---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 1251.1"
title: "36"
number: "1251.1"
heading: "What is the purpose of this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/1251.1"
---

# §1251.1. What is the purpose of this part?

- (a) This part provides the policies and procedures to follow when submitting a demand to an employee of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to produce records or provide testimony relating to agency information in connection with a legal proceeding. You must comply with these requirements when you request the release or disclosure of records or agency information.
- (b) **The National Archives and Records Administration intends these provisions to—**
  - (1) Promote economy and efficiency in its programs and operations;
  - (2) Minimize NARA's role in controversial issues not related to its mission;
  - (3) Maintain NARA's impartiality among private litigants when NARA is not a named party; and
  - (4) **Protect sensitive, confidential information and the deliberative processes of NARA.**
- (c) **In providing for these requirements, NARA does not waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.**
- (d) **This part provides guidance for the internal operations of NARA.** It does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, that a party may rely upon in any legal proceeding against the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 2104; 44 U.S.C. 2108; 44 U.S.C. 2109; 44 U.S.C. 2111 note; 44 U.S.C. 2112; 44 U.S.C. 2116; 44 U.S.C. ch. 22; 44 U.S.C. 3103.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 79393, Dec. 29, 2008, unless otherwise noted.