USDA/FS-19 Persons Interested in Forestry and Related Programs

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USDA/FS-19

System name: Person Interested in Forestry and Related
Programs, USDA/FS.

System location: All Forest Service field locations. Addresses of
Forest Service offices are listed in the telephone directories of the
respective cities under the heading United States Government,
Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
Categories of individuals covered by the system: Persons in
communications, industry, conservation, elected office, and
communities who are known (or expressed) to have an interest in
obtaining up to date information about Forest Service activities in
forestry or natural resource related matters.
Categories of records in the system: Record includes name,
address, and kind of Forest Service activities and programs, i.e.,
wood, forage, water, recreation, wildlife, land use planning,
wilderness, etc., in which the individual has demonstrated a special
interest.
Authority for maintenance of the system: 5 U.S.C. 301; 7 CFR 2.60
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including
categories of users and the purposes of such uses: Keep interested
persons informed concerning current forestry or natural resource
elated activities. Disclosure may be made to a congressional office
from the record of an individual in response to an inquiry from the
congressional office made at the request of that individual.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing,
retaining, and disposing of records in the system:
Storage: File cards, folders, computer.
Retrievability: Indexed by name of individual for whom address is
written.
Safeguards: File cabinets.
Retention and disposal: Retained as long as there is a current
address or evidence of continuing interest in forestry and natural
resource related matters.
System manager(s) and address: Chief, Forest Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 12th and Independence, SW, Washington, DC
20250 or responsible line officer at each field unit.
Notification procedure: An individual may request information
regarding this system of records or information as to whether the
system contains records pertaining to him from any Forest Service
office, with the one in proximity to requester's home address most
likely.
Record access procedures: Use same procedures as for requesting
Notification.
Contesting record procedures: Use same procedures as for
requesting Notification.
Record source categories: Respondents on public involvement
issues, meetings, hearings, conversations, correspondence, telephone,
and published directories.