Notice2021-16444
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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Published
August 2, 2021
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National Archives and Records Administration
Abstract
We have submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval to continue to collect information used by registrants or other authorized individuals to request information from or copies of Selective Service System (SSS) records. We invite you to comment on this proposed information collection.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 145 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 41524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16444]
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
[NARA-2021-039]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We have submitted a request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for approval to continue to collect information used by
registrants or other authorized individuals to request information from
or copies of Selective Service System (SSS) records. We invite you to
comment on this proposed information collection.
DATES: OMB must receive written comments on or before September 1,
2021.
ADDRESSES: Send any comments and recommendations on the proposed
information collection in writing to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
You can find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamee Fechhelm, Paperwork Reduction
Act Officer, by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c687d717979327a797f74747970715c727d6e7d327b737e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3a7b2beb6b6fdb5b6b0bbbbb6bfbe93bdb2a1b2fdb4bcb1">[email protected]</span></a> or by telephone at
301.837.1694 with any requests for additional information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we invite the general public and other Federal
agencies to comment on proposed information collections. We published a
notice of proposed collection for this information collection on May
10, 2021 (86 FR 24900) and we received one comment. The commenter
stated, ``I am a professional genealogist and I frequently research
elusive individuals who lived in the 20th century. These selective
service records are immensely useful, because they cover nearly all
males, but they are very inaccessible because they can only be found if
the individual's exact address is known. The form necessarily requires
address, because that is how the records are organized. However, this
impacts my ability to do my job because it renders the vital documents
unusable if the registrant moved around and I cannot pinpoint exactly
where he lived. I hope that NARA prioritizes either the indexing or
digitization of these documents, so that they can be better utilized by
the research community, thus not requiring the address to be known.''
We have considered this comment and provided a response to the
commenter. Due to the size of the collection, we have no immediate
plans to index the Records of the Selective Service System. However, a
great number of the Draft Registration cards, including those from WWI
(1917-1918) and WWII, have been digitized and are available online at
<a href="http://ancestry.com">ancestry.com</a>, <a href="http://fold3.com">fold3.com</a>, and <a href="http://familysearch.org">familysearch.org</a> (the latter two offer
free memberships), which provide their own means of searching and
tagging to aid people in finding the records. Once normal operations
resume, records on <a href="http://ancestry.com">ancestry.com</a> can be viewed for free in National
Archives Public Research Rooms with Public Access PCs. Prior to the
pandemic, we discussed possibly digitizing the post-WWII Draft
Registration cards, and hope to continue such discussions post-
pandemic, once we resume normal operations. We appreciate the comment
and will continue efforts to make records more accessible.
This comment does not change the purpose of the information
collection or change the information we collect from researchers who
are requesting access to archival records. We have therefore submitted
the described information collection to OMB for approval. We will
continue requesting as much record-identifying information from
researchers as possible, pursuant to this information collection, to
aid us in finding the documents researchers seek, including the SSS
records this researcher mentions.
If you have comments or suggestions, they should address one or
more of the following points: (a) Whether the proposed information
collection is necessary for NARA to properly perform its functions; (b)
our estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection and
its accuracy; (c) ways we could enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information we collect; (d) ways we could minimize the
burden on respondents of collecting the information, including through
information technology; and (e) whether this collection affects small
businesses.
In this notice, we solicit comments concerning the following
information collection:
Title: Selective Service System Record Request.
OMB number: 3095-0071.
Agency form numbers: NA Form 13172.
Type of review: Regular.
Affected public: Individuals or households.
Estimated number of respondents: 1,500.
Estimated time per response: 2 minutes.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Estimated total annual burden hours: 50.
Abstract: The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) of the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) administers the
Selective Service System (SSS) records. The SSS records contain both
classification records and registration cards of registrants born
before January 1, 1960. When registrants or other authorized
individuals request information from or copies of SSS records they must
provide on forms or letters certain information about the registrant
and the nature of the request. Requesters use NA Form 13172, Selective
Service Record Request to obtain information from SSS records stored at
NARA facilities.
Swarnali Haldar,
Executive for Information Services/CIO.
[FR Doc. 2021-16444 Filed 7-30-21; 8:45 am]
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