98-2950. Addition of Routine Use to Privacy Act Systems of Records

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6150-6151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2950]


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ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD


Addition of Routine Use to Privacy Act Systems of Records

AGENCY: Assassination Records Review Board.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 
552a(e)(11), the Assassination Records Review Board is issuing notice 
of our intent to amend the systems of records entitled the Personnel 
Files (ARRB-9) and the Time and Attendance Files (ARRB-14) to include a 
new routine use. The disclosure is required by the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Pub. L. 104-
193. We invite public comment on this publication.

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on the proposed routine use must do 
so by March 9, 1998.
    Effective date: The proposed routine use will become effective as 
proposed without further notice on March 9, 1998, unless comments 
dictate otherwise.


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ADDRESSES: Interested individuals may comment on this publication by 
writing to Laura Denk, Assassination Records Review Board, 600 E 
Street, NW., Second Floor, Washington, DC 20530, [phone] 
(facsimile), or via electronic mail: [e-mail].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Denk, Assassination Records 
Review Board, 600 E Street, NW., Second Floor, Washington, DC 20530, 
[phone] (voice), [phone] (facsimile), Laura__Denk@jfk-.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-193, the 
Assassination Records Review Board will disclose data from its 
Personnel Records and its Time and Attendance Records to the Office of 
Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services for use in the National 
Database of New Hires, part of the Federal Parent Locator Service 
(FPLS) and Federal Tax Offset System, DHHS/OCSE No. 09-90-0074. A 
description of the Federal Parent Locator Service may be found at 62 FR 
51,663 (1997).
    FPLS is a computerized network through which States may request 
location information from Federal and State agencies to find non-
custodial parents and their employers for purposes of establishing 
paternity and security support. On October 1, 1997, the FPLS was 
expanded to include the National Directory of New Hires, a database 
containing employment information on employees recently hired, 
quarterly wage data on private and public sector employees, and 
information on unemployment compensation benefits. On October 1, 1998, 
the FPLS will be expanded further to include a Federal Case Registry. 
The Federal Case Registry will contain abstracts on all participants 
involved in child support enforcement cases. When the Federal Case 
Registry is instituted, its files will be matched on an ongoing basis 
against the files in the National Directory of New Hires to determine 
if an employee is a participant in a child support case anywhere in the 
country. If the FPLS identifies a person as being a participant in a 
State child support case, that State will be notified. State requests 
to the FPLS for location information will also continue to be processed 
after October 1, 1998.
    When individuals are hired by the Assassination Records Review 
Board, we may disclose to the FPLS their names, social security 
numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, dates of hire, and information 
identifying us as the employer. We also may disclose to FPLS names, 
social security numbers, and quarterly earnings of each Assassination 
Records Review Board employee, within one month of the quarterly 
reporting period.
    Information submitted by the Assassination Records Review Board to 
the FPLS will be disclosed by the Office of Child Support Enforcement 
to the Social Security Administration for verification to ensure that 
the social security number provided is correct. The data disclosed by 
the Assassination Records Review Board to the FPLS will also be 
disclosed by the Office of Child Support Enforcement to the Secretary 
of the Treasury for use in verifying claims for the advance payment of 
the earned income tax credit or to verify a claim of employment on a 
tax return.
    Accordingly, the Assassination Records Review Board's Notice of 
Systems of Records (ARRB-9 and ARRB-14) originally published at 60 FR 
64,143 (1995) is amended by addition of the following routine use:

Routine Uses of records maintained in the systems, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
    The names, social security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, 
dates of hire, quarterly earnings, employer identifying information, 
and State of hire of employees may be disclosed to the Office of Child 
Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of locating 
individuals to establish paternity, establishing and modifying orders 
of child support, identifying sources of income, and for other child 
support enforcement actions as required by the Personal Responsibility 
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Pub. L. 104-193.

    Dated: December 30, 1997.
Laura Denk,
Freedom of Information Act Officer/Privacy Act, Assassination Records 
Review Board.
[FR Doc. 98-2950 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am]
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