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Federal funds. This questionnaire is 

designed to identify those potential 

recipients and provide appropriate 

training or additional safeguards for 

Federal funds. Additionally, the 

questionnaire serves as a pre-audit 

function in identifying potential 

deficiencies and minimizing the risk of 

fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement, 

which we use in lieu of a more costly 

and time consuming formal pre-award 

audit. 

Swarnali Haldar, 

Executive for Information Services/CIO. 

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–21–0010; NARA–2021–037] 

Records Schedules; Availability and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed records schedules; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

publishes notice of certain Federal 

agency requests for records disposition 

authority (records schedules). We 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

and on regulations.gov for records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on such records 

schedules. 

DATES: NARA must receive comments 

by September 16, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by the following method. You must cite 

the control number, which appears on 

the records schedule in parentheses 

after the name of the agency that 

submitted the schedule. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Due to COVID–19 building closures, 

we are currently temporarily not 

accepting comments by mail. However, 

if you are unable to comment via 

regulations.gov, you may contact 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kimberly Keravuori, Regulatory and 

External Policy Program Manager, by 

email at regulation_comments@

nara.gov. For information about records 

schedules, contact Records Management 

Operations by email at 

request.schedule@nara.gov, by mail at 

the address above, or by phone at 301– 

837–1799. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Comment Procedures 

We are publishing notice of records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on these records 

schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 

3303a(a), and list the schedules at the 

end of this notice by agency and 

subdivision requesting disposition 

authority. 

In addition, this notice lists the 

organizational unit(s) accumulating the 

records or states that the schedule has 

agency-wide applicability. It also 

provides the control number assigned to 

each schedule, which you will need if 

you submit comments on that schedule. 

We have uploaded the records 

schedules and accompanying appraisal 

memoranda to the regulations.gov 

docket for this notice as ‘‘other’’ 

documents. Each records schedule 

contains a full description of the records 

at the file unit level as well as their 

proposed disposition. The appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule includes 

information about the records. 

We will post comments, including 

any personal information and 

attachments, to the public docket 

unchanged. Because comments are 

public, you are responsible for ensuring 

that you do not include any confidential 

or other information that you or a third 

party may not wish to be publicly 

posted. If you want to submit a 

comment with confidential information 

or cannot otherwise use the 

regulations.gov portal, you may contact 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. 

We will consider all comments 

submitted by the posted deadline and 

consult as needed with the Federal 

agency seeking the disposition 

authority. After considering comments, 

we will post on regulations.gov a 

‘‘Consolidated Reply’’ summarizing the 

comments, responding to them, and 

noting any changes we have made to the 

proposed records schedule. We will 

then send the schedule for final 

approval by the Archivist of the United 

States. You may elect at regulations.gov 

to receive updates on the docket, 

including an alert when we post the 

Consolidated Reply, whether or not you 

submit a comment. If you have a 

question, you can submit it as a 

comment, and can also submit any 

concerns or comments you would have 

to a possible response to the question. 

We will address these items in 

consolidated replies along with any 

other comments submitted on that 

schedule. 

We will post schedules on our 

website in the Records Control Schedule 

(RCS) Repository, at https://

www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs, 

after the Archivist approves them. The 

RCS contains all schedules approved 

since 1973. 

Background 

Each year, Federal agencies create 

billions of records. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval. Once 

approved by NARA, records schedules 

provide mandatory instructions on what 

happens to records when no longer 

needed for current Government 

business. The records schedules 

authorize agencies to preserve records of 

continuing value in the National 

Archives or to destroy, after a specified 

period, records lacking continuing 

administrative, legal, research, or other 

value. Some schedules are 

comprehensive and cover all the records 

of an agency or one of its major 

subdivisions. Most schedules, however, 

cover records of only one office or 

program or a few series of records. Many 

of these update previously approved 

schedules, and some include records 

proposed as permanent. 

Agencies may not destroy Federal 

records without the approval of the 

Archivist of the United States. The 

Archivist grants this approval only after 

thorough consideration of the records’ 

administrative use by the agency of 

origin, the rights of the Government and 

of private people directly affected by the 

Government’s activities, and whether or 

not the records have historical or other 

value. Public review and comment on 

these records schedules is part of the 

Archivist’s consideration process. 

Schedules Pending 

1. Department of Commerce, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

Ombuds Program Records (DAA–0167– 

2021–0001). 

2. Department of Health and Human 

Services, National Institutes of Health, 

Peer Review Records (DAA–0443–2021– 

0001). 

3. Department of Homeland Security, 

Federal Emergency Management 


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Agency, Trip Instruction and Assistance 

Reports (DAA–0311–2021–0002). 

Laurence Brewer, 

Chief Records Officer for the U.S. 

Government. 

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BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–2021–039] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We have submitted a request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for approval to continue to 

collect information used by registrants 

or other authorized individuals to 

request information from or copies of 

Selective Service System (SSS) records. 

We invite you to comment on this 

proposed information collection. 

DATES: OMB must receive written 

comments on or before September 1, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send any comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection in writing to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

You can find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tamee Fechhelm, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Officer, by email at 

tamee.fechhelm@nara.gob or by 

telephone at 301.837.1694 with any 

requests for additional information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13), we invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed information 

collections. We published a notice of 

proposed collection for this information 

collection on May 10, 2021 (86 FR 

24900) and we received one comment. 

The commenter stated, ‘‘I am a 

professional genealogist and I frequently 

research elusive individuals who lived 

in the 20th century. These selective 

service records are immensely useful, 

because they cover nearly all males, but 

they are very inaccessible because they 

can only be found if the individual’s 

exact address is known. The form 

necessarily requires address, because 

that is how the records are organized. 

However, this impacts my ability to do 

my job because it renders the vital 

documents unusable if the registrant 

moved around and I cannot pinpoint 

exactly where he lived. I hope that 

NARA prioritizes either the indexing or 

digitization of these documents, so that 

they can be better utilized by the 

research community, thus not requiring 

the address to be known.’’ 

We have considered this comment 

and provided a response to the 

commenter. Due to the size of the 

collection, we have no immediate plans 

to index the Records of the Selective 

Service System. However, a great 

number of the Draft Registration cards, 

including those from WWI (1917–1918) 

and WWII, have been digitized and are 

available online at ancestry.com, 

fold3.com, and familysearch.org (the 

latter two offer free memberships), 

which provide their own means of 

searching and tagging to aid people in 

finding the records. Once normal 

operations resume, records on 

ancestry.com can be viewed for free in 

National Archives Public Research 

Rooms with Public Access PCs. Prior to 

the pandemic, we discussed possibly 

digitizing the post-WWII Draft 

Registration cards, and hope to continue 

such discussions post-pandemic, once 

we resume normal operations. We 

appreciate the comment and will 

continue efforts to make records more 

accessible. 

This comment does not change the 

purpose of the information collection or 

change the information we collect from 

researchers who are requesting access to 

archival records. We have therefore 

submitted the described information 

collection to OMB for approval. We will 

continue requesting as much recordidentifying information from researchers 

as possible, pursuant to this information 

collection, to aid us in finding the 

documents researchers seek, including 

the SSS records this researcher 

mentions. 

If you have comments or suggestions, 

they should address one or more of the 

following points: (a) Whether the 

proposed information collection is 

necessary for NARA to properly perform 

its functions; (b) our estimate of the 

burden of the proposed information 

collection and its accuracy; (c) ways we 

could enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information we collect; (d) 

ways we could minimize the burden on 

respondents of collecting the 

information, including through 

information technology; and (e) whether 

this collection affects small businesses. 

In this notice, we solicit comments 

concerning the following information 

collection: 

Title: Selective Service System Record 

Request. 

OMB number: 3095–0071. 

Agency form numbers: NA Form 

13172. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

1,500. 

Estimated time per response: 2 

minutes. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

50. 

Abstract: The National Personnel 

Records Center (NPRC) of the National 

Archives and Records Administration 

(NARA) administers the Selective 

Service System (SSS) records. The SSS 

records contain both classification 

records and registration cards of 

registrants born before January 1, 1960. 

When registrants or other authorized 

individuals request information from or 

copies of SSS records they must provide 

on forms or letters certain information 

about the registrant and the nature of 

the request. Requesters use NA Form 

13172, Selective Service Record Request 

to obtain information from SSS records 

stored at NARA facilities. 

Swarnali Haldar, 

Executive for Information Services/CIO. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 86 FR 40216, July 27, 

2021. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: The National Science 

Board’s Committee on External 

Engagement teleconference meeting was 

scheduled for August 3, 2021, from 

11:00–11:45 a.m. EDT. 

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The new date 

and time is July 30, 2021, from 5:30– 

6:15 p.m. EDT. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Chris Blair, 703/292–7000, cblair@

nsf.gov. 

Chris Blair, 

Executive Assistant to the National Science 

Board Office. 

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