GAO PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF AGENCY RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000500120041-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: August 21, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2006/(880 Op: VIA-RDP70-00211 R000500120041-7
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE
Washington 25, D.C.
August 21, 1963
TO : Agency Records Management Officers
FROM : Assistant Archivist for Records Management
SUBJECT : GAO Preliminary Survey of Agency Records Management Programs
The General Accounting Office audit of the Federal records xv anagemnt
program, begun in 1960, was intended to have three phases. Two of
these, audits of records management practices in the central office
of the National Archives and Records Service and in selected Federal
Records Centers, have been completed and reports halve been submitted
to GSA and the Congress.
As originally planned, the third phase was to be an audit of records
management programs in representative Federal agencies, Washington
and field, including the leadership provided to them by GSA. In
preparation for this phase, GAO is beginning a preliminary survey to
determine whether a full-exile audit is required and if so what its
nature should be.
The preliminary survey is being made &t this time in selected agencies
in Washington and their field counterparts in Boston and Kansas City.
It may be extended to more agencies and, after January 1964, to other
field offices.
Although not limited in scope, the preliminary survey at present is
concentrating in the area of records disposition (schedules, disposal,
transfer, agency records centers and storage areas). Information is
being requested from each agency on such matters as its organization
for records disposition, on the operation of its records disposition
program, and on the quantity and location of its records holdings.
Agencies are also being questioned on the nature and extent of GSA
leadership in records management.
The GAO is keeping the National Archives and Records Service, GSA,
in Washington and in the other locations mentioned, informed of its
plans in connection with the preliminary survey. We will pass along
to you any information of importance which we receive and will endeavor
to answer any questions you may have.
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Herbert E. Angel
MORKIDIF
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