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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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