[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69392-69393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27174]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[AAG/A Order No. 001/2019]


Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program

AGENCY: Justice Management Division, United States Department of 
Justice.

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ACTION: Notice of a new matching program.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is issuing a public notice of 
its intent to conduct a computer matching program with the Internal 
Revenue Service (IRS), Department of the Treasury. Under this matching 
program, entitled Taxpayer Address Request (TAR), the IRS will provide 
information relating to taxpayers' mailing addresses to the DOJ for 
purposes of enabling DOJ to locate debtors to initiate litigation and/
or enforce the collection of debts owed by the taxpayers to the United 
States.

DATES: This matching program will become effective on January 30, 2020. 
This matching program will continue for 18 months after the effective 
date. Please submit any comments by January 17, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments 
regarding this notice by mail to Dennis Dauphin, Director, Debt 
Collection Management Staff, Justice Management Division, 145 N St. NE, 
Rm 6W.102, Washington, DC 20530, or by email at 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Dennis Dauphin, Director, Debt 
Collection Management Staff, Justice Management Division, 
[email protected], 145 N St. NE, Rm 6W.102, Washington, DC 
20530.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This agreement re-establishes a matching 
program between the IRS and the DOJ to provide DOJ with the mailing 
address of taxpayers to assist the Department in its effort to collect 
or to compromise debts owed to the United States. DOJ will provide to 
the IRS an electronic file containing the names and Social Security 
Numbers (SSN) of individuals who owe debts to the U.S. and whose debts 
have been referred to DOJ for litigation and/or enforced collection. 
The IRS provides direct notice to taxpayers in the instructions to 
Forms 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ, and constructive notice in the Federal 
Register system of records notice. The notice provides taxpayers that 
information provided to the U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns may be 
given to other Federal agencies, as provided by law. For the records 
involved in this match, both IRS and DOJ have provided constructive 
notice to record subjects through the publication, in the Federal 
Register, of systems of records notices that contain routine uses 
permitting disclosures for this matching program.
    Participating Agencies: The participating agencies include: DOJ and 
the IRS.
    Authority for Conducting the Matching Program: This matching 
agreement is executed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(o), the Privacy Act of 
1974, as amended, and sets forth the terms under which the IRS agrees 
to disclose taxpayer mailing addresses to the DOJ. This matching 
program is being conducted under the authority of the Internal Revenue 
Code Sec.  6103(m)(2), and the routine uses published in the agencies' 
Privacy Act systems of records notices for the systems of records used 
in this match. This provides for disclosure, upon written request, of a 
taxpayer's mailing address for use by officers, employees, or agents of 
a Federal agency for the purpose of locating such taxpayer to collect 
or compromise a Federal claim against the taxpayer in accordance with 
Title 31, Sec. Sec.  3711, 3717, and 3718. These statutory provisions 
authorize DOJ to collect debts on behalf of the United States through 
litigation.
    Purposes: The purpose of this program is to provide DOJ with the 
most current addresses of taxpayers, to notify debtors of legal actions 
that may be taken by DOJ and the rights afforded them in the 
litigation, and to enforce collection of debts owed to the United 
States.
    Categories of Individuals: Individuals who owe debts to the United 
States and whose debts have been referred to the DOJ for litigation 
and/or enforced collection.
    Categories of Records: DOJ will submit the nine-digit SSN and four-
character Name Control (the first four letters of the surname) of each 
individual whose current address is requested. IRS will provide:
    a. Nine-digit SSN and four-character Name Control; and
    b. The latest street address, P.O. Box, or other address, city, 
State and ZIP Code, only if the input SSN and Name Control both match 
the Individual Master File (IMF); or
    c. A code explaining that no match was found on the IMF.
    Systems of Records: DOJ will provide records from the Debt 
Enforcement System, JUSTICE/DOJ-016, last published in its entirety at 
77 FR 9965-9968 (February 21, 2012). This system of records contains 
information on persons who owe debts to the United States and whose 
debts have been referred to the DOJ for litigation and/or enforced 
collection. DOJ records will be matched against records contained in 
Treasury's Privacy Act System of Records: Customer Account Data Engine 
(CADE) IMF, Treasury/IRS 24.030, last published at 77 FR 47948 (Aug. 
10, 2012). This system of records contains, among other information, 
the taxpayer's name, SSN, and most recent address known by IRS. CADE is 
maintained at the Martinsburg Computing Center (MCC), and the notice 
for this system of records was last published at 80 FR 54082 (September 
8, 2015).
    In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(A) and 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), the 
Department has provided a report to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) and Congress on this new Computer Matching Program.

    Dated: November 4, 2019.
Lee J. Lofthus,
Assistant Attorney General for Administration, United States Department 
of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2019-27174 Filed 12-17-19; 8:45 am]
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