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NPR 1450.10C Eff. Date: March 06, 2000 Cancellation Date: March 24, 2006	NASA Correspondence Management and Communications Standards and Style
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Effective Date: March 6, 2000

Preface

P.1 Purpose

a. This NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) prescribes specific procedures for managing and controlling communications to and from the Principals of the Office of the Administrator and guidance and standards for preparing internal and external correspondence and communications in both paper and electronic formats.

b. This NPR describes various types of correspondence and communications designed to improve the management and flow of communications for cost-effectiveness, availability, and dissemination of NASA information. The NPR provides guidance for preparing, documenting, and disseminating effective communications to the widest possible audience as prescribed by NASA Policy Directive (NPD) 1090.xx, NASA Communicate Knowledge Process Policy for Programs and Projects, NPD 7120.4A, Program/Project Management, and NPR 7120.5A, NASA Program and Project Management Processes and Requirements.

c. This NPR prescribes "plain language" format and style for preparing correspondence and communications as promulgated by the President's National Partnership for Reinventing Government.

P.2 Applicability

a. This NPR addresses drafting, preparing, and reviewing internal and external correspondence and communications.

b. This NPR applies to NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities.

c. This NPR provides guidance for scientists, technologists, engineers, program and project directors and managers, and those functions involving or supporting public and legislative affairs, education, history, scientific and technical information, and technology transfer offices, and records management for preparing correspondence and communications in communicating the aspects of the knowledge gained from NASA-funded research, development, or operation to various audiences.

P.3 Authority

a. 42 U.S.C. 2451, et seq., the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended.

b. 5 U.S.C. 552, et seq., the Freedom of Information Act, as amended.

c. 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Privacy Act, Pub. L. 93-579, as amended.

d. 18 U.S.C. 2510, et seq., the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as amended.

e. 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq., Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13, as amended.

f. Executive Order No. 12958, Classified National Security Information, April 17, 1995.

g. Executive Order No. 13011, Federal Information Technology, July 16, 1996.

h. OMB Circular No. A-130, Management of Federal Information Resources.

P.4 References

a. NPD 1000.1, NASA Strategic Plan.

b. NPR 1000.2, NASA Strategic Management System.

c. NPR 1000.xx, The NASA Organization.

d. NPD 1090.xx, NASA Communicate Knowledge Process Policy for Programs and Projects.

e. NPR 1090.xx, Requirements for Communicating NASA's Knowledge from Programs and Projects.

f. NPD 1440.6E, NASA Records Management.

g. NPR 1441.1C, Records Retention Schedules.

h. NPR 1450.4F, Handling Congressional Correspondence and Information Concerning Congressional Activities.

i. NPD 1450.12B, Handling Correspondence and Information from the Executive Office of the President.

j. NPD 1490.1E, NASA Printing, Duplicating, Copier, Forms, and Mail Management.

k. NPD 1600.2A, NASA Security Policy.

l. NPR 1620.1xx, Security Procedural Requirements.

m. NPD 2810.1, Security of Information Technology.

n. NPR 2800, Managing Information Technology.

o. NPR 2810.1, Security of Information Technology.

p. NPD 2820, NASA Software Policies.

q. NPD 7120.4A, Program/Project Management.

r. NPR 7120.5A, Program and Project Management Processes and Requirements.

s. The Gregg Reference Manual, Eighth Edition, 1998.

t. Government Printing Office Style Manual, 1984 Edition.

u. Webster's Third International Dictionary.

v. Roget's Thesaurus.

w. Government Printing Office Word Division Book.

x. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White, Third Edition, 1979.

y. A Uniform System of Citation, Sixteenth Edition, 1996, The Columbia Law Review, The Harvard Law Review Association, The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

z. Presidential Memorandum of June 1, 1998, Plain Language in Government Writing.

aa. Principles of Clear Writing, National Archives and Records Administration (1999).

bb. Better Writing, U.S. Department of Commerce (1999).

cc. U.S. Government Correspondence Manual (1992).

P.5 Cancellation

NPR 1450.10B, NASA Correspondence Standards.

/s/
Daniel S. Goldin
Administrator

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