---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 1.560"
title: "38"
number: "1.560"
heading: "Maintenance and preservation of records."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/1.560"
---

# §1.560. Maintenance and preservation of records.

- (a) Each component will preserve all correspondence pertaining to FOIA requests as well as copies of pertinent records, until disposition is authorized under [title 44](/cfr/44.md), U.S.C., or the National Archives and Records Administration's General Records Schedule 14.
- (b) The FOIA Officer must maintain copies of records that are the subject of a pending request, appeal, or lawsuit under the FOIA. A copy of all records shall be provided promptly to the Office of the General Counsel upon request.

## Notes

### Amendments

[76 FR 51895, Aug. 19, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 33944, Aug. 12, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 51895, Aug. 19, 2011]