[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 239 (Friday, December 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65473-65474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32496]


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 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Departmental Offices


Privacy Act of 1974 as Amended: System of Records

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of Alteration of a system of records.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11)), the 
Department of the Treasury is issuing notice of our intent to alter the 
system of records entitled the Treasury Integrated Management 
Information System (TIMIS), Treasury/DO .002, to include a new routine 
use. We invite public comment on this publication.

DATES: The proposed alteration will become effective without further 
notice on January 12, 1998, unless comments dictate otherwise.

ADDRESSES: Interested individuals may comment on this publication by 
writing to Director, Treasury Integrated Management Information System 
(System Manager for TIMIS), 740 15th Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, 
DC, 20005. All comments received will be available for public 
inspection at that address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Treasury Integrated

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Management Information System (System Manager for TIMIS), 740 15th 
Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20005.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Public Law 104-193, the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the 
Department of the Treasury will disclose data from its Treasury 
Integrated Management Information System (TIMIS)--Treasury/DO .002 to 
the Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children 
and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, for use in the 
National Database of New Hires, part of the Federal Parent Locator 
Service (FPLS) and Federal Tax Offset System.
    FPLS is a computerized network through which States may request 
location information from Federal and State agencies to find non-
custodial parents and/or their employers for purposes of establishing 
paternity and securing support.
    On October 1, 1997, the FPLS will be enlarged to include the 
National Directory of New Hires, a database containing information on 
employees commencing employment, quarterly wage data on private and 
public sector employees, and information on unemployment compensation 
benefits. The FPLS will be expanded on October 1, 1998, to include a 
Federal Case Registry. The Federal Case Registry will contain abstracts 
on all participants involved in child support enforcement cases. When 
the Federal Case Registry is instituted, its files will be matched on 
an ongoing basis against the files in the National Directory of New 
Hires to determine if an employee is a participant in a child support 
case anywhere in the country. If the FPLS identifies a person as being 
a participant in a State child support case, that State will be 
notified of the participant's current employer. State requests to the 
FPLS for location information will also continue to be processed after 
October 1, 1998.
    The data to be disclosed by the Department of the Treasury to the 
FPLS include: name, social security number and address of the employee 
and the name, address and Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) 
of the Department of the Treasury.
    In addition, names and social security numbers submitted by the 
Department of the Treasury to the FPLS will be disclosed by the Office 
of Child Support Enforcement to the Social Security Administration for 
verification to ensure that the social security number provided is 
correct.
    The data disclosed by the Department of the Treasury to the FPLS 
will also be disclosed by the Office of Child Support Enforcement to 
the Secretary of the Treasury for use in verifying claims for the 
advance payment of the earned income tax credit or to verify a claim of 
employment on a tax return.
    We are proposing this routine use in accordance with the Privacy 
Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3)). The Privacy Act permits the disclosure of 
information about individuals without their consent for a routine use 
where the information will be used for a purpose which is compatible 
with the purpose for which the information was originally collected. 
The Office of Management and Budget has indicated that a ``compatible'' 
use is a use which is necessary and proper. See OMB Guidelines, 51 Fed. 
Reg. 18982, 18985 (1986). Since the proposed uses of the data are 
required by Pub. L. 104-193, they are clearly necessary and proper 
uses, and therefore ``compatible'' uses which meet Privacy Act 
requirements. We will disclose information under the proposed routine 
use only as required by Public Law 104-193.
    The Treasury Integrated Management Information System (TIMIS), 
Treasury/DO .002 system notice most recently published in its entirety 
on November 9, 1995, at 60 FR 56651. The specific change to the record 
system being altered is set forth below:

Treasury/DO .002

System Name:
    Treasury Integrated Management Information System (TIMIS),
  
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Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
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    (16) disclose to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services, the names, social security numbers, home addresses, 
dates of birth, dates of hire, quarterly earnings, employer identifying 
information, and State of hire of employees, for the purposes of 
locating individuals to establish paternity, establishing and modifying 
orders of child support, identifying sources of income, and for other 
child support enforcement activities as required by the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform 
Law, Pub. L.104-193).
  
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    Dated: December 3, 1997.

Alex Rodriguez,
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration)

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