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Support Awards, National Institutes of 

Health, HHS) 

Dated: July 28, 2009. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Deputy Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. E9–18490 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Mental Health; 

Notice of Request for Information 

Notice is hereby given of a Request for 

Information (RFI): Updating the 

Interagency Autism Coordinating 

Committee Strategic Plan for Autism 

Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Research, 

NOT-MH-09-013, issued by the National 

Institute of Mental Health on behalf of 

the Interagency Autism Coordinating 

Committee (IACC). 

The purpose of this RFI is to request 

input from ASD stakeholders to inform 

the next update of the Strategic Plan. 

Please see the official RFI notice at 

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/ 

notice-files/NOT-MH-09-013.html for 

more information and instructions for 

responding by the deadline of August 

21, 2009. All responses must be 

submitted electronically via the Webbased form found at http:// 

www.acclaroresearch.com/oarc/rfi/. 

Contact Person: Attention: RFI on 

Updating the Strategic Plan for ASD 

Research, Office of the Director, 

National Institute of Mental Health, 

NIH, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 

8235, MSC 9669, Bethesda, MD 20892– 

9669, iacc@mail.nih.gov. 

Information about the IACC is 

available on the Web site: http:// 

www.iacc.hhs.gov. 

Dated: July 29, 2009. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Deputy Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DHS–2009–0050] 

Privacy Act of 1974: U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement—005 Trade 

Transparency Analysis and Research 

(TTAR) System of Records 

AGENCY: Privacy office, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of privacy act system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement (ICE) is republishing the system of records notice 

(SORN) for the Trade Transparency 

Analysis and Research (TTAR) system. 

No comments were received through the 

Federal Register comment procedure. 

TTAR contains trade and financial data 

that is analyzed to generate leads for 

and otherwise support ICE 

investigations of trade-based money 

laundering, contraband smuggling, trade 

fraud, and other financial crimes. The 

data in TTAR is generally maintained in 

the ICE Data Analysis and Research 

Trade Transparency System (DARTTS), 

a software application and data 

repository that conducts analysis of 

trade and financial data to identify 

statistically anomalous transactions that 

may warrant investigation for money 

laundering or other import-export 

crimes. Additionally, a Privacy Impact 

Assessment for DARTTS has been 

posted on the Department’s privacy Web 

site. (See www.dhs.gov/privacy and 

follow the link to ‘‘Privacy Impact 

Assessments.’’) A final rule is also being 

published in this issue of the Federal 

Register in which the Department 

exempts portions of this system of 

records from one or more provisions of 

the Privacy Act because of criminal, 

civil, and administrative enforcement 

requirements. 

DATES: The established system of 

records was effective as of December 1, 

2008, based upon the prior TTAR 

system of records notice published on 

October 31, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 

2009–0050 by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 703–483–2999. 

• Mail: Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief 

Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528. 

• Instructions: All submissions 

received must include the agency name 

and docket number for this rulemaking. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

• Docket: For access to the docket, to 

read background documents, or 

comments received go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lyn 

Rahilly, Privacy Officer, (202–732– 

3300), U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement, 500 12th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20024, e-mail: 

ICEPrivacy@dhs.gov, or Mary Ellen 

Callahan (703–235–0780), Chief Privacy 

Officer, Privacy Office, U.S. Department 

of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 

20528. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Trade Transparency Analysis and 

Research (TTAR) system of records is 

owned by the ICE Office of 

Investigations Trade Transparency Unit 

(TTU) and is maintained for the purpose 

of enforcing criminal laws pertaining to 

trade through trade transparency. Trade 

transparency is the concept of 

examining U.S. and foreign trade data to 

identify anomalies in patterns of trade. 

Such anomalies can indicate tradebased money laundering or other 

import-export crimes that ICE is 

responsible for investigating, such as 

contraband smuggling, trafficking of 

counterfeit goods, misclassification of 

goods, and the over- or under-valuation 

of goods to hide the proceeds of illegal 

activities. TTAR contains trade and 

financial data received from U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 

U.S. Department of the Treasury 

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network 

(FinCEN), other Federal agencies and 

foreign governments. TTAR data is 

primarily related to international 

commercial trade and contains little 

information on the normal day-to-day 

activities of individual consumers. 

As part of the trade transparency 

investigative process, ICE investigators 

and analysts must understand the 

relationships between importers and 

exporters and the financing for a set of 

trade transactions to determine which 

transactions are suspicious and warrant 

investigation. If performed manually, 

this process often involves hours of 

analysis of voluminous data for a 

particular case or operation. To 

automate and expedite this process, the 

former U.S. Customs Service created the 

Data Analysis and Research Trade 

Transparency System (DARTTS), a 

software application and data repository 

that conducts analysis of trade and 

financial data to identify statistically 

anomalous transactions that may 

warrant investigation for money 

laundering or other import-export 

crimes. DARTTS is specifically 

designed to make this investigative 

process more efficient by automating the 

analysis and identification of anomalies 

for the investigator. While DARTTS 

does increase the efficiency of data 

analysis, DARTTS does not allow ICE 


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agents and analysts to obtain any data 

they could not otherwise access in the 

course of their investigative activities. 

DARTTS does not seek to predict 

future behavior or ‘‘profile’’ individuals, 

i.e., look for individuals who meet a 

certain pattern of behavior that has been 

pre-determined to be suspect. Instead, it 

analyzes and identifies trade and 

financial transactions that are 

statistically anomalous. Investigators 

gather additional facts, verify the 

accuracy of the DARTTS data, and use 

their judgment and experience to 

determine if the anomalous transactions 

are in fact suspicious and warrant 

further investigation. Not all anomalies 

lead to formal investigations. DARTTS 

can also identify links (relationships) 

between individuals or entities based on 

commonalities, such as identification 

numbers, addresses, or other 

information. These commonalities in 

and of themselves are not suspicious, 

but in the context of additional 

information they sometimes help 

investigators to identify potentially 

criminal activity and identify other 

suspicious transactions, witnesses, or 

suspects. 

With the creation of the U.S. 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) in 2003, the criminal 

investigative arm of the U.S. Customs 

Service, which included the TTU and 

the DARTTS system, was transferred to 

ICE. As part of DHS’s ongoing effort to 

ensure legacy records transferred to 

DHS are maintained in compliance with 

the Privacy Act, ICE proposes to 

establish this new system of records to 

cover the data ICE maintains for trade 

transparency analysis, including the 

data maintained in DARTTS. A Privacy 

Impact Assessment (PIA) was conducted 

on DARTTS because it maintains 

personally identifiable information. The 

DARTTS PIA is available on the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) Privacy Office Web site at 

www.dhs.gov/privacy. 

Individuals may request information 

about records pertaining to them stored 

in DARTTS as outlined in the 

‘‘Notification Procedure’’ section below. 

ICE reserves the right to exempt various 

records from release pursuant to 

exemptions 5 U.S.C. 552a(j)(2) and (k)(2) 

of the Privacy Act. 

Consistent with DHS’s information 

sharing mission, information stored in 

the DARTTS may be shared with other 

DHS components, with foreign 

governments with whom DHS has 

entered into international information 

sharing agreements for trade data for the 

purpose of enforcing customs laws, and 

with appropriate Federal, State, local, 

tribal, foreign, or international 

government agencies. This sharing will 

only take place after DHS determines 

that the receiving component or agency 

has a need to know the information to 

carry out national security, law 

enforcement, immigration, intelligence, 

or other functions consistent with the 

routine uses set forth in this system of 

records notice. 

Because TTAR contains information 

that relates to official DHS national 

security, law enforcement, immigration, 

and intelligence activities and is used in 

support of those activities, the 

Department published a proposed 

rulemaking seeking to exempt the TTAR 

system of records from various 

provisions of the Privacy Act, including 

the requirement that individuals be 

provided access to and correction of 

their own records. These exemptions are 

permitted by the Privacy Act and are 

needed to protect information relating to 

DHS law enforcement or intelligence 

activities from disclosure to subjects or 

others related to these activities. For a 

complete discussion of the specific 

exemptions proposed and the reasons 

they were claimed, please see the notice 

of proposed rulemaking in the Federal 

Register, 73 FR 64890 (Oct. 31, 2008). A 

final rulemaking is published 

concurrently to this notice in this issue 

of the Federal Register. 

Public Comments 

In the October 31, 2008 publication of 

the TTAR SORN, the Department 

requested public comments on the 

SORN and the proposed rulemaking. 

ICE received no public comments and 

concluded that no changes to the SORN 

are warranted at this time. 

II. Privacy Act 

The Privacy Act embodies fair 

information principles in a statutory 

framework governing the means by 

which the United States Government 

collects, maintains, uses, and 

disseminates personally identifiable 

information. The Privacy Act applies to 

information that is maintained in a 

‘‘system of records.’’ A ‘‘system of 

records’’ is a group of any records under 

the control of an agency for which 

information is retrieved by the name of 

an individual or by some identifying 

number, symbol, or other identifying 

particular assigned to the individual. In 

the Privacy Act, an individual is defined 

to encompass United States citizens and 

lawful permanent residents. As a matter 

of policy, DHS extends administrative 

Privacy Act protections to all 

individuals where systems of records 

maintain information on U.S. citizens, 

lawful permanent residents, and 

visitors. Individuals may request access 

to their own records that are maintained 

in a system of records in the possession 

or under the control of DHS by 

complying with DHS Privacy Act 

regulations, 6 CFR Part 5. 

The Privacy Act requires each agency 

to publish in the Federal Register a 

description denoting the type and 

character of each system of records that 

the agency maintains, and the routine 

uses that are contained in each system 

in order to make agency record keeping 

practices transparent, to notify 

individuals regarding the uses to which 

personally identifiable information is 

put, and to assist individuals to more 

easily find such files within the agency. 

Below is the description of the TTAR 

system of records. 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), 

DHS has provided a report of this 

system of records to the Office of 

Management and Budget and to 

Congress. 

SYSTEM OF RECORDS: 

DHS/ICE–005. 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Trade Transparency Analysis and 

Research (TTAR). 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Sensitive But Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Records are maintained at the 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

Headquarters in Washington, DC. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Categories of individuals covered by 

this system include: (a) Individuals 

who, as importers, exporters, shippers, 

transporters, brokers, owners, 

purchasers, consignees, or agents 

thereof, participate in the import or 

export of goods to or from the U.S. or 

to or from nations with which the U.S. 

has entered an agreement to share trade 

information; and (b) individuals who 

participate in financial transactions that 

are reported to the U.S. Treasury 

Department under the Bank Secrecy Act 

or other U.S. financial crimes laws and 

regulations (e.g., individuals who 

participate in cash transactions 

exceeding $10,000; individuals who 

participate in a reportable suspicious 

financial transaction). 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Categories of records in this system 

include: 

• Names; 

• Addresses (home or business); 

• Trade identifier numbers (e.g., 

Importer ID, Exporter ID, Manufacturer 

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• Social Security/tax identification 

numbers; 

• Passport numbers; 

• Account numbers (e.g., bank 

account); 

• Description and/or value of trade 

goods; 

• Country of origin/export; and 

• Description and/or value of 

financial transactions. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

18 U.S.C. 545 (Smuggling goods into 

the United States); 18 U.S.C. 1956 

(Laundering of Monetary Instruments); 

and 19 U.S.C 1484 (Entry of 

Merchandise). 

PURPOSE: 

The purpose of this system is to 

enforce criminal laws pertaining to 

trade, financial crimes, smuggling, and 

fraud, specifically through the analysis 

of raw financial and trade data in order 

to identify potential violations of U.S. 

criminal laws pertaining to trade, 

financial crimes, smuggling, and fraud 

and to support existing criminal law 

enforcement investigations into related 

criminal activities. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

In addition to those disclosures 

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a 

portion of the records or information 

contained in this system may be 

disclosed outside DHS as a routine use 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as 

follows: 

A. To the Department of Justice or 

other Federal agency conducting 

litigation or in proceedings before any 

court, adjudicative, or administrative 

body, when (1) DHS or any component 

thereof; (2) any employee of DHS in his/ 

her official capacity; (3) any employee 

of DHS in his/her individual capacity 

where DOJ or DHS has agreed to 

represent the employee; or (4) the 

United States or any agency thereof, is 

a party to the litigation or has an interest 

in such litigation; and DHS determines 

that the records are both relevant and 

necessary to the litigation and the use of 

such records is compatible with the 

purpose for which DHS collected the 

records. 

B. To a congressional office from the 

record of an individual in response to 

an inquiry from that congressional office 

made at the request of the individual to 

whom the record pertains. 

C. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration or other Federal 

government agencies pursuant to 

records management inspections being 

conducted under the authority of 44 

U.S.C. 2904 and 2906. 

D. To an agency, organization, or 

individual for the purpose of performing 

audit or oversight operations as 

authorized by law, but only such 

information as is necessary and relevant 

to such audit or oversight function. 

E. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when: 

1. DHS suspects or has confirmed that 

the security or confidentiality of 

information in the system of records has 

been compromised; 

2. The Department has determined 

that as a result of the suspected or 

confirmed compromise there is a risk of 

harm to economic or property interests, 

identity theft or fraud, or harm to the 

security or integrity of this system or 

other systems or programs (whether 

maintained by DHS or another agency or 

entity) that rely upon the compromised 

information, or harm to an individual; 

and 

3. The disclosure made to such 

agencies, entities, and persons is 

reasonably necessary to assist in 

connection with DHS’s efforts to 

respond to the suspected or confirmed 

compromise and prevent, minimize, or 

remedy such harm. 

F. To contractors and their agents, 

grantees, experts, consultants, and 

others performing or working on a 

contract, service, grant, cooperative 

agreement, or other assignment for DHS, 

when necessary to accomplish an 

agency function related to this system of 

records. Individuals provided 

information under this routine use are 

subject to the same Privacy Act 

requirements and limitations on 

disclosure as are applicable to DHS 

officers and employees. 

G. To an appropriate Federal, State, 

tribal, local, international, or foreign law 

enforcement agency or other appropriate 

authority charged with investigating or 

prosecuting a violation or enforcing or 

implementing a law, rule, regulation, or 

order, where a record, either on its face 

or in conjunction with other 

information, indicates a violation or 

potential violation of law, which 

includes criminal, civil, or regulatory 

violations and such disclosure is proper 

and consistent with the official duties of 

the person making the disclosure. 

H. To third parties during the course 

of a law enforcement investigation to 

the extent necessary to obtain 

information pertinent to the 

investigation, provided disclosure is 

appropriate to the proper performance 

of the official duties of the officer 

making the disclosure. 

I. To appropriate Federal, State, local, 

tribal, or foreign governmental agencies 

or multilateral governmental 

organizations responsible for 

investigating or prosecuting the 

violations of, or for enforcing or 

implementing, a statute, rule, 

regulation, order, license, or treaty 

where DHS determines that the 

information would assist in the 

enforcement of civil or criminal laws. 

J. To a Federal, State, or local agency, 

or other appropriate entity or 

individual, or through established 

liaison channels to selected foreign 

governments, in order to provide 

intelligence, counterintelligence, or 

other information for the purposes of 

intelligence, counterintelligence, or 

anti-terrorism activities authorized by 

U.S. law, Executive Order, or other 

applicable national security directive. 

K. To a Federal, State, tribal, local or 

foreign government agency or 

organization, or international 

organization, lawfully engaged in 

collecting law enforcement intelligence 

information, whether civil or criminal, 

or charged with investigating, 

prosecuting, enforcing or implementing 

civil or criminal laws, related rules, 

regulations or orders, to enable these 

entities to carry out their law 

enforcement responsibilities, including 

the collection of law enforcement 

intelligence. 

L. To international and foreign 

governmental authorities in accordance 

with law and formal or informal 

international agreements. 

M. To Federal and foreign government 

intelligence or counterterrorism 

agencies when DHS reasonably believes 

there to be a threat or potential threat to 

national or international security for 

which the information may be useful in 

countering the threat or potential threat, 

when DHS reasonably believes such use 

is to assist in anti-terrorism efforts, and 

disclosure is appropriate to the proper 

performance of the official duties of the 

person making the disclosure. 

N. To appropriate Federal, State, 

local, tribal, or foreign governmental 

agencies or multilateral governmental 

organizations where DHS is aware of a 

need to utilize relevant data for 

purposes of testing new technology and 

systems designed to enhance national 

security or identify other violations of 

law. 

O. To the news media and the public, 

with the approval of the Chief Privacy 

Officer in consultation with counsel, 

when there exists a legitimate public 

interest in the disclosure of the 

information or when disclosure is 

necessary to preserve confidence in the 

integrity of DHS or is necessary to 

demonstrate the accountability of DHS’s 

officers, employees, or individuals 


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covered by the system, except to the 

extent it is determined that release of 

the specific information in the context 

of a particular case would constitute an 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

None. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Records in this system are stored 

electronically or on paper in secure 

facilities in a locked drawer behind a 

locked door. The records are stored on 

magnetic disc, tape, digital media, and 

CD–ROM. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records may be retrieved by any of 

the personal identifiers stored in the 

system including name, business 

address, home address, importer ID, 

exporter ID, broker ID, manufacturer ID, 

social security number, trade and tax 

identifying numbers, passport number, 

or account number. Records may also be 

retrieved by non-personal information 

such as transaction date, entity/ 

institution name, description of goods, 

value of transactions, and other 

information. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Records in this system are 

safeguarded in accordance with 

applicable rules and policies, including 

all applicable DHS automated systems 

security and access policies. Strict 

controls have been imposed to minimize 

the risk of compromising the 

information that is being stored. Access 

to the computer system containing the 

records in this system is limited to those 

individuals who have a need to know 

the information for the performance of 

their official duties and who have 

appropriate clearances or permissions. 

The system maintains a real-time 

auditing function of individuals who 

access the system. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

ICE is in the process of drafting a 

proposed record retention schedule for 

the information maintained in TTAR. 

ICE anticipates retaining the records in 

TTAR for five years and then archiving 

records for five additional years, for a 

total retention period of ten years. The 

five-year retention period for records is 

necessary to create a data set large 

enough to effectively analyze anomalies 

and patterns of behavior in trade 

transactions. Records older than five 

years will be archived for five additional 

years and will only be used to provide 

a historical basis for anomalies in 

current trade activity. The original CD– 

ROMs containing the raw data will be 

retained for five years for the purpose of 

data integrity and system maintenance. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Unit Chief, Trade Transparency Unit, 

ICE Office of Investigations, 500 12th 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

The Secretary of Homeland Security 

has exempted this system from 

notification, access, and amendment 

because of the law enforcement nature 

of the information. However, ICE will 

review requests on a case by case and 

release information as appropriate. 

Thus, individuals seeking notification of 

and access to any record contained in 

this system of records, or seeking to 

contest its content, may submit a 

request in writing to the component’s 

FOIA Officer, whose contact 

information can be found at http:// 

www.dhs.gov/foia under ‘‘contacts.’’ If 

an individual believes more than one 

component maintains Privacy Act 

records concerning him or her the 

individual may submit the request to 

the Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security, 245 Murray Drive, 

SW., Building 410, STOP–0655, 

Washington, DC 20528. 

When seeking records about yourself 

from this system of records or any other 

Departmental system of records your 

request must conform with the Privacy 

Act regulations set forth in 6 CFR Part 

5. You must first verify your identity, 

meaning that you must provide your full 

name, current address and date and 

place of birth. You must sign your 

request, and your signature must either 

be notarized or submitted under 28 

U.S.C. 1746, a law that permits 

statements to be made under penalty of 

perjury as a substitute for notarization. 

While no specific form is required, you 

may obtain forms for this purpose from 

the Director, Disclosure and FOIA, 

http://www.dhs.gov or 1–866–431–0486. 

In addition you should provide the 

following: 

• An explanation of why you believe 

the Department would have information 

on you, 

• Identify which component(s) of the 

Department you believe may have the 

information about you, 

• Specify when you believe the 

records would have been created, 

• Provide any other information that 

will help the FOIA staff determine 

which DHS component agency may 

have responsive records, 

• If your request is seeking records 

pertaining to another living individual, 

you must include a statement from that 

individual certifying his/her agreement 

for you to access his/her records. 

Without this bulleted information the 

component(s) will not be able to 

conduct an effective search, and your 

request may be denied due to lack of 

specificity or lack of compliance with 

applicable regulations. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

See ‘‘Notification procedure’’ above. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

See ‘‘Notification procedure’’ above. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

(1) U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) import data collecting 

using CBP Form 7501, ‘‘Entry 

Summary.’’ 

(2) U.S. Department of Commerce 

export data collected using Commerce 

Department Form 7525–V, ‘‘Shipper’s 

Export Declaration.’’ 

(3) U.S. Exports of Merchandise 

Dataset (a publicly available aggregated 

U.S. export dataset purchased from the 

U.S. Department of Commerce). 

(4) Foreign import and export data 

provided by partner countries pursuant 

to a Customs Mutual Assistance 

Agreement (CMAA) or other similar 

agreement. 

(5) Financial Transaction Reports 

from Treasury Department’s Financial 

Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), 

specifically: (a) Currency Monetary 

Instrument Reports (CMIRs)— 

Declarations of currency or monetary 

instruments in excess of $10,000 made 

by persons coming into or leaving the 

United States; (b) Currency Transaction 

Reports (CTRs)—Deposits or 

withdrawals of $10,000 or more in 

currency into or from depository 

institutions; (c) Suspicious Activity 

Reports (SARs)—Information regarding 

suspicious financial transactions within 

depository institutions, casinos, and the 

securities and futures industry; and (d) 

Report of Cash Payments over $10,000 

Received in a Trade or Business— 

Report of merchandise purchased with 

$10,000 or more in currency. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

Pursuant to exemption 5 U.S.C. 

552a(j)(2) of the Privacy Act, portions of 

this system are exempt from 5 U.S.C. 

552a(c)(3) and (4); (d); (e)(1), (e)(2), 

(e)(3), (e)(4)(G), (e)(4)(H), (e)(5) and 

(e)(8); (f); and (g). Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552a(k)(2), this system is exempt from 

the following provisions of the Privacy 

Act, subject to the limitations set forth 

in those subsections: 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), 

(d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (e)(4)(H), and (f). 


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Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Mary Ellen Callahan, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

United States Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Extension of a Currently 

Approved Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information 

Collection under Review; Form G–146, 

Nonimmigrant Checkout Letter; OMB 

Control No. 1653–0020. 

The Department of Homeland 

Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement (USICE), is submitting the 

following information collection request 

for review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. The Information Collection was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on June 2, 2009 Vol. 74 No. 104 

26415, allowing for a 60 day public 

comment period. USICE received no 

comments on this Information 

Collection from the public during this 

60 day period. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. Comments are encouraged 

and will be accepted for thirty days 

September 4, 2009. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

regarding items contained in this notice 

and especially with regard to the 

estimated public burden and associated 

response time should be directed to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the OMB Desk Officer for U.S. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 

Department of Homeland Security, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–5806. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information should address one or more 

of the following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Extension of a currently approved 

Information Collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Nonimmigrant Checkout Letter. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department of Homeland Security 

sponsoring the collection: Form G–146, 

U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individual or 

Households. When an alien (other than 

one who is required to depart under 

safeguards) is granted the privilege of 

voluntary departure without the 

issuance of an Order to Show Cause, a 

control card is prepared. If, after a 

certain period of time, a verification of 

departure is not received, actions are 

taken to locate the alien or ascertain his 

or her whereabouts. Form G–146 is used 

to inquire of persons in the United 

States or abroad regarding the 

whereabouts of the alien. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 20,000 responses at 10 minutes 

(.16) per response. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: 3,220 annual burden hours 

Requests for a copy of the proposed 

information collection instrument, with 

instructions; or inquiries for additional 

information regarding this Information 

Collection should be requested via 

e-mail to: forms.ice@dhs.gov with ‘‘ICE 

Form G–146’’ in the subject line. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Joseph M. Gerhart, 

Chief, Records Management Branch, Office 

of Asset Management, U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E9–18608 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

United States Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Extension of a Currently 

Approved Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information 

Collection Under Review; Form I–43, 

Baggage and Personal Effects of 

Detained Alien, OMB No. 1653–0023. 

The Department of Homeland 

Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement (USICE), is submitting the 

following information collection request 

for review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. The Information Collection was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on June 2, 2009, Vol. 74, No. 

104 26417, allowing for a 60 day public 

comment period. USICE received no 

comments on this Information 

Collection from the public during this 

60 day period. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. Comments are encouraged 

and will be accepted for thirty days 

September 3, 2009. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

regarding items contained in this notice 

and especially with regard to the 

estimated public burden and associated 

response time should be directed to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the OMB Desk Officer for U.S. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 

Department of Homeland Security, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–5806. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information should address one or more 

of the following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 


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