Management of Environmental Records Management System
Procurement Agency: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Project Summary:
The Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a sister agency to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its program activities include the collection of pertinent data from multiple sources (Federal and state EPA offices, etc.) and performing public health assessments, research, toxicological profiles, emergency response activities, epidemiologic investigations, medical waste investigations, and maintenance of disease registries. ATSDR conducts investigations and studies to determine the relationship between exposure to hazardous substances and adverse health effects, surveillance activities to evaluate the occurrence of adverse health effects related to hazardous substances and the creation and maintenance of registries of individuals exposed to hazardous substances and diseases. These activities generate a large volume of external and internal records in various media.
ISPA manages the Records Management System for the ATSDR, which includes the following tasks: custody, intellectual and physical control of all records, operation and maintenance of four Records Centers (DHAC, OPOM, DHS, DT), retrieve and provide access to records as requested, perform records disposition, perform records conversion services (to electronic format), conduct records inventories, and conduct new technology evaluation studies, develop technical and procedural improvements, perform user training, and provide technical assistance and administrative support related to the operation of the RMS Records Centers.
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