Your office received it for action. Your office is designated as the custodian because of oversight duties or for other reasons. Your office needs it to document its activities or decisions. Q. I have a lot of records around. I don't need them any more and they are taking up space.
Federal records are government property.
They can not be loaned, recycled, or otherwise destroyed without authorization. A. Use records disposition schedules as a guide to eliminating unnecessary records. Retention of each type of records maintained in your office is governed by a records disposition schedule which has been rigorously reviewed to ensure the records are kept a sufficient length of time. Schedules are reviewed and approved by the Agency and the Archivist of the United States and serve as the legal authority for destruction of records or their transfer to the National Archives. Microfilm your records.