This was sent to me, we must take action now, read below and post your comment to the
NARA.
Always, Imo
Re: The change from $37 to $125 reproduction fee for full Civil War pension
records; a 296% increase (36 CFR 1258 from the Federal Register, v. 72, no.
37, 2/26/07, p. 8327)
I¹ve just left my ³2 cents² at the
regulations.gov website (must be done by
April 27) and suggest that everyone else do so too. They¹ve just reversed
what we get for our money....used to be we paid $37 for a file whether it
was 50 pages or 200 pages. A good deal if you had a file that was 200 pages
(of the 10 files I¹ve ordered over the years, only 2 fit this category; the
other 8 were under 50 pages). Now we will be paying the larger file cost
when we may only get a 25 page file!
I told them that they should be charging a price per page not a flat
fee...pay for what you get....comments?
Go to:
http://www.regulations.gov
In the search box, type "NARA Reproduction Fees." The Proposed Rules and
the Rules will come up.
You can click on the text to read them.
Then click on the yellow emblem by the first line - Proposed Rules - and
fill out your name, zip code, etc.,
and make your comment.
BTW, I¹ve also sent e-mails to all my Senators & House Reps...it¹s easy to
do:
The House of Representatives websites with e-mail contacts are listed at:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml#co
The Senate website with e-mail contact are listed at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Also: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (
www.eogn.com) has lots of
interesting comments about this topic.
Sally Holden Dyson
longtalsally(a)comcast.net
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