A document providing one-time approval for the disposal of records no longer accumulating and having no further value. Now incorporated into an SF 115. Carrying out disposal, which includes either the destruction or the donation of temporary records but not the transfer of permanent records to the National Archives. The actions taken regarding records no longer needed for current Government business. These actions include transfer to agency storage facilities or Federal records centers, transfer from one Federal agency to another, transfer of permanent records to the National Archives, and disposal of temporary records.
Disposition is the third stage of the records life cycle.
The actions taken regarding nonrecord materials when no longer needed, including screening and destruction. Policies and practices designed to achieve effective and efficient disposition of records by scheduling them, ensuring their proper storage, and ensuring the prompt disposal of temporary records and the timely transfer of permanent records to the National Archives. Often used interchangeably with record. An individual record or an item of nonrecord materials or of personal papers. A collective term for records, nonrecord materials, and personal papers that refers to all media on which information is recorded, regardless of the nature of the medium or the method or circumstances of recording.