[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 25894]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07771]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-7092-N-26]


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Office of Housing Counseling, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of a rescindment of a system of records.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as 
amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the 
Office of Housing Counseling, is issuing a public notice of its intent 
to rescind the Housing Counseling System (HCS) because the system no 
longer collects any personally identifiable information (PII).

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or before May 13, 2024. This 
proposed action will be effective immediately upon publication.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by one of the following 
methods:
    Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
    Fax: 202-619-8365.
    Email: [email protected].
    Mail: Attention: Privacy Office; LaDonne White, Chief Privacy 
Officer; The Executive Secretariat; 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 10139; 
Washington, DC 20410-0001.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and docket number for this rulemaking. All comments received will be 
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov including any 
personal information provided.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received go to http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaDonne White, Chief Privacy Officer, 
451 Seventh Street SW, Room 10139, Washington, DC 20410; telephone 
number (202) 708-3054 (this is not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes 
and is prepared to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or hard 
of hearing, as well as individuals with speech or communication 
disabilities. To learn more about how to make an accessible telephone 
call, please visit https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Housing Counseling system (HCS) is a 
system Housing uses to manage HUDs Housing Counseling program. HCS is 
the sole web-based application to input, review, report and analyze 
data on HUD's Housing Counseling program. HCS is a real-time automated 
data management system to manage the housing counseling program by 
maintaining the HUD-Approved housing counseling agency list, providing 
their profile information to program users, processing their grant 
applications, sharing data with other SF Housing programs, and 
collecting agencies HUD-9902 reports. Based on a recent review, it was 
determined that the HCS system no longer collects Personal Identifiable 
Information (PII). The existing PII will remain in a database that is 
only accessible through a database extraction tool that recalls the 
data located in the database. This is a tool only used by the 
contractor assigned to manage the database. It was determined that 
previously collected PII data is not Mission Critical Data and 
therefore is no longer required. Records are no longer maintained by 
the Office of Housing Counseling and have run the record retention 
period. The records were wiped from the system. The electronic records 
were destroyed in accordance with schedule 20 of the National Archives 
and Records Administration General Records Schedule.
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
    Housing Counseling System/Counseling Activity Reporting System, 
HUD/HS-23.

HISTORY:
    The previously published notice in the Federal Register [Docket 
Number FR-5130-N-32], on October 21, 2008 at 73 FR 62522.

LaDonne White,
Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-07771 Filed 4-11-24; 8:45 am]
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