[Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.

[Charles M. Ess]

Dear AoIRists,
I'm not sure this intersects much with internet research - though 
someone might want to document the effort, if nothing else, under the 
internet and social activism.
AoIRists who are U.S. citizens - is this as Orwellian and disturbing as 
it looks?
If so, please act and forward as appropriate.
glumly,
- charles ess


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Subject: 	[liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records 
Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
Date: 	Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:35:57 -0700
From: 	Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
To: 	Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
CC: 	Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu>



From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu 
<mailto:jrjacobs at stanford.edu>>

       I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the 
National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially 
historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for 
permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, 
wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, 
non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots 
more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior 
Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park 
Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of 
Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 
others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for 
collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous 
administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying 
records. This admin is basically just destroying records so they’ll 
never be accessible.

      There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA: 
request.schedule at nara.gov <mailto:request.schedule at nara.gov> /// fax: 
301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 
20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to 
DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who 
may be effected.

      More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/

      NARA’s appraisal memo 
https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf 


      this is tragic and terrible.

      james



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