[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17805-17806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8415]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation


Privacy Act of 1974--Notice of Establishment of System of Records

    Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 
(5 U.S.C. 552a), notice is hereby given that the Department of the 
Interior proposes to establish a new system of records to be maintained 
by the Bureau of Reclamation. The system, entitled ``Lower Colorado 
River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48,'' will include information 
pertaining to individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one 
well on their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water. 
The information contained in this system will be used to protect and 
manage water entitlement holders' rights to use Colorado River water in 
the lower Colorado River basin. The notice is published in its entirety 
below.
    As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
552a(r)), the Office of Management and Budget, the Senate Committee on 
Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight have been notified of this action.
    5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11) requires that the public be provided a 30-day 
period in which to comment on the intended use of the information in 
the system of records. The Office of Management and Budget, in its 
Circular A-130, requires a 40-day period in which to review such 
proposals. Written comments on this proposal can be addressed to the 
Departmental Privacy Act Officer, Office of the Secretary, Office of 
Administrative Services, 1849 ``C'' Street NW, Mail Stop 5412 MIB, 
Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 208-6045, fax (202) 208-7971. 
Comments received within 40 days of publication in the Federal Register 
(May 17, 1995) will be considered. The system will be effective as 
proposed at the end of the comment period, unless comments are received 
which would require a contrary determination.

    Dated: March 28, 1995.
Albert C. Camacho,
Director, Office of Administrative Services.
INTERIOR/BOR-48
    Lower Colorado River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48.
    Bureau of Reclamation, Division of Water, Land, and Power, Lower 
Colorado Region, Boulder City, Nevada 89006-1470.
    Individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one well on 
their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water. Note: 
This system also contains records pertaining to corporations and other 
public entities. Only those records relating to individuals are covered 
by the Privacy Act.
    Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of covered individuals; 
Assessor Parcel Numbers; contract numbers; categories of uses to which 
the water is put; methods of disposal of unconsumed portions of water 
pumped; volumes of water pumped; physical characteristics and locations 
of wells; water purveyor, municipal, or other administrative boundaries 
within which wells are located; and water levels of wells located in 
hydraulically connected areas adjacent to the floodplain.
    Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, 43 U.S.C. 391), as 
amended and supplemented; the Colorado River Front Work and Levee 
System Adjacent to Yuma Project Act of March 3, 1925 (Pub. L. 79-469, 
43 Stat. 1186, 1198), as amended and supplemented; the Boulder Canyon 
Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057, 43 U.S.C. 617), as 
amended and supplemented; the Reclamation Project Act of August 4, 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187, 43 U.S.C. 485); the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 
September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885); the Reclamation Reform Act of 
October 12, 1982 (96 Stat. 1261, 43 U.S.C. 390); and the Supreme Court 
opinion rendered June 3, 1963 (373 U.S. 546), and Decrees entered March 
9, 1964 (376 U.S. 340), January 9, 1979 (439 U.S. 419), and April 16, 
1984 (466 U.S. 144), in Arizona v. California et al.
    The primary purposes of the records are: (a) To assist in the 
administration and negotiation of water use contracts with individual 
landowners, lessees, or other classes of water users; and (b) to 
support the annual compilation and publication of records of 
consumptive use of mainstream Colorado River water.
    Disclosure outside the Department of the Interior may be made: (1) 
To the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada to assist them in 
administering their apportionments of mainstream Colorado River water; 
(2) to the U.S. Department of Justice or to a court or adjudicative 
body with jurisdiction when (a) the United States, the Department of 
the Interior, a component of the Department, or, when represented by 
the Government, an employee of the Department is a party to litigation 
or anticipated litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and 
(b) the Department of the Interior determines that the disclosure is 
relevant or necessary to the litigation and is compatible with the 
purpose for which the records were compiled; (3) to a congressional 
office in response to an inquiry the individual has made to the 
congressional office; (4) to appropriate Federal, State, tribal, 
territorial, local or foreign agencies responsible for investigating or 
prosecuting the violation of, or for enforcing, implementing, or 
administering a statute, rule, regulation, program, facility, order, 
lease, license, contract, grant, or other agreement, of information 
indicating a violation or potential violation of a statute, rule, 
regulation, program, facility, order, lease, license, contract, grant 
or other agreement will be disclosed; (5) to interested parties upon 
written request, of data pertaining to volumes of water pumped, 
consumptive uses of water, and points of diversion.
    Disclosures pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12). Disclosures may be 
made from this system to consumer reporting agencies as defined in the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 168a(f) or the Federal Claims 
Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3)).
    Records are stored in automated form on computer databases and in 
manual form in file folders. [[Page 17806]] 
    Records stored in computer databases will be retrievable by any 
record category. Records stored in manual files will be retrievable by 
name of property owner or contract holder.
    Data will be maintained with safeguards meeting the requirements of 
43 CFR 2.51 for manual and computerized records.
    In accordance with approved retention and disposal schedules, 
records will be retained in the Bureau of Reclamation for 10 years, 
relocated to the Federal Records Center and retained there for an 
additional 75 years, and then transferred to the National Archives and 
Records Administration for permanent retention.
    Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Regional Office, Regional 
Supervisor of Water, Land, and Power, P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City, 
Nevada 89006-1470.
    An individual requesting notification of the existence of records 
on him or her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The 
request must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with 
the content requirements of 43 CFR 2.60.
    An individual requesting access to records maintained on him or her 
should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request must 
be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the content 
requirements of 43 CFR 2.63.
    An individual requesting amendment of a record maintained on him or 
her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request 
must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the 
content requirements of 43 CFR 2.71.
    Individuals on whom records are maintained, state and county well 
permits, land ownership and water use records and databases, and the 
U.S. Geological Survey Ground Water Site Inventory database.
    None.

[FR Doc. 95-8415 Filed 4-6-95; 8:45 am]
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