[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-23153]
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[Federal Register: September 20, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health; Privacy Act of
1974; Altered System of Records
AGENCY: Public Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Notification of an altered system of records.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act, the
Public Health Service (PHS) is publishing a notice of altered system of
records for the attached 67 Privacy Act systems of records. The purpose
of the alteration is to add a new routine use.
DATES: PHS invites interested parties to submit comments on the
proposed routine use on or before October 20, 1994. PHS has sent a
Report of Altered System of Records to the Congress and to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) on September 6, 1994. The new routine
use will be effective 40 days after the date of publication unless PHS
receives comments that would result in a contrary determination.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments to: PHS Privacy Act Officer, Room 17-
45, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857,
Telephone: 301-443-2055.
Comments received will be available for inspection at this same
address from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The PHS Privacy Act Officer at the address listed above.
The telephone number listed above is not toll free.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHS is proposing to add a new routine use to
the 67 Privacy Act systems of records listed below. This routine use
will permit the disclosure of information from these systems to certain
individuals who are working in various PHS components but who do not
have the status of agency employees and, in many instances, do not
receive pay from the office that employs them. Examples of such
categories of individuals are:
PHS volunteers engaged under 42 U.S.C. 217b.
Student volunteers engaged under 5 U.S.C. 3511.
Job Corps enrollees engaged under the Job Training Older American
Community Service Employment Act enrollees.
Individuals working under a personal services contract.
Since some offices that use these workers wish to have them perform
functions that entail access to records in Privacy Act systems of
records, the question arose whether these workers can be considered
employees for purposes of the Privacy Act. PHS has decided to
promulgate a new routine use rather than rely on the protection of
subsection (b)(1) of the Privacy Act.
The proposed new routine use is compatible with the purpose of the
data collection, since the disclosures are being made for the very
purpose for which the information was collected, i.e., to carry out the
particular agency or program function for which the specific system of
records was established.
The records will continue to be adequately protected, since the
individuals to whom the information will be disclosed work under the
supervision of agency employees. They must observe the same safeguards
that agency employees do in the maintenance of Privacy Act records.
Dated: September 7, 1994.
Wilford J. Forbush,
Director, Office of Management.
09-25-0001 Clinical Research: Patient Records, HHS/NIH/NHLBI.
09-25-0010 Research Resources: Registry of Individuals Potentially
Exposed to Microbial Agents, HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0011 Clinical Research: Blood Donor Records, HHS/NIH/CC.
09-25-0012 Clinical Research: Candidate Normal Volunteer Records,
HHS/NIH/CC.
09-25-0014 Clinical Research: Student Records, HHS/NIH/CC.
09-25-0015 Clinical Research: Collaborative Clinical Epilepsy
Research, HHS/NIH/NINDS.
09-25-0016 Clinical Research: Collaborative Perinatal Project HHS/
NIH/NINDS.
09-25-0026 Clinical Research: Nervous System Studies, HHS/NIH/NINDS.
09-25-0028 Clinical Research: Patient Medical Histories, HHS/NIH/
NINDS and HHS/NIH/NIDCD.
09-25-0031 Clinical Research: Serological and Virus Data in Studies
Related to the Central Nervous System, HHS/NIH/NINDS.
09-25-0036 Extramural Awards and Chartered Advisory Committees:
IMPAC (Grant/Contract/Cooperative Agreement/Chartered Advisory
Committee), HHS/NIH/DRG and HHS/NIH/CMO.
09-25-0037 Clinical Research: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of
Aging, HHS/NIH/NIA.
09-25-0038 Clinical Research: Patient Data, HHS/NIH/NIDDK.
09-25-0039 Clinical Research: Diabetes Mellitus Research Study of
Southwestern American Indians, HHS/NIH/NIDDK.
09-25-0040 Clinical Research: Southwestern American Indian Patient
Data, HHS/NIH/NIDDK.
09-25-0041 Research Resources: Scientists Requesting Hormone
Distribution, HHS/NIH/NIDDK.
09-25-0044 Clinical Research: Sensory Testing Research Program, HHS/
NIH/NIDR.
09-25-0046 Clinical Research: Catalog of Clinical Specimens from
Patients, Volunteers and Laboratory Personnel, HHS/NIH/NIAID.
09-25-0053 Clinical Research: Vision Studies, HHS/NIH/NEI.
09-25-0057 Clinical Research: Burkitt's Lymphoma Registry, HHS/NIH/
NCI.
09-25-0060 Clinical Research: Division of Cancer Treatment Clinical
Investigations, HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0067 Clinical Research: National Cancer Incidence Surveys,
HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0069 NIH Clinical Center Admissions of the National Cancer
Institute, HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0074 Clinical Research: Division of Cancer Biology and
Diagnosis Patient Trials, HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0077 Biological Carcinogenesis Branch Human Specimen Program,
HHS/NIH/NCI.
09-25-0078 Administration: Consultant File, HHS/NIH/NHLBI.
09-25-0091 Administration: General Files on Employees, Donors and
Correspondents, HHS/NIH/NEI.
09-25-0093 Administration: Administration Authors, Reviewers and
Members of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, HHS/NIH/
NCI.
09-25-0099 Clinical Research: Patient Medical Records, HHS/NIH/CC.
09-25-0100 Clinical Research: Neuropharmacology Studies, HHS/NIH/
NINDS.
09-25-0105 Administration: Health Records of Employees, Visiting
Scientists, Fellows, Contractors and Relatives of Inpatients, HHS/
NIH/OD.
09-25-0106 Administration: Executive Secretariat Correspondence
Records, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0108 Personnel: Guest Researchers/Student Scientists/Special
Volunteers/Scientists Emeriti, HHS/NIH/DPM.
09-25-0112 Grants and Cooperative Agreements: Research, Research
Training, Fellowship and Construction Applications and Related
Awards, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0118 Contracts: Professional Services Contractors, HHS/NIH/
NCI.
09-25-0126 Clinical Research: National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute Epidemiological and Biometric Studies, HHS/NIH/NHLBI.
09-25-0128 Clinical Research: Neural Prosthesis and Biomedical
Engineering Studies, HHS/NIH/NINDS.
09-25-0129 Clinical Research: Clinical Research Studies Dealing
with Hearing, Speech, Language and Chemosensory Disorders, HHS/NIH/
NIDCD.
09-25-0130 Clinical Research: Studies in the Division of Cancer
Cause and Prevention, HHS/NIH/NICI.
09-25-0134 Clinical Research: Epidemiology Studies, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, HHS/NIH/NIEHS.
09-25-0142 Clinical Research: Records of Subjects in Intramural
Research, Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry Studies on Aging,
HHS/NIH/NIA.
09-25-0143 Biomedical Research: Records of Subjects in Clinical,
Epidemiologic and Biometric Studies of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, HHS/NIH/NIAID.
09-25-0145 Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Studies Dealing with
Visual Disease and Disorders in the National Eye Institute, HHS/NIH/
NEI.
09-25-0148 Contracted and Contract-Related Research: Records of
Subjects in Clinical, Epidemiological and Biomedical Studies of the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders,
HHS/NIH/NINDS and HHS/NIH/NIDCD.
09-25-0154 Biomedical Research Records of Subjects: (1) Cancer
Studies of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, HHS/NIH/
NCI; and (2) Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Studies, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0156 Records of Participants in Programs and Respondents in
Surveys Used to Evaluate Programs of the National Institutes of
Health, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0158 Administration: Records of Applicants and Awardees of
the NIH Intramural Research Training Awards Program, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0160 United States Renal Data System (USRDS), HHS/NIH/NIDDK.
09-25-0161 Administration: NIH Consultant File, HHS/NIH/DRG.
09-25-0165 National Institutes of Health Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) Research Loan Repayment Program, HHS/NIH/OD.
09-25-0201 Clinical Research: National Institute of Mental Health
Patient Records, HHS/NIH/NIMH.
09-25-0202 Patient Records on PHS Beneficiaries (1935-1974) and
Civilly Committed Drug Abusers (1967-1976) Treated at the PHS
Hospitals in Fort Worth, Texas, or Lexington, Kentucky, HHS/NIH/
NIDA.
09-25-0203 National Institute on Drug Abuse, Addiction Research
Center, Federal Prisoner and Non-Prisoner Research Files, HHS/NIH/
NIDA.
09-25-0205 Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Epidemiologic and
Biometric Research Data, HHS/NIH/NIAAA, HHS/NIH/NIDA and HHS/NIH/
NIMH.
09-25-0211 Intramural Research Program Records of In- and Out-
Patients With Various Types of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence,
Relatives of Patients With Alcoholism, and Healthy Volunteers, HHS/
NIH/NIAAA.
09-25-0212 Clinical Research: Neuroscience Research Center Patient
Medical Records, HHS/NIH/NIMH.
09-20-0112 Fellowship Program and Guest Researcher Records, HHS/
CDC/PMO.
09-20-0136 Epidemiologic Studies and Surveillance of Disease
Problems, HHS/CDC/NCID.
09-20-0163 Applicants for National Center for Health Statistics
Technical Assistance, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0164 Health and Demographic Surveys Conducted in Probability
Samples of the United States Population, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0165 Health Manpower Inventories and Surveys, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0166 Vital Statistics for Births, Deaths, Fetal Deaths,
Marriages, and Divorces Occurring in the United States During Each
Year, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0167 Health Resources Utilization Statistics, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0168 Curricular Vitae of Consultants to the National Center
for Health Statistics, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-20-0169 Users of Health Statistics, HHS/CDC/NCHS.
09-17-0001 Health and Medical Records, HHS/IHS/OHP.
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The following routine use should be added as the last routine use
in all systems listed above:
``Records may be disclosed to student volunteers, individuals
working under a personal services contract, and other individuals
performing functions for PHS who do not technically have the status
of agency employees, if they need the records in the performance of
their agency functions.''
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[FR Doc. 94-23153 Filed 9-19-94; 8:45 am]
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