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Ways to Comment

  • Send comments via regulations.gov or by fax, postal mail, hand delivery or courier (consult the "Addresses" section of the relevant proposed rule).

Comment on Draft Policy

We welcome your comments. Comments that you send us help inform our decisions and policies concerning our service to you. Once we receive your comments, we will consider them carefully. Public comments become a permanent part of the case file, and may be available for public review.

If you have a suggestion, compliment, or complaint about any of our services and products (not pertaining to draft policy), please send us a message using our online form.

Currently Open for Public Comment:

Regulations

NARA creates regulations or "rules" that state how we fulfill our agency's mission, meet statutory requirements, and conduct business with other agencies and the general public. We publish our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) under 36 CFR Chapter XII, and they are organized into subchapters based on topics like agency functions, oversight responsibilities, or how people access the records we hold.

Learn more about our regulations and regulatory process, or how to comment on open regulations.

There are no regulations currently awaiting comments.


Records Schedule Notices

Record schedules authorize the preservation of records of continuing value in the National Archives of the United States and the destruction, after a specified period, of records lacking administrative, legal, research, or other value. Agencies must follow a records schedule's mandatory instructions on what to do with the records once they are no longer needed for current Government business and the Archivist of the United States approves the schedule.

NARA publishes notices in the Federal Register to allow public comment on proposed records schedules before the Archivist gives his approval.


Information Collections

Notices on proposed information collections (e.g., forms and surveys completed by nonfederal entities and individuals) describe the collection, how we will use the information, and our estimate of the reporting burden to respondents.


Other Requests for Public Comment:

  • Public Internet Web Site Publication Priorities and Schedules
    Our priorities and schedules for making National Archives information available and accessible on our public internet.
  • Draft Partnership Agreement Available for Public Comment
    NARA is giving public notice that we propose to enter into a non-exclusive agreement with American University to digitize key documents from a one-percent sample of bankruptcy case files filed under the federal bankruptcy laws of 1898 and 1978 that are permanent, accessioned records in the physical and legal custody of NARA. Your comments are invited on the terms of the proposed agreement below. Comments must be received by February 8, 2013.

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