[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 242 (Thursday, December 17, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 78704-78705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31551]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

22 CFR Part 171

[Public Notice: 9379]
RIN 1400-AD88


Privacy Act; STATE-81, Office of Foreign Missions Records

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Department of State is giving concurrent notice of a newly 
established system of records pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 for 
the Office of Foreign Missions Records, State-81 system of records and 
this proposed rulemaking. In this proposed rulemaking, the Department 
proposes to exempt portions of the system of records from one or more 
provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974.

DATES: Comments on this proposed rule are due by January 26, 2016.

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 Office 
of Foreign Missions Records system of records. The primary purpose of 
this system of records relates to the implementation of the Foreign 
Missions Act, the operation of foreign missions, and the United States' 
extension of privileges, exemptions, immunities, benefits, and 
courtesies to foreign government officials, members/employees and 
officers of foreign missions and certain international organizations in 
the United States, their immediate family members, and domestic workers 
who are in the United States in nonimmigrant A-3 or G-5 visa status.
    The Department of State is issuing this document as a notice to 
amend 22 CFR part 171 to exempt portions of the Office of Foreign 
Missions 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)(2). STATE-81 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

    Administrative practice and procedure; Classified information; 
Confidential business information; Freedom of information; 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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1. The authority citation 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.

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2. Amend Sec.  171.36 by adding an entry, in alphabetical order, for 
``The Office of

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Foreign Missions Records, State-81'' to the lists in paragraph (b)(2)

Joyce A. Barr,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of State.
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