[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 208 (Friday, October 28, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-26682]
[Federal Register: October 28, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration
[Docket No. N-94-3829: FR-3808-N-01]
Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program
AGENCY: Housing and Urban Development Department, (HUD).
ACTION: Notice of a Computer Matching Program--HUD and the United
Postal Service (USPS).
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as
amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as
amended, (Pub. L. 100-503), and the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching Programs (54 FR 25818 (June
19, 1989)), and OMB Bulletin 89-22, ``Instructions on Reporting
Computer Matching Programs to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Congress and the Public,'' the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) is issuing a public notice of its intent to conduct a
recurring computer matching program with the United Postal Service
(USPS).
EFFECTIVE DATE: Computer matching is expected to begin at least 40 days
from the date this computer matching notice is published, provided no
comments are received which would result in a contrary determination.
It will be accomplished 18 months from the beginning date.
Comments Due Date: November 28, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, Room
10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street,
SW, Washington, DC 20410. Communications should refer to the above
docket number and title. A copy of each communication submitted will be
available for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30
p.m. weekdays at the above address.
FOR PRIVACY ACT INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, Departmental
Privacy Act Officer, 451 7th Street, SW, Room 4178, Washington, DC
20410, telephone number (202) 708-2374. (This is not a toll-free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM SOURCE AGENCY CONTACT:
Mary Felton, Office of Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street, SW, Room 2118, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number (202)
708-4256. (This is not a toll-free number).
Reporting: In accordance with Pub. L. 100-503, the Computer
Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as amended, and Office of
Management and Budget Bulletin 89-22, ``Instructions on Reporting
Computer Matching Programs to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Congress and the Public;'' copies of this Notice and a report,
in duplicate, are being provided to the Committee on Government
Operations of the House of Representatives, the Committee on
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Office of Management and
Budget.
Authority: The matching program may be conducted pursuant to Pub.
L. 100-503, ``The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of
1988,'' as amended, the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-276),
which authorizes Federal agencies to offset a Federal employee's salary
as a means of satisfying delinquent debts owed to the United States (5
U.S.C. 5514 (a)); 26 CFR 301.6402-6 et. seq., chapter I, subchapter F--
Procedure and Administration (Tax Refund Regulations issued by Internal
Revenue Service); and 24 CFR part 17, Administrative Claims, subpart C
17.60 and 17.125 through 17.140, Salary Offset Provisions (HUD).
Objectives to be met by the matching program: The matching program
will allow HUD to discover the identities and locations of postal
employees who are indebted to the Department and to collect debts owed
to the Federal Government.
Records to be matched: HUD will provide extracts from its systems
of records entitled HUD/DEPT-2, Accounting Records, last published in
the Federal Register at 55 FR 17676 on April 26, 1990, containing
records of more than 250,000 debtors of the records to be matched.
Disclosures will be made under routine uses of the records maintained
in that system (including categories of users and the purposes of such
users).
Notice procedures: As a condition of matching, HUD has made
modifications to the loan application forms for the participating
programs to expand the Privacy Act Statements on these forms.
Incorporated within the Privacy Act statements on the individual
application forms is the notation ``that the information provided by
the applicant can be used for computer matching purposes and to collect
debts owed to the Federal government.'' Any deficiencies as to direct
notice procedures to the individual for the matching program are cured
by the indirect or constructive notice that will be afforded to the
subjects when the public notice of the proposed match is published by
HUD in the Federal Register as required by subsection (e)(12) of the
Privacy Act.
Categories of records/individuals involved: The debtor records
include these data elements: SSN, claim number, program code, and
indication of indebtedness. Categories of records include: Records of
claims and defaults, repayment agreements, credit reports, financial
statements, and records of foreclosures. Categories of individuals
include: Former mortgagors and purchasers of HUD-owned properties
manufactured (mobile) home and home improvement loan debtors who are
delinquent or in default on their loans, and rehabilitation loan
debtors who are delinquent or in default on their loans.
Period of the match: Matching will begin at least 40 days from the
date copies of the signed (by both Data Integrity Boards) computer
matching agreement are sent to both Houses of Congress or at least 30
days from the date this Notice is published in the Federal Register,
whichever is later, providing no comments are received which would
result in a contrary determination.
Issued at Washington, DC October 21, 1994.
Willie H. Gilmore,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Planning and Operations.
[FR Doc. 94-26682 Filed 10-27-94; 8:45 am]
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