[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 12, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53697-53700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15044]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of the Secretary

[Docket Number DHS-2006-0047]


Privacy Act; Systems of Records

AGENCY: Office of Security, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act system of records.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 
Homeland Security, Office of Security, proposes to add a new system of 
records to the Department's inventory, entitled the ``Personal Identity 
Verification Management System.'' This system will support the 
administration of the HSPD-12 program that directs the use of a common 
identification credential for both logical and physical access to 
federally controlled facilities and information systems. This system 
will enhance security, increase efficiency, reduce identify fraud, and 
protect personal privacy.

DATES: The established system of records will be effective October 12,

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2006, unless comments are received that result in a contrary 
determination.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number DHS-
2006-0047 by one of the following methods:
    Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Fax: (202) 401-4514 (not a toll-free number).
    Mail: Cynthia Sjoberg, Office, DHS HSPD-12 Program Manager, Office 
of Security, 245 Murray Lane, SW., Building 410, Washington, DC 20528; 
Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer, 601 S. 12th Street, Arlington, 
VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Sjoberg, DHS HSPD-12 Program 
Manager, Office of Security, 245 Murray Lane, SW., Building 410, 
Washington, DC 20528 by telephone (202) 772-5096 or facsimile (202) 
401-4514; Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer, 601 S. 12th Street, 
Arlington, VA 22202 by telephone (571) 227-3813 or facsimile (571) 227-
4171.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 
Office of Security is publishing a Privacy Act system of records notice 
to cover its collection, use and maintenance of records relating to its 
role in the collection and management of personally identifiable 
information for the purpose of issuing credentials (ID badges) to meet 
the requirements of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 
(HSPD-12) and in furtherance of the Office of Security's mission for 
the Department. Until now, pursuant to the savings clause in the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-296, Sec. 1512, 116 Stat. 
2310 (Nov. 25, 2002) (6 U.S.C. 552), the Office of Security has been 
relying on legacy Privacy Act systems for this purpose.
    DHS established the Office of Security to protect and safeguard the 
Department's personnel, property, facilities, and information. The 
Office of Security develops, coordinates, implements, and oversees the 
Department's security policies, programs, and standards; delivers 
security training and education to DHS personnel; and provides security 
support to DHS components when necessary. In addition, the Office of 
Security coordinates and collaborates with the Intelligence Community 
on security issues and the protection of information. The Office of 
Security works to integrate security into every aspect of the 
Department's operations.
    The Office of Security is divided into seven divisions, as follows, 
and in order of relevance to this notice:
     Security Operations: This division implements and 
maintains the Department's badging and credentialing programs and 
ensures that the Department is in full compliance with all applicable 
laws. It is within this Division and area of responsibility that the 
Office of Security is giving notice of its intent to create the 
Personal Identity Verification Management System (PIVMS) pursuant to 
HSPD-12;
     Personnel Security: background investigations, 
adjudications, and security clearances for DHS employees, as well as 
for State and local government personnel and private-sector partners;
     Administrative Security: the protection of classified and 
sensitive but unclassified information;
     Physical Security: security surveys, vulnerability 
assessments, and access control for DHS facilities;
     Special Security Programs: Sensitive Compartmented 
Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs;
     Internal Security and Investigations: protection against 
espionage, foreign intelligence service elicitation activities, and 
terrorist collection efforts directed against the Department; 
investigations of crimes against the Department's personnel and 
property;
     Training and Operations Security: integrated security 
training policy and programs.
    The PIVMS records will cover all DHS employees, contractors and 
their employees, consultants, volunteers engaged by DHS who require 
long-term access to federal buildings and emergency ``first 
responders'' who work in federally controlled facilities. The personal 
information to be collected will consist of data elements necessary to 
identify the individual and to perform background or other 
investigations concerning the individual. The PIVMS will collect 
several data elements from the PIV card applicant, including: date of 
birth, Social Security Number, organizational and employee 
affiliations, fingerprints, digital color photograph, digital signature 
and phone number(s) as well additional verification information. The 
Office of Security has designed this system to align closely with their 
current business practices.
    The Privacy Act embodies fair information principles in a statutory 
framework governing the means by which the United States Government 
collects, maintains, uses and disseminates personally identifiable 
information. The Privacy Act applies to information that a Federal 
agency maintains in a ``system of records.'' A ``system of records'' is 
a group of any records under the control of an agency from which the 
agency retrieves information by the name of the individual or by some 
identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to 
the individual. The Office of Security Personal Identity Verification 
Management System is such a system of records.
    The Privacy Act requires each agency to publish in the Federal 
Register a description denoting the type and character of each system 
of records that the agency maintains, and the routine uses that are 
contained in each system in order to make agency record keeping 
practices transparent, to notify individuals regarding the uses to 
which personally identifiable information is put, and to assist 
individuals to more easily find such files within the agency. Below is 
the description of the Personal Identity Verification Management 
System.
    In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), a report on this system has 
been sent to Congress and to the Office of Management and Budget.
DHS-OS-2006-047

System name:
    Personal Identity Verification Management System (PIVMS).

Security Classification:
    Sensitive but unclassified.

System Location:
    Data covered by this system are maintained at the following 
location: DHS Data Center, Ashburn, VA.

Categories of Individuals Covered By the System:
    The PIVMS records will cover all DHS employees, contractors and 
their employees, consultants, volunteers engaged by DHS who require 
long-term access to federal buildings and emergency ``first 
responders'' who work in federally controlled facilities. Individuals 
who require regular, ongoing access to agency facilities, information 
technology systems, or information classified in the interest of 
national security.
    The system does not apply to occasional visitors or short-term 
guests to whom DHS will issue temporary identification and credentials.

Categories of Records in the System:
    Records maintained on individuals issued a PIV credential by DHS 
include the following data fields: full name; Social Security number; 
date of birth; current address; digital signature; digital color 
photograph; fingerprints; biometric identifiers (two fingerprints);

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organization/office of assignment; employee affiliation; telephone 
number(s); copies of identity source documents; signed SF 85 or 
equivalent; PIV card issue and expiration dates; PIV request form; PIV 
registrar approval digital signature; PIV card serial number; emergency 
responder designation; computer system user name; user access and 
permission rights, authentication certificates; digital signature 
information.

Authority for Maintenance of the System:
    5 U.S.C. 301; Federal Information Security Act (Pub.L. 104-106, 
Sec. 5113); E-Government Act (Pub.L. 104-347, sec. 203); the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501); and the Government Paperwork 
Elimination Act (Pub.L. 105-277, 44 U.S.C. 3504); Homeland Security 
Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12); Policy for a Common Identification 
Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors, August 27, 2004; 
Federal Property and Administrative Act of 1949, as amended; the 
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, P.L. 108-458, 
Section 3001 (50 U.S.C. 435b) and the Homeland Security Act of 2002, 
P.L. 107-296, as amended.

Purpose(s):
    The primary purposes of the system are: (a) To ensure the safety 
and security of DHS facilities, systems, or information, and our 
occupants and users; (b) To verify that all persons entering Federal 
facilities, using Federal information resources, are authorized to do 
so; (c) to track and control PIV cards issued to persons entering and 
exiting the DHS facilities or using DHS systems.

Routine Uses of Records Maintained in the System Including Categories 
of Users and the Purposes of Such Uses:
    In addition to those disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 
Section 552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a portion of the records or 
information contained in this system may be disclosed outside DHS as a 
routine use pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:
    A. To the Department of Justice (DOJ) when: (a) The agency or any 
component thereof; or (b) any employee of the agency in his or her 
official capacity; (c) any employee of the agency in his or her 
individual capacity where agency or the Department of Justice has 
agreed to represent the employee; or (d) the United States Government, 
is a party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and by 
careful review, the agency determines that the records are both 
relevant and necessary to the litigation and the use of such records by 
DOJ is therefore deemed by the agency to be for a purpose compatible 
with the purpose for which the agency collected the records.
    B. To a court or adjudicative body in a proceeding when: (a) The 
agency or any component thereof; (b) any employee of the agency in his 
or her official capacity; (c) any employee of the agency in his or her 
individual capacity where agency or the Department of Justice has 
agreed to represent the employee; or (d) the United States Government, 
is a party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and by 
careful review, the agency determines that the records are both 
relevant and necessary to the litigation and the use of such records is 
therefore deemed by the agency to be for a purpose that is compatible 
with the purpose for which the agency collected the records.
    C. Except as noted on Forms SF 85, 85-P, and 86, when a record on 
its face, or in conjunction with other records, indicates a violation 
or potential violation of law, whether civil, criminal, or regulatory 
in nature, and whether arising by general statute or particular program 
statute, or by regulation, rule, or order issued pursuant thereto, 
disclosure may be made to the appropriate public authority, whether 
Federal, foreign, State, local, or tribal, or otherwise, responsible 
for enforcing, investigating or prosecuting such violation or charged 
with enforcing or implementing the statute, or rule, regulation, or 
order issued pursuant thereto, if the information disclosed is relevant 
to any enforcement, regulatory, investigative or prosecutorial 
responsibility of the receiving entity.
    D. To a Member of Congress or to a Congressional staff member in 
response to an inquiry of the Congressional office made at the written 
request of the constituent about whom the record is maintained.
    E. To the National Archives and Records Administration or to the 
General Services Administration for records management inspections 
conducted under 44 U.S.C. 2904 and 2906.
    F. To agency contractors, grantees, or volunteers who have been 
engaged to assist the agency in the performance of a contract service, 
grant, cooperative agreement, or other activity related to this system 
of records and who need to have access to the records in order to 
perform their activity. Recipients shall be required to comply with the 
requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a.
    G. To a Federal State, local, foreign, or tribal or other public 
authority the fact that this system of records contains information 
relevant to the retention of an employee, the retention of a security 
clearance, the letting of a contract, or the issuance or retention of a 
license, grant, or other benefit. The other agency or licensing 
organization may then make a request supported by the written consent 
of the individual for the entire record if it so chooses. No disclosure 
will be made unless the information has been determined to be 
sufficiently reliable to support a referral to another office within 
the agency or to another Federal agency for criminal, civil, 
administrative personnel or regulatory action.
    H. To the Office of Management and Budget when necessary to the 
review of private relief legislation pursuant to OMB Circular No. A-19.
    I. To a Federal State, or local agency, or other appropriate 
entities or individuals, or through established liaison channels to 
selected foreign governments, in order to enable an intelligence agency 
to carry out its responsibilities under the National Security Act of 
1947, as amended, the CIA Act of 1949, as amended, Executive Order 
12333 or any successor order, applicable national security directives, 
or classified implementing procedures approved by the Attorney General 
and promulgated pursuant to such statutes, orders or directives.
    J. To notify another Federal agency when, or verify whether, a PIV 
card is no longer valid.
    K. To the news media or the general public, factual information the 
disclosure of which would be in the public interest and which would not 
constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, consistent with 
Freedom of Information Act standards.
    L. To an agency, organization, or individual for the purposes of 
performing authorized audit or oversight operations.

Disclosure to consumer reporting agencies:
    Privacy Act information may be reported to consumer reporting 
agencies pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12).

Policies and Practices for Storing, Retrieving, Accessing, Retaining 
and Disposing of Records in the System:
Storage:
    DHS Headquarters in the Offices of Security and Human Capital and 
at the DHS Data Center in Ashburn, VA Records maintain and store the 
records in electronic media and paper files.

Retrievability:
    Records may be retrieved by name of the individual, Social Security 
number

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and/or by any other unique individual identifier.

Safeguards:
    The Office of Security protects all records from unauthorized 
access through appropriate administrative, physical, and technical 
safeguards. Access is restricted on a ``need to know'' basis, 
utilization of SmartCard access, and locks on doors and approved 
storage containers. DHS buildings have security guards and secured 
doors. DHS monitors all entrances through electronic surveillance 
equipment. Personally identifiable information is safeguarded and 
protected in conformance with all Federal statutory and OMB guidance 
requirements. All access has role-based restrictions, and individuals 
with access privileges have undergone vetting and suitability 
screening. DHS encrypts data storage and transfer. DHS maintains an 
audit trail and engages in random periodic reviews to identify 
unauthorized access. Persons given roles in the PIV process must 
complete training specific to their roles to ensure they are 
knowledgeable about how to protect personally identifiable information.

Retention and Disposal:
    This is a new program and the Records Management Office (RMO) has 
not finalized its retention policy. The DHS RMO will develop a records 
retention schedule for approval by the NARA pertaining to this program. 
Once NARA has approved the records retention schedule, DHS will amend 
this document to include the retention period for the records.

System Manager and address:
    DHS HSPD-12 Program Manager, Office of Security, U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane, SW., Building 410, Washington, DC 
20528.

Notification procedure:
    A request for access to records in this system may be made by 
writing to the System Manager, or the Director of Departmental 
Disclosure, in conformance with 6 CFR part 5, which provides the rules 
for requesting access to records maintained by the Department of 
Homeland Security.

Record access procedures:
    Same as Notification Procedure above.

Contesting record procedures:
    Same as Notification Procedure above. State clearly and concisely 
the information being contested, the reasons for contesting it, and the 
proposed amendment to the information sought.

Record source categories:
    Employee, contractor, or applicant; sponsoring agency; former 
sponsoring agency; other Federal agencies; contract employer; former 
employer.

Exemptions claimed for the system:
    None.

    Dated: September 1, 2006.
Hugo Teufel III,
Chief Privacy Officer.
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