# [Amended]
**AGENCY:**
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
**ACTION:**
Final rule.
**SUMMARY:**
NARA is revising its regulations to eliminate the requirement that Federal agencies rewind under controlled tension all computer tapes containing unscheduled or permanent records every 3\1/2\ years. This change will affect Federal agencies that store unscheduled or permanent records on computer open-reel tapes or tape cartridges.
**DATES:**
Effective May 25, 2000.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Nancy Allard or Shawn Morton at (301) 713-7360.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
This rule was published as a proposed rule for comment in the *Federal Register* on February 3, 2000 (65 FR 5295). NARA received 6 comments on the proposed rule, all supporting the change. Four comments were from Federal agencies and two comments were from private individuals.
This rule is not a significant regulatory action for the purposes of Executive Order 12866. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act, it is hereby certified that this rule will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities because it applies to Federal agencies. This rule does not have any federalism implications.
**List of Subjects in 36 CFR Part 1234**
Archives and records, Computer technology.
**36 CFR Part 1234**
For the reasons stated in the preamble, the National Archives and Records Administration is amending 36 CFR Part 1234 to read as follows:
**PART 1234—ELECTRONIC RECORDS MANAGEMENT**
**Subpart C—Standards for the Creation, Use, Preservation, and Disposition of Electronic Records**
1. The authority citation for part 1234 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
44 U.S.C. 2904, 3101, 3102, and 3105.
**36 CFR Part 1234**
§ 1234.30
2. In § 1234.30, remove paragraph (g)(3) and redesignate paragraphs (g)(4) through (g)(7) as paragraphs (g)(3) through (g)(6) respectively.
Dated: April 19, 2000.
John W. Carlin,
Archivist of the United States.