Ipa

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

INITIAL PRIVACY ASSESSMENT (IPA)

OMB Information Collection 2502-0313

Technical Suitability of Products Program – Section 521 of the National Housing Act

Office of Manufactured Housing Programs

April 11, 2017

INITIAL PRIVACY ASSESSMENT (IPA)

The IPA is a compliance form developed by the Privacy Branch to identify the use of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) across the Department. The IPA is the first step in the PII verification process, which focuses on the following areas of inquiry:

• Purpose for the information,

• Type of information,

• Sensitivity of the information,

• Use of the information,

• And the risk to the information.

Please use the attached form to determine whether a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is required under the E-Government Act of 2002 or a System of Record Notice (SORN) is required under the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended.

Please complete this form and send it to your program Privacy Liaison Officer (PLO). If you do not have a program Privacy Liaison Officer, please send the IPA to the HUD Privacy Branch:

Janice Noble, Branch Chief

Privacy Branch

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

[email protected]

Upon receipt from your program PLO, the HUD Privacy Branch will review this form. If a PIA or SORN is required, the HUD Privacy Branch will send you a copy of the PIA and SORN templates to complete and return.

INITIAL PRIVACY ASSESSMENT (IPA)

Summary Information

Project or Program Name:	Technical Suitability of Products Program
Program:
CSAM Name (if applicable):	N/A	CSAM Number (if applicable):	N/A
Type of Project or Program:		Project or program status:
Date first developed:	December 30, 1983	Pilot launch date:	Click here to enter a date.
Date of last IPA update:	April 22, 2014	Pilot end date:	Click here to enter a date.
ATO Status (if applicable)		ATO expiration date (if applicable):	Click here to enter a date.

PROJECT OR PROGRAM MANAGER

Name:	Pamela Beck Danner
Office:	Office of Manufactured Housing Programs	Title:	Administrator
Phone:	202-402-7112	Email:	[email protected]

INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY OFFICER (ISSO) (if applicable)

Name:	Click here to enter text.
Phone:	Click here to enter text.	Email:	Click here to enter text.

Specific IPA Questions

1. Reason for submitting the IPA:

This information is needed under HUD’s Technical Suitability of Products Program to determine the acceptance of materials and products to be used in structures approved for mortgages insured under the National Housing Act. Respondents are manufacturers seeking acceptance of their products by HUD.

Does this system employ any of the following technologies? If you are using any of these technologies and want coverage under the respective PIA for that technology, please stop here and contact the HUD Privacy Branch for further guidance.

Social Media Web portal2 (e.g., SharePoint) Contact Lists Public website (e.g. A website operated by HUD, contractor, or other organization on behalf of the HUD None of these

From whom does the Project or Program collect, maintain, use, or disseminate information? Please check all that apply.

This program does not collect any personally identifiable information3 Members of the public HUD employees/contractors (list programs): Contractors working on behalf of HUD Employees of other federal agencies Other (e.g. business entity)

What specific information about individuals is collected, generated or retained?
Upon request, the Department provides manufacturers or sponsors of materials or products seeking HUD’s acceptance the current revised edition of Handbook 4950.1, Technical Suitability of Products Program Processing Procedures. This Handbook describes the process and type of information needed to determine the acceptability of a material or product under paragraphs 2-5 (including HUD Description of Materials, Form HUD-92005 at paragraph 2-5.C.5.a) and 3-4 through 3-8. HUD technical staff uses the application and its information for evaluating the initial and continued acceptance of materials or products. The manufacturer normally creates the technical information requested during the product or system research and development. HUD uses the provided engineering data to make a determination of technical suitability for the product or system use(s) indicted by the sponsor. Organizational and production data are used to establish company authority and to determine the capability to consistently produce the material or product. This process also prevents design organizations from using the Department as a review board.
4(a) Does the project, program, or system retrieve information from the system about a U.S. Citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens by a personal identifier?	No. Please continue to next question. Yes. If yes, please list all personal identifiers used:
4(b) Does the project, program, or system have an existing System of Records Notice (SORN) that has already been published in the Federal Register that covers the information collected?	No. Please continue to next question. Yes. If yes, provide the system name and number, as well as the Federal Register citation(s) for the most recent complete notice and any subsequent notices reflecting amendment to the system
4(c)Has the project, program, or system undergone any significant changes since the SORN?	No. Please continue to next question. Yes. If yes, please describe.
4(d) Does the project, program, or system use Social Security Numbers (SSN)?	No. Yes.
4(e) If yes, please provide the specific legal authority and purpose for the collection of SSNs:	N/A
4(f) If yes, please describe the uses of the SSNs within the project, program, or system:	N/A
4(g) If this project, program, or system is an information technology/system, does it relate solely to infrastructure? For example, is the system a Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN)?	No. Please continue to next question. Yes. If a log kept of communication traffic, please answer the following question.
4(h) If header or payload data4 is stored in the communication traffic log, please detail the data elements stored.
N/A

Does this project, program, or system connect, receive, or share PII with any other HUD programs or systems?	No. Yes. If yes, please list: Click here to enter text.
Does this project, program, or system connect, receive, or share PII with any external (non-HUD) partners or systems?	No. Yes. If yes, please list: Click here to enter text.
6(a) Is this external sharing pursuant to new or existing information sharing access agreement (MOU, MOA, etc.)?	N/A
7. Does the project, program, or system provide role-based training for personnel who have access in addition to annual privacy training required of all HUD personnel?	No. Yes. If yes, please list:
Per NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4, Appendix J, does the project, program, or system maintain an accounting of disclosures of PII to individuals/agencies who have requested access to their PII?	No. What steps will be taken to develop and maintain the accounting: Yes. In what format is the accounting maintained:

Is there a FIPS 199 determination?5

Unknown. No. Yes. Please indicate the determinations for each of the following: Confidentiality: Low Moderate High Integrity: Low Moderate High Availability: Low Moderate High

INITIAL PRIVACY ASSESSMENT REVIEW

(To be Completed by PROGRAM PLO)

Program Privacy Liaison Reviewer:	Click here to enter text.
Date submitted to Program Privacy Office:	Click here to enter a date.
Date submitted to HUD Privacy Branch:	Click here to enter a date.
Program Privacy Liaison Officer Recommendation: Please include recommendation below, including what new privacy compliance documentation is needed.
Click here to enter text.

(To be Completed by the HUD Privacy Branch)

HUD Privacy Branch Reviewer:	Click here to enter text.
Date approved by HUD Privacy Branch:	Click here to enter a date.
IPA Expiration Date:	Click here to enter a date.

DESIGNATION

Privacy Sensitive System:		If “no” IPA adjudication is complete.
Category of System:		If “other” is selected, please describe: Click here to enter text.
Determination: IPA sufficient at this time. Privacy compliance documentation determination in progress. New information sharing arrangement is required. HUD Policy for Computer-Readable Extracts Containing Sensitive PII applies. Privacy Act Statement required. Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) required. System of Records Notice (SORN) required. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Clearance may be required. Contact your program PRA Officer. A Records Schedule may be required. Contact your program Records Officer.
PIA:	If covered by existing PIA, please list: Click here to enter text.
SORN:	If covered by existing SORN, please list: Click here to enter text.
HUD Privacy Branch Comments: Please describe rationale for privacy compliance determination above.
Click here to enter text.

2 Informational and collaboration-based portals in operation at HUD and its programs that collect, use, maintain, and share limited personally identifiable information (PII) about individuals who are “members” of the portal or “potential members” who seek to gain access to the portal.

3 HUD defines personal information as “Personally Identifiable Information” or PII, which is any information that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information that is linked or linkable to that individual, regardless of whether the individual is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, visitor to the U.S., or employee or contractor to the Department. “Sensitive PII” is PII, which if lost, compromised, or disclosed without authorization, could result in substantial harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to an individual. For the purposes of this IPA, SPII and PII are treated the same.

4 Header: Information that is placed before the actual data. The header normally contains a small number of bytes of control information, which is used to communicate important facts about the data that the message contains and how it is to be interpreted and used. It serves as the communication and control link between protocol elements on different devices.

Payload data: The actual data to be transmitted, often called the payload of the message (metaphorically borrowing a term from the space industry!) Most messages contain some data of one form or another, but some actually contain none: they are used only for control and communication purposes. For example, these may be used to set up or terminate a logical connection before data is sent.

5 FIPS 199 is the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 199, Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems and is used to establish security categories of information systems.