[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3922-3923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01286]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to an existing System of Records.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4), 
notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
proposes to modify its existing system of records ``Loan Guaranty Home, 
Condominium and Manufactured Home Loan Applicants Records, Specially 
Adapted Housing Applicant Records and Vendee

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Loan Applicant Records--VA (55VA26).''

DATES: Comments on the proposed modifications to the routine uses must 
be received no later than 30 days after date of publication in the 
Federal Register, on or before February 24, 2014. If no public comment 
is received during the period allowed for comments, the routine use 
will become effective February 24, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted through 
www.Regulations.gov; by mail or hand-delivery to the Director, 
Regulations Management (02REG), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Ave., NW., Room 1068, Washington, DC 20420; or by fax to (202) 
273-9026. (This is not a toll-free number.) Copies of comments received 
will be available for public inspection in the Office of Regulation 
Policy and Management, Room 1063B, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays). Please call (202) 
461-4902 for an appointment. (This is not a toll-free number.) In 
addition, during the comment period, comments may be viewed online 
through the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at 
www.Regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erica Lewis, Loan Specialist, Loan 
Guaranty Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 632-8823. (This is not a toll-free 
number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department is proposing to amend its 
System of Records entitled ``Loan Guaranty Home, Condominium and 
Manufactured Home Loan Applicants Records, Specially Adapted Housing 
Applicant Records and Vendee Loan Applicant Records--VA (55VA26),'' by 
adding a new policy and practice for storing of records in the System 
to permit VA to maintain VA-guaranteed, insured, direct, and vendee 
loan records in individual folders on paper documents, automated 
storage media, and as electronically scanned documents.
    VA has determined that it may destroy original paper documents/
records after the information has been converted to an electronic 
medium and verified as a necessary and proper means of storage, and 
that the specific storage proposed for electronically scanned documents 
is appropriate.
    A copy of the revised system notice has been sent to the House of 
Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the 
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) and guidelines issued 
by OMB (59 FR 37906, 3791618, July 25, 1994.)
    The proposed storage will be added to the system of records 
entitled ``Loan Guaranty Home, Condominium and Manufactured Home Loan 
Applicant Records, Specially Adapted Housing Applicant Records, and 
Vendee Loan Applicant Records--VA (55VA26)'' as published at 40 FR 
38095, August 26, 1975, and amended at 48 FR 49961, October 28, 1983; 
51 FR 24781, July 8, 1986; 51 FR 28289, August 6, 1986; 52 FR 721, 
January 8, 1987; 53 FR 49818, December 9, 1988; 56 FR 2064, January 18, 
1991; 56 FR 15666, April 17, 1991; 58 FR 50629, September 28, 1993; 62 
FR 35545, July 1, 1997, and 67 FR 72721, December 6, 2002.

    Approved: December 18, 2013.
Jose D. Riojas,
Chief of Staff, Department of Veterans Affairs.

Notice of Amendment to System of Records

    The system of records identified as ``Loan Guaranty Home, 
Condominium and Manufactured Home Loan Applicants Records, Specially 
Adapted Housing Applicant Records and Vendee Loan Applicant Records--VA 
(55VA26),'' published at 40 FR 38095, August 26, 1975, and amended at 
48 FR 49961, October 28, 1983; 51 FR 24781, July 8, 1986; 51 FR 28289, 
August 6, 1986; 52 FR 721, January 8, 1987; 53 FR 49818, December 9, 
1988; 56 FR 2064, January 18, 1991; 56 FR 15666, April 17, 1991; 58 FR 
50629, September 28, 1993; 62 FR 35545, July 1, 1997 and 67 FR 72721 
December 6, 2002, is revised to add a new storage as follows:
55VA26

System name:
    Loan Guaranty Home, Condominium and Manufactured Home Loan 
Applicants Records, Specially Adapted Housing Applicant Records and 
Vendee Loan Applicant Records--VA (55VA26).
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POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIVEING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, 
AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
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    VA-guaranteed, insured, direct and vendee loan records are 
maintained in individual folders on paper documents, on automated 
storage media (i.e, microfilm, microfiche, magnetic tape and magnetic 
disks), and on electronically scanned documents.

[FR Doc. 2014-01286 Filed 1-22-14; 8:45 am]
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