[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 38552]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16775]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

32 CFR Part 311

[Docket ID: DOD-2019-OS-0049]
RIN 0790-AK57


Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff Privacy 
Program

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff, DoD.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This final rule removes DoD's regulation concerning the Office 
of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff (OSD/JS) Privacy Program. 
On April 11, 2019, the Department of Defense published a revised DoD-
level Privacy Program rule, which contains the necessary information 
for an agency-wide privacy program regulation under the Privacy Act and 
now serves as the single Privacy Program rule for the Department. That 
revised Privacy Program rule also includes all DoD component exemption 
rules. Therefore, this part is now unnecessary and may be removed from 
the CFR.

DATES: This rule is effective on August 7, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Luz D. Ortiz at 571-372-0478.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DoD now has a single DoD-level Privacy 
Program rule at 32 CFR part 310 (84 FR 14728) that contains all the 
codified information required for the Department. The OSD/JS Privacy 
Program regulation at 32 CFR part 311, last updated on October 30, 2009 
(74 FR 56114), is no longer required and may be removed.
    It has been determined that publication of this CFR part removal 
for public comment is impracticable, unnecessary, and contrary to 
public interest because it is based on the removal of policies and 
procedures that are either now reflected in another CFR part, 32 CFR 
310, or are publically available on the Department's website. To the 
extent that OSD/JS internal guidance concerning the implementation of 
the Privacy Act within OSD/JS is necessary, it will continue to be 
published in Administrative Instruction 81, OSD/Joint Staff (JS) 
Privacy Program, https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/ai/a81p.pdf?ver=2019-02-25-104539-627.
    This rule is one of 20 separate component Privacy rules. With the 
finalization of the DoD-level Privacy rule at 32 CFR part 310, the 
Department eliminated the need for component Privacy rules, thereby 
reducing costs to the public as explained in the preamble of the DoD-
level Privacy rule published on April 11, 2019 at 84 FR 14728.
    This rule is not significant under Executive Order (E.O.) 12866, 
``Regulatory Planning and Review.'' Therefore, E.O. 13771, ``Reducing 
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs'' does not apply.

List of Subjects in 32 CFR Part 311

    Privacy.

PART 311--[REMOVED]

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Accordingly, by the authority of 5 U.S.C. 301, 32 CFR part 311 is 
removed.

    Dated: August 1, 2019.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2019-16775 Filed 8-6-19; 8:45 am]
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