Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 182 / Wednesday, September 20, 2006 / Notices 54981 

Dated: September 14, 2006. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Transformation Advisory Group 

Meeting of the U.S. Joint Forces 

Command 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Closed Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Transformation Advisory 

Group (TAG) will meet in closed session 

on 12–13 December 2006. The 

establishment date was already 

published in the Federal Register on 28 

May 2003, in accordance with 41 CFR 

102–3.150. 

The mission of the TAG is to provide 

timely advice on scientific, technical, 

and policy-related issues to the 

Commander, U.S. Joint Forces 

Command as he develops and executes 

the DOD transformation strategy. Full 

development of the topics will require 

discussion of information classified in 

accordance with Executive Order 12958, 

dated 17 April 1995, as amended March 

2003. 

Access to the information must be 

strictly limited to personnel having the 

requisite clearances and specific needto-know, unauthorized disclosure of the 

information to be discussed at the TAG 

meetings could cause serious damage to 

our national defense. The meeting will 

be closed for security reasons, pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552, Exemption(b)1, 

Protection of National Security, and 

Exemption(b)3 regarding information 

protected under the Homeland Security 

Act of 2002. In accordance with Section 

10(d) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act and 41 CFR 102–3.155 

this meeting will be closed. 

DATES: December 12–13, 2006. 

Location: United States Joint Forces 

Command, 1562 Mitscher Avenue, Suite 

200, Norfolk, VA 23551–2488. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert O. Anderson, Designated Federal 

Officer, (757) 836–6395. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Mr. Floyd 

March, Joint Staff, (703) 697–0610. 

Dated: September 13, 2006. 

L.M. Bynum, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, DoD. 

[FR Doc. 06–7746 Filed 9–19–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary of Defense 

[DOD–2006–OS–0197] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer 

Matching Program 

AGENCY: Defense Manpower Data 

Center, Defense Logistics Agency, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of a computer matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: Subsection (e)(12) of the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 

U.S.C. 552a), requires agencies to 

publish advanced notice of any 

proposed or revised computer matching 

program by the matching agency for 

public comment. The Department of 

Defense (DoD) as the matching agency 

under the Privacy Act, is hereby giving 

notice to the record subjects of a 

computer matching program between 

Social Security Administration (SSA) 

and the DoD that their records are being 

matched by computer. 

The Social Security Act requires SSA 

to verify, with independent or collateral 

sources, information provided to SSA 

by recipients of SSI payments and 

beneficiaries of SVB benefits. The SSI 

and SVB recipient/beneficiary provides 

information about eligibility/entitlement 

factors and other relevant information. 

SSA obtains additional information as 

necessary before making any 

determinations of eligibility/payment or 

entitlement/benefit amounts or 

adjustments thereto. With respect to 

military retirement payments to SSI 

recipients and SVB beneficiaries who 

are retired members of the Uniformed 

Services or their survivors, SSA 

proposes to accomplish this task by 

computer matching with the DoD. 

DATES: This proposed action will 

become effective October 20, 2006, and 

matching may commence unless 

changes to the matching program are 

required due to public comments or by 

Congressional or by Office of 

Management and Budget objections. 

Any public comment must be received 

before the effective date. 

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may 

submit written comments to the 

Director, Defense Privacy Office, 1901 

South Bell Street, Suite 920, Arlington, 

VA 22202–4512. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Vahan Moushegian, Jr. at (703) 607–

2943. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to subsection (o) of the Privacy Act of 

1974, as amended, (5 U.S.C. 552a), the 

Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) 

and SSA have concluded an agreement 

to conduct a computer matching 

program. 

The parties to this agreement have 

determined that a computer matching 

program is the efficient, expeditious, 

and effective means of obtaining and 

processing the information needed by 

the SSA under the Social Security Act 

to verify the eligibility/entitlement of, 

and to verify payment/benefit amounts 

for, certain SSI and SVB recipients/ 

beneficiaries. Computer matching also 

will produce the required data to 

calculate and make any necessary 

adjustments of SSI payments and SVB 

benefits. The principal alternative to 

using a computer matching program 

would be to conduct a manual 

comparison of DoD payment records 

with a list of SSI and SVB recipients/ 

beneficiaries. Conducting such a manual 

match would clearly impose a 

considerable administrative burden, 

constitute a greater intrusion on the 

individual’s privacy, and would result 

in additional delay in the eventual SSI 

payment and SVB benefit or recovery of 

unauthorized or erroneous payments/ 

benefits. Using the computer matching 

program, the information exchange 

between the parties can be 

accomplished within 30 days. 

A copy of the computer matching 

agreement between SSA and DoD is 

available upon request. Requests should 

be submitted to the address caption 

above or to the Office of Payment 

Policy, Office of Income Security 

Programs, Office of Disability and 

Income Security Programs, Social 

Security Administration, 0106 RRCC, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 

21235. 

Set forth below is the notice of the 

establishment of a computer matching 

program required by paragraph 6.c. of 

the Office of Management and Budget 

Guidelines on computer matching 

published on June 19, 1989, at 54 FR 

2518. 

The matching agreement, as required 

by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) of the Privacy Act, 

and an advance copy of this notice was 

submitted on September 12, 2006, to the 

House Committee on Government 

Reform, the Senate Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs, and the Administrator of the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget pursuant to paragraph 4d of 

Appendix I to OMB Circular No. A–130, 

‘‘Federal Agency Responsibilities for 

Maintaining Records about 

Individuals,’’ dated February 8, 1996 

(February 20, 1996, 61 FR 6427). 


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