[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 29774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14917]
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POSTAL SERVICE
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Postal Service.
ACTION: Notice of the addition of a routine use to an existing system
of records.
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SUMMARY: This document publishes notice of the addition of a routine
use to Privacy Act system of records USPS 050.020, Finance Records--
Payroll System. The routine use allows disclosure of limited
information to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for
the purpose of identifying postal employees who are absent parents
owing child support obligations and/or parents involved in parental
kidnapping and child custody cases.
This notice complies with subsection (e)(11) of the Privacy Act (5
U.S.C. 552a), which requires agencies to publish advance notice of any
new use of information in a system of records.
DATES: Any interested party may submit written comments on the proposed
routine use. This proposal will become effective without further notice
July 22, 1996, unless comments received on or before that date result
in a contrary determination.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this proposal should be mailed or
delivered to Payroll Accounting/Records, United States Postal Service,
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 8650, Washington, DC 20260-5242. Copies of
all written comments will be available at the above address for public
inspection and photocopying between 8 a.m. and 4:45 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty E. Sheriff, (202) 268-2608.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Privacy Act system of records USPS 050.020,
Finance Records--Payroll System, contains records about current and
former postal employees. The records are used for handling payroll and
other administrative functions. It is proposed that the system be
amended to add routine use No. 31, which will allow the Postal Service
to disclose limited information to the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) for the purpose of identifying postal employees who are
absent parents owing child support obligations and/or individuals
involved in parental kidnapping and child custody cases.
The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the DHHS operates a
Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) pursuant to section 653 of Title
42, U.S.C. The FPLS was established to locate absent parents and later
broadened to locate persons involved in parental kidnapping and child
custody cases. The FPLS obtains from state child support enforcement
agencies information about individuals who owe child support
obligations and/or individuals who are involved in the unlawful taking
or restraint of a child. It compares that information to federal
employment data and returns matching records to the state child support
enforcement agencies for follow-up. Proposed routine use No. 31 allows
the Postal Service to disclose to DHHS information about current or
former postal employees for matching under the FPLS. Information
disclosed will be limited to those data elements considered relevant to
that purpose.
The proposed routine use is compatible with the purpose for
collecting the information; that is, for handling all necessary payroll
functions. It is the policy of the Postal Service that postal employees
should honor their parental responsibilities and financial obligations.
In implementing that policy, the Postal Service helps enforce court
orders for child support by garnishment of wages. Because information
within system USPS 050.020 is collected to handle payroll functions,
and wage garnishment is a primary means of child support enforcement,
proposed routine use No. 31 is clearly compatible with the purpose of
the system.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11), interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, or arguments on this proposal. A report of
the proposed routine use has been sent to Congress and to the Office of
Management and Budget for their evaluation.
USPS Privacy Act system 050.020 was last published in its entirety
in the Federal Register on December 4, 1992 (57 FR 57515-57519) and was
amended in the Federal Register on November 22, 1993 (58 FR 61718-
61719). The Postal Service proposes adding routine use No. 31 as shown
below.
USPS 050.020
SYSTEM NAME:
Finance Records--Payroll System, 050.020.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
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31. Disclosure of limited information about current or former
postal employees, who are identified through computer matching, may be
made to the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to 42
U.S.C. 653, Parent Locator Service, for further release to state child
support enforcement agencies when needed for locating noncustodial
parents in order to establish and/or enforce child support obligations
and for locating parents who may be involved in parental kidnapping or
child custody cases.
Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel, Legislative.
[FR Doc. 96-14917 Filed 6-11-96; 8:45 am]
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