These regulations, which implement 39 U.S.C. 3220, provide the standards and guidelines for the use of Board penalty mail in the location and recovery of missing children.

For purposes of this part, terms are defined as follows:

All-A-Board is the Board's in-house newspaper that is published on an irregular basis about six times a year.

Field office is a Board district office. These offices are located throughout the United States.

Penalty mail means the official mail of the Board that is used to carry out the Board's duties.

Shelf life means the amount of time the Board has to remove from circulation outdated missing children information. This is a three month period, commencing with the date notice is received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that such information is no longer accurate.

(a) All-A-Board. Information about missing children will appear in the All-A-Board. This publication will obtain the necessary information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The editorial staff of the All-A-Board shall determine the number of children described in each issue and where this information will appear in the publication.

(b) Other in-house publications. The Board may publish missing children information in other in-house publications as it deems appropriate. This determination will be made in accordance with the guidelines that appear in § 364.5.

(a) Poster content. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shall select the missing child and the pertinent information about that child, which may include a photograph of the child, that will appear on the poster. The Board will develop a standard format for these posters.

(b) Transmission of posters to field offices. The Board shall send the posters to its field offices in penalty mail. Those posters will be included in penalty mailings that are made in the normal course of the Board's operations.

(c) Field office use of posters. (1) Upon receipt of the poster, the field office will place it in the waiting room, if possible. Otherwise, the field office should put the poster in a place where it will be viewed by the public.

(2) The field office must remove and destroy the posters by the end of their shelf life. The field office also may remove posters that they believe have ceased to be of assistance in locating and recovering missing children.

(a) Criteria. The Board shall continue to study different alternatives for using penalty mail to assist in the location and recovery of missing children. In order to implement a proposal, it must:

(1) Be cost effective; and

(2) Fulfill the goal of aiding in the location and recovery of missing children.

(b) Requirements. In any program, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shall select the missing children and the information about these children, which may include a photograph, that will be used by the Board. Proposals must provide for the removal of this material before the end of its shelf life.