Amendment of Privacy Act System of Records

PEACE CORPS

Amendment of Privacy Act System of Records

AGENCY: Peace Corps.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to system of records.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a

(e)(4) and (11)) the Peace Corps is revising the system of records,

Employee Pay and Leave Records (PC-6), to include information regarding

employee earnings and leave records. A new

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routine use is being added to this system that will allow the agency to

release information conained in this system to any other federal agency

for the purpose of collection of moneys owed to the federal government.

The amendment also makes minor technical changes to the wording of the

system that reflect changes to the Peace Corps' organizational

structure, but do not involve substantive change. The Associate

Director for Management invites the general public and other federal

agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the change to this

records system as listed below. This change will be adopted following

the required period. A copy of the system notice may be obtained from

Brian Sutherland, Office of Administrative Services, United States

PEACE CORPS, 1990 K Street, NW.--room 5404, Washington, DC 20526. Mr.

Sutherland may be contacted by telephone at (202) 606-3261.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act, the Peace

Corps has provided a report of this intended change to this system to

OMB, to the President of the Senate, and to the Speaker of the House of

Representatives.

DATES: The revision to the system of records published herein will

become effective 60 days from publication (April 7, 1997), unless the

Peace Corps receives comments which would convince us to make a

contrary determination.

Employee Pay and Leave Records (PC-6) is amended to read as

follows:

PC-6

System Name: Employee Pay and Leave Records.

System Location: Office of Planning, Budget, and Finance, Peace

Corps, 1990 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20526.

Categories of Individuals Covered by the System: Any recipient

eligible for federal disbursement from the Peace Corps.

Categories of Records in the System: Personnel actions employing,

promoting and terminating employees, savings bond applications,

advices of allotments, IRS tax levels, notice of deduction for

health insurance, Combined Federal Campaign, union dues withholdings

applications, and educational allowances for children of overseas

employees and records regarding collections for overpayments and

time and attendance records.

Authority for Maintenance of the System: GAO Policy and Procedures

Manual, 31 U.S.C. 3512, and, the Budget and Accounting Procedures

Act of 1950.

Purpose(s): This system was established to record moneys paid,

allotments authorized, leave earned and used, and retirement

benefits earned.

Routine Uses of Records Maintained in the System, Including

Categories of Users and the Purpose of Such Uses:

Information from these records are routinely provided as follows:

1. To the Treasury for payroll and savings bonds and other

deduction purposes.

2. To Internal Revenue Service with regard to tax matters.

3. To participating insurance companies holding policies with

respect to Federal employees employed by Peace Corps.

4. To Federal Agency to perform payroll services for the Peace

Corps.

5. These records and information in the records may be disclosed to

any other federal agency for the purpose of effecting administrative

offset against the debtor to recoup a delinquent debt to the US

Government by the debtor.

This notice is issued in Washington, DC on February 3, 1997.

Bessy Kong,

Acting Associate Director for Management.

[FR Doc. 97-2984 Filed 2-5-97; 8:45 am]

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