter.

    Federal records center records (FRC records) mean records which, 

pending their transfer to the National Archives of the United States or 

their disposition in any other manner authorized by law, have been 

transferred to a Federal records center operated by NARA.

    Nixon Presidential historical materials has the meaning specified in 

Sec. 1275.16 of this chapter.

    Presidential records has the meaning specified in Sec. 1270.14 of 

this chapter.

    Records mean records or microfilm copies of records transferred to 

NARA under 44 U.S.C. 2107 and 3103; namely, archives and Federal records 

center records as the terms are defined in Sec. 1252.2. The term 

records does not include current operating records of NARA, the public 

availability of which is governed by part 1250 of this chapter, or 

donated historical materials as defined in this section.

    Researcher means a person who has been granted access to original 

documents or copies of documents.



[33 FR 4885, Mar. 22, 1968, 42 FR 13022, Mar. 8, 1977, and 49 FR 33253, 

Aug. 22, 1984. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 15723, 15726, Apr. 19, 

1985; 59 FR 29191, June 6, 1994]