[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 105 (Friday, June 1, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 30631]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10524]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[AAG/A Order No. 015-2007]


Environmental and Natural Resources Division; Privacy Act of 
1974; Removal of a System of Records Notice

    Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 
552a), the Department of Justice (Justice), Environmental and Natural 
Resources Division (ENRD), is removing a published notice of a Privacy 
Act system of records entitled ``Appraisers, Approved Attorneys, 
Abstractors and Title Companies Files Database System, Justice/ENRD-
001.'' The system notice was published in the Federal Register on 
February 23, 2000, at 65 FR 8989; and a partial modification was 
published on October 20, 2005, at 70 FR 61159.
    The system was comprised of a listing of practitioners deemed 
qualified to perform appraisals and provide title evidence in 
connection with land acquisitions by the United States, and was 
originally created as a procedural aid in connection with title reviews 
mandated by 40 U.S.C. 255 (now 40 U.S.C. 3111). More specifically, it 
was created pursuant to the ``Standards for the Preparation of Title 
Evidence in Land Acquisitions by the United States'' [``Standards'']. 
Maintaining the nationwide listing proved too unmanageable, however, 
and the ENRD discontinued its use when it replaced the old 
``Standards'' with the new ``Title Standards 2001,'' which created 
minimum national standards for use by local government agencies in 
approving providers of title evidence.
    The database that was the subject of the Privacy Act notice was 
deleted by ENRD users from their Personal Computers (PCs) prior to 
2002, and then was completely destroyed by ENRD's Office of Information 
Technology, in accordance with Departmental policy, when all Division 
PC's were replaced in 2002.
    Therefore, the notice of ``Appraisers, Approved Attorneys, 
Abstractors and Title Companies Files Database System'' is removed from 
the Department's compilation of Privacy Act systems of records notices, 
effective on the date of publication of this notice.

    Dated: May 22, 2007.
Lee J. Lofthus,
Assistant Attorney General for Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-10524 Filed 5-31-07; 8:45 am]
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