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| A comprehensive term that includes the destruction, salvage, donation, or transfer to staging area or records center; transfer from on organization to another. |
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| What are the two categorized areas of disposition? |
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| What key roles does the records disposition program play in the management of Air Force records? |
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| Economic and efficient management of Air Force records. |
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| What does the records disposition program consist of? |
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| Scheduling all records for retention or periodic destruction, preserving records that reflect the organization, functions, policies decisions, procedures and essential transactions of the Air Force, preserving records that protect the legal and financial rights of the government and of individuals that Air Force action directly affect, offering records of enduring value for permanent preservation in the national archives, promptly and systematically disposing of records of temporary value, and setting up safeguards against illegal removal, loss, or destruction of records. |
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| What are three objectives of the records disposition program? |
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1)retire long-term (10 years or older) paper records to authorized federal record canters. Long-term electronic records are stored within the Air Force.
2)Transfer short-term paper records, (less than 10 years old) to authorized local staging areas.
3)Dispose of short-term holdings as soon as authorized. |
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| What is the length of time the Air Force keeps records? |
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| What retention period do records have that are not authorized for a specific disposition? |
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| What does enduring value mean? |
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| The document will remain in existence indefinitely. |
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| Define a temporary record. |
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| Any record identified by the Archivist of the United States to have insufficient value to warrant preservation by the National Archives. |
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| How do you destroy magnetic tapes or other magnetic medium? |
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