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I don't have any links or documents for reference. However, years ago the company at which I then worked went through the same analysis. The basic result was that the retention period varied by government entity (both federal and state) and the type of record. The retention periods overlapped (think "set theory") in incoherent (to me) ways. For simplicity's (and sanity's) sake, we opted for the seven [7] year period, which was the maximum that we found.
Another thing that complicated things then (about 20 years ago) was that some requirements were that original documents had to be retained. Others said that copies (microfilm back then) were acceptable. That may have changed in two decades (one can only hope), but at the time it kept us from investing in records retention equipment.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
A nickel ain't worth a dime any more. - Yogi Berra
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