shrug-l: NATIONAL HIGH ALTITUDE PHOTOGRAPHY (NHAP) & NATIONAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM (NAPP) BLACK & WHITE INTERNEGS

[Bokey, Aparna]

Please see email below from USDA..

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From: Stadelman, John - FSA, Salt Lake City, UT [mailto:john.stadelman at slc.usda.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 6:03 PM
Subject: NATIONAL HIGH ALTITUDE PHOTOGRAPHY (NHAP) & NATIONAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM (NAPP) BLACK & WHITE INTERNEGS - REMINDER

Good Day to All,
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA), Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) now known as the Farm Service Agency (FSA) has operated the Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) as its aerial film acquisition and coordination center for many years.  As a result, nearly 65,000 rolls of film have been rolls held in APFO's Film Vault.  These holdings include over 5,200 Black & White interneg rolls created from original color infrared positive (CIRP) film captured under the National High Altitude Photography (NHAP) and the National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP).
NHAP was operational from 1980 to 1989, the images were shot with an 8.25-inch lens at a scale of 1:58,000, the aerial photographs were acquired by aircraft equipped with mapping cameras. The recording technique for the NHAP film collection is vertical photography, which is obtained with the camera pointed at the ground. Images are cartographic quality with a 60 percent overlap of images to allow for stereographic viewing with specialized equipment.  NAPP was operational from 1987 to 2007, these images were shot with a 6-inch lens at a scale of 1:40,000, the photographs were acquired by aircraft equipped with mapping cameras.  The recording technique for the NAPP film collection is vertical photography, which was obtained with the camera pointed directly at the ground.  Flight lines for the NAPP program were flown in a north-to-south direction through the east and west halves of 7.5-minute quadrangles, also known as 1:24,000-scale topographic maps. These images are cartographic quality with a 60% overlap of images to allow for stereographic viewing with specialized equipment.
In less than a year APFO will begin relocating from a leased facility to a government owed location several miles away.  The relocation will force APFO to make a number of challenging decisions, including the disposition of the film holdings.  Many of the rolls will be retained at the new location for digitizing however, the available space to store film has been reduced so the interneg rolls will need to find new ownership.
Since the interneg rolls are considered a working copy/duplicate they will not be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), this leaves APFO with few viable options for finding an owner or choosing a disposition method for the interneg collection.  As APFO sees it, one option is for academia and/or private organizations to take ownership, another would be to place the collection up for open public bidding, and the last and least desirable is to destroy the film through a recovery and reclamation process.
The clock is running out for APFO, our constraints are firm and have been identified.  This is where you all come in.
If you are interested in taking ownership of the interneg collection please contact me no later than August 15, 2017.
If you have questions regarding the interneg collection, my contact information is provided below.


John S. Stadelman
Production Chief
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency
Aerial Photography Field Office
2222 West 2300 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84119-2020
Voice:   801 844-2940
Mobile:  801 214-4649
Fax:      801 956-3641

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