[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 130 (Friday, July 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35448-35449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16681]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Privacy Act of 1974; Amendment of System of Records

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
is adding a new routine use to the system of records entitled 
``Personnel and Accounting Pay System--VA'' (27VA047) as set forth in 
the Federal Register 40 FR 38095 (8/26/75) and amended in 48 FR 16372 
(4/15/83), 50 FR 23100 (5/30/85), 51 FR 6858 (2/26/86), 51 FR 25968 (7/
17/86), 55 FR 42534 (10/19/90), 56 FR 23952 (5/25/91), 58 FR 39088 (7/
21/93), and 58 FR 40852  

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 (7/30/93). This system of records contains information on current and 
former salaried VA employees.
    Pub. L. 103-94 (October 6, 1993) permits the garnishment of Federal 
employees' wages. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued 
regulations (5 CFR part 582) which implement the legislation. Section 
582.306(c) of these regulations states that if an employee, whose wages 
have been garnished, transfers to another agency or is now employed by 
a private employer, then the original agency must provide the name and 
address of the new employer, when available, to the garnishing party 
(garnisher). However, VA's General Counsel has determined that the name 
and address of a new employer of a former VA employee cannot be 
released to a garnisher without the former employee's consent or 
through a published routine use, unless the new employer is another 
Federal department or agency.
    VA would add a new routine use No. 28 to its system of records, 
27VA047. This new routine use will specifically permit the disclosure 
of information to a garnisher concerning the name and address of any 
new employer of a former VA employee who is the subject of a 
garnishment by legal process.
    VA has determined that the release of information for this purpose 
is a necessary and proper use of the information in this system of 
records and that the new specific routine use for transfer of this 
information is appropriate.
    An altered system of records report and a copy of the revised 
system notice have been sent to the House of Representatives Committee 
on Government Reform and Oversight, the Senate Committee on 
Governmental Affairs, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as 
required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) and guidelines issued by OMB (59 FR 37906, 
37916-18 (7/25/94)).
    Interested persons are invited to submit written comments, 
suggestions, or objections regarding the proposed routine use of the 
system of records to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (045A4), 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. All relevant material 
received before August 7, 1995, will be considered. All written 
comments received will be available for public inspection in the 
Information Management Service, Room 315, 801 I Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20001 only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 
Monday through Friday, except holidays, until August 16, 1995.
    If no public comment is received during the 30-day review period 
allowed for public comment, or unless otherwise published in the 
Federal Register by VA, the new routine use statement is effective 
August 7, 1995.

    Approved June 20, 1995.
Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Notice of Amendment to System of Records

    In the system of records identified as 27VA047, ``Personnel and 
Accounting Pay System--VA,'' as set forth in the Federal Register 40 FR 
38095 (8/26/75) and amended in 48 FR 16372 (4/15/83), 50 FR 23009 (5/
30/85), 51 FR 6858 (2/26/86), 51 FR 25968 (7/17/86), 55 FR 42534 (10/
19/90) 56 FR 23952 (5/24/91), 58 FR 39088 (7/21/93), and 58 FR 40852 
(7/30/93), the system is revised as follows:
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Routine Uses of Records Maintained in the System, Including Categories 
of Users and the Purpose of Such Uses

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    28. Relevant information from this system of records concerning the 
departure of a former VA employee, who is the subject of a garnishment 
pursuant to a legal process as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5520a, as well as 
the name and address of the designated agent for the new employing 
agency or the name and address of any new private employer, may be 
disclosed to the garnishing party (garnisher).

[FR Doc. 95-16681 Filed 7-6-95; 8:45 am]
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