Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Amendment to a System of Records

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. FR-3918-N-03]

Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed Amendment to a System of Records

AGENCY: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notification of a proposed amendment to an existing system of

records.

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SUMMARY: HUD is giving notice that it intends to amend the following

Privacy Act system of records: Section 8 Program Research Data Files

(HUD/PD&R-7).

EFFECTIVE DATE: This action will be effective without further notice on

September 18, 1995, unless comments are received that dictate

otherwise.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding

the proposed amendment to the Rules Docket Clerk Office of General

Counsel, Room 10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should

refer to the above docket number and title. An original and four copies

of comments should be submitted. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not

acceptable. A copy of each communication submitted will be available

for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

weekdays at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, Departmental Privacy

Act Officer, at (202) 708-2374. This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD is establishing new routine use

disclosures for HUD/PD&R-7 to allow for the disclosure of information

to authorized social science researchers participating in the Moving to

Opportunities for Fair Housing Demonstration Program and in the

Gautreaux Program in Chicago, the Social Security Administration, the

Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Employment Security.

The new routine use will read as follows: (1) To authorized social

science researchers participating in the Moving to Opportunities for

Fair Housing Demonstration (MTO), and in the Chicago Gautreaux program,

(2) To Abt Associates, and to other contractors selected by HUD to

carry out the objectives of MTO-related research and evaluation, (3) To

the Social Security Administration to verify income/wage data, (4) To

the Internal Revenue Service to verify income data, and (5) To the

Illinois Department of Employment Security to verify income/wage data

for Section 8 certificate recipients in the Chicago CMSA.

The amended portion of the system notice is set forth below.

Previously, the system and a prefatory statement containing the general

routine uses applicable to all HUD systems of records was published in

the ``Federal Register Privacy Act Issuances, 1993 Compilation.''

Title 5 U.S.C. 552a(e) (4) and (11) provide that the public be

afforded a 30-day period in which to comment on the new record system.

The system report, as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), has been

submitted to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of

Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate

and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), pursuant to paragraph 4c

of Appendix I to OMB Circular A 130, ``Federal Agency Responsibilities

for Maintaining Records about Individuals'' dated June 25, 1993 (58 FR

36075, July 2, 1993).

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a 88 Stat. 1896; sec 7(d), Department of

HUD Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).

Issued at Washington, DC, August 2, 1995.

Donald C. Demitros,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management.

HUD PD&R-7

Section 8 Program Research Data Files.

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A. To authorized social science researchers participating in the

Moving to Opportunities for Fair Housing Demonstration Program (MTO)

and in the Chicago Gautreau Program.

B. To Abt Associates, and to other contractors selected by HUD to

carry out the objectives of MTO-related research and evaluation.

C. To the Social Security Administration to verify income/wage

data.

D. To the Internal Revenue Service to verify income data.

E. To the Illinois Department of Employment Security verify income/

wage data for Section 8 certificate recipients in the Chicago CMSA.

[FR Doc. 95-19599 Filed 8-8-95; 8:45 am]

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