36 C.F.R. § 1228.58 Destruction of temporary records.
Title 36 - Parks, Forests, and Public Property
(a) Authority. Federal agencies are required to follow regulations issued by the Archivist of the United States governing the methods of destroying records (44 U.S.C. 3302). Only the methods described in this section shall be used. (b) Sale or salvage. Paper records to be disposed of normally must be sold as wastepaper. If the records are restricted because they are national security classified or exempted from disclosure by statute, including the Privacy Act, or regulation, the wastepaper contractor must be required to pulp, macerate, shred, or otherwise definitively destroy the information contained in the records, and their destruction must be witnessed either by a Federal employee or, if authorized by the agency that created the records, by a contractor employee. The contract for sale must prohibit the resale of all other paper records for use as records or documents. Records other than paper records (audio, visual, and data tapes, disks, and diskettes) may be salvaged and sold in the same manner and under the same conditions as paper records. All sales must be in accordance with the established procedures for the sale of surplus personal property. (See 41 CFR part 101–45, Sale, Abandonment, or Destruction of Personal Property.) (c) Destruction. If the records cannot be sold advantageously or otherwise salvaged, the records may be destroyed by burning, pulping, shredding, macerating, or other suitable means.
Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property
PART 1228—DISPOSITION OF FEDERAL RECORDS
Subpart D—Implementing Schedules
§ 1228.58 Destruction of temporary records.
