[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 134 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 40951-40952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17227]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

22 CFR Part 171

[Public Notice: 9187]
RIN 1400-AD86


Privacy Act; STATE-09, Records Maintained by the Office of Civil 
Rights

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Department of State is giving concurrent notice of a 
publication for a system of records pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 
for the Records Maintained by the Office of Civil Rights, STATE-09; and 
this proposed rulemaking, which proposes to exempt portions of this 
system of records from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act of 
1974.

DATES: Comments on this proposed rule are due by August 24, 2015.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Hackett, Acting Director; Office 
of Information Programs and Services, A/GIS/IPS; Department of State, 
SA-2; 515 22nd Street NW., Washington, DC 20522-8001, or at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  The Department of State maintains the 
Records Maintained by the Office of Civil Rights system of records. The 
primary purpose of this system of records is for the investigation, 
processing, and resolution of informal and formal complaints of 
discrimination filed against the Department of State in accordance with 
29 CFR part 1614 and the Department's internal procedures for 
addressing Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaints; and for the 
investigation, processing and resolution of complaints of 
discrimination under 42 U.S.C. 2000d and complaints under 20 U.S.C. 
1681, 29 U.S.C. 794 and 794d, 42 U.S.C. 6101, 29 U.S.C. 621, and 36 CFR 
chapter XI.
    The Department of State is issuing this document as a proposal to 
amend 22 CFR part 171 to exempt portions of the Records Maintained by 
the Office of Civil Rights system of records from the Privacy Act 
subsections (c)(3);(d); (e)(1); (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I); and (f) of the 
Privacy Act pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(5) to the extent that the 
system contains investigatory material compiled for law enforcement 
purposes, and (k)(6) to the extent that it contains testing or 
examination material used solely to determine individual qualifications 
for appointment or promotion in the Federal service.

List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 171

    Privacy.

    For the reasons stated in the preamble, 22 CFR part 171 is proposed 
to be amended as follows:

PART 171--AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION AND RECORDS TO THE PUBLIC

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1. The authority citation for part 171 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, 552a; 22 U.S.C. 2651a; Pub. L. 95-521, 
92 Stat. 1824, as amended; E.O. 13526, 75 FR 707; E.O. 12600, 52 FR 
23781, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 235.


Sec.  171.36  [Amended]

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2. Section 171.36 is amended by adding an entry, in alphabetical order, 
for ``Records Maintained by the Office of Civil Rights, State-09'' to 
the lists in paragraphs (b)(5) and (6).

Joyce A. Barr,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2015-17227 Filed 7-13-15; 8:45 am]
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