The U.S. National Science Foundation Records Management Program oversees the management of official agency records, program products and services, including NSF policy and guidance, training, records management program operations, controlled unclassified information and essential records program management.
NSF records retention schedule
Records retention schedules are the cornerstone of the NSF Records Management Program. The records retention schedule is a policy document that defines the agency's legal and compliance recordkeeping requirements.
NSF has implemented a records retention schedule in order to ensure the agency's records are kept as long as legally and operationally required and that obsolete records are disposed of in a systematic and controlled manner. The NSF records retention schedule ensures that staff adhere to approved recordkeeping requirements, and that they do so consistently.
For more information about the NSF Records Management Program, please contact nsf_rm@nsf.gov.
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