[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 15555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7561]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Departmental Offices; Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Office of Inspector General, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy Act system of records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, Office of Inspector General 
(OIG), gives notice of a proposed alteration to the system of records 
entitled ``Investigative Data Management System `` Treasury/DO,'' which 
is subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a). The 
system was last published in its entirety in the Federal Register on 
February 19, 2002, at 67 FR 7487.

DATES: Comments must be received no later than April 30, 2003. The 
proposed routine use will be effective May 12, 2003, unless the 
Department receives comments that would result in a contrary 
determination.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted to the Office of Counsel, Office 
of Inspector General, 740 15th Street, NW., Suite 110, Washington, DC 
20220. Comments may be submitted via e-mail to: [email protected]. 
Comments received will be available for inspection at the same address 
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rich Delmar, Counsel to the Inspector 
General, (202) 927-0650.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As required by the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, 5 U.S.C.A. appendix 3, the OIG conducts 
investigations of the bureaus and offices of the Department of the 
Treasury, with the exception of the Internal Revenue Service. The 
investigative case files and data produced by this work are organized 
to be retrievable by names of subjects, complainants, victims, and 
witnesses.
    The Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-296 has caused 
certain bureaus of the Department of the Treasury to be transferred to 
other departments: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the 
Department of Justice, and the Secret Service, Customs Service, and 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to the Department of Homeland 
Security. The responsibilities of the OIG to conduct investigations 
regarding these bureaus are being similarly transferred to the OIGs of 
the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS). To enable these OIGs to carry out their investigative 
responsibilities, access to Treasury OIG investigative records 
regarding events and personnel of the transferred bureaus is necessary. 
New routine use (8) will accomplish this by allowing the OIGs of the 
DOJ and DHS to access Treasury OIG investigative reports and case files 
containing information related to the bureaus for which they have 
acquired responsibility.
    Section 812 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-
296, creates a new section 6(e) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, 5 U.S.C.A. appendix 3, by which OIGs are granted law 
enforcement authority as determined by the Attorney General. The 
statute requires that OIGs obtain peer reviews conducted by other OIGs 
to advise the Department of Justice and the President's Council on 
Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) how this authority is used. New routine 
use (9) will allow other OIGs, the PCIE, and the Department of Justice, 
with respect to their involvement in conducting peer reviews of the 
Treasury OIG, access to the IDMS in connection with their evaluation of 
how Treasury OIG uses its law enforcement authority.
    These two new routine uses are consistent with the purpose for 
which information is collected by this system, to detect and prevent 
fraud, waste, and abuse in the programs and operations of the bureaus 
and offices of the Department.
    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, OIG proposes to alter 
system of records Treasury/DO.190--Investigative Data Management 
System, as follows:
Treasury/DO.190

System Name:
    Investigative Data Management System--Treasury/DO.
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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 change: The period ``.'' at the end of routine use 
(7) is replaced with a semicolon ``;'', and the following routine uses 
are added at the end thereof:
    ``(8) Provide information to the Office of Inspector General of the 
Department of Justice with respect to investigations involving the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and to the Office of Inspector 
General of the Department of Homeland Security with respect to 
investigations involving the Secret Service, Customs Service, and 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, for such OIGs' use in carrying 
out their obligations under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, 5 U.S.C.A. Appendix 3 and other applicable laws; and
    (9) Provide information to other OIGs, the President's Council on 
Integrity and Efficiency, and the Department of Justice, in connection 
with their review of Treasury OIG's exercise of statutory law 
enforcement authority, pursuant to section 6(e) of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, 5 U.S.C.A. Appendix 3.''
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    Dated: March 17, 2003.
W. Earl Wright, Jr.,
Chief Management and Administrative Programs Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-7561 Filed 3-28-03; 8:45 am]
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