36 CFR § 1290.8 - Implementing the JFK Act—Notice of Assassination Record Designation.

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title: "36 CFR § 1290.8 - Implementing the JFK Act—Notice of Assassination Record Designation."
title_number: 36
title_name: "Parks, Forests, and Public Property"
section_number: "1290.8"
section_name: "Implementing the JFK Act—Notice of Assassination Record Designation."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION"
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subchapter_name: "JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS"
part_number: "1290"
part_name: "GUIDANCE FOR INTERPRETATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992 (JFK ACT)"
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authority: "44 U.S.C. 2107."
regulatory_source: "60 FR 33349, June 28, 1995, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 65 FR 39550, June 27, 2000."
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# 1290.8 Implementing the JFK Act—Notice of Assassination Record Designation.

(a) A Notice of Assassination Record Designation (NARD) shall be the mechanism for the Review Board to announce publicly its determination that a record or group of records meets the definition of assassination records.

(b) Notice of all NARDs will be published in the *Federal Register* within 30 days of the decision to designate such records as assassination records.

(c) In determining to designate such records as assassination records, the Review Board must determine that the record or group of record will more likely than not enhance, enrich, and broaden the historical record of the assassination.