--- kind: "range" citation: "38 C.F.R. §§ 1.700–1.705" title: "38" from: "1.700" to: "1.705" count: 6 url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/1.700..1.705" --- # §1.700. Purpose. [Sections 1.700 through 1.705](/cfr/38/1.700..1.705.md) of this title provide a Missing Children Official Mail Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs. # §1.701. Contact person for missing children official mail program. The Department of Veterans Affairs contact person for the Missing Children Official Mail Program is: Mrs. Roslynd R. Stewart, Information Management Service (045A4), Office of Policy and Program Assistance, Office of Information Resources Management, Office of Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420-0001. Telephone: (202) 565-8949. # §1.702. Policy. - (a) The Department of Veterans Affairs will supplement and expand the national effort to assist in the location and recovery of missing children by maximizing the economical use of missing children information in domestic official mail and publications directed to members of the public and Department of Veterans Affairs employees. - (b) The Department of Veterans Affairs will insert pictures and biographical information related to missing children in a variety of official mail originating at the Department of Veterans Affairs automation centers. In addition, pictures and biographical information are printed in self-mailers and other Department of Veterans Affairs publications (newsletters, bulletins, etc.). - (c) The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (National Center) is the sole source from which the Department of Veterans Affairs will acquire the camera-ready and other photographic and biographical materials to be disseminated for use by Department of Veterans Affairs organizational units. The information is ordered and disseminated by Information Management Service. - (d) The Department of Veterans Affairs will remove all printed inserts and other materials from circulation or other use within a three-month period from the date the National Center notifies the Department of Veterans Affairs that a child whose picture and biographical information have been made available to the Department of Veterans Affairs has been recovered or that permission of the parent(s) or guardian to use the child's photograph and biographical information has been withdrawn. The National Center is responsible for immediately notifying the Department of Veterans Affairs contact person, in writing, of the need to withdraw from circulation official mail and other materials related to a particular child. Photographs which were reasonably current as of the time of the child's disappearence shall be the only acceptable form of visual medium or pictorial likeness used in official mail. - (e) The Department of Veterans Affairs will give priority to official mail that is addressed to: - (1) Members of the public that will be received in the United States, its territories and possessions; and - (2) Inter- and intra-agency publications and other media that will also be widely disseminated to Department of Veterans Affairs employees. - (f) The Department of Veterans Affairs will avoid repetitive mailings of material to the same individuals. - (g) All Department of Veterans Affairs employee suggestions and/or recommendations for additional cost-effective opportunities to use photographs and biographical data on missing children will be provided to the Department of Veterans Affairs contact person. - (h) These shall be the sole regulations for the Department of Veterans Affairs and its component organizational units. # §1.703. Percentage estimate. It is the Department of Veterans Affairs objective that 20 percent of its first class official mail addressed to the public contain missing children photographs and information. # §1.704. Reserved # §1.705. Restrictions on use of missing children information. Missing children pictures and biographical data shall not be: - (a) Printed on official envelopes and other materials ordered and stocked in quantities that represent more than a 90-day supply. - (b) Printed on blank pages or covers of publications that may be included in the Superintendent of Documents Sales Program or be distributed to depository libraries. - (c) Inserted in any envelope or publication the contents of which may be construed to be inappropriate for association with the missing children program. - (d) Inserted in any envelope where the insertion would increase the postage cost for the item being mailed. - (e) Placed on letter-size envelopes on the official indicia, the area designated for optical character readers (OCRs), bar code read area, and return address area in accordance with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention guidelines and U.S. Postal Service standards.