[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 108 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 36228-36229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13352]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

28 CFR Part 16

[CPCLO Order No. 005-2016]


Privacy Act of 1974; Implementation; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of 
Justice.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (Department or DOJ), Federal Bureau 
of Investigation (FBI), is extending the comment period for its 
proposal to exempt ``The Next Generation Identification (NGI) System,'' 
JUSTICE/FBI-009, from certain provisions of the Privacy Act, published 
in the Federal Register on May 5, 2016 (81 FR 27288). The original 
comment period is scheduled to expire on June 6, 2016. The Department 
is now extending the time period for public comments by 30 days. The 
updated comment period is scheduled to expire on July 6, 2016. This 
action will allow interested persons additional time to analyze the 
proposal and prepare their comments.

DATES: Comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking published May 5, 
2016 (81 FR 27288) must be submitted on or before July 6, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments to the Privacy Analyst, Privacy and 
Civil Liberties Office, National Place Building, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. 
NW., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20530-0001 or facsimile 202-307-0693. 
To ensure proper handling, please reference either this CPCLO Order 
No., or the CPCLO Order No. from the original notice of proposed 
rulemaking (CPCLO Order No. 003-2016) on your correspondence. You may 
review an electronic version of the proposed rule at http://www.regulations.gov. You may also comment via the Internet to either 
[email protected]; or by using the http://www.regulations.gov comment form. When submitting comments 
electronically, you must include the CPCLO Order No., as described 
above, in the subject box.
    Please note that the Department is requesting that electronic 
comments be submitted before midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time on 
the day the

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comment period closes because http://www.regulations.gov terminates the 
public's ability to submit comments at that time. Commenters in time 
zones other than Eastern Time may want to consider this so that their 
electronic comments are received. All comments sent via regular or 
express mail will be considered timely if postmarked on the day the 
comment period closes.
    Posting of Public Comments: Please note that all comments received 
are considered part of the public record and made available for public 
inspection online at http://www.regulations.gov and in the Department's 
public docket. Such information includes personal identifying 
information (such as your name, address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by 
the commenter.
    If you want to submit personal identifying information (such as 
your name, address, etc.) as part of your comment, but do not want it 
to be posted online or made available in the public docket, you must 
include the phrase ``PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION'' in the first 
paragraph of your comment. You must also place all personal identifying 
information you do not want posted online or made available in the 
public docket in the first paragraph of your comment and identify what 
information you want redacted.
    If you want to submit confidential business information as part of 
your comment, but do not want it to be posted online or made available 
in the public docket, you must include the phrase ``CONFIDENTIAL 
BUSINESS INFORMATION'' in the first paragraph of your comment. You must 
also prominently identify confidential business information to be 
redacted within the comment. If a comment has so much confidential 
business information that it cannot be effectively redacted, all or 
part of that comment may not be posted online or made available in the 
public docket.
    Personal identifying information and confidential business 
information identified and located as set forth above will be redacted 
and the comment, in redacted form, will be posted online and placed in 
the Department's public docket file. Please note that the Freedom of 
Information Act applies to all comments received. If you wish to 
inspect the agency's public docket file in person by appointment, 
please see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT paragraph.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roxane M. Panarella, Assistant General 
Counsel, Privacy and Civil Liberties Unit, Office of the General 
Counsel, FBI, Washington, DC 20535-0001, telephone 304-625-4000.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 5, 2016, the Department requested 
comments on its proposal to modify an existing FBI system of records 
notice titled, ``Fingerprint Identification Records System (FIRS),'' 
JUSTICE/FBI-009, and its proposal to amend the Department's Privacy Act 
regulations by establishing an exemption for records in this system of 
records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
552a(j) and (k).
    Both the notice of a modified system of records notice and notice 
of proposed rulemaking for this system of records originally provided 
that comments must be received by June 6, 2016. The Department has 
received requests to extend these comment periods. The Department 
believes that extending the comment periods would be appropriate in 
order to provide the public additional time to consider and comment on 
the proposals addressed in these notices. Therefore, the Department is 
extending both public comment periods for 30 days, until July 6, 2016. 
Elsewhere in the Federal Register, the Department is extending the 
comment period for the accompanying notice of modified system of 
records.

    Dated: June 1, 2016.
Erika Brown Lee,
Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2016-13352 Filed 6-3-16; 8:45 am]
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