§ 215.2 Definitions.

(a)

Act

means the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a; 88 Stat. 1896);

(b)

Agency

means the International Development Cooperation Agency or the Agency for International Development, its offices, bureaus, divisions, and posts abroad;

(c)

Amend

shall include the amendment of a record;

(d)

Individual

means a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence;

(e)

Maintain

includes maintain, collect, use or disseminate;

(f)

Record

means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph;

(g)

Routine use

means, with respect to the disclosure of a record, the use of such record for a purpose which is compatible with the purpose for which it was collected;

(h)

Statistical record

means a record in a system of records maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination about an identifiable individual, except as provided by section 8 of title 13;

(i)

System of records

means a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.