GRS Status Updates
The table below provides the status of General Records Schedules (GRS) that are in progress. Typically, it takes anywhere from nine months to a year or more to process a General Records Schedule. GRS are not available for use until they are issued via a GRS Transmittal. We batch up schedules for issuance due to the effort involved in preparing a transmittal.
GRS schedules generally go through the following process. The amount of time spent in each phase varies.
- Drafting
- Initial review (which often involves an agency comment period as well as internal reviews)
- Comment adjudication
- Final internal stakeholder review
- Federal Register posting
- Approval
- Transmittal
GRS Status Updates as of June, 2026
| Schedule | Nature of Change | Status |
|---|---|---|
| GRS 2.2, Employee Management Records | Revisions to items 010, 040-043, and 060. New item for detailee records. |
Routed for approval |
| GRS 2.7, Employee Health & Safety Records | Revisions to drug testing records. |
Routed for approval |
| GRS 2.8, Employee Ethics Records | Multiple revisions and new items. |
Routed for approval |
| GRS 4.5, Digitizing Records | Addition for source records digitized prior to regulations |
Routed for approval |
| GRS 4.6, Insider Threat Records | General revision; section moved out of GRS 5.6 |
Routed for approval |
| GRS 6.8, Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Boards Records | New schedule
|
Routed for approval
|
| Schedule | Nature of Change | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
GRS 2.2, Employee Management Records |
Revision of items 040-043 (OPFs) |
Final internal stakeholder review |
| GRS 2.7, Employee Health & Safety Records | Revision of items 060-062 (EMFs) | Final internal stakeholder review |
|
GRS 3.2, Information Systems Security Records |
Revision to items 035-036 (related to rescission of OMB Memo M-21-31 and issuance of OMB M-26-14). |
Drafting |
| GRS 6.1, Email and Other Electronic Messages Managed under a Capstone Approach | Revisions to item 010 | Drafting |