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23. Operation, documentation, and payment of any CHS opened and operated in furtherance of an OCAOCTF investigation must be in accordance with the United States Attorney General's Guidelines, regardless of whether the handling agency is an FBI OCAOCTF participating agency. Documentation of state, county, or local CHSs opened and operated in furtherance of OCAOCTF investigations shall be maintained at an agreed upon location. C. Reports and Records 24. All investigative reporting will be prepared in compliance with existing FBI policy. Subject to pertinent legal and/or policy restrictions, copies of pertinent documents created by OCAOCTF personnel will be made available for inclusion in the respective investigative agencies' files as appropriate. 25. OCAOCTF reports prepared in cases assigned to OCAOCTF personnel will be maintained at an FBI approved location; original documents will be maintained by the FBI. 26. Records and reports generated in OCAOCTF cases which are opened and assigned by the FBI SSA with designated oversight for investigative and personnel matters will be maintained in the FBI investigative file for OCAOCTF. 27. OCAOCTF investigative records maintained at the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI will be available to all OCAOCTF personnel, as well as their supervisory and command staff subject to pertinent legal, administrative and/or policy restrictions. 28. All evidence and original tape recordings (audio and video) acquired by the FBI during the course of the OCAOCTF investigations will be maintained by the FBI. The FBI's rules and policies governing the submission, retrieval and chain of custody will be adhered to by OCAOCTF personnel. 29. All OCAOCTF investigative records will be maintained at an approved FBI location. Placement of all or part of said information into participating agency files rests with the discretion of supervisory personnel of the concerned agencies, subject to SSA approval. 30. Classified information and/or documents containing information that identifies or tends to identify an FBI CHS shall not be placed in the files of participating agencies unless appropriate FBI policy has been satisfied. 31. The Parties acknowledge that this MOU may provide OCAOCTF personnel with access to information about U.S. persons which is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974 and/or Executive Order 12333. The Parties expressly agree that all such information will be handled lawfully pursuant to the provisions thereof. The Parties further agree that if this access to information by OCAOCTF personnel requires a change in privacy compliance documents, those changes will be accomplished prior to access being granted.