Record Disposition Schedule Chapters and Instructions
Chapter 100 - Organization, history, administrative management, and commissions/councils/boards/committees
(Organizational records, USGS histories, management plans, strategic plans, studies and initiatives, commissions, councils, boards, high-level internal committees and other committees, program mission, bureau directors files, correspondence control system, program policy, direction, and decision case files, bureau directives and federal register notices, bureau external directives, and other organizational related records)
Chapter 200 - Chief Information Officer (CIO), security, and information management
(CIO subject and office, architecture, Information Technology (IT), capital investment, IT oversight compliance, IT facility, site management, equipment support, IT asset and configuration management, network infrastructure, IT operations, system security plans, IT security, plans of action and milestones (POAMS), records management, telecommunications, and end user support records)
Chapter 300 - Administrative Support
(Websites, mail and delivery, travel and transportation, commercial freight, travel vouchers, foreign travel, travel administration, transit subsidy, passports, natural science network, IBIS library, internal and external audits, inspector General contact reports and audit files, calendars, file plans, administrative databases, and chronological files)
Chapter 400 - Human Capital
(Human resource files, temporary official personal files (OPF), supervisor's employee files, volunteers, employment and hiring files, reduction in force (RIFs), research grade evaluation (RGE), performance, position descriptions (PDs), employer relations, leave, conflict resolution, alternative work schedules, telework, ethics, employee training, employee health and medical, labor relations, equal employment opportunity (EEO), payroll, and time and attendance related records)
Chapter 500 - Information Services
(Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), privacy, Information Quality Act, declassified, press releases, public information reference, Associate Director, Regional Director, and Office of the Director presentations, other presentations, visual identity, weekly highlights, and exhibit records)
Chapter 600 - Legal, Congressional, and Patents
(Law and litigation records, investigations, witness, congressional records, inventions, patents and copyrights, technology transfer agreements, cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), other agreements, and Intergovernmental Personnel Act related records)
Chapter 700 - Budget and Finance
(Budget and financial, work plan, financial management, accounting, appropriation, telephone files, working capital fund, performance, and accountability files related records)
Chapter 800 - Acquisitions, Supply, and Grants
(Acquisition, contract, charge card purchase records, contractor payroll files, supply management files, grant and cooperative agreements, grant administrative files, and contracting officer files)
Chapter 900 - Emergency Planning and Environmental Records
(Classified information, top secret accounting and control, HSPD-12, personnel security, safety management, accident files, occupational safety hazards (OSHA), emergency planning, fire management, environmental permit and compliance, emergency management, National Environmental Policy Act records (NEPA) including environmental impact statements (EIS), and related records)
Chapter 1000 - Property Management
(Personal property management, property management information system (PMIS), motor vehicle, aircraft and watercraft management, energy conservation, museum property, building operation (e.g., rent, surveys and space planning), and related records)
Chapter 1100 - Audiovisual
(Official portraits, general photos, mission related documentary and research photography, non-mission related photos, award ceremonies and social event photos, motion pictures, sponsored information, educational information intended for public distribution, and video recordings)
Chapter 1200 - Geospatial, Cartographic, and Architectural
(Digital geospatial data, cartographic information, and architectural drawings records)
Chapter 1300 - Publishing
(Publications, Information Product Document System (IPDS), publication review and approval records, manuscripts, electronic files, artwork and materials used to create the published copy, print jobs, publication warehouse (Pubs Warehouse) and the related documentation for these systems and other related records)
Chapter 1400 - Water Science
(National Water Information System (NWIS), technical and discipline reviews, discharge gaging stations, continuous stage measurements, digital punched paper tapes and paper charts, digital, time-series data, discharge measurements, station analysis, well permits, meter calibration, well logs, water quality, laboratory records and lab information management system (LIMS), and other water-related records)
No Chapter 1500 - these items are incorporated into Chapter 1700.
Chapter 1600 - Biological Science
(Biological project planning, conduct, outcomes, independent datasets, associated and supporting technical information, and proposed project records)
Chapter 1700 - Geospatial Science
(Geospatial and geography, maps, special maps, diapositives, cartographic materials, color separate, quadrangle, original manuscript drawings, advanced composites, name and information sheets, vertical accuracy tests, DCG, DEM, DLG, DRG, NHD, Digital Ortho, MCIS, and other related records)
Chapter 1800 - Special Geological Science
(Special Geologic Studies Group (SGSG), classification and declassification, bibliographies, project records, peaceful nuclear explosion (PNE) records, and underground nuclear test (UNT), intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), mineral resource records, deep geology, hydrology, map records, and any other records related to the SGSG)
Chapter 1900 - Geological Science
(Geological projects, physical sample control records, research support, unfunded projects, historical seismograms, WWSSN, preliminary determination epicenter, magnetogram, permanent California network, portable digital seismographs, strong motion accelerographs, and other related records)
