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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 81, No. 82 

Thursday, April 28, 2016 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Housing Service 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

Rural Utilities Service 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records; USDA/Rural Development-1 

Current or Prospective Producers or 

Landowners, Applicants, Borrowers, 

Grantees, Tenants, and Other 

Participants in RD Programs 

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, Rural 

Business-Cooperative Service, and Rural 

Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed revision to 

an existing Privacy Act System of 

Records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 

as amended; Section 12204 of the 

Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm, 5 

U.S.C. 552a) Rural Development (RD) 

gives notice of its proposal to revise the 

system of records entitled USDA/Rural 

Development-1 Applicant, Borrower, 

Grantee or Tenant File. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than June 7, 2016. This system of 

records will be effective June 7, 2016 

unless Rural Development receives 

comments, which would result in a 

contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this notice by any of the following 

methods: You may submit written or 

electronic comments on this notice by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Submit written comments via 

the U.S. Postal Service to the Branch 

Chief, Regulations and Paperwork 

Management Branch, U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, 300 7th Street SW., 7th 

Floor, Washington, DC 20024. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Submit 

written comments via Federal Express 

Mail or other courier service requiring a 

street address to the Branch Chief, 

Regulations and Paperwork 

Management Branch, U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, 300 7th Street SW., 7th 

Floor, Washington, DC 20024. 

All written comments will be 

available for public inspection during 

regular work hours at the 300 7th Street 

SW., 7th Floor address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For general questions, please contact: 

Diego Maldonado, RD Privacy Act 

Officer, 4300 Goodfellow Boulevard, 

Room 52C13, St. Louis, MO 63120– 

0011; 314–457–6279. 

For privacy issues, please contact: 

Kelvin Fairfax Chief Privacy Officer, 

Cyber and Privacy Policy and Oversight, 

Office of the Chief information Officer, 

Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

DC 20250. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 

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

publish in the Federal Register notice of 

new or revised systems of records 

maintained by the agency. A system of 

records is a group of any records under 

the control of any agency, from which 

information is retrieved by the name of 

an individual or by some identifying 

number, symbol, or other identifying 

particular assigned to an individual. 

In accordance with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Circular A–130, Rural Development of 

the United States Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) is proposing to 

revise an existing Privacy Act system of 

records, which was last published in 

full on July 17, 1998 (63 FR 38546). 

The agency proposes to make various 

revisions to USDA/RD–1, including 

several revisions related to the receipt 

for services (RFS) program. Section 

2501A of the Food, Agriculture, 

Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 

was amended by Section 14003 of the 

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 

2008 (2008 Farm Bill) to require that 

upon the request of a current or 

prospective producer or landowner, 

certain agencies, including agencies of 

the Rural Development Mission Area, 

provide a receipt for service concerning 

any benefit or service offered to 

agricultural producers or landowners. 

Section 12204 of the Agricultural Act of 

2014 (2014 Farm Bill) further modified 

this requirement to mandate the 

issuance of a receipt for service to every 

current or prospective producer or 

landowner that requests about any 

benefit or service provided to a 

customer by agencies of the Rural 

Development Mission Area (or denial of 

service). Accordingly, the receipt for 

service program provides inquirers, 

applicants, or customers of the Rural 

Business Cooperative Service, the Rural 

Housing Service, and the Rural Utilities 

Service with a receipt for service for 

certain types of transactions requested. 

While these routine uses allow 

disclosures outside USDA, and so have 

some impact on privacy of individuals, 

they are either necessary for carrying 

out the agency mission and minimizing 

waste, fraud, and abuse; are required by 

law; or benefit the subjects of the 

records. On balance, the needs of the 

agency and the benefits to the 

individuals of these disclosures justify 

the minimal impact on privacy. The 

current SORN is located at: http://

www.ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/

docs/2012/Rural%20Development-1.txt. 

Rural Development proposes to revise 

the System of Records to reflect the 

following changes: 

1. A security classification is added to 

the System Notice. 

2. The system locations section is 

revised to reflect organizational and 

office location and responsibility 

changes. 

3. The categories of individuals 

covered by the system section is revised 

to reflect the Receipt for Services 

program. 

4. The categories of records in the 

system section is revised to reflect the 

Receipt for Services program. 

5. The authority for maintenance of 

the system section is revised to reflect 

changes in the statutory authorities. 

6. A purpose(s) section is added to the 

System Notice. 

7. RD proposes the following changes 

to the routine uses: 

a. The language of routine uses 2, 5– 

13, 15, 16, and 18 is revised slightly for 

clarity and consistency. 

b. Routine use 14 is revised to identify 

the system, Credit Alert Verification 

Reporting System (CAIVRS) that is used 

by the Department of Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD) for the 

purpose of prescreening applicants. 

c. Routine use 17 is deleted. 

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d. Routine use 18 is renumbered as 

routine use 17 and is revised slightly for 

clarity and consistency. 

e. New routine use 18 is added to 

disclose to the Department of Health 

and Human Services parent locator 

system for finding parents who do not 

pay child support. 

f. Routine use 19 is added to allow 

disclosure to contractors, grantees, 

experts, consultants or volunteers who 

are performing a service on behalf of the 

agency. 

g. Routine use 20 is added to allow 

disclosure of records to customer 

service agents for training and 

evaluation purposes. 

h. Routine use 21 is added to allow 

disclosure of records to appropriate 

agencies, entities, and persons for 

purposes of response and remedial 

efforts in the event that there has been 

a breach of the data contained in the 

systems. 

i. Routine use 22 is added to comply 

with Federal Funding Accountability 

and Transparency Act for public 

disclosure purposes. 

j. Routine use 23 is added to allow 

disclosure to the National Archives and 

Records Administration for records 

management purposes. 

k. Routine use 24 is added to allow 

disclosure to the Department of the 

Treasury for the purpose of identifying, 

preventing, or recouping improper 

payments. 

8. The policies and practices for 

storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, 

and disposing of records in the system 

section is revised to reflect changes in 

record keeping including use of 

electronic records. 

9. The system manager and address 

section is revised to include a Web site 

link. 

10. The record source categories 

section is revised to reflect the Receipt 

for Services program. 

Dated: March 23, 2016. 

Lisa Mensah, 

Under Secretary, Rural Development. 

SYSTEM OF RECORDS 

USDA/Rural Development-1. 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Applicant, Borrower, Grantee, or 

Tenant File. 

Security Classification: unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Each Rural Development current or 

prospective producers or landowners, 

applicants, borrowers, grantees, tenants, 

their respective household members, 

including members of associations, and 

other participants in RD programs. Files 

is located in the Local, Area, or State 

Office through which the financial 

assistance is sought or was obtained; in 

the Centralized Servicing Center (CSC), 

St. Louis, Missouri; and in the Finance 

Office in St. Louis, Missouri. A State 

Office version of the Local or Area 

Office file may be located in or 

accessible by the State Office which is 

responsible for that Local or Area Office. 

Correspondence regarding borrowers is 

located in the State and National Office 

files. 

A list of all State Offices and any 

additional States/Offices for which an 

office is responsible is as follows: 

Montgomery, AL 

Palmer, AK 

Phoenix, AZ 

Little Rock, AR 

Davis, CA 

Lakewood, CO 

Dover, DE (includes Maryland) 

Gainesville, FL (includes U. S. Virgin 

Islands) 

Athens, GA 

Hilo, HI (includes Western Pacific 

Territories of American Samoa, Guam, 

and Commonwealth of the Marianas 

Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, 

Republic of Palau, and the Marshall 

Islands) 

Boise, ID 

Champaign, IL 

Indianapolis, IN 

Des Moines, IA 

Topeka, KS 

Lexington, KY 

Alexandria, LA 

Bangor, ME 

Amherst, MA (includes Connecticut 

and Rhode Island) 

East Lansing, MI 

St. Paul, MN 

Jackson, MS 

Columbia, MO 

Bozeman, MT 

Lincoln, NE 

Carson City, NV 

Mt. Laurel, NJ 

Albuquerque, NM 

Syracuse, NY 

Raleigh, NC 

Bismarck, ND 

Columbus, OH 

Stillwater, OK 

Portland, OR 

Harrisburg, PA 

San Juan, PR 

Columbia, SC 

Huron, SD 

Nashville, TN 

Temple, TX 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Montpelier, VT (includes New 

Hampshire) 

Richmond, VA 

Olympia, WA 

Morgantown, WV 

Stevens Point, WI 

Casper, WY 

The address of Local, Area, and State 

Offices are listed in the telephone 

directory of the appropriate city or town 

under the heading, ‘‘United States 

Government, Department of Agriculture, 

and Rural Development.’’ The Financial 

Office and CSC are located at 4300 

Goodfellow Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63120– 

0011. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Current or prospective producers or 

landowners, applicants, borrowers, 

grantees, tenants, and their respective 

household members, including 

members of associations and other 

participants in RD programs. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The system includes files containing 

the names of current or prospective 

producers or landowners, applicants, 

borrowers, grantees, tenants and their 

respective household members, 

including members of associations and 

other participants in RD programs. It 

may also include their social security or 

employer identification number, bank 

routing and account numbers; and their 

respective household members’ 

characteristics, such as gross and net 

income, sources of income, capital, 

assets and liabilities, net worth, age, 

race, number of dependents, marital 

status, reference material, farm or ranch 

operating plans, and property appraisal. 

The system also includes credit reports 

and personal references from credit 

agencies, lenders, businesses, and 

individuals. In addition, a running 

record of observation concerning the 

operations of the person being financed 

is included. A record of deposits to and 

withdrawals from an individual’s 

supervised bank account is also 

contained in those files where 

appropriate. In some Local Offices, this 

record is maintained in a separate folder 

containing only information relating to 

activity within supervised bank 

accounts. Some items of information are 

extracted from the individual’s file and 

placed in a card file for quick reference. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Consolidated Farm and Rural 

Development Act of 1972, as amended; 

Section 12204 of the Agricultural Act of 

2014 (Pub. L. 113–79); AGRICULTURAL 

CREDIT 7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.; FARM 

HOUSING 42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.; 

Section 901 of the Food Conservation, 

and Energy Act of 2008 (Pub L. 110– 

246); RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND 

TELEPHONE SERVICE 7 U.S.C. 901 et 

seq. 

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PURPOSE(S): 

Rural Development (RD) maintains 

numerous information systems that are 

used for current or prospective 

producers or landowners, applicants, 

borrowers, grantees, tenants, and other 

participants in RD programs designed to 

help improve the economy and quality 

of life in rural America. These financial 

systems support such essential public 

facilities and service as water and sewer 

systems, housing, health clinics, 

emergency service facilities, and electric 

and telephone services. Additionally, 

RD systems and feeder applications 

promote economic development by 

supporting loans to businesses through 

banks, credit unions, and communitymanaged lending pools. The suite of RD 

systems covered by this System of 

Records is developed and maintained by 

the Deputy Chief Information Officer in 

St. Louis, MO and the National 

Development Branch in Washington, 

DC. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

GROUP OF APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING

CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF

SUCH USES: 

1. When a record on its face, or in 

conjunction with other records, 

indicates a violation or potential 

violation of law, whether civil, criminal 

or regulatory in nature, and whether 

arising by general statute or particular 

program statute, or by regulation, rule, 

or order issued pursuant thereto, 

disclosure may be made to the 

appropriate agency, whether Federal, 

foreign, State, local, or tribal, or other 

public authority responsible for 

enforcing, investigating or prosecuting 

such violation or charged with enforcing 

or implementing the statute, or rule, 

regulation, or order issued pursuant 

thereto, if the information disclosed is 

relevant to any enforcement, regulatory, 

investigative or prospective 

responsibility of the receiving entity. 

2. To a Member of Congress or to a 

Congressional staff member in response 

to an inquiry of the Congressional office 

made at the written request of the 

constituent about whom the record is 

maintained. 

3. Rural Development will provide 

information from these systems to the 

U.S. Department of the Treasury and to 

other Federal agencies maintaining debt 

servicing centers, in connection with 

overdue debts, in order to participate in 

the Treasury Offset Program as required 

by the Debt Collection Improvements 

Act, Public Law 104–134, section 31001. 

4. Disclosure to Rural Development of 

name, home addresses, and information 

concerning default on loan repayment 

when the default involves a security 

interest in tribal allotted or trust land. 

Pursuant to the Cranston-Gonzales 

National Affordable Housing Act of 

1990 (42 U.S.C. 12701 et seq.), 

liquidation may be pursued only after 

offering to transfer the account to an 

eligible tribal member, the tribe, or the 

Indian housing authority serving the 

tribe(s). 

5. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, social security numbers, and 

financial information to a collection or 

servicing contractor, financial 

institution, or a local, State, or Federal 

agency, when Rural Development 

determines such referral is appropriate 

for servicing or collecting the borrower’s 

account or as provided for in contracts 

with servicing or collection agencies. 

6. To a court or adjudicative body in 

a proceeding when: (a) The agency or 

any component thereof; or (b) any 

employee of the agency in his or her 

official capacity; or (c) any employee of 

the agency in his or her individual 

capacity where the agency has agreed to 

represent the employee; or (d) the 

United States Government, is a party to 

litigation or has an interest in such 

litigation, and by careful review, the 

agency determines that the records are 

both relevant and necessary to the 

litigation and the use of such records is 

therefore deemed by the agency to be for 

a purpose that is compatible with the 

purpose for which the agency collected 

the records. 

7. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, and financial information for 

selected borrowers to financial 

consultants, advisors, lending 

institutions, packagers, agents, and 

private or commercial credit sources, 

when Rural Development determines 

such referral is appropriate to encourage 

the borrower to refinance his Rural 

Development indebtedness as required 

by Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, 

as amended (42 U.S.C. 1471), or to assist 

the borrower in the sale of the property. 

8. Disclosure of legally enforceable 

debts to the Department of the Treasury, 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), to be 

offset against any tax refund that may 

become due the debtor for the tax year 

in which the referral is made, in 

accordance with the IRS regulations at 

26 CFR 301.6402–6T, Offset of Past Due 

Legally Enforceable Debt Against 

Overpayment, and under the authority 

contained in 31 U.S.C. 3720A. 

9. Disclosure of information regarding 

indebtedness to the Defense Manpower 

Data Center, Department of Defense, and 

the United States Postal Service for the 

purpose of conducting computer 

matching programs to identify and 

locate individuals receiving Federal 

salary or benefit payments and who are 

delinquent in their repayment of debts 

owed to the U.S. Government under 

certain programs administered by Rural 

Development in order to collect debts 

under the provisions of the Debt 

Collection Act of 1982 (5 U.S.C. 5514) 

by voluntary repayment, administrative 

or salary offset procedures, or by 

collection agencies. 

10. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, and financial information to 

lending institutions when Rural 

Development determines the individual 

may be financially capable of qualifying 

for credit with or without a guarantee. 

11. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, social security numbers, and 

financial information to lending 

institutions that have a lien against the 

same property as Rural Development for 

the purpose of the collection of the debt. 

These loans may be under the direct and 

guaranteed loan programs. 

12. Disclosure to private attorneys 

under contract with either Rural 

Development or with the Department of 

Justice for the purpose of foreclosure 

and possession actions and collection of 

past due accounts in connection with 

Rural Development. 

13. To the Department of Justice 

when: (a) The agency or any component 

thereof; or (b) any employee of the 

agency in his or her official capacity 

where the Department of Justice has 

agreed to represent the employee; or (c) 

the United States Government, is a party 

to litigation or has an interest in such 

litigation, and by careful review, the 

agency determines that the records are 

both relevant and necessary to the 

litigation and the use of such records by 

the Department of Justice is therefore 

deemed by the agency to be for a 

purpose that is compatible with the 

purpose for which the agency collected 

the records. 

14. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, social security numbers, and 

financial information to the Department 

of Housing and Urban Development for 

the purpose of evaluating a loan 

applicant’s creditworthiness, 

information that will allow for the prescreening of applicants through the 

Credit Alert Verification Reporting 

System (CAIVRS) computer matching 

program. An applicant shall be prescreened for any debts owed or loans 

guaranteed by the Federal government 

to ascertain if the applicant is 

delinquent in paying a debt owed to or 

insured by the Federal government. 

Authorized employees of, and approved 

private lenders acting on behalf of, the 

Federal agencies participating in the 

CAIVRS computer matching program 

will be able to search the CAIVRS 

database. 

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Explanatory Text: Credit Alert 

Verification Reporting System (CAIVRS) 

is a Federal government database of 

delinquent Federal debtors that when 

reviewed, allows Federal agencies to 

reduce the risk to Federal loan and loan 

guarantee programs. CAIVRS alerts 

participating Federal lending agencies 

when an applicant for credit benefits 

has a Federal lien, judgment, or a 

Federal loan that is currently in default 

or foreclosure, or has had a claim paid 

by a reporting agency. CAIVRS allows 

authorized employees of participating 

Federal agencies to access a database of 

delinquent Federal borrowers for the 

purpose of pre-screening direct loan 

applicants for credit worthiness and 

also permits approved private lenders 

acting on behalf of the Federal agency 

to access the delinquent borrower 

database for the purpose of prescreening the credit worthiness of 

applicants for federally guaranteed 

loans. CAIVRS authority derives from 

the Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100–503) 

as amended, Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Circulars A–129 

(Managing Federal Credit Programs) and 

A–70 (Policies and Guidelines for 

Federal Credit Programs), the Budget 

and Accounting Acts of 1921 and 1950, 

as amended, the Debt Collection Act of 

1982, as amended, the Deficit Reduction 

Act of 1984, as amended, and the Debt 

Collection Improvement Act of 1996, as 

amended. 

15. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, social security numbers, and 

financial information to the Department 

of Labor, State Wage Information 

Collection Agencies, and other Federal, 

State, and local agencies, as well as 

those responsible for verifying 

information furnished to qualify for 

Federal benefits, to conduct wage and 

benefit matching through manual and/or 

automated means, for the purpose of 

determining compliance with Federal 

regulations and appropriate servicing 

actions against those not entitled to 

program benefits, including possible 

recovery of improper benefits. 

16. Disclosure of names, home 

addresses, and financial information to 

financial consultants, advisors, or 

underwriters, when Rural Development 

determines such referral is appropriate 

for developing packaging and marketing 

strategies involving the sale of Rural 

Development loan assets. 

17. Disclosure of names, home and 

work addresses, home telephone 

numbers, social security numbers, and 

financial information to escrow agents 

(which also could include attorneys and 

title companies) selected by the 

applicant or borrower for the purpose of 

closing the loan. 

18. Disclosure to Health and Human 

Services (HHS) parent locator system for 

finding parents who do not pay child 

support: The name and current address 

of record of an individual may be 

disclosed from this system of records to 

the parent locator service of the 

Department of HHS or authorized 

persons defined by Public Law 93–647, 

42 U.S.C. 653. 

19. To agency contractors, grantees, 

experts, consultants or volunteers who 

have been engaged by the agency to 

assist in the performance of a service 

related to this system of records and 

who need to have access to the records 

in order to perform the activity. 

Recipients shall be required to comply 

with the requirements of the Privacy Act 

of 1974, as amended, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552a(m). 

20. Disclosure to customer service 

agents for training and evaluation 

purposes. Information is collected 

during calls made by the client to the 

CSC Customer Service Section to 

discuss questions or concerns pertaining 

to their mortgage account(s) with Rural 

Development. The information 

discussed during the call to the CSC 

help desk is captured and used for 

training and evaluation purposes to 

ensure proper procedures are being 

followed and accurate information is 

provided when assisting the client. 

21. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when (1) When Rural 

Development 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 the 

Department or another agency or entity) 

that rely upon the compromised 

information; and (3) the disclosure 

made to such agencies, entities, and 

persons is reasonably necessary to assist 

in connection with the Department’s 

efforts to respond to the suspected or 

confirmed compromise and prevent, 

minimize, or remedy such harm. 

22. To comply with Federal Funding 

Accountability and Transparency Act 

(FFATA) and similar statutory 

requirements for public disclosure in 

situations where records reflect loans, 

grants, or other payments to members of 

the public: USDA will disclose 

information about individuals from this 

system of records in accordance with 

the Federal Funding Accountability and 

Transparency Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109– 

282; codified at 31 U.S.C. 6101, et seq.); 

section 204 of the E-Government Act of 

2002 (Pub. L. 107–347; 44 U.S.C. 3501 

note), and the Office of Federal 

Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403 

et seq.), or similar statutes requiring 

agencies to make available publicly 

information concerning Federal 

financial assistance, including grants, 

subgrants, loan awards, cooperative 

agreements and other financial 

assistance; and contracts, subcontracts, 

purchase orders, task orders, and 

delivery orders. 

23. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration for to the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration for records management 

inspections conducted under 44 U.S.C. 

2904 and 2906. 

24. To the Department of the Treasury 

for the purpose of identifying, 

preventing, or recouping improper 

payments to an applicant for, or 

recipient of, Federal funds, including 

funds disbursed by a State in a Stateadministered, Federally funded 

program, information that will allow for 

pre-payment eligibility review of a loan 

applicant through the Do Not Pay 

computer matching program. 

Authorized employees of, and approved 

private lenders acting on behalf of, the 

Federal agencies participating in the Do 

Not Pay computer matching program 

will be able to search the Do Not Pay 

database. The disclosure may include 

applicant’s name, home address, Social 

Security Number, income/financial 

data, date of birth, personal telephone 

number, and personal email address. 

EXPLANATORY TEXT: 

In order to help eliminate waste, 

fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, 

Federal agencies are to focus on 

preventing payment errors before they 

occur. The purpose of the Department of 

the Treasury’s Do Not Pay program is to 

reduce improper payments by 

intensifying efforts to eliminate 

payment error, waste, fraud, and abuse 

in the major programs administered by 

the Federal Government, while 

continuing to ensure that Federal 

programs serve and provide access to 

their intended beneficiaries. Federal 

agencies shall thoroughly review the Do 

Not Pay computer matching database, to 

the extent permitted by law to 

determine applicant eligibility before 

the release of any Federal funds. By 

checking the Do Not Pay database before 

making payments, Federal agencies can 

identify ineligible recipients and 

prevent certain improper payments from 

being made. The Do Not Pay program 

authority derives from the Improper 

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Payments Elimination and Recovery 

Improvement Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112– 

248). 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

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. 1681a(f)) or the 

Federal Claims Collection Act (31 U.S.C. 

3701(a)(3)). 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Records are maintained in file folders 

at the Local, Area, State, and National 

Offices. All records are converted to 

electronic format and stored on a USDA 

managed certified and accredited 

storage repository. Once agency 

employees convert the paper documents 

to digital records, verify that the digital 

record is readable and successfully 

ported to the imaging repository the 

manual documents are destroyed in 

compliance with Rural Development 

regulation (shredding). Other program 

imaging repositories are utilized to 

allow multi-point access to electronic 

records but the manual documents are 

retained securely in the local office until 

such time as the account is considered 

closed per Rural Development 

Regulation 2033–A. At that time, the 

documents/case files are destroyed in a 

manner as outlined in Rural 

Development regulation. If the office 

cannot accommodate proper, manual 

file retention standards (inadequate 

space to secure and house documents/ 

files that require retention), inactive 

documents/case files (i.e., charge-offs, 

pay-offs, denials, withdrawn) can be 

retired to the Federal Records Center. 

Any records shipped to the Center for 

retention must be clearly inventoried 

and marked with a destroy-by date. The 

destroy date is determined by the record 

type after it is closed (e.g., loss to the 

government retention is 7 years after 

case is closed). The retention schedule 

can be found at RD 2033–A and the 

Operational Records Manual. For 

further information contact the RD 

Records Officer. If closed/inactive files 

are retained at the local office until such 

time as they are eligible for destruction, 

they are stored in a secured location. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records are indexed by name, 

identification number and type of loan 

or grant. Data may be retrieved from the 

paper records or the electronic storage. 

All Rural Development state and field 

offices as well as the financial office and 

the Centralized Servicing Center (CSC) 

have the telecommunications capability 

available to access this subset of data. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Paper records are kept in locked 

offices at the Local, Area, State, and 

National Offices. For electronic records 

and an online retrieval system at the 

Finance Office access is restricted to 

authorized Rural Development 

personnel. A system of operator and 

terminal passwords and code numbers 

is used to restrict access to the online 

system. Passwords and code numbers 

are changed as necessary. 

The records are protected by the 

confidentiality requirements of the 

USDA Office of the Chief Information 

Officer (OCIO) Cyber Security Manuals 

and the provisions of the Privacy Act. 

Only authorized USDA employees will 

have access to the records in this system 

on a need to know basis. Role based 

access controls are used and the systems 

are accessible via the USDA Intranet. 

Only authorized USDA personnel will 

have access to these records. The 

systems covered by this notice have 

been categorized as having a Moderate 

security categorization impact as 

identified in Federal Information 

Processing Standard (FIPS) 199, 

Standards for Security Categorization of 

Federal Information and Information 

Systems. The security controls 

implemented within the systems will 

correspond with those published in the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) Special Publication 

800–53, Recommended Security 

Controls for Federal Information 

Technology Systems for a Moderate 

impact system. 

Users are only granted system access 

upon successful completion of 

information security training and each 

user is supplied with a unique and 

strong user-id and password. The user 

roles are restrictive and based on the 

principle of least privilege allowing for 

adequate performance of job functions 

and access to information is based on a 

need to know. 

Due to the financial nature of the 

systems covered by this notice, the 

systems also adhere to the security 

controls identified in the Federal 

Information Security Control Audit 

Manual (FISCAM). The mandatory 

requirements of FIPS 199 and FIPS 200, 

Minimum Security Requirements for 

Federal Information and Information 

Systems, support the Federal 

Information Security Management Act 

(FISMA) and the FISCAM supports the 

mandated Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Circular A–123, 

Management of Internal Controls. 

Moreover, Specific USDA security 

requirements are adhered to through the 

USDA Cyber Security Manuals 

including but not limited to: DM3545– 

000, Personnel Security, and DM3510– 

001, Physical Security Standards for 

Information Technology Restricted 

Space. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are maintained subject to the 

Federal Records Disposal Act of 1943 

(44 U.S.C. 33), and in accordance with 

Rural Development’s disposal 

schedules. The Local, Area, State, and 

National Offices dispose of records by 

shredding, burning, or other suitable 

disposal methods after established 

retention periods have been fulfilled. 

(Destruction methods may never 

compromise the confidentiality of 

information contained in the records.) 

Applications, including credit reports 

and personal references, which are 

rejected, withdrawn, or otherwise 

terminated are kept in the Local, Area, 

or State Office for two full fiscal years 

and one month after the end of the fiscal 

year in which the application was 

rejected, withdrawn, canceled, or 

expired. If final action was taken on the 

application, including an appeal, 

investigation, or litigation, the 

application is kept for one full fiscal 

year after the end of the fiscal year in 

which final action was taken. 

The records, including credit reports, 

of borrowers who have paid or 

otherwise satisfied their obligation are 

retained in the Local, Area, or State 

Office for one full fiscal year after the 

fiscal year in which the loan was paid 

in full. Correspondence records at the 

National Office which concern 

borrowers and applicants are retained 

for three full fiscal years after the last 

year in which there was 

correspondence. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

The Community Development 

Manager at the Local Office; the Rural 

Development Manager at the Area 

Office; and the State Director at the 

State Office; the Deputy Chief Financial 

Officer in St. Louis, MO; and the 

respective Administrators in the 

National Office at the following 

addresses: Administrator, Rural Housing 

Service, USDA, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., Room 5014, South 

Building, Stop 0701, Washington, DC 

20250–0701; Administrator, Rural 

Business-Cooperative Service, USDA, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW., Room 

5045, South Building, Stop 3201, 

Washington, DC 20250–3201; 

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Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, 

USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW., Room 4501, South Building, Stop 

1510, Washington, DC 20250–1510. 

Contact information can be found at 

http://www.rd.usda.gov. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Any individual may request 

information regarding this system of 

records, or determine whether the 

system contains records pertaining to 

him/her, from the appropriate System 

Manager. If the specific location of the 

record is not known, the individual 

should address his or her request to: 

Rural Development, Freedom of 

information Officer, United States 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., Stop 0742, 

and Washington, DC 20250–0742. 

A request for information pertaining 

to an individual must include a name; 

an address; the Rural Development 

office where the loan or grant was 

applied for, approved, and/or denied; 

the type of Rural Development program; 

and the date of the request or approval. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Any individual may obtain 

information regarding the procedures 

for gaining access to a record in the 

system which pertains to him or her by 

submitting a written request to one of 

the System Managers. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

Same as record access procedures. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information in this system comes 

primarily Credit reports and personal 

references come primarily from current 

or prospective producers or landowners, 

applicants, borrowers, grantees, tenant. 

Credit agencies and creditors. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–XT–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–23–2016] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 229—Charleston, 

West Virginia; Application for 

Reorganization/Expansion Under 

Alternative Site Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by 

the West Virginia Economic 

Development Authority, grantee of FTZ 

229, requesting authority to reorganize 

and expand the zone under the 

alternative site framework (ASF) 

adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR Sec. 

400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for 

grantees for the establishment or 

reorganization of zones and can permit 

significantly greater flexibility in the 

designation of new subzones or ‘‘usagedriven’’ FTZ sites for operators/users 

located within a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ 

in the context of the FTZ Board’s 

standard 2,000-acre activation limit for 

a zone. The application was submitted 

pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones 

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), 

and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 

part 400). It was formally docketed on 

April 22, 2016. 

FTZ 229 was approved by the FTZ 

Board on February 13, 1998 (Board 

Order 954, 63 FR 9177, February 24, 

1998). The current zone includes the 

following site: Site 1 (24 acres)— 

Charleston Ordnance Center, 3100 

MacCorkle Avenue SW., South 

Charleston. 

The grantee’s proposed service area 

under the ASF would be the Counties of 

Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, 

Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, 

Mason, Mingo, Putnam, Raleigh, Roane, 

Wayne, Wirt, Wood and Wyoming, as 

described in the application. If 

approved, the grantee would be able to 

serve sites throughout the service area 

based on companies’ needs for FTZ 

designation. The application indicates 

that the proposed service area is within 

and adjacent to the Charleston Customs 

and Border Protection port of entry. 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to reorganize its existing zone to include 

existing Site 1 as a ‘‘magnet’’ site. The 

applicant is also requesting approval of 

the following ‘‘magnet’’ site: Proposed 

Site 2 (78 acres)—Heartland Intermodal 

Gateway, 401 Heartland Drive, Prichard, 

West Virginia. The ASF allows for the 

possible exemption of one magnet site 

from the ‘‘sunset’’ time limits that 

generally apply to sites under the ASF, 

and the applicant proposes that Site 2 

be so exempted. The application would 

have no impact on FTZ 229’s previously 

authorized subzones. 

In accordance with the FTZ Board’s 

regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to evaluate 

and analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the FTZ Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is June 

27, 2016. Rebuttal comments in 

response to material submitted during 

the foregoing period may be submitted 

during the subsequent 15-day period to 

July 12, 2016. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 

21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ 

Board’s Web site, which is accessible 

via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 

information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 

Kathleen.Boyce@trade.gov or (202) 482– 

1346. 

Dated: April 22, 2016. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[S–50–2016] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 186—Waterville, 

Maine; Application for Subzone, 

Flemish Master Weavers’ Sanford, 

Maine 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the City of Waterville, grantee 

of FTZ 186, requesting subzone status 

for the facility of Flemish Master 

Weavers, located in Sanford, Maine. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a– 

81u), and the regulations of the Board 

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally 

docketed on April 21, 2016. 

The proposed subzone (4.80 acres) is 

located at 96 Gatehouse Road, Sanford, 

Maine. A notification of proposed 

production activity has been docketed 

separately and is being processed under 

15 CFR 400.37 (Docket B–18–2016, 81 

FR 22210, April 15, 2015). The 

proposed subzone would be subject to 

the existing activation limit of FTZ 186. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to review 

the application and make 

recommendations to the Executive 

Secretary. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is June 

7, 2016. Rebuttal comments in response 

to material submitted during the 

foregoing period may be submitted 

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