NavyBMR.com (SECNAV M-5210.1)

Question 1

What is designated as the single approval authority for request for records dispositions to the
National Archives?

Answer 1

DNS-5

Question 2

The disposition of Government records is given legal status by what?

Answer 2

Records Disposal Act of 1943

Question 3

What article of the US Navy Regulations states that no person, without proper authority, shall
withdraw official records or correspondence from the files, or destroy them, or withhold them
from those persons authorized to have access to them?

Answer 3

Article 1127

Question 4

SECNAVINST 5510.30(series) and what else provides for the destruction of classified matter?

Answer 4

SECNAV M-5510.36

Question 5

What store records in cardboard cartons on steel shelving in, warehouse-type space?

Answer 5

Federal Records Centers (FRC)

Question 6

Activities are authorized to transfer records to FRCs without departmental approval when the
quantity of a particular record series is less than what?

Answer 6

1 cubic foot

Question 7

What accessions records that have sufficient research legal, scientific, historical, or other
values to warrant their permanent preservation by the Government?

Answer 7

NARA

Question 8

The Federal Records Center (FRC) will forward records destruction request to the
organization/owner as stated on the SF-135 via, a NA Form 13001, “Notice of lntent to Destroy
Records”. This will be done how many days prior to the date that the records disposition allows
the records to be destroyed?

Answer 8

90

Question 9

Who of the United States is authorized to grant access to or release information from the
permanent Navy and Marine Corps unclassified records in NARA’s legal custody per the
Freedom of Information Act?

Answer 9

Archivist

Question 10

Requests for FRC reference services shall be made in writing on what, directly to the Records
Center by the requesting activity?

Answer 10

Optional Form (OF) 11

Question 11

Records transferred to the custody of the FRCs may be withdrawn for reference on a how
many-day loan basis?

Answer 11

30

Question 12

Unless required by law, NARA will not remove or relax restrictions placed upon records less
than how many years old without the concurrence in writing of CNO (DNS-5), or CMC (ARDB)
for Marine Corps activities?

Answer 12

30

Question 13

What are documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, in any media
including hard copy or electronic, of a private or nonpublic character that do not relate to, or have
an effect upon, the conduct of agency business?

Answer 13

“Personal Paper”

Question 14

Department of the Navy electronic records, which include e-mail, and other electronic record
formats shall be managed IAW what?

Answer 14

DOD 5015.2-STD

Question 15

General Administration and Management files containing correspondence on industrial
methods that are destroyed after how many years?

Answer 15

5

Question 16

Non-record email, when practical, shall be destroyed within how many days of creation?

Answer 16

180

Question 17

What records are to be held by the naval activity or an FRC for the prescribed retention period and then destroyed?

Answer 17

Temporary

Question 18

Naval/Marine Corps records appraised as what are few in volume, but these records are vital
because they protect Navy and Marine Corps interests and document significant experiences?

Answer 18

“Permanent”

Question 19

Records retention standards are numbered according to what?

Answer 19

SECNAV Manual M-5210.2

Question 20

What is the directive that requires activities to establish a Reports”‘4ariagement Program and
prepare Reports Analysis Data Forms (OPNAV 5214/10) Report Control Symbol (OPNAV 5214-1)?

Answer 20

SECNAV Manual M-5214.1

Question 21

Retention periods of less than what should be recommended only for bulky, rapidly accumulating file series?

Answer 21

1 year

Question 22

Recommendations for new or revised standards should be submitted on what?

Answer 22

Standard Form 115

Question 23

Normally NARA accessions permanent when they are how many years old?

Answer 23

20-25

Question 24

Offers of permanent records to NARA on a what will be made via the administrative chain of
command to CNO (DNS-5) and CMC (ARDB)?

Answer 24

SF258

Question 25

For general correspondence not covered by another SSIC, apply the following: retain on board
until records are how many years old?

Answer 25

2

Question 26

Transfer to FRC when case is closed. Destroy how many years after case is closed for Board of
Review, Discharges, and Dismissal Official Case Files?

Answer 26

15