Appendix F System of Records Notice

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Federal Register
Vol. 63, No. 59
Friday, March 27, 1998

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or
proposed rules that are applicable to the
public. Notices of hearings and investigations,
committee meetings, agency decisions and
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of
petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are
examples of documents appearing in this
section.

JOINT BOARD FOR THE
ENROLLMENT OF ACTUARIES
Advisory Committee on Actuarial
Examinations; Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the
Advisory Committee on Actuarial
Examinations will meet in the
Conference Room of William M. Mercer,
Incorporated, 30th Floor, Conference
Room 30C, 1166 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, New York, on
Monday, March 30, 1998, beginning at
8:30 a.m.
The purpose of the meeting is to
discuss topics and questions which may
be recommended for inclusion on future
Joint Board examinations in actuarial
mathematics and methodology referred
to in Title 29 U.S. Code, Section 1242
(a)(1)(B).
We have determined as required by
section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), that
the subject of the meeting falls with the
exception to the open meeting
requirement set forth in Title 5 U.S.
Code, section 552(c)(9)(B), and that the
public interest requires that such
meeting be closed to public
participation.
Dated: March 17, 1998.
Robert I. Brauer,
Advisory Committee Management Officer,
Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Privacy Act: Revision of an Existing
System of Records
Office of the Secretary, USDA.
Notice of revision of an existing
system of records.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The U.S. Department of
Agriculture is giving notice of a revision
to its Privacy Act System of Records
entitled Claims Against Food Stamp
Recipients–USDA/FNS–3.
DATES: This revision will become
effective on May 11, 1998, unless
modified by a subsequent notice to
incorporate comments received from the
public. To be assured of consideration,
comments must be received by the
contact person listed below on or before
April 27, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to James I. Porter, Assistant
Branch Chief, State Administration
Branch, Program Accountability
Division, Food Stamp Program, 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 905,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joseph M. Scordato, Food and Nutrition
Service Privacy Act Officer, Room 308,
3101 Park Center Drive, Alexandria,
Virginia 22302. Telephone (703) 305–
2244.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Privacy Act requires FNS to publish this
Privacy Act Systems of Records Notice
to inform the public that certain changes
are being made to a system of records
containing information on individuals
against whom fiscal claims have been
established under the Food Stamp
Program and to request public comment.
Monetary claims are established
against food stamp recipients and
former recipients who owe debts due to
certain errors or infractions of Food
Stamp Program rules. State and Federal
Government offices seek collections for
these debts through recoupment of
benefits for recipients still receiving
benefits, direct billing to non-recipients
and other means. Debt collection and
tracking systems necessarily were
established to accomplish these
collections, and the establishment of
and certain changes to such systems
require notification to the public under
the Privacy Act.
This notice announces changes to
implement the Treasury Offset Program
(TOP). TOP is a mandatory governmentwide delinquent debt matching and
payment offset system, centralized in
the Department of Treasury. The Debt
Collection Act of 1982, as amended,
(Pub.L. 97–365) provides statutory
authority for Federal agencies to collect
debts through administrative offset. The
Debt Collection Improvement Act of
SUMMARY:

1996 (Pub.L.104–134) expands the
statutory authority for TOP by requiring
agencies to transfer delinquent non-tax
debt to Treasury for the purpose of
offsetting Federal payments to collect
delinquent debts owed to the Federal
Government. TOP operates in
accordance with statutory and
regulatory authorities, including those
contained in 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 4 CFR
part 102. Further, this notice announces
our intent for the Department of
Treasury and other debt collection
centers designated as such by Treasury,
to be among those with whom data may
be shared.
FNS has been participating in the
Federal Tax Refund Offset (FTROP) and
Federal Salary Offset (FSOP) Programs.
FNS published notices to test FTROP in
1991 and FSOP in 1994. Final
regulations were published in 1995.
Under these programs food stamp debts
that occurred due to overissuance of
program benefits, as a result of an
intentional program violation or an
inadvertent household error, are offset
from Federal Tax Refunds and the
salaries of Federal employees,
respectively. The Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996 removed
some limits on collection methods for
State agency error claims. As a result the
scope of referable debts was broadened
to include State agency error claims.
This Notice modifies the system of
records entitled, Claims against Food
Stamp Recipients—USDA/FNS—3 so
that FNS can fully comply with the
Department of the Treasury (Treasury)
requirements for various debt collection
actions. This Notice modifies the
systems of records as follows. The
current routine use (1) was changed to
list Treasury and its designated
collection centers as the referral points
and to include Federal administrative
payments as an additional routine use
and record source category. The current
routine use (2) was modified to
eliminate the requirement that Federal
employee claims be deleted from the tax
refund claims, as there is no longer a
separate FTROP, since both are
subsumed under TOP.
FNS has included some technical
changes that do not affect the operation
of the system. The notice is modified to
reflect that the system manager and
system location are now in the FNS
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in Accounting Division as a result of an
internal reorganization.
The Privacy Act requires that any
changes in the types of data entered into
or extracted from systems of records, or
changes in the entities with whom the
data is shared be announced to the
public in a notice. In this case, there are
no changes in the types of data collected
about individuals; however, more
individuals will be affected by the
notice with the addition of State agency
error claims now being eligible for
offset. Additional entities with whom
the data may be shared are identified.
The Department of the Treasury and
other debt collection centers, as defined
by Treasury are new entities with whom
data will be shared.
Data will continue to be shared with
the following entities: the Department of
Defense (DOD); the United States Postal
Service (USPS); other Federal agencies
that employ debtors; State agencies for
such purposes as updating claims files,
collecting claims, and fiscal reporting;
and Congressional offices in response to
an inquiry from the Congressional office
made at the request of the individual
against whom the claim has been
established.
Dated: March 20, 1998.
Signed at Washington, DC.
Dan Glickman,
Secretary of Agriculture.
USDA/FNS–3
SYSTEM NAME:

Claims Against Food Stamp
Recipients—USDA/FNS–3.
SYSTEM LOCATION:

Grants Management Division, Food
and Nutrition Service (FNS), United
States Department of Agriculture, 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 415,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302, and FNS
Regional Offices located in: Atlanta,
Georgia, which covers the States of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Tennessee; Boston,
Massachusetts, which covers the States
of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, New York, Rhode
Island, and Vermont; Chicago, Illinois,
which covers the States of Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio,
and Wisconsin; Dallas, Texas, which
covers the States of Arkansas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas;
Denver, Colorado, which covers the
States of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and
Wyoming; Trenton, New Jersey, which
covers the State of Delaware, District of
Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey,

Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia,
Virgin Islands, and West Virginia; and
San Francisco, California, which covers
the State of Alaska, Arizona, California,
Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon,
American Samoa, Trust Territories of
the Pacific, and Washington. The
address of each regional office is listed
in the telephone directory of the
respective cities listed above under the
heading of ‘‘United States Government,
Department of Agriculture, Food and
Nutrition Service.’’
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:

Individuals who have received food
stamp benefits to which they are not
entitled.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

The information in the system
consists of individuals’ names,
addresses, Social Security Numbers and
amounts of claims and amounts of any
collections. The information in the
system also includes identification of
individuals’ Federal and/or United
States Postal Service (USPS) employing
agencies and other sources of Federal
payments, if any. The system also may
include limited information about
claims such as age, reasons for the
overissuance of benefits, and State
agency collection efforts.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

7 U.S.C. 2011–2031.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

(1) Referral to the Department of
Treasury (Treasury) or other designated
debt collection centers for debt
collection actions including
administrative offset. (2) Referral to the
Department of Defense (DOD) and the
USPS to identify Federal and USPS
employees owing claims. (3) Referral
may be made to State agencies for such
purposes as updating claims files,
collecting claims, and for fiscal
reporting. Referral may also be made to
Federal agencies and the USPS for
additional collection action. (4)
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 written request of the individual.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,
RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND
DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
STORAGE:

Records are maintained by automated
data storage methods such as magnetic
tape and disk. Some records may also be
maintained on paper.

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RETRIEVABILITY:

Records are retrievable by name and
Social Security Number.
SAFEGUARDS:

Access to records is limited to those
persons who process the records for the
specific routine uses stated above.
Records in such forms as magnetic tape
are kept in physically secured rooms
and/or cabinets. Various methods of
computer security limit access to
records in automated databases. Paper
records will be segregated and
physically secured in locked cabinets.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

The Food and Nutrition Service
retains records for no longer than two
years. All records are either returned to
State agencies or destroyed.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

Director, Grants Management
Division, Food and Nutrition Service,
United States Department of
Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 415, Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Individuals may request from the
system manager identified in the
preceding paragraph information
regarding this system of records or
whether the system contains records
pertaining to them. Individuals
requesting such information must
provide their name, address and Social
Security Number.
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

Individuals may obtain information
about records in the system which
pertain to them by written or oral
requests to the system manager. To
assure confidentiality and prompt
routing, written requests should be
marked ‘‘Privacy Act Request.’’
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

Individuals desiring to contest or
amend information maintained in the
system should direct requests to the
system manager, state the reasons for
contesting the information and provide
any available documentation to support
the requested action.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Information in this system comes
from State agency files concerning food
stamp recipient claims, from IRS files of
addresses of individuals who have filed
income tax returns, Information in this
system also comes from DoD and USPS
files of individuals who are currently
employed by or who are receiving
pensions and other payments from
Federal agencies and the USPS, and

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from all other sources of Federal
payments.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Olympic Provincial Interagency
Executive Committee (PIEC), Advisory
Committee
Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Olympic PIEC Advisory
Committee will meet on April 17, 1998
at the Jamestown s’Klallam Tribal
Center, 1033 Old Blyn Highway,
Sequim, Washington. The meeting will
begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue until
3:00 p.m. Agenda items to be covered
include: (1) Review and update on 1998
watershed restoration program; (2)
Update on listing of salmon stocks
under the Endangered Species Act in
the Puget Sound area; (3) Update from
the Monitoring sub-committee; (4)
Review of Chief Dombeck’s Agenda for
the Forest Service; (5) Update or current
projects and activities on the Quilcene
Ranger District. Olympic Province
Committee meetings are open to the
public. Interested citizens are
encouraged to attend.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Direct questions regarding this meeting
to Kathy Snow, Province Liaison,
USDA, Quilcene Ranger District, P.O.
Box 280, Quilcene, WA 98376, (360)
765–2211.

Dated: March 20, 1998.
Claire Lavendel,
Acting Forest Supervisor.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Little Toby Creek Watershed, PA
USDA—Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
ACTION: ‘‘Notice of a Finding of No
Significant Impact’’.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969; the Council on
Environmental Quality Guidelines (40
CFR, Part 1500); and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service
(formerly the Soil Conservation Service)

Guidelines (7 CFR, Part 650); the
Natural Resources Conservation Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives
notice that an environmental impact
statement is not being prepared for the
Little Toby Creek Watershed, Elk and
Jefferson Counties, Pennsylvania.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ms. Janet L. Oertly, State
Conservationist, USDA—Natural
Resources Conservation Service, Suite
340, One Credit Union Place,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110–2993,
telephone (717) 237–2202; fax (717)
237–2239.

The
environmental assessment of this
federally-assisted action indicates that
the project will not cause significant
adverse impacts on the local, regional,
or national environment. As a result of
these findings, Janet L. Oertly, State
Conservationist, has determined that the
preparation and review of an
environmental impact statement is not
needed for this project.
The project concerns a plan for water
quality improvement by treating acid
mine drainage from seven discharges
that are the source of surface water
pollution. The planned works of
improvement involve six passive
wetland treatment systems and one
hydrated lime dosing plant to reduce
acid, iron, and aluminum loadings into
watershed streams. A deep mine
opening will be closed and a mine
highwall will be removed.
The ‘‘Notice of a Finding of No
Significant Impact’’ (FONSI) has been
forwarded to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. A limited number of
copies of the FONSI is available to fill
single copy requests at the above
address. The environmental assessment
and basic data may be reviewed by
contacting Janet L. Oertly.
No administrative action on
implementation of the proposal will be
taken until thirty (30) days after the date
of this publication in the Federal
Register.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

(This activity is listed in the Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance Program No.
10.904—Watershed Protection and Flood
Prevention and is subject to the provisions of
Executive Order 12372 which requires
intergovernmental consultation with State
and local officials)
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions and
Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to and deletion from
the Procurement List.
AGENCY:

This action adds to the
Procurement List services to be
furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities, and
deletes from the Procurement List
commodities previously furnished by
such agencies.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 1998.
ADDRESS: Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, Crystal Gateway 3, Suite 310,
1215 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202–4302.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Beverly Milkman (703) 603–7740.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
February 6, 1998, the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled published notice
(63 F.R. 6152) of proposed additions to
and deletions from the Procurement
List:
SUMMARY:

Additions
After consideration of the material
presented to it concerning capability of
qualified nonprofit agencies to provide
the services and impact of the additions
on the current or most recent
contractors, the Committee has
determined that the services listed
below are suitable for procurement by
the Federal Government under 41 U.S.C.
46–48c and 41 CFR 51–2.4.
I certify that the following action will
not have a significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The major factors considered for this
certification were:
1. The action will not result in any
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small
entities other than the small
organizations that will furnish the
services to the Government.
2. The action will not have a severe
economic impact on current contractors
for the services.
3. The action will result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
services to the Government.
4. There are no known regulatory
alternatives which would accomplish
the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in