[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5486-5487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2538]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket Number 040127025-4025-01]


Privacy Impact Assessments

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Consistent with the objectives of the E-Government Act and to 
ensure the continued trust of our constituency, on February 3, 2004, 
the Census Bureau

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is releasing to the public twenty (20) Privacy Impact Assessments 
(PIAs).

DATES: The Census Bureau makes its 20 PIAs available to the public on 
February 3, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to the Director, U.S. Census 
Bureau, Room 2049-0100, Federal Building 3, Washington, DC 20233.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jared Gerstenbluth, Policy Office, on 
(301) 763-2654 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Please 
visit http://www.census.gov/po/pia to obtain additional information and 
to obtain copies of the Census Bureau's PIAs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Census Bureau's 20 PIAs were submitted 
during the fiscal year 2005 budget process. The PIAs cover privacy, 
confidentiality, security, and data access and dissemination issues.
    PIAs are designed to help us carry-out our mission and to help us 
meet our legal requirements. Our mission is to collect high-quality 
data and our legal requirement is to protect the confidentiality of 
identifiable data. The Census Bureau PIAs do this by assessing programs 
against the Data Stewardship program, Privacy Principles, and 
supporting policies.
    The purpose of PIAs is to ensure that no collection, storage, 
access, use, or dissemination of identifiable personal information 
occurs without proof of need and purpose and to ensure that appropriate 
security procedures and controls on the use of the data are in place. 
The PIAs offered the Census Bureau an opportunity to affirm that it is 
using its legal and policy protections to ensure that data are being 
collected and used in a manner that honors privacy and protects 
confidentiality while producing the highest quality statistical data 
products for the Nation.
    A full PIA was conducted on each program that contains, at some 
point in the collection and processing activities, Personally 
Identifiable Information (PII), Identifiable Business Information 
(IBI), or both. Identifiable information is defined as information that 
actually identifies people or businesses. Examples of PII include name, 
address, or social security number. Examples of IBI include employer 
identification number or e-mail address.
    The following is a list of the PIAs that will be made publically 
available as of February 3, 2004:
    1. American Community Survey.
    2. Import and Export Statistics (Automated Export System).
    3. Building Permits Programs.
    4. Center for Economic Studies.
    5. Continuity of Data Processing Operations and Data Security.
    6. Mandatory Economic Surveys.
    7. Data Access and Dissemination Systems.
    8. Data Processing Update Systems.
    9. Decennial 2010.
    10. Demographic Surveys Program.
    11. Economic Census.
    12. Exporter Database.
    13. Field Support Systems.
    14. Geographic Support Systems.
    15. Governments Programs.
    16. Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program.
    17. Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic 
Encoding and Referencing system (MAF/TIGER) Enhancements Program.
    18. Survey of Business Owners.
    19. Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey.
    20. Voluntary Economic Surveys.
    For more detailed information and to obtain a copy of any or all of 
the Census Bureau PIAs, please visit http://www.census.gov/po/pia. The 
PIAs will be available via mail, e-mail, or facsimile based on the 
requester's preference.

    Dated: February 2, 2004.
Charles Louis Kincannon,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 04-2538 Filed 2-4-04; 8:45 am]
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