[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 2002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-828]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

49 CFR Part 10

[Docket No. OST-1996-1437]
RIN 2105-AD23


Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Implementation

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: DOT proposes to add a system of records to the list of DOT 
Privacy Act Systems of Records that are exempt from one or more 
provisions of the Privacy Act. Public comment is invited.

DATES: Comments are due March 17, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Documentary Services 
Division, Attention: Docket Section, Room PL401, Docket No. OST-1996-
1437, Department of Transportation, SVC-124, Washington, DC 20590. Any 
person wishing acknowledgment that his/her comments have been received 
should include a self-addressed stamped postcard. Comments received 
will be available for public inspection and copying in the Documentary 
Services Division, Room PL401, Department of Transportation Building, 
400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET 
Monday through Friday except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvonne Coates, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC (202) 
366-6964.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Additional exempt system. It is DOT practice 
to identify a Privacy Act system of records that is exempt from one or 
more provisions of the Privacy Act (pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)) both 
in the system notice published in the Federal Register for public 
comment and in an Appendix to DOT's regulations implementing the 
Privacy Act (49 CFR Part 10, Appendix). This amendment proposes 
exemption from portions of the Privacy Act of a proposed Transportation 
Security Administration (TSA) system, whose establishment is currently 
the subject of public comment:
    Aviation Security-Screening Records (ASSR) (DOT/TSA 010) would 
enable the TSA to maintain a security-screening system for air 
transportation. This system contains information regarding TSA's 
conduct of risk assessments required by 49 U.S.C. 114 and 44903. The 
system may be used, generally, to review, analyze, and assess threats 
to transportation security and respond accordingly.
    Due to the national security and law enforcement aspects of the 
proposed system, DOT proposes to treat this system as it treats other 
law enforcement systems, by exempting it from the following provisions 
of the Privacy Act: (c)(3) (Accounting of Certain Disclosures); (d) 
(Access to Records); (e)(1) (Relevancy and Necessity of Information); 
(e)(4)(G), (H), and (I) (Agency Requirements), and (f) (Agency Rules), 
(1) to the extent that ASSR contains information properly classified in 
the interest of national security, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(k) 
(1) and (2) to the extent that ASSR contains investigatory material 
compiled for law enforcement purposes, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 
552a(k)(2).

Analysis of Regulatory Impacts

    This proposal is not a ``significant regulatory action'' within the 
meaning of Executive Order 12886. It is also not significant within the 
definition in DOT's Regulatory Policies and Procedures, 49 FR 11034 
(1979), in part because it does not involve any change in important 
Departmental policies. Because the economic impact should be minimal, 
further regulatory evaluation is not necessary. Moreover, I certify 
that this proposal would not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities, because the reporting 
requirements, themselves, are not changed and because it applies only 
to information on individuals.
    This proposal would not significantly affect the environment, and 
therefore an environmental impact statement is not required under the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. It has also been reviewed 
under Executive Order 12612, Federalism, and it has been determined 
that it does not have sufficient implications for federalism to warrant 
preparation of a Federalism Assessment.

Collection of Information

    This proposal contains a collection of information under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Application for 
collection authority is pending.

Unfunded Mandates

    Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), (Pub. 
L. 104-4, 109 Stat. 48), requires Federal agencies to assess the 
effects of certain regulatory actions on State, local, and tribal 
governments, and the private sector. UMRA requires a written statement 
of economic and regulatory alternatives for proposed and final rules 
that contain Federal mandates. A ``Federal mandate'' is a new or 
additional enforceable duty, imposed on any State, local, or tribal 
government, or the private sector. If any Federal mandate causes those 
entities to spend, in aggregated, $100 million or more in any one year 
the UMRA analysis is required. This proposal would not impose Federal 
mandates on any State, local, or tribal governments or the private 
sector.

List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 10

    Privacy.

    In consideration of the foregoing, DOT proposes to amend part 10 of 
Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, as follows:
    1. The authority citation for part 10 would continue to read as 
follows:

    Authority: Pub.L. 93-579; 49 U.S.C. 322.

    2. Part II. A of the Appendix would be amended by adding new 
paragraph 21.
    3. Part II. G of the Appendix would be amended by adding new 
paragraph 3.
    The additions would read as follows:
    Part II. Specific exemptions.
    A. * * *
    21. Aviation Security-Screening Records (ASSR), DOT/TSA 010.
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    G. * * *
    3. Aviation Security-Screening Records (ASSR), DOT/TSA 010, 
maintained by the Transportation Security Administration.
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    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 9, 2003.
Eugene K. Taylor, Jr.,
Acting Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-828 Filed 1-14-03; 8:45 am]
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