Privacy Act of 1974Notice of Establishment of System of Records

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

Privacy Act of 1974--Notice of Establishment of System of Records

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended

(5 U.S.C. 552a), notice is hereby given that the Department of the

Interior proposes to establish a new system of records to be maintained

by the Bureau of Reclamation. The system, entitled ``Lower Colorado

River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48,'' will include information

pertaining to individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one

well on their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water.

The information contained in this system will be used to protect and

manage water entitlement holders' rights to use Colorado River water in

the lower Colorado River basin. The notice is published in its entirety

below.

As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C.

552a(r)), the Office of Management and Budget, the Senate Committee on

Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Government Reform and

Oversight have been notified of this action.

5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11) requires that the public be provided a 30-day

period in which to comment on the intended use of the information in

the system of records. The Office of Management and Budget, in its

Circular A-130, requires a 40-day period in which to review such

proposals. Written comments on this proposal can be addressed to the

Departmental Privacy Act Officer, Office of the Secretary, Office of

Administrative Services, 1849 ``C'' Street NW, Mail Stop 5412 MIB,

Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 208-6045, fax (202) 208-7971.

Comments received within 40 days of publication in the Federal Register

(May 17, 1995) will be considered. The system will be effective as

proposed at the end of the comment period, unless comments are received

which would require a contrary determination.

Dated: March 28, 1995.

Albert C. Camacho,

Director, Office of Administrative Services.

INTERIOR/BOR-48

Lower Colorado River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48.

Bureau of Reclamation, Division of Water, Land, and Power, Lower

Colorado Region, Boulder City, Nevada 89006-1470.

Individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one well on

their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water. Note:

This system also contains records pertaining to corporations and other

public entities. Only those records relating to individuals are covered

by the Privacy Act.

Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of covered individuals;

Assessor Parcel Numbers; contract numbers; categories of uses to which

the water is put; methods of disposal of unconsumed portions of water

pumped; volumes of water pumped; physical characteristics and locations

of wells; water purveyor, municipal, or other administrative boundaries

within which wells are located; and water levels of wells located in

hydraulically connected areas adjacent to the floodplain.

Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, 43 U.S.C. 391), as

amended and supplemented; the Colorado River Front Work and Levee

System Adjacent to Yuma Project Act of March 3, 1925 (Pub. L. 79-469,

43 Stat. 1186, 1198), as amended and supplemented; the Boulder Canyon

Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057, 43 U.S.C. 617), as

amended and supplemented; the Reclamation Project Act of August 4, 1939

(53 Stat. 1187, 43 U.S.C. 485); the Colorado River Basin Project Act of

September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885); the Reclamation Reform Act of

October 12, 1982 (96 Stat. 1261, 43 U.S.C. 390); and the Supreme Court

opinion rendered June 3, 1963 (373 U.S. 546), and Decrees entered March

9, 1964 (376 U.S. 340), January 9, 1979 (439 U.S. 419), and April 16,

1984 (466 U.S. 144), in Arizona v. California et al.

The primary purposes of the records are: (a) To assist in the

administration and negotiation of water use contracts with individual

landowners, lessees, or other classes of water users; and (b) to

support the annual compilation and publication of records of

consumptive use of mainstream Colorado River water.

Disclosure outside the Department of the Interior may be made: (1)

To the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada to assist them in

administering their apportionments of mainstream Colorado River water;

(2) to the U.S. Department of Justice or to a court or adjudicative

body with jurisdiction when (a) the United States, the Department of

the Interior, a component of the Department, or, when represented by

the Government, an employee of the Department is a party to litigation

or anticipated litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and

(b) the Department of the Interior determines that the disclosure is

relevant or necessary to the litigation and is compatible with the

purpose for which the records were compiled; (3) to a congressional

office in response to an inquiry the individual has made to the

congressional office; (4) to appropriate Federal, State, tribal,

territorial, local or foreign agencies responsible for investigating or

prosecuting the violation of, or for enforcing, implementing, or

administering a statute, rule, regulation, program, facility, order,

lease, license, contract, grant, or other agreement, of information

indicating a violation or potential violation of a statute, rule,

regulation, program, facility, order, lease, license, contract, grant

or other agreement will be disclosed; (5) to interested parties upon

written request, of data pertaining to volumes of water pumped,

consumptive uses of water, and points of diversion.

Disclosures pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12). Disclosures may be

made from this system to consumer reporting agencies as defined in the

Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 168a(f) or the Federal Claims

Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3)).

Records are stored in automated form on computer databases and in

manual form in file folders. [[Page 17806]]

Records stored in computer databases will be retrievable by any

record category. Records stored in manual files will be retrievable by

name of property owner or contract holder.

Data will be maintained with safeguards meeting the requirements of

43 CFR 2.51 for manual and computerized records.

In accordance with approved retention and disposal schedules,

records will be retained in the Bureau of Reclamation for 10 years,

relocated to the Federal Records Center and retained there for an

additional 75 years, and then transferred to the National Archives and

Records Administration for permanent retention.

Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Regional Office, Regional

Supervisor of Water, Land, and Power, P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City,

Nevada 89006-1470.

An individual requesting notification of the existence of records

on him or her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The

request must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with

the content requirements of 43 CFR 2.60.

An individual requesting access to records maintained on him or her

should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request must

be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the content

requirements of 43 CFR 2.63.

An individual requesting amendment of a record maintained on him or

her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request

must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the

content requirements of 43 CFR 2.71.

Individuals on whom records are maintained, state and county well

permits, land ownership and water use records and databases, and the

U.S. Geological Survey Ground Water Site Inventory database.

None.

[FR Doc. 95-8415 Filed 4-6-95; 8:45 am]

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