[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3564]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Financial Management Service


Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; System of Records

AGENCY: Financial Management Service, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy Act System of Records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service 
(FMS), gives notice of a proposed alteration to the system of records 
entitled ``Payment Issue Records for Regular Recurring Benefit 
Payments--Treasury/FMS .002,'' which is subject to the Privacy Act of 
1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a). The system notice was last published 
in its entirety in the Federal Register Vol. 60, page 56770 on November 
9, 1995.

DATES: Comments must be received, no later than March 17, 1997. The 
proposed alteration of the system of records will be effective March 
25, 1997, unless FMS receives comments which would result in a contrary 
determination.
ADDRESS: Comments must be submitted to the Debt Management Services 
Staff, Financial Management Service, 401 14th Street, SW, Room 151, 
Washington, DC 20227. Comments received will be available for 
inspection at the same address between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 
p.m. Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerry Isenberg, Debt Management 
Services, (202) 874-6660.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This alteration of system of records 
Treasury/FMS .002 is being made for two reasons. First, the system was 
last published in its entirety in the Federal Register Vol. 60, page 
56770 on November 9, 1995, and that publication erroneously omitted an 
amendment to the system published in the Federal Register Vol. 60, page 
45212 on August 30, 1995. This alteration will restate the changes made 
pursuant to the amendment published on August 30, 1995.
    The August 30, 1995 amendment added two routine uses which 
facilitate the collection of delinquent Federal debts and more 
effectively apply certain debt collection tools established under 
Federal law, specifically tax refund offset, administrative offset, and 
Federal employee salary offset. These two new routine uses are 
republished here as numbers (11) and (13). As noted in the August 30, 
1995 amendment, since FMS has closed the Washington, DC Financial 
Center, the system of records was altered to reflect this change. This 
change to ``System Location'' is also restated here.
    Secondly, the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA), Pub. 
L. 104-134, enacted April 26, 1996, provides the Department of the 
Treasury (Treasury) with specific legislative authority and 
responsibility to collect and/or manage the collection of claims owed 
to the Federal Government. The DCIA authorizes Treasury to collect 
claims, or facilitate the collection of claims, owed to States, 
Territories and Commonwealths of the United States, and the District of 
Columbia by offsetting Federal payments. Executive Order 13019, signed 
by the President on September 28, 1996, directs Treasury to promptly 
take steps to facilitate offset of Federal payments to collect 
delinquent child support debts being enforced by States. FMS is the 
Treasury bureau responsible for the implementation of the DCIA and the 
Executive Order. Accordingly, FMS is adding routine use (12) to comply 
with the provisions of the DCIA and the Executive Order.
    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, FMS proposes to alter 
system of records Treasury/FMS .002, ``Payment Issue Records for 
Regular Recurring Benefit Payments--Treasury/Financial Management 
Service,'' as follows:
Treasury/FMS .002

System name:
    Payment Issue Records for Regular Recurring Benefit Payments--
Treasury/Financial Management Service.

System location:
    Description of the change: Replace current text with the following 
language:
    The Financial Management Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 
Washington, DC 20227. Records maintained at Financial Centers in six 
regions: Austin, TX; Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; Kansas City, MO; 
Philadelphia, PA; and San Francisco, CA.
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Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
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    Description of the changes: Remove ``and'' at end of routine use 
(9); remove the period (.) at the end of routine use (10); add a 
semicolon (;); and add routine uses (11), (12) and (13) to read as 
follows:
    (11) Disclose information concerning delinquent debtors to Federal 
creditor agencies, their employees, or their agents for the purpose of 
facilitating or conducting Federal administrative offset, Federal tax 
refund offset, Federal salary offset, or for any other authorized debt 
collection purpose;
    (12) Disclose information to any State, Territory or Commonwealth 
of the United States, or the District of Columbia to assist in the 
collection of State, Commonwealth, Territory or District of Columbia 
claims pursuant to a reciprocal agreement between FMS and the State, 
Commonwealth, Territory or the District of Columbia; and
    (13) Disclose to the Defense Manpower Data Center and the United 
States Postal Service and other Federal agencies through authorized 
computer matching programs for the purpose of identifying and locating 
individuals who are delinquent in their repayment of debts owed to the 
Department or other Federal agencies in order to collect those debts 
through salary offset and administrative offset, or by the use of other 
debt collection tools.

  
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    Dated: February 3, 1997.

Alex Rodriguez,
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration).

[FR Doc. 97-3564 Filed 2-12-97; 8:45 am]
Billing Code: 4810-35-F