[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 7249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3912]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Privacy Act of 1974: Addition of Routine Uses to an Existing 
System of Records

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 
DHHS.

ACTION: Notification of the addition of two new routine uses to an 
existing system of records.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act, the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is 
publishing a notice to add two new routine uses to system of records 
09-30-0047, entitled ``Patient Records on Chronic Mentally Ill Merchant 
Seamen Treated at Nursing Homes in Lexington, Kentucky (1942 to the 
Present, HHS/SAMHSA/Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)).''

DATES: SAMHSA invites interested persons to submit comments on the 
proposed new routine uses on or before March 20, 1997.
    SAMHSA will adopt these routine uses without further notice 30 days 
after the date of publication unless comments are received which would 
result in a contrary determination.

ADDRESS: Please address comments to the SAMHSA Privacy Act Officer, 
Room 13C-20, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 
20857. We will make comments available for public inspection at the 
above address during normal business hours, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director, Division of Program Development, Special Populations and 
Projects, CMHS/SAMHSA, Room 16C-26, Parklawn Building 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301)-443-2940. This is not a toll-free 
number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SAMHSA currently maintains the Chronic 
Mentally Ill Merchant Seamen Treated at Nursing Homes in Lexington, 
Kentucky Records System to facilitate patient care, to monitor 
progress, and to ensure quality and continuity of care. These patients 
have received care and treatment at various Public Health Services 
facilities across the Nation for over 50 years. They continue to 
receive care under a contract between SAMHSA and the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky pursuant to section 10 of the Health Services Amendments of 
1985, Public Law 99-117.
    The proposed new routine uses (numbers four and five) will permit 
disclosure of information to: (1) Federal, State, or local 
organizations which provide medical care and treatment to these 
patients, and (2) the Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security 
Administration, and other Federal or State organizations having special 
benefit programs.
    This system was last published in the Federal Register on December 
25, 1994 (59 FR., 67079).
    The following routine uses are written in the present, rather than 
future tense, in order to avoid the unnecessary expenditure of public 
funds to republish the routine uses after they have become effective.

    Dated: January 31, 1997.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration.
09-30-0047

System Name:
    Patient Records on Chronic Mentally Ill Merchant Seamen Treated at 
Nursing Homes in Lexington, Kentucky (1942 to the Present, Department 
of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services).

Routine Uses of Records Maintained in the System, Including Categories 
of Users and the Purposes of Such Use:
* * * * *
    4. Records may be disclosed to Federal, State, local, or other 
authorized organizations which provide medical care and treatment to 
these individuals to facilitate continuity of care by supplying 
information to medical care facilities/practitioners who provide 
treatment to individual seamen.
    5. Records may be disclosed to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
the Social Security Administration, or other Federal or State agencies 
having special benefit programs for the purpose of obtaining these 
benefits for these individuals.

[FR Doc. 97-3912 Filed 2-14-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4162-20-M