[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 123 (Thursday, June 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38111-38114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16117]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of alteration to a Privacy Act System of Records.

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SUMMARY: The Department is altering its system of records Treasury 
.001-Treasury Payroll and Personnel System due to the recent upgrade of 
the automated, integrated human resources system (HRS) used by the 
Department.

DATES: Comments must be received by July 28, 2003. The proposed altered 
systems of records will become effective August 5, 2003 unless comments 
are received that would result in a contrary determination.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to: Director, Office of Human 
Resources Enterprise Solutions, Department of the Treasury, 1500 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20220.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Pridgen, Office of Human Resources 
Enterprise Solutions, (202) 622-1520.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In January 2001, the Human Resources System 
Program Office (HRSPO) and the Treasury Integrated Management 
Information Systems (TIMIS) organizations were merged to create the 
Office of Human Resources Enterprise Solutions (HRES). The new 
structure, whose mission is to improve human resources systems and 
service delivery to Treasury through the application of innovative 
enterprise-wide technology, was designed to concentrate efforts and 
resources on Human Resource (HR) system modernization and to 
consolidate operations support into the future. Treasury and its 
bureaus have undertaken efforts to reengineer HR management and to 
design, develop and implement a new automated human resources system 
(HRS), which is based on a suite of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) 
products. The Departmental and bureau partnership formed to implement 
the new system will aid Treasury's bureaus in meeting their primary 
business need for an integrated HRS that will increase the timeliness 
and accuracy of personnel data, assist in streamlining personnel 
processes and enable users to directly and easily access and enter HR 
information in a secure environment. The basis for the Treasury 
initiative is to leverage COTS products to act as a catalyst to 
reengineer HR processes and practices at the Department. These 
improvements will reduce non-value added work so that resources can be 
redirected to value-added use.
    The System name is being changed from Treasury Payroll and 
Personnel System to ``Treasury Personnel and Payroll System''. The 
address for each bureau is being added under ``system location'' to 
bring the notice into conformance with other Treasury-wide notices.
    As a result of the establishment of the Department of Homeland 
Security and the transfer of four Treasury bureaus: Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco and Firearms, United States Customs Service, Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center and the United States Secret Service, the 
references to those bureaus are being removed from this system of 
records. In addition, pursuant to Treasury Order 120-01 dated January 
21, 2003, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) was 
established and is being added to ``System location'' and ``System 
manager''.
    The notice is also revised to add applicants and applicant data as 
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categories under ``Categories of individuals covered by the system,'' 
``Categories of records in the system'' and ``Purposes.'' 
``Retrievability'' is being revised to add ``employee identification'' 
as a category. The ``System manager(s)'' is revised to identify the 
official responsible for the program at each bureau. The alterations 
also add new authority citations under ``Authority for maintenance of 
the system,'' and adds routine use (17) as a new routine use to the 
notice.
    The notice for the system of records was last published in its 
entirety on February 19, 2002 at 67 FR 7461.
    The altered system of records report, as required by 5 U.S.C. 
552a(r) of the Privacy Act, has been submitted to the Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Office of 
Management and Budget, pursuant to Appendix I to OMB Circular A-130, 
Federal Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining Records About 
Individuals, dated November 30, 2000.
    The system of records, ``Treasury .001--Treasury Personnel and 
Payroll System--Treasury'' is published in its entirety below.

    Dated: June 19, 2003.
W. Earl Wright, Jr.,
Acting Chief Management and Administrative Programs Officer.
Treasury .001

System name:
    Treasury Personnel and Payroll System--Treasury.

System location:
    The Shared Development Center of the Treasury Personnel/Payroll 
System is located at 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 1300, 
Washington, DC 20220. The Treasury Personnel System processing site is 
located at the Internal Revenue Service Detroit Computing Center, 985 
Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226. The Treasury Payroll processing 
site is located at the United States Department of Agriculture National 
Finance Center, 13800 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, LA 70129.
    The locations at which the system is maintained by all Treasury 
components, except the Office of Thrift Supervision, and their 
associated field offices are:
    (1) Departmental Offices (DO):
    a. 1500 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20220.
    b. The Office of Inspector General (OIG): 740 15th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20220.
    c. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA): 1125 
15th Street, Suite 700A, NW., Washington, DC 20005.
    (2) Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB): 650 
Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20226.
    (3) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC): 250 E Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20219-0001.
    (4) Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP): 14th & C Streets, SW., 
Washington, DC 20228.
    (5) Financial Management Service (FMS): 401 14th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20227.
    (6) Internal Revenue Service (IRS): 1111 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20224.
    (7) United States Mint (MINT): 801 9th Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20220.
    (8) Bureau of Public Debt (BPD): 999-E Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20239.
    (9) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), PO Box 39, 
Vienna, VA 22183-0039.

Categories of individuals covered by the system:
    Employees, former employees, and applicants for employment, in all 
Treasury Department bureaus and offices, except the Office of Thrift 
Supervision.

Categories of records in the system:
    Information contained in this system include such data as: (1) 
Employee identification and status data such as name, social security 
number, date of birth, sex, race and national origin designator, awards 
received, suggestions, work schedule, type of appointment, education, 
training courses attended, veterans preference, and military service; 
(2) Employment data such as service computation for leave, date 
probationary period began, date of performance rating, and date of 
within-grade increases; (3) Position and pay data such as position 
identification number, pay plan, step, salary and pay basis, 
occupational series, organization location, and accounting 
classification codes; (4) Payroll data such as earnings (overtime and 
night differential), deductions (Federal, state and local taxes, bonds 
and allotments), and time and attendance data; (5) Employee retirement 
and Thrift Savings Plan data; (6) Employment history, and (7) Tables of 
data for editing, reporting and processing personnel and pay actions. 
These include nature of action codes, civil service authority codes, 
standard remarks, signature block table, position title table, 
financial organization table, and salary tables.

Authority for maintenance of the system:
    5 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 321; Treasury Directive 80-05, Records and 
Information Management Program.

Purpose(s):
    The purposes of the system include, but are not limited to: (1) 
Maintaining current and historical payroll records that are used to 
compute and audit pay entitlement; to record history of pay 
transactions; to record deductions, leave accrued and taken, bonds due 
and issued, taxes paid; maintaining and distributing Leave and Earnings 
statements; commence and terminate allotments; answer inquiries and 
process claims; and (2) maintaining current and historical personnel 
records and preparing individual administrative transactions relating 
to education and training; classification; assignment; career 
development; evaluation; promotion, compensation, separation and 
retirement; making decisions on the rights, benefits, entitlements and 
the utilization of individuals; providing a data source for the 
production of reports, statistical surveys, rosters, documentation, and 
studies required for the orderly personnel administration within 
Treasury; and (3) maintaining employment history.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
    These records may be used to:
    (1) Furnish data to the Department of Agriculture, National Finance 
Center (which provides payroll and personnel processing services for 
Treasury under a cross-servicing agreement) affecting the conversion of 
Treasury employee payroll and personnel processing services; the 
issuance of paychecks to employees and distribution of wages; and the 
distribution of allotments and deductions to financial and other 
institutions, some through electronic funds transfer;
    (2) Furnish the Internal Revenue Service and other jurisdictions 
which are authorized to tax employees' compensation with wage and tax 
information in accordance with a withholding agreement with the 
Department of the Treasury pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5516, 5517, and 5520, 
for the purpose of furnishing employees with IRS Forms W-2 that report 
such tax distributions;
    (3) Provide records to the Office of Personnel Management, Merit 
Systems Protection Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and 
General Accounting Office for the purpose of properly administering 
Federal personnel systems or other agencies'

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systems in accordance with applicable laws, Executive Orders, and 
regulations;
    (4) Furnish another Federal agency with information necessary or 
relevant to effect interagency salary or administrative offset, except 
that addresses obtained from the Internal Revenue Service shall not be 
disclosed to other agencies; to furnish a consumer reporting agency 
information to obtain commercial credit reports; and to furnish a debt 
collection agency information for debt collection services. Current 
mailing addresses acquired from the Internal Revenue Service are 
routinely released to consumer reporting agencies to obtain credit 
reports and are arguably relevant to debt collection agencies for 
collection services;
    (5) Disclose information to a Federal, state, local, or foreign 
agency maintaining civil, criminal, or other relevant enforcement 
information or other pertinent information, that has requested 
information relevant to or necessary to the requesting agency's hiring 
or retention of an individual, or issuance of a security clearance, 
license, contract, grant, or other benefit;
    (6) Disclose information to a court, magistrate, or administrative 
tribunal in the course of presenting evidence, including disclosures to 
opposing counsel or witnesses in the course of civil discovery, 
litigation or settlement negotiations in response to a subpoena where 
arguably relevant to a proceeding, or in connection with criminal law 
proceedings;
    (7) Disclose information to foreign governments in accordance with 
formal or informal international agreements;
    (8) Provide information to a congressional office in response to an 
inquiry made at the request of the individual to whom the record 
pertains;
    (9) Provide information to the news media in accordance with 
guidelines contained in 28 CFR 50.2, which relates to civil and 
criminal proceedings;
    (10) Provide information to third parties during the course of an 
investigation to the extent necessary to obtain information pertinent 
to the investigation;
    (11) Provide information to unions recognized as exclusive 
bargaining representatives under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 
5 U.S.C. 7111 and 7114;
    (12) Provide wage and separation information to another agency, 
such as the Department of Labor or Social Security Administration, as 
required by law for payroll purposes;
    (13) Provide information to a Federal, state, or local agency so 
that the agency may adjudicate an individual's eligibility for a 
benefit, such as a state employment compensation board, housing 
administration agency, and Social Security Administration;
    (14) Disclose pertinent information to appropriate Federal, state, 
local or foreign agencies responsible for investigating or prosecuting 
the violation of, or for implementing, a statute, regulation, order, or 
license, where the disclosing agency becomes aware of a potential 
violation of civil or criminal law or regulation;
    (15) Disclose information about particular Treasury employees to 
requesting agencies or non-Federal entities under approved computer 
matching efforts, limited only to those data elements considered 
relevant to making a determination of eligibility under particular 
benefit programs administered by those agencies or entities or by the 
Department of the Treasury or any constituent unit of the Department, 
to improve program integrity, and to collect debts and other money owed 
under those programs (e.g., matching for delinquent loans or other 
indebtedness to the government);
    (16) Disclose to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services, the names, social security numbers, home addresses, 
dates of birth, dates of hire, quarterly earnings, employer identifying 
information, and State of hire of employees, for the purposes of 
locating individuals to establish paternity, establishing and modifying 
orders of child support, identifying sources of income, and for other 
child support enforcement activities as required by the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform 
Law, Pub. L. 104-193);
    (17) Disclose information to contractors, grantees, experts, 
consultants, students, and others performing or working on a contract, 
service, grant, cooperative agreement, or other assignment for the 
Department of the Treasury, when necessary to accomplish an agency.

Disclosure to consumer reporting agencies:
    Disclosures may be made pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12) and 
section 3 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, Pub. L. 97-365; debt 
information concerning a government claim against an individual is also 
furnished, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12) and section 3 of the 
Debt Collection Act of 1982, to consumer reporting agencies to 
encourage repayment of an overdue debt. Disclosures may be made to a 
consumer reporting agency as 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. 701(a)(3).

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, 
and disposing of records in the system:
Storage:
    Electronic records, microfiche, and hard copy. Disbursement records 
are stored at the Federal Records Center.

Retrievability:
    Records are retrieved generally by social security number, position 
identification number within a bureau and sub-organizational element, 
employee identification or employee name. Secondary identifiers are 
used to assure accuracy of data accessed, such as master record number 
or date of birth.

Safeguards:
    Entrances to data centers and support organization offices are 
restricted to those employees whose work requires them to be there for 
the system to operate. Identification (ID) cards are verified to ensure 
that only authorized personnel are present. Disclosure of information 
through remote terminals is restricted through the use of passwords and 
sign-on protocols, which are periodically changed. Reports produced 
from the remote printers are in the custody of personnel and financial 
management officers and are subject to the same privacy controls as 
other documents of similar sensitivity.

Retention and Disposal:
    The current payroll and personnel system and the personnel and 
payroll system's master files are kept as electronic media. Information 
rendered to hard copy in the form of reports and payroll information 
documentation is also retained in an electronic media format. Employee 
records are retained in automated form for as long as the employee is 
active on the system (separated employee records are maintained in an 
``inactive'' status). Files are purged in accordance with Treasury 
Directives 80-05, ``Records and Information Management Program.''

System Manager(s) and Address:
    Department of the Treasury: Official prescribing policies and 
practices: Director, Office of Human Resources Enterprise Solutions, 
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20220.
    The systems managers for the Treasury components are:
    (1) a. DO: Chief, Personnel Resources, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20220.

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    b. OIG: Personnel Officer, 740 15th Street NW., Suite 500, 
Washington, DC 20220.
    c. TIGTA: National Director, Human Resources, 1111 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Room 6408, TIGTA: MRS, Washington, DC 20224.
    (2) TTB: Chief, Personnel Division, 650 Massachusetts Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20226.
    (3) OCC: Director, Human Resources, 250 E Street, SW., Washington, 
DC 20219.
    (4) BEP: Chief, Office of Human Resources, 14th & C Streets, SW., 
Room 202-13A, E&P Annex, Washington, DC 20228.
    (5) FMS: Director, Personnel Management Division, 3700 East West 
Hwy, Room 115-F, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
    (6) IRS: Associate Director, Transactional Processing Operations, 
1111 Constitution Avenue, NW., CP6, A:PS:TP, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 
20224.
    (7) MINT: Assistant Director for Human Resources, 801 9th Street, 
NW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20220.
    (8) BPD: Director, Human Resources Division, 999-E Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20239.
    (9) FinCEN: Chief of Personnel and Training, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, 
VA 22183-0039.

Notification Procedure:
    Individuals seeking notification and access to any record contained 
in the system of records, or seeking to contest its content, may 
inquire in accordance with instructions pertaining to individual 
Treasury components appearing at 31 CFR part 1, subpart C, appendices 
A-L.

Record Access Procedures:
    See ``Notification procedure'' above.

Contesting Record Procedures:
    See ``Notification procedure'' above.

Record Source Categories:
    The information contained in these records is provided by or 
verified by the subject of the record, supervisors, and non-Federal 
sources such as private employers.

Exemptions Claimed for the System:
    None.
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