[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 144 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 42653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11994]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology 
Program


Processing Additional Aliens Privacy Impact Assessment

AGENCY: Privacy Office, Office of the Secretary, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a Privacy Impact Assessment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security has updated and is making 
available its United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator 
Technology Program (US-VISIT) Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to 
discuss the impact of program change on privacy. The PIA can be found 
under the Privacy Impact Assessment Section of the Privacy Office's Web 
site, www.dhs.gov/privacy.

DATES: The Privacy Impact Assessment will be available for a minimum of 
(60) days.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Yonkers, Privacy Officer, US-
VISIT, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, telephone 
(202) 298-5200, facsimile (202) 298-5201, e-mail: 
usvisit[email protected]; Maureen Cooney, Acting Chief Privacy Officer, 
Department of Homeland Security, Mail Stop 0550, 601 S. 12th Street, 
Arlington, VA 22202-4220; by telephone (571) 227-3813, facsimile (571) 
227-4171, or e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 
has updated and is making available its US-VISIT PIA to discuss the 
impact of a program change on privacy. The PIA updates relate to the 
proposal by DHS to expand the US-VISIT population to cover additional 
classes of aliens under a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled 
Authority to Process Additional Aliens in US-VISIT published in today's 
Federal Register. The revised PIA is available on the Web site of the 
DHS Privacy Office, www.dhs.gov/privacy, under Privacy Impact 
Assessments, and on the US-VISIT Web site, www.dhs.gov/usvisit. The 
original US-VISIT PIA was published in the Federal Register on January 
16, 2004 (69 FR 2608); revised versions reflecting subsequent changes 
were published on September 23, 2004 (69 FR 57036), and on July 7, 2005 
(70 FR 39300).

    Dated: July 19, 2006.
Maureen Cooney,
Acting Chief Privacy Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-11994 Filed 7-26-06; 8:45 am]
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