[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 56 (Thursday, March 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17638-17639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05960]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Department of 
Veterans Affairs (VA).

ACTION: Rescindment of a system of records notice.

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SUMMARY: The Customer User Provisioning System (CUPS) is a Graphical 
User Interface (GUI) that provisions mainframe accounts. It is used for 
requesting and monitoring user access to the Austin Information 
Technology Center (AITC) computer resources. CUPS uses functional tasks 
to provide access to computer systems, data files, and other software 
tools. CUPS is available 24/7, allowing field facility CUPS Points of 
Contact (POC) to register employees by entering Infrastructure and 
Operations (IO) System Access Request (e9957), at any time. CUPS 
processes requests immediately, registering employees for access to 
specific computer systems and data in real time, seven days a week. 
CUPS System Managers of Record (SMR), and SMR designees, use CUPS to 
monitor registration activity. The business owner of CUPS is the VA 
Data Center Operations (DCO), AITC.

DATES: This system was decommissioned on 11/30/2022. Comments on this 
rescindment notice must be received no later than 30 days after date of 
publication in the Federal Register. If no public comment is received 
during the period allowed for comment or unless otherwise published in 
the Federal Register by VA, the rescindment will become effective a 
minimum of 30 days after date of publication in the Federal Register. 
If VA receives public comments, VA shall review the comments to 
determine whether any changes to the notice are necessary.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted through www.Regulations.gov or 
mailed to VA Privacy Service, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, (005R1A), 
Washington, DC 20420. Comments should indicate that they are submitted 
in response to 87VA005OP-Customer User Provisioning System (CUPS)-VA. 
Comments received will be available at regulations.gov for public 
viewing, inspection or copies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stanley, Nina [email protected] 
(512) 364-4230; Adesokan, Kehinde [email protected] (512) 567-
3764; Tumuluri, Ganesh [email protected] (407) 480-6577.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CUPS should not have been a System of Record 
since it does not store personal information that is retrieved by any 
personal identifier within CUPS. The system has been decommissioned as 
of 11/30/2022 and there is no data remaining in the system. CUPS is a 
tool that creates virtual accounts. The accounts are created by data 
automatically retrieved from the Active Directory (i.e., first/last 
name, email, mail routing number) and Functional Task Code data 
manually taken from Form 9957 submissions. The information gathered is 
then passed to the mainframe system to electronically validate as a new 
or existing account. CUPS do not serve as a repository for records, it 
simply passes existing data from one system to another.

Signing Authority

    The Senior Agency Official for Privacy, or designee, approved this 
document and authorized the

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undersigned to sign and submit the document to the Office of the 
Federal Register for publication electronically as an official document 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Kurt D. DelBene, Assistant 
Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, 
approved this document on March 18, 2023 for publication.

    Dated: March 20, 2023.
Amy L. Rose,
Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office of Information Security, 
Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs.

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
    ``Customer User Provisioning System-VA'' (87VA005OP).

HISTORY:
    81 FR 3862 January 22, 2016.

[FR Doc. 2023-05960 Filed 3-22-23; 8:45 am]
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