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Hello all; this was mailed to me by another mailing list. The fees
do seem exorbitant, after all our taxes pay for the cost of employees
who do this work.. We all need to express our thoughts to NARA on this;
they would like us to do so by mail or phone, not email. Please
read the following message I am forwarding.
Sharon in Oregon
>Forwarded message:
>
>The NARA proposal to revamp the system and fees for providing copies of
>Military Service Records, Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Files, and
>Pension Application Files has been published in the 25 April 2000 issue
>of the Federal Register. Public comment is invited and should be
>directed to
>
>NARA Regulation Comment Desk
>8601 Adelphi Road
>College Park, MD 20740-6001
>Fax: 301 713-7270
>
>The comment period closes on 26 June 2000. NARA prefers that you use
>either the postal address or fax number to submit our comments rather
>than e-mail.
>A complete copy of the Federal Register notice is available from the
>NARA Web site at http://www.nara.gov/nara/fees-pro.html.
>
>The proposed Reproduction Fee Schedule covers a number of items, but
the
>Military Service Records, and the Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants are
>of the greatest concern to genealogists. NARA proposes three major
>changes:
>
>1. The NATF Form 80 would be discontinued, to be replaced by two new
>forms: NATF Form 85 to request both Bounty-Land Warrant application
>files and Pension files (more than 75 years old), and NATF From 86 to
>request Military Service Records (more than 75 years old).
>
>2. For all three types of files, NARA would no longer send a selection
>of pages, but would send the complete file. This would eliminate the
>two-step process currently used and should be beneficial to most
>genealogists.
>
>3. The fees for all three types of files would be raised. For Military
>Service Records the new fee would be $17.00, regardless of the number
of
>pages included in the file. For Bounty-land Warrants the fee would be
>$17.25, again without regard to the number of pages. For Pension Files
>the fee would be $40.00, regardless of the number of pages.
>
>Finally, the proposal would go into effect on 1 September 2000, if
>approved.
>
>Many genealogists may consider the proposed fees to be excessive. NARA
>specifically invites comment on the proposed fee schedule. The FGS/NGS
>Records Preservation and Access Committee urges everyone who wants to
>comment to carefully read the full proposal before submitting comments.
>The proposed fees are intended to cover the actual cost of locating,
>copying and mailing the records, plus 10% as authorized by law, and are
>based on the average size of the files. NARA states that the average
for
>Military Service Records and Bounty-land Applications is somewhere
under
>20 pages, while the average for full Pension Files is 105 pages.
>
>The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee will be looking
at
>the NARA proposal carefully, and will submit comments as appropriate.
>Individuals who would like to provide input to the Committee's
>evaluation are welcome to do so but are also encouraged to comment
>direct to NARA at the address given above. Comments for Committee
>consideration should be e-mailed to fgs-access(a)fgs.org, or mailed to
>Federation of Genealogical Societies, Attention: RPAC, PO Box 200940,
>Austin, TX 78720-0940. In order for the Records Preservation and Access
>Committee to adequately evaluate such input it must be received by 26
>May 2000. The deadline for comment to NARA, however, is still 26 June
>2000.
>
>Posting of this message to other mail lists is encouraged. A copy of
>this message will also be available on the Records Preservation and
>Access page of the FGS Web site
<http://www.fgs.org/fgs-recordsnews.htm>
>and on the NGS Web site <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org>
>
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