[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 101 (Friday, May 25, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 29342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10085]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2007-0021]


United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology 
(US-VISIT); Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of Decommission of System of 
Records

AGENCY: United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology 
(US-VISIT), DHS.

ACTION: Notice of Decommission for System of Records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US-VISIT Program, 
conducted a proof of concept (POC) for Increment 2C (70 FR 39300, US-
VISIT Privacy Impact Assessment, July 7, 2005) to assess the capability 
of automatically, passively, and remotely recording the entry and exit 
of US-VISIT covered individuals at U.S. land border ports of entry 
(POEs) using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-enabled I-94 
(Arrival/Departure) Forms. To support the US-VISIT Increment 2C POC, 
the Automated Identification Management System (AIDMS) was created to 
link the unique and individually-assigned RFID tag number to existing 
biographic information received from the Treasury Enforcement 
Communications System (TECS) and the entry and exit event information 
for each covered individual crossing the land border. The AIDMS 
maintained four general categories of records: traveler (i.e., covered 
individual) identification information, RFID tag related information, 
RFID tag read event information, and border crossing history 
information. The traveler identification information and the border 
crossing history information were duplicative of information stored in 
TECS and the Arrival/Departure Information System (ADIS). The RFID tag 
information was comprised of data collected about the issuance and 
status of the Form I-94 as well as data associated with the reading of 
an RFID tag. On November 7, 2006, US-VISIT concluded the Increment 2C 
POC. Upon completion of the estimated one year POC (as noted in the US-
VISIT Notice published August 4, 2005, 70 FR 44934), AIDMS has been 
decommissioned because data is no longer being collected or stored in 
the system. All data previously stored in AIDMS will be deleted/
destroyed 30 days after publication of this notice and in accordance 
with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General 
Records Schedule (GRS) 20, Item 1.a. The AIDMS SORN was previously 
published in the Federal Register on July 5, 2005, at 70 FR 38700. A 
Privacy Impact Assessment regarding this decommission has been 
published at http://www.dhs.gov/privacy.
    The purpose of this notice is to inform the public of the 
termination of AIDMS on June 25, 2007.
    Disposition: In accordance with NARA GRS 20, Item 1.a, the data 
collected and stored in AIDMS will be deleted/destroyed 30 days after 
publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Yonkers, Privacy Officer, US-
VISIT Program, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528; 
telephone 202-298-5200 (this is not a toll free number).

    Dated: May 16, 2007.
Hugo Teufel III,
Chief Privacy Officer.
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