---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 70.27"
title: "29"
number: "70.27"
heading: "Preservation of records."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/70.27"
---

# §70.27. Preservation of records.


Each component will preserve all correspondence relating to the requests it receives under this part, and all records processed pursuant to such requests, until disposition or destruction of such correspondence and records is authorized by [Title 44](/cfr/44.md) of the United States Code or the National Archives and Records Administration's General Records Schedule 4.2. Records are not to be destroyed while they are the subject of a pending request, appeal, or lawsuit under the Act.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 29 U.S.C. 551 et seq.; 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 5 U.S.C. Appendix, 29 U.S.C. 1026 (106), 5 U.S.C. app. 11., Executive Order. 12,600, 52 FR 23781, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 235. This part also implements the public information provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), 29 U.S.C. 435, see § 70.53 below; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1026 (106), see § 70.54 below; and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. app. 11, see § 70.40(i) below.

### Source

Source: 82 FR 7671, Jan. 24, 2017, unless otherwise noted.