[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 70 (Thursday, April 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17711-17713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8837]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Privacy Act of 1974, As Amended; Addition of a New System of 
Records

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed addition of a new system of records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior (DOI) is issuing public notice 
of its intent to add a new Department-wide Privacy Act system of 
records to its inventory of records systems, subject to the Privacy Act 
of 1974. This action is necessary to meet the requirements of the 
Privacy Act to publish, in the Federal Register, notice of the 
existence and character of records systems maintained by the agency. 
The new system of records is called the ``National Conservation 
Training Center (NCTC) Training Server System, FWS-34''.

DATES: Comments on this new system of records must be received on or 
before May 21, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments on this new system of records to U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service, Privacy Act Officer, Mail Stop 222 Arlington 
Square Building, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Johnny R. Hunt, Service Privacy 
Act Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Phone: 703/358-1730.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) 
NCTC is a facility that provides training and education services to the 
FWS, other bureaus, and States. In order to efficiently arrange its 
operations, NCTC is implementing an electronic tracking system, which 
employs a Training Server and Online Training Information System (OTIS) 
support module. We require the information to validate training records 
necessary for certification and to meet periodic reporting requirements 
mandated by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the FWS's Office 
of Human Resources, and OMB, which reports on training budget and total 
student training days. 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11) requires that the public be 
provided a 30-day period in which to comment on the intended use of the 
information in the system of records. The Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB), in Circular A-130, requires an additional 10-day period 
(for a total of 40 days) in which to make these comments. Any persons 
interested in commenting on this proposed system notice may do so by 
submitting comments in writing as indicated under

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ADDRESSES. Comments received within 40 days of publication will be 
considered. The system will be effective as proposed at the end of the 
comment period, unless comments are received that would require a 
contrary determination. We will publish a revised notice if we make 
changes based on our review of comments received.

    Dated: April 8, 2002.
John D. Kraus,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives Management, Fish and Wildlife 
Service.
INTERIOR/FWS-34

System name:
    National Conservation Training Center Training Server System.

Security classification:
    None.

System location:
    The records are stored at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 
National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Division of Facility 
Operations, Office of the Registrar, RR1 Box 166, Shepherd Grade Road, 
Shepherdstown, WV 25443.

Categories of individuals covered by the system:
    Records are maintained on those individuals who participate in 
NCTC-sponsored training. This includes FWS employees as well as 
employees from other Federal agencies and non-Federal personnel from 
other States, private agencies, and universities. Training records are 
also kept on all FWS employees.

Categories of records in the system:
    The records contain the participant's name, Social Security number, 
organizational address, affiliation, phone/fax number, email address, 
lodging requirements, supervisor's name and telephone number, Federal 
job series/title/grade, billing information (e.g., responsible agency, 
tax I.D. number, agency location code (ALC) number, purchase order 
numbers, and credit card numbers), special needs, necessary course 
information (e.g., class titles/objectives/prerequisites, 
instructor(s), course leader and telephone number, start and end date/
times, minimum/maximum enrollment) class status information (e.g., 
class canceled/finished/scheduled, field exercise notes), and student 
transcripts (e.g., what course(s) each individual completed/did not 
complete, canceled, no-show).

Authority for maintenance of the system:
    5 U.S.C. 4118; Executive Order 11348, 32 FR 6335 (Providing for 
Further Training of Government Employees); as amended by Executive 
Order 12107, 44 FR 1055 (Relating to Civil Service Commission and Labor 
Management in Federal Service); 5 CFR part 410) (Establishing and 
Implementing Training Programs); Americans with Disabilities Act 
(Pub.L. 101-336).

Purposes:
    To request and store data on individuals who participate in NCTC 
training and training of FWS employees to validate training records for 
certification purposes; to meet statistical reporting requirements of 
OPM, DOI and FWS; to generate class rosters, personnel transcripts, and 
budget estimates; and, to establish reservations on the NCTC campus.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
    The FWS is the primary user of the system, and the primary uses of 
the records will be:
    (1) To validate training records for certification purposes.
    (2) To meet statistical reporting requirements of OPM, DOI Office 
for Equal Employment Opportunity, and FWS.
    (3) To generate class rosters.
    (4) To generate requested personnel transcripts.
    (5) To generate budget estimates related to training requirements.
    (6) To manage lodging reservations at the NCTC.
    (7) To identify training needs.
    Disclosures outside DOI may be made under the routine uses listed 
below without the consent of the individual if the disclosure is 
compatible with the purposes for which the record was collected.
    (1) To another Federal agency, State office, or private 
organization only when necessary to respond to an inquiry by the 
individual to whom the record pertains.
    (2) To the DOJ, or 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:
    (1) The DOI or any component of the DOI;
    (2) Any DOI employee acting in his or her official capacity;
    (3) Any DOI employee acting in his or her individual capacity where 
the DOI or DOJ has agreed to represent the employee; or
    (4) The United States, when DOI determines that DOI is likely to be 
affected by the proceeding; and
    (b) The Department deems the disclosure to be:
    (1) Relevant and necessary to the proceedings; and
    (2) Compatible with the purpose for which we compiled the 
information.
    (3) To 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.
    (4) To a congressional office in response to an inquiry to that 
office by the individual to whom the records pertain.
    (5) To provide addresses obtained from the Internal Revenue Service 
to debt collection agencies for purposes of locating a debtor to 
collect or compromise a Federal claim against the debtor or to consumer 
reporting agencies to prepare a commercial credit report for use by the 
DOI.

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 they are defined in 
the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(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 will be maintained electronically with paper backup copies. 
The electronic copies are maintained on Redundant Array of Inexpensive 
Disks (RAID) Level 5 multi-disk stripped with parity disk subsystem. 
This online storage system allows protection of data even if one of the 
hard disks malfunctions. The electronic records are stored in an 
employee table database on the Training Server system.
    Tape backup copies are created daily and, in accordance with FWS 
policy, they are saved for a period of 30 to 90 days and then deleted. 
Paper backup copies are stored in locked files.

Retrievability:
    Records are retrieved by either unique identifying fields such as 
student name or Social Security number or by general category such as 
course code, training location, and class start date. Electronic

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retrieval is dependent upon the report or purpose of usage and whether 
a need to know exists. Records are retrieved for any of several 
purposes, such as determining enrollment numbers, reviewing the exact 
dates of enrollment in order to determine who requested the nomination 
first, affiliation for closed FWS-only courses, student addresses to 
mail out pre-course work, and determination of which FWS employees have 
received mandatory training.

Safeguards:
    Access to records in the system is limited to authorized personnel 
only, in accordance with requirements found in the Code of Federal 
Regulations (43 CFR 2.51). The training server is a multi-level, 
password-protected database and file server system. Hard copy course 
files are locked on a daily basis and are only available to authorized 
personnel during business hours. Online web transactions are protected 
by secure socket layer 128-bit encryption.

Retention and disposal:
    Records are maintained in accordance with the General Records 
Schedule (GRS-1). A copy of the records of Federal employees will be 
forwarded to their supervisor upon course completion to be included in 
their Official Personnel Folder.

System manager(s) and address:
    Chief, Division of Facility Operations, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, National Conservation Training Center, RR1 Box 166, Shepherd 
Grade Road, Shepherdstown, WV 25443, Attn: Information Technology and 
Registrar.

Notification procedure:
    Any individual may request information regarding this system of 
records, or information as to whether the system contains records 
pertaining to them, from the System Manager identified above. We 
require the request to be in writing, signed by the requester, and to 
include the requester's full name and address, and Social Security 
number. (See 43 CFR 2.60 for procedures on making inquiries).

Records access procedures:
    For copies of your records, write to the pertinent System Managers 
at the location above. The request envelope and letter should be 
clearly marked ``PRIVACY ACT REQUEST FOR ACCESS.'' A request for access 
must meet the content requirements of 43 CFR 2.63(b)(4)).

Contesting record procedures:
    Use the same procedures as ``Records Access Procedures'' section 
above. (See 43 CFR 2.71).

Record source categories:
    Records come from individuals who apply to take training courses 
either online or on paper, and are faxed, sent via the NCTC web site, 
or mailed to the training center. Another source of information for FWS 
employees comes from the Federal Personnel and Payroll System (FPPS). 
Bimonthly, a secured raw ASCII file containing FWS employees' names, 
Social Security numbers, organization codes, grades, steps, job titles, 
job series, supervisory levels, and service comp dates is mailed from 
FWS personnel to NCTC. Data is then electronically imported and 
reconciled against the existing data set. This is necessary to 
determine FWS employees who have an active status, but have not met 
mandatory training requirements.

Exemptions claimed for the System:
    None.

[FR Doc. 02-8837 Filed 4-10-02; 8:45 am]
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