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LCD-79-101 1 (1978-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazlz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: wB /_ - COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES RELEASED LM109899 B-146743 December 29, 1978 The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Select Committee on Congressional Operations 109899 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Your October 13, 1978, letter asked us toLCeview tyrt conditions under which personal papers of Membe si of Congress re stored by the National Archi~bs and Records Service) Our 'eview disclosed only negligible inventory discrepancies and some minor problems, as discussed below, in the areas of secu- rity and environmental protection. Therefore, we believe that procedures and practices of the records centers visited are generally adequate for storing and protecting the personal papers of Members of Congress. We did find, however, a potentially serious problem 16 7 throughout the records centers. Maintenance and repairs of the centers--the responsibility of the Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration--take an unreason- ably long time and account for several of the problems we found in center security and protection from environmental hazards. SCOPE OF REVIEW Our work was aimed at verifying the presence of Members' records in Federal centers; evaluating the centers' record- keeping practices as they relate to Members' records; evalu- ating the physical condition and protection afforded the records from environmental hazards; and evaluating the secu- rity procedures and practices at the records centers. In the course of our review, we visited the Federal records centers at Waltham, Massachusetts; Bayonne, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; San Bruno, California; Laguna Niguel, California; and the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland. We also held discussions with officials at the Office of Federal Records Centers, and Public Buildings Service head- quarters in Washington, D.C. - , , I

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