User defined records and how to declare in spec as well as body

If I have a record declared in the body of my package for the purposes of passing records instead of variables as parameters, must I also declare the record in the spec. I seem to be getting an error that makes me believe that I need to declare it in the spec as well as the body.

The error was PLS-00201. params_rec must be declared

my record in the body is this:

TYPE PARAMS_REC IS RECORD(
                             P_SCHEMA VARCHAR2(4000)
                            ,P_TABLENAME VARCHAR2(4000)
                            ,P_QUERY VARCHAR2(4000)
                            ,P_LOGGING_Y_N VARCHAR2(1)
                            ,P_COMPRESS_Y_N VARCHAR2(1)
                            ,P_TABLESPACE VARCHAR2(4000));

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must it also go in the spec? Things don't need to be declared in the spec unless I want them public right?

This is from the SPEC and is the procedure I want to pass the record variables to:

PROCEDURE DROP_TABLES
              (
                            /*P_SCHEMA VARCHAR2
                           ,P_TABLENAME VARCHAR2*/
                          P_PARAMS_REC PARAMS_REC; --THIS ISN'T WORKING

              ); --DROPS PRE-EXISTING TABLES

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