44712 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 163 / Friday, August 22, 1997 / Notices

[FR Doc. 97–22278 Filed 8–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–33–C

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4235–N–17]

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities

to Assist the Homeless

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and

surplus Federal property reviewed by

HUD for suitability for possible use to

assist the homeless.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 22, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Johnston, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, Room 7256,

451 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC

20410; telephone (202) 708–1226; TDD

number for the hearing- and speechimpaired (202) 708–2565, (these

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or

call the toll-free Title V information line

at 1–800–927–7588.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the December 12, 1988

court order in National Coalition for the

Homeless v. Veterans Administration,

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis,

identifying unutilized, underutilized,

excess and surplus Federal buildings

and real property that HUD has

reviewed for suitability for use to assist

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the

purpose of announcing that no

additional properties have been

determined suitable or unsuitable this

week.

Dated: August 14, 1997.

Jacquie M. Lawing,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–3918–N–13]

Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of a

Computer Matching Program

AGENCY: Department of Housing and

Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notice of a Computer Matching

Program—HUD and Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA).

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as

amended by the Computer Matching

and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as

amended, (Pub. L. 100–503), and the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of

Matching Programs (54 FR 25818 (June

19, 1989)), and OMB Bulletin 89–22,

‘‘Instructions on Reporting Computer

Matching Programs to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB),

Congress and the Public,’’ the

Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD) is issuing a public

notice of its intent to conduct a

recurring computer matching program

with the Department of Veterans Affairs

(VA) to utilize a computer information

system of HUD, the Credit Alert

Interactive Voice Response System

(CAIVRS), with VA’s debtor files. This

match will allow prescreening of

applicants for loans 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 for HUD or VA direct or

guaranteed loans. Before granting a loan,

the lending agency and/or the

authorized lending institution will be

able to interrogate the CAIVRS debtor

file which contains delinquent debt

information from the Departments of

Agriculture, Education, Veterans

Affairs, the Small Business

Administration and judgment lien data

from the Department of Justice, and

verify that the loan applicant is not in

default on a Federal judgment or

delinquent on direct or guaranteed loans

of participating Federal programs. This

match will allow prescreening of

applicants for 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 users do a prescreening of

CAIVRS to determine a loan applicant’s

credit status with the Federal

Government. As a result of the

information produced by this match, the

authorized users may not deny,

terminate, or make a final decision of

any loan assistance to an applicant or

take other adverse action against such

applicant, until an officer or employee

of such agency has independently

verified such information.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Computer matching is

expected to begin 40 days after

publication of this notice (October 1,

1997), unless comments are received

which will result in a contrary

determination, or 40 days from the date

a computer matching agreement is

signed, whichever is later.

DATE: Comments due by October 1,

1997.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this notice to the Rule Docket Clerk,

Office of General Counsel, Room 10276,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20410.

Communications should refer to the

above docket number and title. A copy

of each communication submitted will

be available for public inspection and

copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30

p.m. weekdays at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM

RECIPIENT AGENCY CONTACT:

Jeanette Smith, Departmental Privacy

Act Officer, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 7th St., SW,

Room 4178, Washington, DC 20410,

telephone number (202) 708–2374. (This

is not a toll-free number.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION FROM SOURCE

AGENCY CONTACT: Mark Gottsacker, Debt

Management Center, Department of

Veterans Affairs, Bishop Henry Whipple

Federal Building, 1 Federal Drive, Room

156, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111–

4050, telephone number (612) 725–

1843. (This is not a toll-free number.)

Reporting

In accordance with Pub. L. 100–503,

the Computer Matching and Privacy

Protection Act of 1988, as amended, and

Office of Management and Budget

Bulletin 89–22, ‘‘Instructions on

Reporting Computer Matching Programs

to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), Congress and the Public;’’

copies of this Notice and report are

being provided to the Committee on

Government Reform and Oversight of

the House of Representatives, the

Committee on Governmental Affairs of

the Senate, and the Office of

Management and Budget.

Authority

The matching program will be

conducted pursuant to Pub. L. 100–503,

‘‘The Computer Matching and Privacy

Protection Act of 1988,’’ as amended,

and Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) Circulars A–129 (Managing

Federal Credit Programs) and A–70

(Policies and Guidelines for Federal

Credit Programs). One of the purposes of

all Executive departments and

agencies—including HUD—is to

implement efficient management

practices for Federal credit programs.

OMB Circulars A–129 and A–70 were

issued under the authority of the Budget

and Accounting Act of 1921, as

amended; the Budget and Accounting

Act of 1950, as amended; the Debt

Collection Act of 1982, as amended;

and, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984,

as amended.