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Dated: October 28, 2014.
Helen Jackson,
Designated Federal Officer for the NSTAC.
[FR Doc. 2014–26097 Filed 11–3–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE P

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DHS–2014–0057]

Privacy Act of 1974; Department of
Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (DHS/CBP)–009
Electronic System for Travel
Authorization (ESTA) System of
Records
Department of Homeland
Security, Privacy Office.
ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act System of
Records.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) proposes to update a current DHS
system of records titled, ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and
Border Protection—DHS/CBP–009
Electronic System for Travel
Authorization (ESTA) System of
Records.’’ This system of records allows
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) at DHS to collect and maintain
records on nonimmigrant aliens seeking
to travel to the United States under the
Visa Waiver Program and other persons,
including U.S. citizens and lawful
permanent residents, whose name is
provided to DHS as part of a
nonimmigrant alien’s ESTA application.
The system is used to determine
whether the applicant is eligible to
travel to and enter the United States
under the Visa Waiver Program by
vetting the ESTA application
information against selected security
and law enforcement databases at DHS,
including but not limited to the use of
CBP’s TECS (not an acronym) and the
Automated Targeting System (ATS). In
addition, ATS retains a copy of ESTA
application data to identify ESTA
applicants who may pose a security risk
to the United States. ATS maintains
copies of key elements of certain
databases in order to minimize the
impact of processing searches on the
operational systems and to act as a
backup for certain operational systems.
DHS may also vet ESTA application
information against security and law
enforcement databases at other Federal
agencies to enhance DHS’s ability to
determine whether the applicant poses
a security risk to the United States and

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is eligible to travel to and enter the
United States under the Visa Waiver
Program. The results of this vetting may
inform DHS’s assessment of whether the
applicant’s travel poses a law
enforcement or security risk and
whether the application should be
approved.
As part of the Department’s ongoing
effort to promote transparency regarding
its collection of information, DHS/CBP
is updating: (1) The categories of
individuals covered by the system, and
(2) categories of records in the system to
include revised eligibility questions and
additional data elements collected on
the ESTA application. DHS issued a
Final Rule to exempt this system of
records from certain provisions of the
Privacy Act on August 31, 2009 (74 FR
45070). These regulations remain in
effect.
Furthermore, this notice includes
non-substantive changes to simplify the
formatting and text of the previously
published notice. This updated system
will be included in DHS’s inventory of
systems of records, located on the DHS
Web site at http://www.dhs.gov/systemrecords-notices-sorns.
DATES: This updated system will be
effective upon the public display of this
notice. Although this system is effective
upon publication, DHS will accept and
consider comments from the public and
evaluate the need for any revisions to
this notice.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this notice, including the
applicability of the exemptions set forth
in the August 31, 2009 Final Rule (74
FR 45070) to the new categories of
individuals and categories of records,
identified by docket number DHS–
2014–0057, by one of the following
methods:
• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 202–343–4010.
• Mail: Karen L. Neuman, Chief
Privacy Officer, Privacy Office,
Department of Homeland Security,
Washington, DC 20528.
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, please visit http://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general questions, please contact: John
Connors, (202) 344–1610, CBP Privacy

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Officer, Privacy and Diversity Office,
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20229. For privacy
questions, please contact: Karen L.
Neuman, (202) 343–1717, Chief Privacy
Officer, Privacy Office, Department of
Homeland Security, Washington, DC
20528.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background
In accordance with the Privacy Act of
1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) is updating
a current DHS system of records titled,
‘‘DHS/CBP–009 Electronic System for
Travel Authorization (ESTA) System of
Records.’’
In the wake of the tragedy of
September 11, 2001, Congress enacted
the Implementing Recommendations of
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,
Public Law 110–53. Section 711 of that
Act sought to address the security
vulnerabilities associated with Visa
Waiver Program (VWP) travelers not
being subject to the same degree of
screening as other international visitors.
As a result, section 711 requires DHS to
develop and implement a fully
automated electronic travel
authorization system to collect
biographical and other information
necessary to evaluate the security risks
and eligibility of an applicant to travel
to the United States under the VWP.
The VWP is a travel facilitation program
that has evolved since the terrorist
attack on the Nation on September 11,
2001, to include more robust security
standards that are designed to prevent
terrorists and other criminal actors from
exploiting the Program to enter the
country.
ESTA is a Web-based system that
DHS/CBP developed in 2008 to
determine the eligibility of foreign
nationals to travel by air or sea to the
United States under the VWP.
Applicants submit biographic
information and answer eligibility
questions using the ESTA Web site. CBP
uses the information submitted to ESTA
to make a determination regarding
whether the applicant’s intended travel
poses a law enforcement or security
risk. CBP vets the ESTA applicant
information against selected security
and law enforcement databases,
including the use of TECS and the
Automated Targeting System (ATS).
ATS also retains a copy of ESTA
application data to identify ESTA
applicants who may pose a security risk
to the United States. ATS maintains
copies of key elements of certain
databases in order to minimize the

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impact of processing searches on the
operational systems and to act as a
backup for certain operational systems.
DHS may also vet ESTA application
information against security and law
enforcement databases at other Federal
agencies to enhance DHS’s ability to
determine whether the applicant poses
a security risk to the United States and
is eligible to travel to and enter the
United States under the Visa Waiver
Program. The results of this vetting may
inform DHS’s assessment of whether the
applicant’s travel poses a law
enforcement or security risk. The ESTA
eligibility determination is made prior
to a visitor boarding a carrier en route
to the United States.
The System of Records Notice (SORN)
for ESTA, last published on July 30,
2012 (77 FR 44642), is being updated
with new categories of individuals and
new categories of records to provide
notice of new data elements and
eligibility questions on the ESTA
application. The categories of covered
individuals is being updated to
accurately reflect information in the
system that could pertain to U.S.
citizens, U.S. businesses or entities, and
lawful permanent residents. The new
data elements on the ESTA application
provide the Department with enhanced
vetting capability while the eligibility
questions have been revised to reflect
the new data elements and promote
readability and make the questions
easier to understand by the general
public.
Aligning with the 9/11 Commission’s
recommendation to address the
vulnerabilities associated with less
stringent screening of VWP travelers,
CBP has added the following data
elements to the ESTA application to
make the screening of VWP travelers
more robust:
• Other Names or Aliases
• Other Country of Citizenship
Æ If yes, passport number on
additional citizenship passport
• City of Birth
• Home Address
• Parents’ Names
• Email Address
• Telephone Number
• National Identification Number
• Current Job Title
• Current or Previous Employer Name
• Current or Previous Employer
Address
• Current or Previous Employer
Telephone Number
• Emergency Point of Contact
Information Name
• Emergency Point of Contact
Information Telephone Number
• Emergency Point of Contact
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• U.S. Point of Contact Name
• U.S. Point of Contact Address
• U.S. Point of Contact Telephone
Number
The addition of these data elements
provides additional security in the
ESTA application process by enhancing
ESTA’s vetting capability to identify
individuals who may pose a threat to
the United States, thereby reducing the
likelihood that an applicant with
derogatory security records will be
automatically approved for a travel
authorization. Moreover, the additional
data elements also reduces the number
of inconclusive matches to derogatory
records during the vetting process,
which will decrease the number of
applicants who are required to apply for
a visa due to ambiguity concerning their
identity.
When a person submits an ESTA
application, CBP examines the
application by screening the applicant’s
data through ATS (to screen for
terrorists or threats to aviation and
border security) and TECS (for matches
to persons identified to be of law
enforcement interest). The additional
data elements will help resolve
potentially inconclusive matches by
providing additional data to confirm an
applicant’s identity. Inconclusive
matches ultimately result in a denial of
the ESTA application, which results in
an applicant being directed to a U.S.
embassy or consulate to apply for a visa.
DHS/CBP has authority to operate this
system under Title IV of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002, 6 U.S.C. 201, et
seq., and Section 217(h)(3) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, 8
U.S.C. 1187(h)(3).
Consistent with DHS’s information
sharing mission, information stored in
ESTA may be shared with other DHS
components that have a need to know
the information to carry out their
national security, law enforcement,
immigration, intelligence, or other
homeland security functions.
Information stored in ESTA may also be
shared with other Federal security and
counterterrorism agencies, as well as on
a case-by-case basis to appropriate state,
local, tribal, territorial, foreign, or
international government agencies. This
external sharing takes place after DHS
determines that it is consistent with the
routine uses set forth in this system of
records notice.
Additionally, for ongoing, systematic
sharing, DHS completes an information
sharing and access agreement with
Federal partners to establish the terms
and conditions of the sharing, including
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privacy protections for the data. This
updated system will be included in
DHS’s inventory of systems of records,
located on the DHS Web site at http://
www.dhs.gov/system-records-noticessorns.
II. Privacy Act
The Privacy Act embodies fair
information practice principles in a
statutory framework governing the
means by which Federal Government
agencies collect, maintain, use, and
disseminate individuals’ records. The
Privacy Act applies to information that
is maintained in a ‘‘system of records.’’
A ‘‘system of records’’ is a group of any
records under the control of an agency
from which information is retrieved by
the name of an individual or by some
identifying number, symbol, or other
identifying particular assigned to the
individual. In the Privacy Act, an
individual is defined to encompass U.S.
citizens and lawful permanent
residents. As a matter of policy, DHS
extends administrative Privacy Act
protections to all individuals when
systems of records maintain information
on U.S. citizens, lawful permanent
residents, and visitors.
Given the importance of providing
privacy protections to international
travelers, even prior to the collection of
these new data elements that may
include information about U.S. persons,
DHS always administratively applied
the privacy protections and safeguards
of the Act to all international travelers
subject to ESTA. With the addition of
the new data elements, ESTA now falls
squarely within the mixed system
policy and DHS will continue to extend
the administrative protections of the
Privacy Act to information about
travelers and non-travelers whose
information is provided to DHS as part
of the ESTA application.
Below is the description of the DHS/
CBP–009 Electronic System for Travel
Authorization (ESTA) System of
Records.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r),
DHS has provided a report of this
system of records to the Office of
Management and Budget and to
Congress.
System of Records

Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)/U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP)–009.

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SYSTEM NAME:

DHS/CBP–009 Electronic System for
Travel Authorization (ESTA)
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified. The data may be
retained on classified networks but this
does not change the nature and
character of the data until it is combined
with classified information.
SYSTEM LOCATION:

Records are maintained at the CBP
Headquarters in Washington, DC, and in
field offices. Records are replicated from
the operational system and maintained
on the DHS unclassified and classified
networks.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:

Categories of individuals covered by
this system include:
1. Foreign nationals who seek to enter
the United States by air or sea under the
VWP; and
2. Persons, including U.S. Citizens
and lawful permanent residents, whose
information is provided in response to
ESTA application questions.

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CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

VWP travelers obtain the required
travel authorization by electronically
submitting an application consisting of
biographical and other data elements via
the ESTA Web site. The categories of
records in ESTA include:
• Full Name (First, Middle, and Last);
• Other names or aliases, if available;
• Date of birth;
• City of birth;
• Gender;
• Email address;
• Telephone number (home, mobile,
work, other);
• Home address (address, apartment
number, city, state/region);
• IP address;
• ESTA application number;
• Country of residence;
• Passport number;
• Passport issuing country;
• Passport issuance date;
• Passport expiration date;
• Department of Treasury pay.gov
payment tracking number (i.e.,
confirmation of payment; absence of
payment confirmation will result in a
‘‘not cleared’’ determination);
• Country of citizenship;
• Other citizenship (country, passport
number);
• National identification number, if
available;
• Date of anticipated crossing;
• Carrier information (carrier name
and flight or vessel number);
• City of embarkation;

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• Address while visiting the United
States (number, street, city, state);
• Emergency point of contact
information (name, telephone number,
email address);
• U.S. Point of Contact (name,
address, telephone number);
• Parents’ names;
• Current job title;
• Current or previous employer name;
• Current or previous employer street
address;
• Current or previous employer
telephone number; and
• Any change of address while in the
United States.
The categories of records in ESTA
also include responses to the following
questions:
• Do you currently have any of the
following diseases:
Æ Chancroid
Æ Gonorrhea
Æ Granuloma Inguinale
Æ Leprosy, infectious
Æ Lymphogranuloma venereum
Æ Syphilis, infectious
Æ Active Tuberculosis
• Have you ever been arrested or
convicted for a crime that resulted in
serious damage to property, or serious
harm to another person or government
authority?
• Have you ever violated any law
related to possessing, using, or
distributing illegal drugs?
• Do you seek to engage in or have
you ever engaged in terrorist activities,
espionage, or sabotage; or genocide?
• Have you ever committed fraud or
misrepresented yourself or others to
obtain, or assist others to obtain, a visa
or entry into the United States?
• Are you currently seeking
employment in the United States or you
were you previously employed in the
United States without prior permission
from the U.S. government?
• Have you ever been denied a U.S.
visa you applied for with your current
or previous passport, or have you ever
been refused admission to the United
States or withdrawn your application
for admission at a U.S. port of entry? If
yes, when and where?
• Have you ever stayed in the United
States longer than the admission period
granted to you by the U.S. government?
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

Title IV of the Homeland Security Act
of 2002, 6.U.S.C. 201 et seq., the
Immigration and Naturalization Act, as
amended, including 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(11)
and (h)(3), and implementing
regulations contained in Part 217, title
8, Code of Federal Regulations; and the
Travel Promotion Act of 2009, Public
Law 111–145, 22 U.S.C. 2131.

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PURPOSE(S):

The purpose of this system is to
collect and maintain a record of
nonimmigrant aliens who want to travel
to the United States under the VWP, and
to determine whether applicants are
eligible to travel to and enter the United
States under the VWP by vetting their
information—and other information that
the Secretary of Homeland Security
determines is necessary, including
information about other persons
included on the ESTA application—
against various security and law
enforcement databases and identifying
applicants who pose a security risk to
the United States. This vetting includes
consideration of the applicant’s IP
address, along with the other
application data.
The Department of Treasury pay.gov
tracking number (associated with the
payment information provided to
pay.gov and stored in the Credit/Debit
Card Data System, DHS/CBP–003
Credit/Debit Card Data System (CDCDS),
76 FR 67755 (November 2, 2011)) will
be used to process ESTA and third party
administrator fees and to reconcile
issues regarding payment between
ESTA, CDCDS, and Pay.gov. Payment
information will not be used for vetting
purposes and is stored in a separate
system (CDCDS) from the ESTA
application data.
DHS maintains a replica of some or all
of the data in ESTA on the unclassified
and classified DHS networks to allow
for analysis and vetting consistent with
the above stated uses, purposes, and this
published notice.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

In addition to those disclosures
generally permitted under 5 U.S.C.
552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a
portion of the records or information
contained in this system may be
disclosed outside DHS as a routine use
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as
follows:
A. To the Department of Justice (DOJ),
including Offices of the U.S. Attorneys,
or other federal agency conducting
litigation or in proceedings before any
court, adjudicative, or administrative
body, when it is relevant or necessary to
the litigation and one of the following
is a party to the litigation or has an
interest in such litigation:
1. DHS or any component thereof;
2. Any employee or former employee
of DHS in his/her official capacity;
3. Any employee or former employee
of DHS in his/her individual capacity
when DOJ or DHS has agreed to
represent the employee; or

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4. The U.S. or any agency thereof.
B. To a congressional office from the
record of an individual in response to
an inquiry from that congressional office
made at the request of the individual to
whom the record pertains.
C. To the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) or
General Services Administration
pursuant to records management
inspections being conducted under the
authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and 2906.
D. To an agency or organization for
the purpose of performing audit or
oversight operations as authorized by
law, but only such information as is
necessary and relevant to such audit or
oversight function.
E. To appropriate agencies, entities,
and persons when:
1. DHS suspects or has confirmed that
the security or confidentiality of
information in the system of records has
been compromised;
2. DHS has determined that as a result
of the suspected or confirmed
compromise, there is a risk of identity
theft or fraud, harm to economic or
property interests, harm to an
individual, or harm to the security or
integrity of this system or other systems
or programs (whether maintained by
DHS or another agency or entity) that
rely upon the compromised
information; and
3. The disclosure made to such
agencies, entities, and persons is
reasonably necessary to assist in
connection with DHS’s efforts to
respond to the suspected or confirmed
compromise and prevent, minimize, or
remedy such harm.
F. To contractors and their agents,
grantees, experts, consultants, and
others performing or working on a
contract, service, grant, cooperative
agreement, or other assignment for DHS,
when necessary to accomplish an
agency function related to this system of
records. Individuals provided
information under this routine use are
subject to the same Privacy Act
requirements and limitations on
disclosure as are applicable to DHS
officers and employees.
G. To an appropriate federal, state,
tribal, local, international, or foreign law
enforcement agency or other appropriate
authority charged with investigating or
prosecuting a violation or enforcing or
implementing a law, rule, regulation, or
order, when a record, either on its face
or in conjunction with other
information, indicates a violation or
potential violation of law, which
includes criminal, civil, or regulatory
violations and such disclosure is proper
and consistent with the official duties of
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H. To appropriate federal, state, local,
tribal, or foreign governmental agencies
or multilateral governmental
organizations for the purpose of
protecting the vital health interests of a
data subject or other persons (e.g., to
assist such agencies or organizations in
preventing exposure to or transmission
of a communicable or quarantinable
disease or to combat other significant
public health threats; appropriate notice
will be provided of any identified health
threat or risk);
I. To third parties during the course
of a law enforcement investigation to
the extent necessary to obtain
information pertinent to the
investigation;
J. To a federal, state, tribal, local,
international, or foreign government
agency or entity for the purpose of
consulting with that agency or entity: (1)
To assist in making a determination
regarding redress for an individual in
connection with the operations of a DHS
component or program; (2) for the
purpose of verifying the identity of an
individual seeking redress in
connection with the operations of a DHS
component or program; or (3) for the
purpose of verifying the accuracy of
information submitted by an individual
who has requested such redress on
behalf of another individual;
K. To federal and foreign government
intelligence or counterterrorism
agencies or components when DHS
becomes aware of an indication of a
threat or potential threat to national or
international security to assist in
countering such threat, or to assist in
anti-terrorism efforts;
L. To the Department of State in the
processing of petitions or applications
for benefits under the Immigration and
Nationality Act, and all other
immigration and nationality laws
including treaties and reciprocal
agreements;
M. To an organization or individual in
either the public or private sector, either
foreign or domestic, when there is a
reason to believe that the recipient is or
could become the target of a particular
terrorist activity or conspiracy, to the
extent the information is relevant to the
protection of life or property;
N. To the carrier transporting an
individual to the United States, but only
to the extent that CBP provides
information that the ESTA status is not
applicable to the traveler, or, if
applicable, that the individual is
authorized to travel, not authorized to
travel, pending, or has not applied.
O. To the Department of Treasury’s
Pay.gov, for payment processing and
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P. To a court, magistrate, or
administrative tribunal in the course of
presenting evidence, including
disclosures to opposing counsel or
witnesses in the course of civil
discovery, litigation, or settlement
negotiations, or in response to a
subpoena, or in connection with
criminal law proceedings;
Q. To the news media and the public,
with the approval of the Chief Privacy
Officer in consultation with counsel,
when there exists a legitimate public
interest in the disclosure of the
information, when disclosure is
necessary to preserve confidence in the
integrity of DHS, or when disclosure is
necessary to demonstrate the
accountability of DHS’s officers,
employees, or individuals covered by
the system, except to the extent the
Chief Privacy Officer determines that
release of the specific information in the
context of a particular case would
constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy.
DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING
AGENCIES:

None.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,
RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND
DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
STORAGE:

DHS/CBP stores records in this
system electronically or on paper in
secure facilities in a locked drawer
behind a locked door. The records may
be stored on magnetic disc, tape, and
digital media.
RETRIEVABILITY:

Records may be retrieved by any of
the data elements supplied by the
applicant.
SAFEGUARDS:

DHS/CBP safeguards records in this
system according to applicable rules
and policies, including all applicable
DHS automated systems security and
access policies. CBP has imposed strict
controls to minimize the risk of
compromising the information that is
being stored. Access to the computer
system containing the records in this
system is limited to those individuals
who have a need to know the
information for the performance of their
official duties and who have appropriate
clearances or permissions.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Application information submitted to
ESTA generally expires and is deemed
‘‘inactive’’ two years after the initial
submission of information by the
applicant. In the event that a traveler’s
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years from the date of the ESTA
approval, the ESTA travel authorization
will expire concurrently with the
passport. Information in ESTA will be
retained for one year after the ESTA
travel authorization expires. After this
period, the inactive account information
will be purged from online access and
archived for 12 years. Data linked at any
time during the 15-year retention period
(generally 3 years active, 12 years
archived), to active law enforcement
lookout records, will be matched by
CBP to enforcement activities, and/or
investigations or cases, including ESTA
applications that are denied
authorization to travel, will remain
accessible for the life of the law
enforcement activities to which they
may become related. NARA guidelines
for retention and archiving of data will
apply to ESTA and CBP continues to
negotiate with NARA for approval of the
ESTA data retention and archiving plan.
Records replicated on the unclassified
and classified networks will follow the
same retention schedule.
Payment information is not stored in
ESTA, but is forwarded to pay.gov and
stored in CBP’s financial processing
system, CDCDS, pursuant to the DHS/
CBP–018, CDCDS system of records
notice.
When a VWP traveler’s ESTA data is
used for purposes of processing his or
her application for admission to the
United States, the ESTA data will be
used to create a corresponding
admission record in the DHS/CBP–016
Non-Immigrant Information System
(NIIS). This corresponding admission
record will be retained in accordance
with the NIIS retention schedule, which
is 75 years.
SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS:

Director, Office of Automated
Systems, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Headquarters, 1300
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20229.

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NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Applicants may access their ESTA
information to view and amend their
applications by providing their ESTA
number, birth date, and passport
number. Once they have provided their
ESTA number, birth date, and passport
number, applicants may view their
ESTA status (authorized to travel, not
authorized to travel, pending) and
submit limited updates to their travel
itinerary information. If an applicant
does not know his or her application
number, he or she can provide his or her
name, passport number, date of birth,
and passport issuing country to retrieve
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In addition, ESTA applicants and
other individuals whose information is
included on ESTA applications may
submit requests and receive information
maintained in this system as it relates to
data submitted by or on behalf of a
person who travels to the United States
and crosses the border, as well as, for
ESTA applicants, the resulting
determination (authorized to travel,
pending, or not authorized to travel).
However, the Secretary of Homeland
Security has exempted portions of this
system from certain provisions of the
Privacy Act related to providing the
accounting of disclosures to individuals
because it is a law enforcement system.
CBP will, however, consider individual
requests to determine whether or not
information may be released. In
processing requests for access to
information in this system, CBP will
review not only the records in the
operational system but also the records
that were replicated on the unclassified
and classified networks, and based on
this notice provide appropriate access to
the information.
Individuals seeking notification of
and access to any record contained in
this system of records, or seeking to
contest its content, may submit a
request in writing to the Chief Privacy
Officer and Headquarters FOIA Officer,
whose contact information can be found
at http://www.dhs.gov/foia under ‘‘FOIA
Contact Information.’’ If an individual
believes more than one component
maintains Privacy Act records
concerning him or her, the individual
may submit the request to the Chief
Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of
Information Act Officer, Department of
Homeland Security, 245 Murray Drive
SW., Building 410, STOP–0655,
Washington, DC 20528.
When seeking records about yourself
from this system of records or any other
Departmental system of records, your
request must conform with the Privacy
Act regulations set forth in 6 CFR part
5. You must first verify your identity,
meaning that you must provide your full
name, current address, and date and
place of birth. You must sign your
request, and your signature must either
be notarized or submitted under 28
U.S.C. 1746, a law that permits
statements to be made under penalty of
perjury as a substitute for notarization.
While no specific form is required, you
may obtain forms for this purpose from
the Chief Privacy Officer and Chief
Freedom of Information Act Officer,
http://www.dhs.gov/foia or 1–866–431–
0486. In addition, you should:
• Explain why you believe the
Department would have information on
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• Identify which component(s) of the
Department you believe may have the
information about you;
• Specify when you believe the
records would have been created; and
• Provide any other information that
will help the FOIA staff determine
which DHS component agency may
have responsive records;
If your request is seeking records
pertaining to another living individual,
you must include a statement from that
individual certifying his or her
agreement for you to access his or her
records.
Without the above information, the
component(s) may not be able to
conduct an effective search, and your
request may be denied due to lack of
specificity or lack of compliance with
applicable regulations.
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

See ‘‘Notification procedure’’ above.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

See ‘‘Notification procedure’’ above.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Records are obtained from the online
ESTA application at https://
esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/.
EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM:

No exemption shall be asserted with
respect to information maintained in the
system as it relates to data submitted by
or on behalf of a person who travels to
visit the United States and crosses the
border, nor shall an exemption be
asserted with respect to the resulting
determination (authorized to travel,
pending, or not authorized to travel).
Information in the system may be
shared with law enforcement and/or
intelligence agencies pursuant to the
above routine uses. The Privacy Act
requires DHS to maintain an accounting
of the disclosures made pursuant to all
routines uses. Disclosing the fact that a
law enforcement or intelligence agency
has sought and been provided particular
records may affect ongoing law
enforcement activities. As such,
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(j)(2), DHS will
claim exemption from Sections (c)(3),
(e)(8), and (g) of the Privacy Act of 1974,
as amended, as is necessary and
appropriate to protect this information.
Further, DHS will claim exemption from
Section (c)(3) of the Privacy Act of 1974,
as amended, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
552a(k)(2) as is necessary and
appropriate to protect this information.

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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 213 / Tuesday, November 4, 2014 / Notices
Dated: September 30, 2014.
Karen L. Neuman,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2014–26100 Filed 11–3–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG–2014–0975]

Notice of a Public Meeting To Prepare
for the Twenty-third Session of the
Assembly of the International Mobile
Satellite Organization
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of public meeting.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The U.S. Coast Guard will
hold a public meeting on subject matters
that will be addressed at the Twentythird Session of the Assembly of the
International Mobile Satellite
Organization.

SUMMARY:

A public meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 13, 2014, from
1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the headquarters of the Radio Technical
Commission for Maritime Services in
Suite 605, 1611 New Kent Street,
Arlington, Virginia 22209.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larry S. Solomon at (202)475–3556 or
by email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of this public meeting is to
prepare for the Twenty-third Session of
the International Mobile Satellite
Organization (IMSO) Assembly to be
held on November 25–28, 2014 at the
headquarters of the International
Maritime Organization in London,
United Kingdom. The primary topics
that will be considered at the public
meeting include:
• Oversight and performance of the
Global Maritime Distress and Safety
System; and, issues relating to the
oversight of potential new GMDSS
providers;
• Oversight, performance, audits,
charging formulas and proposals for the
Long Range Identification and Tracking
System;
• Appointment of a new Director
General of IMSO and proposed revisions
to the functions of the Director General;
• Directorate matters and review of
restructuring the Directorate; and
• Financial matters, including
arrangements for the development,
endorsement and agreement of IMSO
budgets and business plans.

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Members of the public may attend
this meeting up to the seating capacity
of the room. No advance notification is
necessary. The Radio Technical
Commission for Maritime Services
Headquarters building is accessible by
public transportation, and privately
owned conveyance. Public parking in
the vicinity of the building is readily
available.
Members of the public are encouraged
to participate and join in discussions,
subject to the discretion of the
moderator. Persons wishing to make
formal presentations should provide
advance notice to Larry S. Solomon at
(202) 475–3556 or by email at
[email protected] as soon as
possible.
Dated: October 29, 2014.
F. J. Sturm,
U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director of
Commercial Regulations and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2014–26187 Filed 11–3–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5803–N–01]

Manufactured Home Construction and
Safety Standards; Request for
Recommended Changes
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Consistent with the National
Manufactured Housing Construction
and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as
amended, this notice invites interested
persons to submit proposed changes to
update and revise HUD’s Manufactured
Home Construction and Safety
Standards. These proposed changes will
be submitted to the Manufactured
Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC)
for review and consideration as part of
its responsibility to provide periodic
recommendations to HUD to adopt,
revise, and interpret the HUD standards.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
proposed changes from the public must
be received at the address provided
herein no later than December 31, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Proposed changes to the
Manufactured Home Construction and
Safety Standards are to be mailed to
Home Innovation Research Labs, 400
Prince Georges Blvd., Upper Marlboro,
MD 20774, Attention: Kevin Kauffman
or are to be submitted to the following
URL address:
mhcc.homeinnovation.com.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Pamela Beck Danner, Administrator and
Designated Federal Official (DFO),
Office of Manufactured Housing
Programs, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Room 9168, Washington, DC 20410,
telephone number 202–708–6423 (this
is not a toll-free number). Persons who
have difficulty hearing or speaking may
access this number via TTY by calling
the toll-free Federal Information Relay
Service at 800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
604(a) of the National Manufactured
Housing Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974, as amended by
the Manufactured Housing
Improvement Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C.
5401 et seq.) (the Act) establishes the
MHCC. Among other things, the MHCC
is responsible for providing periodic
recommendations to HUD to adopt,
revise, and interpret the manufactured
housing construction and safety
standards. HUD’s Manufactured Home
Construction and Safety Standards are
codified at 24 CFR part 3280. According
to Section 604(a)(4) of the Act, the
MHCC is required to consider revisions
not less than once during each 2-year
period.
Today’s notice requests that interested
persons provide proposed changes for
revising or updating HUD’s
Manufactured Home Construction and
Safety Standards. Consistent with the
Act, recommendations are requested
that further HUD’s efforts to increase the
quality, durability, safety and
affordability of manufactured homes;
facilitate the availability of affordable
manufactured homes and increase
homeownership for all Americans; and
encourage cost-effective and innovative
construction techniques for
manufactured homes. To permit the
MHCC to fully consider the proposed
changes, commenters are encouraged to
provide at least the following
information:
• The specific section of the current
Manufactured Home Construction and
Safety Standards that require revision or
update; or whether the recommendation
would require a new standard;
• Specific detail regarding the
recommendation including a statement
of the problem intended to be corrected
or addressed by the recommendation,
how the recommendation would resolve
or address the problem, and the basis of
the recommendation; and
• Information regarding whether the
recommendation would result in
increased costs to manufacturers or
consumers and the value of the benefits
derived from HUD’s implementation of

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