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Federal Records Management; Media Neutral Schedules

---
identifier: "/us/fr/E8-23379"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Federal Records Management; Media Neutral Schedules"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "E8-23379"
section_name: "Federal Records Management; Media Neutral Schedules"
positive_law: false
currency: "2008-10-02"
last_updated: "2008-10-02"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "National Archives and Records Administration"
document_number: "E8-23379"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2008-10-02"
agencies:
  - "National Archives and Records Administration"
cfr_references:
  - "36 CFR Part 1228"
rin: "3095-AB43"
fr_citation: "73 FR 57245"
fr_volume: 73
docket_ids:
  - "FDMS Docket NARA-07-0004"
fr_action: "Correcting amendment."
---

#  Formulation of agency records schedules.

**AGENCY:**

National Archives and Records Administration.

**ACTION:**

Correcting amendment.

**SUMMARY:**

This document contains a correction to the final regulations, which were published in the *Federal Register* of Thursday, November 15, 2007 (72 FR 64155). The regulations allowed agencies to make new Federal records schedules and certain existing approved records schedules applicable to series of records regardless of the medium in which the records are created and maintained.

**DATES:**

October 2, 2008.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Laura McCarthy at 301-837-1640.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

**Background**

The final regulations that are the subject of this correction made new Federal records schedules media neutral unless otherwise specified and allowed schedules previously approved for hard copy records to be applied to electronic versions of the files if certain conditions are met. The regulation applies to all Federal agencies, including the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

**Need for Correction**

As published, the final regulations contain an error in § 1228.24(b)(3); the paragraph requires an effective date and not the instruction to use the effective date of the rule.

**List of Subjects in 36 CFR Part 1228**

Archives and records.

**36 CFR Part 1228**

Accordingly, 36 CFR part 1228 is corrected by making the following correcting amendment:

**PART 1228-DISPOSITION OF FEDERAL RECORDS**

1. The authority citation for part 1228 continues to read as follows:

**Authority:**

44 U.S.C. chs. 21, 29, and 33.

**36 CFR Part 1228**

2. In § 1228.24, revise paragraph (b)(3) to read as follows:

§ 1228.24

(b) * * *

(3) Records schedules submitted to NARA for approval on or after December 17, 2007, are media neutral, i.e., the disposition instructions apply to the described records in all media, unless the schedule identifies a specific medium for a specific series.

Dated: September 25, 2008.

Adrienne C. Thomas,

Deputy Archivist of the United States.