[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 8]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR1220.3]

[Page 165]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER X--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                               (Continued)
 
PART 1220_PRESERVATION OF RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1220.3  Preservation of records.

    (a) All records may be preserved by any technology that is immune to 
alteration, modification, or erasure of the underlying data and will 
enable production of an accurate and unaltered paper copy.
    (b) Records not originally preserved on hard copy shall be 
accompanied by a statement executed by a person having personal 
knowledge of the facts indicating the type of data included within the 
records. One comprehensive statement may be executed in lieu of 
individual statements for multiple records if the type of data included 
in the multiple records is common to all such records. The records shall 
be indexed and retained in such a manner as will render them readily 
accessible. The company shall have facilities available to locate, 
identify and produce legible paper copies of the records.
    (c) Any significant characteristic, feature or other attribute that 
a particular medium will not preserve shall be clearly indicated at the 
beginning of the applicable records as appropriate.
    (d) The printed side of forms, such as instructions, need not be 
preserved for each record as long as the printed matter is common to all 
such forms and an identified specimen of the form is maintained on the 
medium for reference.

[50 FR 10775, Mar. 18, 1985, as amended at 56 FR 30874, July 8, 1991]