[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 54256-54257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22711]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

22 CFR Part 171

[Public Notice: 9263]
RIN 1400-AD78


Privacy Act; STATE-75, Family Advocacy Case Records

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: The Department of State is giving notice that certain portions 
of the Family Advocacy Case Records, STATE -75, system of records are 
proposed to be exempt from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act of 
1974.

DATES: Comments on this rule are due by October 19, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Hackett, 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 Family 
Advocacy Case Records system of records. The primary purpose of this 
system of records is to be utilized at post by members of the Family 
Advocacy Team and in the Department

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of State by the Family Advocacy Committee. The information may be 
shared within the Department of State on a need to know basis and in 
medical clearance determinations for overseas assignment of covered 
employees and family members, as well as for making determinations 
involving curtailment, medical evacuation, suitability, and security 
clearance. See Public Notice 6472 (January 5, 2009) at 74 FR 330.
    The Department of State is issuing this document as a notice to 
amend 22 CFR part 171 to exempt portions of the Family Advocacy Case 
Records 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)(1) and (k)(2). STATE-75 is exempted under (k)(1) to 
the extent that records within that system are subject to the 
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(1) STATE-75 is exempted under (k)(2) to 
the extent that records within that system are comprised of 
investigatory material compiled for law enforcement purposes, subject 
to the limitations set forth in that section.

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--[AMENDED]

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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 ``Family Advocacy Case Records, STATE-75'' to the lists in 
paragraphs (b)(1) and (2).

Joyce A. Barr,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2015-22711 Filed 9-8-15; 8:45 am]
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