[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 244 (Friday, December 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66702-66703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33202]


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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD


Privacy Act of 1974, Proposed Changes to System of Records

AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board.

ACTION: Notice of a proposed routine use.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this document is to give notice of a proposed 
routine use to one of the RRB's Privacy Act systems of records.

DATES: The new routine use will be effective 30 calendar days from the 
date of this publication unless comments are received before this date 
which would result in a contrary determination.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Beatrice Ezerski, Secretary to the Board, 
Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 
60611-2092.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
LeRoy Blommaert, Privacy Act Officer, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 
North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092, (312) 751-4548.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion of Proposed Routine Use

    Pursuant to Public Law 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the Railroad Retirement 
Board (RRB) will disclose data from its system of records RRB-19, 
Payroll Record System, to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) for use in the National Database of New Hires, 
part of the Federal Parent Locator System (FPLS) and Federal Tax Offset 
System, DHHS/OCSE No. 09-90-0074. A description of the Federal Parent 
Locator Service may be found at 62 FR 51663 (October 2, 1997).
    FPLS is a computerized network through which States may request 
location information from Federal and State agencies to find non-
custodial parents and/or their employers for purposes of establishing 
paternity and securing support. On October 1, 1997, the FPLS was 
expanded to include the National Directory of New Hires, a database 
containing information on employees recently hired, quarterly wage data 
on private and public sector employees, and information on unemployment 
compensation benefits. On October 1, 1988, the FPLS will be expanded 
further to include a Federal Case Registry. The Federal Case Registry 
will contain abstracts on all participants involved in child support 
enforcement cases. When the Federal Case Registry is instituted, its 
files will be matched on an ongoing basis against the files in the 
National Directory of New Hires to determine if an employee is a 
participant in a child support case anywhere in the country. If the 
FPLS identifies a person as being a participant in a State child 
support case, that State will be notified. State requests to the FPLS 
for location information will also continue to be processed after 
October 1, 1998.
    When individual are hired by the RRB, we may disclose to the FPLS 
their

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names, social security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, dates 
of hire, and information identifying us as the employer. We may also 
disclose to the FPLS names, social security numbers, and quarterly 
earnings of each RRB employee within one month of the end of the 
quarterly reporting period.
    Information submitted by the RRB to the FPLS will be disclosed by 
the Office of Child Support Enforcement to the Social Security 
Administration for verification to ensure that the social security 
number provided is correct. The datea disclosed by the RRB to the FPLS 
will also be disclosed by the Office of Child Support Enforcement to 
the Secretary of the Treasury for use in verifying claims for the 
advance payment of the earned income tax credit or to verify a claim of 
employment on a tax return.

II. Compatibility of Proposed Routine Use

    We are proposing this routine use in accordance with the Privacy 
Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3)). The Privacy Act permits the disclosure of 
information about individuals without their consent for a routine use 
where the information will be used for a purpose which is compatible 
with the purpose for which the information was originally collected. 
The Office of Management and Budget has indicated that a ``compatible'' 
use is a use which is necessary and proper. Since the proposed uses of 
the data are required by Public Law 104-193, they are clearly necessary 
and proper uses, and therefore ``compatible'' uses which meet the 
requirement of the Privacy Act.

III. Altered System Report

    On December 11, 1997, the Railroad Retirement Board filed an 
altered system report for this system with the chairman of the 
designated Senate and House committees and with the Office of 
Management and Budget. This was done to comply with Section 3 of the 
Privacy Act of 1974 and OMB Circular No. A-130, Appendix I.

    By Authority of the Board.
Beatrice Ezerski,
Secretary to the Board.
RRB-19

System Name: Payroll Record System--RRB
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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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    Paragraph ``j'' is added to read as follows:
    j. The names, social security numbers, home addresses, dates of 
birth, dates of hire, quarterly earnings, employer identifying 
information, and State of hire of employees may be disclosed to the 
Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and 
Families, Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of 
locating individuals to establish paternity, establishing and modifying 
orders of child support, identifying sources of income, and for other 
child support enforcement actions as required by the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform 
Act, Pub. L. 104-193).

[FR Doc. 97-33202 Filed 12-18-97; 8:45 am]
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