Privacy Act of 1974, System of Records

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Financial Management Service

Privacy Act of 1974, System of Records

AGENCY: Financial Management Service, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy Act system of records.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service

(FMS), gives notice of a proposed alteration to the system of records

entitled ``Payment Issue Records for Regular Recurring Benefit

Payments--Treasury/FMS .002,'' which is subject to the Privacy Act of

1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a). The system notice was last published

in its entirety in the Federal Register Vol. 57, page 14024, April 17,

1992.

DATES: Comments must be received no later than September 29, 1995. The

proposed alteration of the system of records will be effective October

10, 1995, unless FMS receives comments which would result in a contrary

determination.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted to the Debt Collection Operations

Staff, Financial Management Service, 401 14th Street, SW, Room 415 B,

Washington, DC 20227. Comments received will be available for

inspection at the same address between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerry Isenberg, Debt Management

Services, (202) 874-6660.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FMS has been designated by the Office of

Management and Budget as the lead agency in credit management and debt

collection for the Federal Government. FMS is altering this system of

records by adding two routine uses which are to facilitate the

collection of delinquent Federal debts and to more effectively apply

certain debt collection tools established under Federal law,

specifically tax refund offset, administrative offset, and Federal

employee salary offset. FMS has closed the Washington, DC, Financial

Center and the system of records is being altered to reflect this

change as well.

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, FMS proposes to alter

system of records Treasury/FMS .002, ``Payment Issue Records for

Regular Recurring Benefit Payments--Treasury/Financial Management

Service'', as follows:

Treasury/FMS .002

Payment Issue Records for Regular Recurring Benefit Payments--

Treasury/Financial Management Service.

Description of the change: Replace current text with the following

language: The Financial Management Service, U.S. Department of the

Treasury, Washington, DC 20227. Records maintained at Financial Centers

in six regions: Austin, TX; Birmingham, AL; Chicago, IL; Kansas City,

MO; Philadelphia, PA; and San Francisco, CA.

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Description of the changes: Remove ``and'' at end of routine use

(9); remove the period (.) at the end of routine use (10); add a

semicolon, and add routine uses (11) and (12) to read as follows:

* * *(11) disclose information concerning delinquent debtors to

Federal creditor agencies, their employees, or their agents for the

purpose of facilitating or conducting Federal administrative offset,

Federal tax refund offset, Federal salary offset, or for any other

authorized debt collection purpose; and (12) disclose to the Defense

Manpower Data Center and the United States Postal Service and other

Federal agencies through authorized computer matching programs for the

purpose of identifying and locating individuals who are delinquent in

their repayment of debts owed to the Department or other Federal

agencies in order to collect those debts through salary offset and

administrative offset, or by the use of other debt collection tools.

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Dated: August 22, 1995.

Alex Rodriguez,

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration).

[FR Doc. 95-21524 Filed 8-29 -95; 8:45 am]

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