95-21084. Privacy Act; Implementation  

  • [Federal Register Volume 60, Number 164 (Thursday, August 24, 1995)]
    [Rules and Regulations]
    [Pages 43982-43983]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 95-21084]
    
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    
    Office of the Secretary
    
    49 CFR Part 10
    
    [Docket No. 48438; Amdt. 10-2]
    RIN 2105-AC05
    
    
    Privacy Act; Implementation
    
    AGENCY: Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary.
    
    ACTION: Final rule.
    
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    SUMMARY: DOT amends its rules implementing the Privacy Act of 1974 to 
    add to the list of systems of records exempt from certain provisions of 
    the Act the Coast Guard's Joint Maritime Information Element Support 
    System.
    
    DATES: This amendment takes effect September 25, 1995.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert I. Ross, Office of the General 
    Counsel, C-10, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC 20590, 
    telephone (202) 366-9154, FAX (202) 366-9170.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public comment was invited on this proposal 
    (May 26, 1995, 60 FR 27946); none was received.
        1. What is JMIE? The Joint Maritime Information Element (JMIE) 
    Support System is a multi-agency database of vessel movements around 
    the world that can assist in virtually any maritime support mission, 
    including petroleum traffic movement, sea and defense zone 
    surveillance, fisheries operations, and emergency sealift management, 
    as well as prevention of illegal technology transfer, general cargo/
    commodity smuggling, and illegal immigration. DOT's Coast Guard is one 
    of the participating agencies and the agency that has been selected by 
    the others as the Executive Agent to manage the database. All 
    participating agencies will have access to data in the system.
        Each record in the database will consist of two parts. The first 
    will cover the vessel; every participating agency will have access to 
    that; it will refer to a second record about the individuals (e.g., 
    owner, master, crew) associated with the vessel. Only the law 
    enforcement agencies will be able to access that second record. This 
    part of each record comes within the Privacy Act, although the entire 
    record does not. The computer that houses the database has been 
    programmed to grant access only to the Law Enforcement agencies that 
    are members of JMIE.
        2. What agencies are members of JMIE? The following are the members 
    of JMIE; each is designated below by whether it is a law enforcement 
    agency (L), member of the intelligence community (I), or other (O), 
    only those designated `(L)' having direct access to Privacy Act 
    information:
    
    1. Office of National Drug Control Policy--Executive Office of the 
    President (I)
    2. Bureau of International Narcotics Matters--Department of State (I)
    3. Customs Service--Department of the Treasury (L)
    4. Office of Naval Intelligence--Department of Defense (I)
    5. Military Sealift Command--Department of Defense (O)
    6. Defense Intelligence Agency--Department of Defense (I)
    7. National Security Agency--Department of Defense (I)
    8. Drug Enforcement Administration--Department of Justice (L)
    9. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Department of Justice (L)
    10. US National Central Bureau--INTERPOL--Department of Justice (O)
    11. Bureau of the Census--Department of Commerce (O)
    12. Coast Guard--Department of Transportation (L)
    13. Maritime Administration--Department of Transportation (O)
    14. Office of Intelligence and Port Security--Department of Energy (I)
    15. Central Intelligence Agency (I)
    
        The only members of JMIE that will have direct access to the 
    Privacy Act information that will be maintained as part of JMIE are the 
    following, all of which are criminal law enforcement agencies; shown 
    with each is its principal criminal law enforcement authority:
        (1) Customs Service--19 USC 1589a.\1\
    
        \1\ Enforcement authority of Customs officers.
        Subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, an 
    officer of the customs may--
        (1) carry a firearm;
        (2) execute and serve any order, warrant, subpoena, summons, or 
    other process issued under the authority of the United States;
        (3) make an arrest without a warrant for any offense against the 
    United States committed in the officer's presence or for a felony, 
    cognizable under the laws of the United States committed outside the 
    officer's presence if the officer has reasonable grounds to believe 
    that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing a 
    felony; and
        (4) perform any other law enforcement duty that the Secretary of 
    the Treasury may designate.
        (2) Immigration and Naturalization Service--8 USC 1324.2
    
        \2\ Bringing in and harboring certain aliens.
    
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        (c) Authority to arrest. No officer or person shall have 
    authority to make any arrest for a violation of any provision of 
    this section except officers and employees of the [Immigration and 
    Naturalization] Service designated by the Attorney General, either 
    individually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose 
    duty it is to enforce criminal laws.
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        (3) Drug Enforcement Administration--21 USC 878.3
    
        \3\ Powers of enforcement personnel.
        (a) Officers or employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration 
    or any State or local law enforcement officer.
        Any officer or employee of the Drug Enforcement Administration 
    or any State or local law enforcement officer designated by the 
    Attorney General may--
        (1) carry firearms;
        (2) execute and serve search warrants, arrest warrants, 
    administrative inspection warrants, subpoenas, and summonses issued 
    under the authority of the United States;
        (3) make arrests without warrant (A) for any offense against the 
    United States committed in his presence, or (B) for any felony, 
    cognizable under the laws of the United States, if he has probable 
    cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is 
    committing a felony;
        (4) make seizures of property pursuant to the provisions of this 
    subchapter; and
        (5) perform such other law enforcement duties as the Attorney 
    General may designate.
    
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        (4) Coast Guard--14 USC 89.4
    
        \4\ Law enforcement.
        (a) The Coast Guard may make inquiries, examinations, 
    inspections, searches, seizures, and arrests upon the high seas and 
    waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, for the 
    prevention, detection, and suppression of violations of laws of the 
    United States * * *. When * * * it appears that a breach of the laws 
    of the United States rendering a person liable to arrest is being, 
    or has been committed, by any person, such person shall be arrested 
    or, if escaping to shore, shall be immediately pursued and arrested 
    on shore, or other lawful and appropriate action shall be taken * * 
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        1. General exemption. Under Subsection (j)(2) of the Privacy Act (5 
    USC 552a(j)(2)), a system of records may be exempted from almost all 
    provisions of the Act, so long as the system: (1) Is maintained by an 
    agency, or a component of an agency, that performs as its principal 
    function any activity pertaining to the enforcement of criminal laws; 
    and (2) contains: (A) Information compiled for the purpose of 
    identifying individual criminal 
    
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    offenders and alleged offenders and consisting only of identifying data 
    and notations of arrests, the nature and disposition of criminal 
    charges, sentencing, confinement, release, and parole and probation 
    status; (B) information compiled for the purpose of a criminal 
    investigation, including reports of informants and investigators, and 
    associated with an identifiable individual; or (C) reports identifiable 
    to an individual compiled at any stage of the process of enforcement of 
    the criminal laws from arrest or indictment through release from 
    supervision. Those provisions of the Act from which such a system may 
    not be exempted are subsections (b) (Conditions of Disclosure); (c)(1) 
    and (2) (Accounting of Certain Disclosures); (e)(4)(A) through (F) 
    (Publication of Existence and Character of System); (e)(6) (Ensure 
    Records are Accurate, Relevant, Timely, and Complete), (7) (Restrict 
    Recordkeeping on First Amendment Rights), (9) (Rules of Conduct), (10) 
    (Safeguards), and (11) (Routine Use Publication); and (i) (Criminal 
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    Penalties).
    
        DOT is exempting JMIE under subsection (j)(2) accordingly.
    
        2. Specific exemptions. Under subsection (k) of the Privacy Act (5 
    USC 552a(k)), qualifying records may be exempted from various 
    provisions of the Act. Among these provisions are the requirement in 
    subsection (c)(3) to maintain an accounting of disclosures of 
    information from a system of records and make that accounting available 
    on request to the record subject; in subsection (d) to grant to a 
    record subject access to information maintained on him/her under the 
    Act; in subsection (e)(1) to maintain only such information as is 
    relevant and necessary to accomplish a purpose of the agency under 
    statute or Executive Order; in subsection (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I) to 
    advise record subjects of the agency procedures to request if a system 
    of records contains records pertaining to them, how they can gain 
    access to such records and contest their content, and the categories of 
    sources of such records; and in subsection (f) to establish rules 
    governing the procedures above.
    
        a. Under Subsection (k)(1) of the Privacy Act (5 USC 552a(k)(1)), 
    portions of a system of records that are subject to 5 USC 552(b)(1), in 
    that they contain information that is properly classified in the 
    interest of national security, may be exempted from these provisions, 
    and DOT exempts JMIE accordingly.
    
        b. Under Subsection (k)(2) of the Privacy Act (5 USC 552a(k)(2)), 
    investigatory material compiled for law enforcement purposes, other 
    than material encompassed within Subsection (j)(2), may be exempted 
    from these provisions, and DOT exempts JMIE accordingly.
    
        Analysis of regulatory impacts. This amendment is not a 
    ``significant regulatory action'' within the meaning of Executive Order 
    12866. It is also not significant within the definition in DOT's 
    Regulatory Policies and Procedures, 49 FR 11034 (1979), in part because 
    it does not involve any change in important Departmental policies. 
    Because the economic impact should be minimal, further regulatory 
    evaluation is not necessary. Moreover, I certify that this amendment 
    will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of 
    small entities.
    
        This amendment does not significantly affect the environment, and 
    therefore an environmental impact statement is not required under the 
    National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. It has also been reviewed 
    under Executive Order 12612, Federalism, and it has been determined 
    that it does not have sufficient implications for federalism to warrant 
    preparation of a Federalism Assessment.
    
        Finally, the amendment does not contain any collection of 
    information requirements, requiring review under the Paperwork 
    Reduction Act of 1980.
    
    List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 10
    
        Penalties; Privacy.
    
        In accordance with the above, DOT amends 49 CFR part 10 as follows:
    
    PART 10--[AMENDED]
    
        1. The authority citation to part 10 continues to read as follows:
    
        Authority: 5 USC 552a; 49 USC 322.
    
        2. Part I of Appendix A is amended by republishing the introductory 
    text and adding a new paragraph F; Part II.A. is amended by adding a 
    new paragraph 14; and Part II.F is amended by adding a new paragraph 4, 
    all to read as follows:
    
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    Appendix A to Part 10--Exemptions
    
    Part I. General Exemptions
    
        Those portions of the following systems of records that consist 
    of (a) information compiled for the purpose of identifying 
    individual criminal offenders and alleged offenders and consisting 
    only of identifying data and notations of arrests, the nature and 
    disposition of criminal charges, sentencing, confinement, release, 
    and parole and probation status; (b) information compiled for the 
    purpose of a criminal investigation, including reports of informants 
    and investigators, and associated with an identifiable individual; 
    or (c) reports identifiable to an individual compiled at any stage 
    of the process of enforcement of the criminal laws from arrest or 
    indictment through release from supervision, are exempt from all 
    parts of 5 USC 552a except subsections (b) (Conditions of 
    disclosure); (c)(1) and (2) (Accounting of certain disclosures); 
    (e)(4)(A) through (F) (Publication of existence and character of 
    system); (e)(6) (Ensure records are accurate, relevant, timely, and 
    complete before disclosure to person other than an agency and other 
    than pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request), (7) 
    (Restrict recordkeeping on First Amendment rights), (9) (Rules of 
    conduct), (10) (Safeguards), and (11) (Routine use publication); and 
    (i) (Criminal penalties):
    
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        F. Joint Maritime Intelligence Element (JMIE) Support System, 
    maintained by the Operations Systems, Center, US Coast Guard (DOT/CG 
    642).
    
    Part II. Specific exemptions.
    
        A. The following systems of records are exempt from subsection 
    (c)(3) (Accounting of Certain Disclosures), (d) (Access to Records), 
    (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I) (Agency Requirements), and (f) (Agency 
    Rules) of 5 USC 552a, to the extent that they contain investigatory 
    material compiled for law enforcement purposes in accordance with 5 
    USC 552a(k)(2):
    
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        14. Joint Maritime Intelligence Element (JMIE) Support System, 
    maintained by the Operations Systems, Center, US Coast Guard (DOT/CG 
    642).
    
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        F. Those portions of the following systems of records that 
    consist of information properly classified in the interest of 
    national defense or foreign policy in accordance with 5 USC 
    552(b)(1) are exempt from sections (c)(3) (Accounting of Certain 
    Disclosures), (d) (Access to Records), (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I) 
    (Agency Requirements), and (f) (Agency Rules) of 5 USC 552a, to the 
    extent that they contain investigatory material compiled for law 
    enforcement purposes in accordance with 5 USC 552a(k)(1):
    
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        4. Joint Maritime Intelligence Element (JMIE) Support System, 
    maintained by the Operations Systems Center, US Coast Guard (DOT/CG 
    642).
    
        Issued in Washington, DC, on August l7, 1995.
    Federico Pena,
    Secretary of Transportation.
    [FR Doc. 95-21084 Filed 8-23-95; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Effective Date:
9/25/1995
Published:
08/24/1995
Department:
Transportation Department
Entry Type:
Rule
Action:
Final rule.
Document Number:
95-21084
Dates:
This amendment takes effect September 25, 1995.
Pages:
43982-43983 (2 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket No. 48438, Amdt. 10-2
RINs:
2105-AC05
PDF File:
95-21084.pdf
CFR: (1)
49 CFR 10