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Congress has approved the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) plan to build a new 525,000-square-foot facility in St. Louis for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

GSA announced plans in June 2007 to build a facility for NARA’s National Personnel Records Center on 23.5 acres it bought at 1829 Dunn Road. NARA’s National Personnel Records Center is one of the agency’s largest operations with a central repository of personnel-related records for both military and civil service employees, including military personnel files of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Elvis Presley, Ted Williams and former Presidents George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy, among many other notables.

GSA is in the process of selecting a developer…

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From the National Archives today…

Washington, DC…The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will receive $411.1 million in funding for the current fiscal year under the omnibus appropriations bill signed by President George W. Bush on December 26.

The funding level represents an increase of 20.5 percent over the Fiscal Year 2007 level of $341.1 million, which was a continuation of the FY 2006 funding because of the absence of a regular appropriation for NARA. The FY 2007 funding level also did not include any monies for the larger construction projects for the Presidential libraries.

NARA’s funding is part of the $555 billion Consolidation Appropriations Act of 2007, which funds the parts of the U.S. government that have not received regular appropriations.

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A 20% increase is a lot.  However it sounds like they were overdue.  Let us know if you disagree.

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