[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 40598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19599]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. FR-3918-N-03]


Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Amendment to a System of Records

AGENCY: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notification of a proposed amendment to an existing system of 
records.

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SUMMARY: HUD is giving notice that it intends to amend the following 
Privacy Act system of records: Section 8 Program Research Data Files 
(HUD/PD&R-7).

EFFECTIVE DATE: This action will be effective without further notice on 
September 18, 1995, unless comments are received that dictate 
otherwise.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
the proposed amendment to the Rules Docket Clerk Office of General 
Counsel, Room 10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should 
refer to the above docket number and title. An original and four copies 
of comments should be submitted. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not 
acceptable. A copy of each communication submitted will be available 
for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. 
weekdays at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, Departmental Privacy 
Act Officer, at (202) 708-2374. This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD is establishing new routine use 
disclosures for HUD/PD&R-7 to allow for the disclosure of information 
to authorized social science researchers participating in the Moving to 
Opportunities for Fair Housing Demonstration Program and in the 
Gautreaux Program in Chicago, the Social Security Administration, the 
Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Employment Security. 
The new routine use will read as follows: (1) To authorized social 
science researchers participating in the Moving to Opportunities for 
Fair Housing Demonstration (MTO), and in the Chicago Gautreaux program, 
(2) To Abt Associates, and to other contractors selected by HUD to 
carry out the objectives of MTO-related research and evaluation, (3) To 
the Social Security Administration to verify income/wage data, (4) To 
the Internal Revenue Service to verify income data, and (5) To the 
Illinois Department of Employment Security to verify income/wage data 
for Section 8 certificate recipients in the Chicago CMSA.
    The amended portion of the system notice is set forth below. 
Previously, the system and a prefatory statement containing the general 
routine uses applicable to all HUD systems of records was published in 
the ``Federal Register Privacy Act Issuances, 1993 Compilation.''
    Title 5 U.S.C. 552a(e) (4) and (11) provide that the public be 
afforded a 30-day period in which to comment on the new record system.
    The system report, as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), has been 
submitted to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate 
and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), pursuant to paragraph 4c 
of Appendix I to OMB Circular A 130, ``Federal Agency Responsibilities 
for Maintaining Records about Individuals'' dated June 25, 1993 (58 FR 
36075, July 2, 1993).

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a 88 Stat. 1896; sec 7(d), Department of 
HUD Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).

    Issued at Washington, DC, August 2, 1995.
Donald C. Demitros,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management.
HUD PD&R-7
    Section 8 Program Research Data Files.
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    A. To authorized social science researchers participating in the 
Moving to Opportunities for Fair Housing Demonstration Program (MTO) 
and in the Chicago Gautreau Program.
    B. To Abt Associates, and to other contractors selected by HUD to 
carry out the objectives of MTO-related research and evaluation.
    C. To the Social Security Administration to verify income/wage 
data.
    D. To the Internal Revenue Service to verify income data.
    E. To the Illinois Department of Employment Security verify income/
wage data for Section 8 certificate recipients in the Chicago CMSA.

[FR Doc. 95-19599 Filed 8-8-95; 8:45 am]
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