[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 106 (Thursday, June 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29874-29876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14006]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; System of Records

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of minor changes to a system of records.

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SUMMARY: 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 is updating a system of records managed by the Bureau of 
Reclamation (Reclamation). The changes are to the

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system of records ``Lower Colorado River Well Inventory, WBR-48'' which 
is published in its entirety below.

DATES: These actions are effective June 3, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information regarding ``Lower 
Colorado River Well Inventory, WBR-48'' contact Mr. Jeffrey Addiego, 
Hydraulic Engineer, Boulder Canyon Operations Office at (702) 293-8525. 
For general information regarding Reclamation's Privacy Act program, 
contact Mr. Casey Snyder at (303) 445-2048.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When originally published in the Federal 
Register this system of records was identified with an organization 
prefix of ``BOR'' (e.g., BOR-48). The content of the system of records 
is the same; the prefix on this system was changed to reflect 
organizational changes.
    This system of records notice was previously published in the 
Federal Register on April 7, 1995 (60 FR 17805). This publication 
revises the system location, storage, and the system manager and 
address. All other changes proposed are editorial in nature.
Murlin Coffey,
Manager, Property and Office Services.
INTERIOR/WBR-48

System name:
    Lower Colorado River Well Inventory.

System location:
    U.S. Geological Survey, 520 North Park Avenue, Suite 221, Tucson, 
Arizona 85719 (paper records are temporarily stored, waiting for entry 
into the U.S. Geological Survey system, at Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma 
Area Office, 7301 Calle Agua Salada, Yuma, Arizona 85364).

Categories of individuals covered by the system:
    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.

Categories of records in the system:
    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 flood plain.

Authority for maintenance of the system:
    The 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.

Purpose(s):
    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.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
    Disclosure outside the Department of the Interior may be made to: 
(1) The States of Arizona, California, and Nevada to assist them in 
administering their apportionments of mainstream Colorado River water; 
(2) Another Federal agency to enable that agency to respond to an 
inquiry by the individual to whom the record pertains; (3) The 
Department of Justice, or to a court, adjudicative, or other 
administrative body, or to a party in litigation before a court or 
adjudicative or administrative body, when: (a) One of the following is 
a party to the proceeding or has an interest in the proceeding: (i) The 
Department or any component of the Department; (ii) Any Departmental 
employee acting in his or her official capacity; (iii) Any Departmental 
employee acting in his or her individual capacity where the Department 
or the Department of Justice has agreed to represent the employee; or 
(iv) The United States, when the Department determines that the 
Department is likely to be affected by the proceeding; and (b) The 
Department deems the disclosure to be: (i) Relevant and necessary to 
the proceedings; and (ii) Compatible with the purpose for which we 
compiled the information; (4) The appropriate Federal, State, tribal, 
local, or foreign governmental agency that is responsible for 
investigating, prosecuting, enforcing, or implementing a statute, rule, 
regulation, order, or license, when we become aware of an indication of 
a violation or potential violation of the statute, rule, regulation, 
order, or license; (5) A congressional office in response to an inquiry 
to that office by the individual to whom the records pertain.

Disclosure to consumer reporting agencies:
    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)).

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, 
and disposing of records in the system:
Storage:
    Records are stored in automated form on computer databases and in 
manual form in file folders at the U.S. Geological Survey, and in 
manual form in file folders at the Bureau of Reclamation.

Retrievability:
    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.

Safeguards:
    Data will be maintained with safeguards meeting the requirements of 
43 CFR 2.51 for manual and computerized records.

Retention and disposal:
    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.

System manager(s) and address:
    U.S. Geological Survey (NWIS), 520 North Park Avenue, Suite 221, 
Tucson, Arizona 85719; and/or Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Area Office, 
7301

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Calle Agua Salada, Yuma, Arizona 85364.

Notification procedure:
    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.

Record access procedures:
    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.

Contesting record procedures:
    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.

Record source categories:
    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.

Exemptions claimed for the system:
    None.

[FR Doc. 99-14006 Filed 6-2-99; 8:45 am]
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