New Home for Personnel Records
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, September 04, 2008 | 04:00 PM
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, September 04, 2008 | 04:00 PM
The National Archives and Records Administration has found a new home for the millions of personnel records of people who have served in the military or worked for federal agencies. The agency announced Thursday that it has worked with the General Services Administration to lease a new "built-to-suit" facility in St. Louis to house such records.
The facility will replace the Military Personnel Records Center and a portion of the Civilian Personnel Records Center in the city. It will house the National Personnel Records Center, which contains 56 million personnel files of 20th century military veterans, and 25 million federal civilian personnel files dating from the early part of the century to the 1970s.
The Archives expects to respond to 1 million requests a year for access to the records, from people seeking to verify service, apply for benefits and conduct historical research. About 600 Archives employees will work at the new location.
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The proposed site at 1829 Dunn rd. is well above the Missouri River flood plain (about 100 ft.) and would not be subjected to flooding. The site is actually an old shopping center that has been closed for a long time. Back in the day 30 years ago it was a GEM store, a pre-Sam's Club discount warehouse with membership restricted to government employees (fed, state, local, teachers, etc.). I believe that the current building will have be demolished and a new facility built on the site. As such it will have to meet the latest building codes for seismic, fire and safety requirements. The old warehouse/discount store wouldn't pass any such requirements.
R. Todd | Friday, September 05, 2008 | 02:17 PMJust to answer Edward Gomez's question - yes, I think it IS in a flood plain because most of the available land in that area is in the flood plain. (But Dunn Road in north St Louis County does run along a ridge, too, so it might be above it, maybe.)
Michelle | Friday, September 05, 2008 | 10:55 AMIs the facility in a flood plain?
Is the facility earthquake-proof?
Edward Gomez | Friday, September 05, 2008 | 09:08 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
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