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Date: Fri Apr 28 07:58:54 2000

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Hello Everyone:

Here is the proposed NARA Fee Increase. It looks like they stuck to their original plans.

Janet Hunter

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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: NARA Fee Increase Proposal


> Just received this from another mail list. Thought some of you may be
> interested in this information.
>
> The NARA proposal to revamp the system and fees for providing copies of
> Military Service Records, Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Files, and
> Pension Application Files has been published in the 25 April 2000 issue of
> the Federal Register. Public comment is invited and should be directed to
>
> NARA Regulation Comment Desk
> 8601 Adelphi Road
> College Park, MD 20740-6001
> Fax: 301 713-7270
>
> The comment period closes on 26 June 2000. NARA prefers that you use
either
> the postal address or fax number to submit our comments rather than e-mail
>
> A complete copy of the Federal Register notice is available from the NARA
> Web site at http://www.nara.gov/nara/fees-pro.html.
>
> The proposed Reproduction Fee Schedule covers a number of items, but the
the
> Military Service Records, and the Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants are of
> the greatest concern to genealogists. NARA proposes three major changes:
>
> 1. The NATF Form 80 would be discontinued, to be replaced by two new
forms:
> NATF Form 85 to request both Bounty-Land Warrant application files and
> Pension files (more than 75 years old), and NATF From 86 to request
Military
> Service Records (more than 75 years old).
>
> 2. For all three types of files, NARA would no longer send a selection of
> pages, but would send the complete file. This would eliminate the two-step
> process currently used and should be beneficial to most genealogists.
>
> 3. The fees for all three types of files would be raised. For Military
> Service Records the new fee would be $17.00, regardless of the number of
> pages included in the file. For Bounty-land Warrants the fee would be
> $17.25, again without regard to the number of pages. For Pension Files the
> fee would be $40.00, regardless of the number of pages.
>
> Finally, the proposal would go into effect on 1 September 2000, if
approved.
>
> Many genealogists may consider the proposed fees to be excessive. NARA
> specifically invites comment on the proposed fee schedule. The FGS/NGS
> Records Preservation and Access Committee urges everyone who wants to
> comment to carefully read the full proposal before submitting comments.
The
> proposed fees are intended to cover the actual cost of locating, copying
and
> mailing the records, plus 10% as authorized by law, and are based on the
> average size of the files. NARA states that the average for Military
Service
> Records and Bounty-land Applications is somewhere under 20 pages, while
the
> average for full Pension Files is 105 pages.
>
> The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee will be looking at
the
> NARA proposal carefully, and will submit comments as appropriate.
> Individuals who would like to provide input to the Committee's evaluation
> are welcome to do so but are also encouraged to comment direct to NARA at
> the address given above. Comments for Committee consideration should be
> e-mailed to , or mailed to Federation of Genealogical
> Societies, Attention: RPAC, PO Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720-0940. In order
> for the Records Preservation and Access Committee to adequately evaluate
> such input it must be received by 26 May 2000. The deadline for comment to
> NARA, however, is still 26 June 2000.
>
> Posting of this message to other mail lists is encouraged. A copy of this
> message will also be available on the Records Preservation and Access page
> of the FGS Web site <http://www.fgs.org/fgs-recordsnews.htm>; and on the
NGS
> Web site <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org>;
>
>
>


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