[Privacy Act Issuances (2003)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

JAPAN-UNITED STATES FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION

   TABLE OF CONTENTS

       JUSFC--1 Payroll Records.
       JUSFC--2 General Financial Records.
       JUSFC--3 General Informal Personnel Files.

   JUSFC--1

   System name: Payroll Records--Japan-United States Friendship 
      Commission

     System location: General Services Administration, Region 3 Office; 
   copies held by the Commission. (GSA holds records for the Japan-
   United Friendship Commission under contract.)
     Categories of records in the system: Varied payroll records, 
   including, among other documents, time and attendance cards; payment 
   vouchers; comprehensive listing of employees; health benefits 
   records, requests for deductions; tax forms, W-2 forms, overtime 
   requests; leave data; retirement records. Records are used by 
   Commission and GSA employees to maintain adequate payroll information 
   for Commission employees, and otherwise by Commission and GSA 
   employees who have a need for the record in the performance of their 
   duties.
     Authority for maintenance of the system: 31 U.S.C., generally. 
   Also, Pub.L. 94-118.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses: See Appendix. 
   Records also are disclosed to GAO for audits; to the Internal Revenue 
   Service for investigation; and to private attorneys, pursuant to a 
   power of attorney.
       A copy of an employee's Department of the Treasury Form W-2, Wage 
   and Tax Statement, also is disclosed to the State, city, or other 
   local jurisdiction which is authorized to tax the employee's 
   compensation. The record will be provided in accordance with a 
   withholding agreement between the State, city, or other local 
   jurisdiction and the Department of the Treasury pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
   5516, 5517, or 5520, or, in the absence thereof, in response to a 
   written request from an appropriate official of the taxing 
   jurisdiction to the Assistant Executive Director, Japan-United States 
   Friendship Commission, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
   20009. The request must include a copy of the applicable statute or 
   ordinance authorizing the taxation of compensation and should 
   indicate whether the authority of the jurisdiction to tax the 
   employee is based on place of residence, place of employment, or 
   both.
       Pursuant to a withholding agreement between a city and the 
   Department of the Treasury (5 U.S.C. 5520), copies of executed city 
   tax withholding certificates shall be furnished the city in response 
   to written request from an appropriate city official to the Assistant 
   Executive Director.
       In the absence of a withholding agreement, the Social Security 
   Number will be furnished only to a taxing jurisdiction which has 
   furnished this agency with evidence of its independent authority to 
   compel disclosure of the Social Security Number, in accordance with 
   Section 7 of the Privacy Act, Pub. L. 93-579.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Retrievability: Social Security Number.
     Safeguards: Stored in guarded building; released only to authorized 
   personnel.
     Retention and disposal: Disposition of records shall be in 
   accordance with the HB GSA Records Maintenance and Disposition System 
   (OAD P 1820.2).
     System manager(s) and address: Assistant Executive Director, Japan-
   United States Friendship Commission, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 
   Washington, DC 20009.
     Notification procedure: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record access procedures: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Contesting record procedures: Refer to Commission access 
   regulations contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record source categories: The subject individual; the Commission.

   JUSFC--2

   System name: General Financial Records--Japan-United States 
      Friendship Commission.

     System location: General Services Administration, Central Office; 
   copies held by the Commission. (GSA holds records for the Japan-
   United States Friendship Commission under contract.)
     Categories of individuals covered by the system: Employees of the 
   Japan-United States Friendship Commission and members of its 
   Commission.
     Categories of records in the system: SF-1038, Application and 
   account for advance of funds; vendor register and vendor payment 
   tape. Information is used by accounting technicians to maintain 
   adequate financial information and by other officers and employees of 
   GSA and the Commission who have a need for the record in the 
   performance of their duties.
     Authority for maintenance of the system: 31 U.S.C., generally; 
   also, Pub. L. 94-118.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses: See appendix. 
   Records also are released to GAO for audits; to the IRS for 
   investigation; and to private attorneys, pursuant to power of 
   attorney.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage: Paper and tape.
     Retrievability: Manual and automated by name.
     Safeguards: Stored in guarded building; released only to authorized 
   personnel.
     Retention and disposal: Disposition of records shall be in 
   accordance with the HB GSA Records Maintenance and Disposition.
     System manager(s) and address: Assistant Executive Director, Japan-
   United States Friendship Commission, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 
   Washington, DC 20009.
     Notification procedure: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record access procedures: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Contesting record procedures: Refer to Commission access 
   regulations contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record source categories: The subject individual; the Commission.

   JUSFC--3

   System name: General Informal Personnel Files--Japan-United 
      States Friendship Commission.

     System location: Japan-United States Friendship Commission, 1875 
   Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
     Categories of individuals covered by the system: The Commission 
   members, staff and consultants, past and present.
     Categories of records in the system: Personnel action requests and 
   notifications, statements of employment and financial interests, 
   training material and correspondence with members of the Commission, 
   7-B cards, delegations of authority.
     Authority for maintenance of the system: Title 5, U.S.C., 
   generally. Also Pub. L. 94-118.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses: See Appendix.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage: Paper.
     Retrievability: Manual.
     Safeguards: Stored in lockable file cabinets, released only to 
   authorized personnel.
     Retention and disposal: Disposition of records shall be in 
   accordance with the GSA records maintenance and disposition system.
     System manager(s) and address: Assistant Executive Director, Japan-
   United States Friendship Commission, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 
   Washington, DC 20009.
     Notification procedure: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record access procedures: Refer to Commission access regulations 
   contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Contesting record procedures: Refer to Commission access 
   regulations contained in 22 CFR ch. XII.
     Record source categories: The subject individual; the Commission.

           APPENDIX--Japan-United States Friendship Commission

       In the event that a system of records maintained by this agency 
   to carry out its functions indicates a violation or potential 
   violation of law, whether civil, criminal or regulatory in nature, 
   and whether arising by general statute or particular program statute, 
   or by regulation, rule or order issued pursuant thereto, the relevant 
   records in the system of records may be referred, as a routine use, 
   to the appropriate agency, whether federal, state, local or foreign, 
   charged with the responsibility of investigating or prosecuting such 
   violation or charged with enforcing or implementing the statute, or 
   rule, regulation or order issued pursuant thereto.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed as a 
   ``routine use'' to a federal, state or local agency maintaining 
   civil, criminal or other relevant enforcement information or other 
   pertinent information, such as current licenses, if necessary to 
   obtain information relevant to an agency decision concerning the 
   hiring or retention of an employee, the issuance of a security 
   clearance, the letting of a contract or the issuance of a license, 
   grant or other benefit.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed to a 
   federal agency, in response to its request, in connection with the 
   hiring or retention of an employee, the issuance of a security 
   clearance, the reporting of an investigation of an employee, the 
   letting of a contract, or the issuance of a license, grant or other 
   benefit by the requesting agency, to the extent that the information 
   is relevant and necessary to the requesting agency's decision in the 
   matter.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed to an 
   authorized appeal grievance examiner, formal complaints examiner, 
   equal employment opportunity investigator, arbitrator or other duly 
   authorized official engaged in investigation or settlement or a 
   grievance, complaint, or appeal filed by an employee. A record from 
   the system of records may be disclosed to the United States Civil 
   Service Commission in accordance with the agency's responsibility for 
   evaluation and oversight of federal personnel management.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed to officers 
   and employees of a federal agency for purposes of audit.
       The information contained in this system of records will be 
   disclosed to the Office of Management and Budget in connection with 
   the review of private relief legislation as set forth in OMB Circular 
   No. A-19 at any stage of the legislative coordination and clearance 
   process as set forth in that Circular.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed as a 
   routine use to a Member of Congress or to a congressional staff 
   member in response to an inquiry of the congressional office made at 
   the request of the individual about whom the record is maintained.
       A record from this system of records may be disclosed to officers 
   and employees of the General Services Administration in connection 
   with administrative services provided to this agency under agreement 
   with GSA.