(a) Establish standards, procedures, and techniques for effective management of records;

(b) Make continuing surveys of paper work operations and recommend improvement sin current records management practices including the use of space, equipment and supplies employed in crating, maintaining, sorting and servicing records;

(c) Establish standards for the preparation of schedules for the retention of government records of continuing value and for the prompt and orderly disposal of government records no longer possessing sufficient administrative, legal, or fiscal value to warrant their further keeping;

(d) Establish standards for the reproduction of records by photography or microphotographic processes with a view to the disposal of the original records; [and]

(e) Obtain reports from agencies as are required for the administration of the program.

SOURCE: GC § 6703.