Page 2-7 contains the address of each center and the area serviced. In addition to the Federal Records Center operations, GSA maintains and operates the National Archives for preservation of historical records. Certain agency records are pre-determined for deposit at the National Archives, while other records may be submitted as a direct offer after GSA appraisal. In addition to scheduled permanent records that are stored at the FRC and later offered to NARS at a specified time, many unscheduled records maintained at the centers, and some older records currently maintained in office space, may be eligible for direct offer to the National Archives. Scheduled records are those records whose disposal schedule NARS and General Accounting Office have approved.
Unscheduled records are records for which no ultimate disposition has been determined.
Records that are transferred to FRC are subject to recall and reuse. Quick and reliable reference service is provided by records centers within 24 hours after receipt of a request. Forwarding the records elsewhere, if authorized to do so. B. Selecting and Preparing Records for Transfer. File custodians should survey their files each year and set aside the inactive records which will be eligible for transfer.