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Contingency Drills; High Capacity

Passenger Vessel Egress Quality

Action Team Report.

3:45 Break

4:15 General Session: General

Discussions.

4:45 Break

6:00 Round Table Discussions; Heavy

Hors D’oeuvres, Cash Bar; Galt

House Hotel.

Day 2—Corps of Engineers Topics

Wednesday, March 5, 1997.

7:45 Registration

8:30 Administrative Updates.

8:35 American Waterways Operators

Update; The Association for the

Development of Inland Navigation

in America’s Ohio Valley Update;

Midwest Area Regional Committee

2000 Update.

9:00 Maritime Administration Study;

Ohio River Mainstream Study;

Missouri River Master Plan; Upper

Mississippi River Study;

Environmental Summit.

9:30 New Construction Update by

River Segments to include

innovative design. Specific Projects:

Olmsted, Winfield, Lower

Monongahela, Marmet, Kentucky

Lock, & others.

10:00 Break.

10:30 New Construction—continued.

11:00 Lock Capacity Improvement

Team Results.

11:30 Critical Operations &

Maintenance; Backlog Items; Lock &

Dam No. 27; Upper Tennessee River

Locks; Chickamauga Lock.

12:00 Lunch: Washington, D.C.

Update.

1:45 Summary of Operations &

Maintenance Cost; Reduction

Potential Results of Implementing

Report; Industry’s Involvement;

Ways to Reduce Impact.

2:45 Electronic Charts, Navigation

Chart Update, Vessel Traffic Service

Louisville District; Digital Global

Positional System Update.

3:30 Upper Mississippi River;

Dredging-Preventive Maintenance.

4:00 Open discussion: COL

ALEXANDER R. JANSEN and MR.

NORB WHITLOCK.

Persons interested in attending the

Marine Industry Navigation Conference

may request registration forms or

additional information on the

conference activities and on events

scheduled by other groups to coincide

with the conference at the address

provided above.

Dated: February 18, 1997.

T.W. Josiah,

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander,

Eighth Coast Guard District.

[FR Doc. 97–4767 Filed 2–25–97; 8:45 am]

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[CGD 97–011]

Minimum Requirements and

Capabilities for Vessel Traffic Services

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is

undertaking an effort to identify the

minimum requirements and capabilities

a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) must have

to serve its wide range of users and to

develop criteria to identify ports

requiring a VTS. This effort will form

the basis for the Coast Guard to propose

to Congress a viable production program

for a VTS that takes advantage of

available, off-the-shelf and open

architecture systems that are

inexpensive and easy to build and

operate. The Coast Guard has invited

representatives of maritime and

environmental organizations and

members of the public to provide input

on these topics. The first public meeting

on these topics was held on January 15,

1997. The most recent was held on

February 11, 1997. Several additional

public meetings are planned.

DATES: The Coast Guard will sponsor a

public meeting to be held on February

27, 1997, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Holiday Inn Georgetown, 2101

Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information on VTS, contact Mike

Sollosi, U.S. Coast Guard Office of

Vessel Traffic Management, 2100 2nd

Street, SW, Washington DC. Telephone

(202) 267–1539, FAX (202) 267–4826.

For information on the meeting, contact

Peter Johnson, Marine Board, National

Academy of Sciences, 2001 Wisconsin

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Telephone (202) 334–3157, FAX (202)

334–3789.

Joseph J. Angelo,

Acting Assistant Commandant for Marine

Safety and Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 97–4766 Filed 2–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Financial Management Service

Privacy Act of 1974; System of

Records

AGENCY: Financial Management Service,

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy

Act system of records.

SUMMARY: The Department of the

Treasury, Financial Management

Service (FMS), gives notice of a

proposed alteration to the system of

records entitled ‘‘Debt Collection

Operations System -Treasury/FMS

.014,’’which is subject to the Privacy

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

The system was last published in its

entirety in the Federal Register Vol. 60,

page 56776 on November 9, 1995, and

subsequently altered in the Federal

Register Vol. 61, page 11939 on March

22, 1996.

DATES: Comments must be received no

later than March 28, 1997. The proposed

system of records will be effective April

7, 1997, unless FMS receives comments

which would result in a contrary

determination.

ADDRESS: Comments must be submitted

to the Debt Management Services,

Financial Management Service, 401

14th Street, SW, Room 151, Washington,

DC 20227. Comments received will be

available for inspection at the same

address between the hours of 9a.m. and

4p.m. Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gerry Isenberg, Debt Management

Services, (202) 874–6859.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Debt

Collection Improvement Act of 1996

(DCIA), Pub. L. 104–134, enacted April

26, 1996, provides the Department of

the Treasury (Treasury) with specific

legislative authority and responsibility

to collect and/or manage the collection

of claims owed to the Federal

Government. The DCIA also provides

new government-wide debt collection

tools such as administrative wage

garnishment, public dissemination of

delinquent debtor information, and

authorizes the sale of debt to the private

sector. The DCIA authorizes Treasury to

collect claims, or facilitate the collection

of claims, owed to States, Territories

and Commonwealths of the United

States, and the District of Columbia by

offsetting Federal payments. Similarly,

under the provisions of the DCIA,

Treasury may enter into agreements

with States, Territories,

Commonwealths, and the District of

Columbia to facilitate collection of debts

owed to the Federal Government by
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offset of State, Territory,

Commonwealth and District of

Columbia payments. Finally, the DCIA

bars agencies from extending Federal

financial assistance in the form of a

Federal loan or loan guaranty if the

applicant is delinquent on a Federal

claim. Consistent with the DCIA,

Executive Order 13019, signed by the

President on September 28, 1996,

directs Treasury to promptly take steps

to facilitate:

(1) Offset of Federal payments to collect

delinquent child support debts being

enforced by States; and

(2) Denial of Federal credit in the form

of a Federal loan or loan guaranty to

persons delinquent on their child

support debts. FMS is the Treasury

bureau responsible for the

implementation of the DCIA and the

Executive Order.

For the reasons set forth in the

preamble, FMS proposes to alter system

of records Treasury/FMS .014, ‘‘Debt

Collection Operations System—

Treasury/Financial Management

Service’’, as follows:

Treasury/FMS .014

SYSTEM NAME:

Debt Collection Operations System—

Treasury/Financial Management

Service.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

Description of change: The words ‘‘Debt

Collection Operations’’are replaced with

the words ‘‘Debt Management Services’’.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM:

* * *

Description of change: The following is

added at the end thereof:

‘‘Records are also maintained on

individuals who are indebted to States,

Territories and Commonwealths of the

United States, and the District of

Columbia, including records on

individuals who owe past due support

which is being enforced by a State,

Territory, Commonwealth or the District

of Columbia.’’

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

Description of changes:

The word ‘‘agency’’ in the first sentence

is replaced by ‘‘governmental entity’’,

and the words ‘‘client agency’’ in the

second sentence are replaced by

‘‘governmental entity’’.

* * * * *

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

Description of change:

After ‘‘* * * and the Deficit Reduction

Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98–369, as

amended);’’ insert ‘‘The Debt Collection

Improvement Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104–

134,§ 31001); * * *’’

PURPOSE(S):

Description of change:

The first sentence is revised to

read,‘‘The purpose of this system is to

maintain records of individuals and

entities that are: (1) Indebted to the

Financial Management Service (FMS);

(2) indebted to the various Federal

Government departments and agencies

and whose accounts are being serviced

or collected by FMS; and (3) indebted to

States, Territories and Commonwealths

of the United States, and the District of

Columbia (including past due child

support debts being enforced by the

States, Territories, Commonwealths or

the District of Columbia).’’

* * *

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

* * * * *

Description of changes:

The words ‘‘to the U.S. Government’’

and ‘‘and’’ are removed in routine use

(7). The period ‘‘.’’ at the end of routine

use (8) is replaced with a semicolon ‘‘;’’,

and the following routine uses are

added at the end thereof:

‘‘(9) Any Federal, State, or local agency,

or to the public for the purpose of

collecting on a delinquent debt through

the use of debt collection tools

authorized under the Debt Collection

Improvement Act of 1996 such as

referring the debt to debt collection

centers, administrative wage

garnishment, public dissemination of

debtor information, or selling the debt;

or any other legitimate debt collection

purpose;

‘‘(10) Any Federal, State or local agency

for the purpose of accounting on or

reporting the status of debts for which

the Federal, State or local agency has a

financial or other legitimate need for the

information in the performance of

official duties;

‘‘(11) Any Federal agency or its agents

for the purpose of denying Federal

financial assistance in the form of a loan

or loan guaranty to an individual

delinquent on a Federal claim, or

delinquent on a child support claim

referred to FMS for administrative

offset; and

‘‘(12) Any State, Territory or

Commonwealth of the United States, or

the District of Columbia to collect a

claim owed to the Federal Government

or to assist in the collection of a State,

Commonwealth, Territory or District of

Columbia claim pursuant to a reciprocal

agreement between FMS and the State,

Territory, Commonwealth or the District

of Columbia.’’

* * * * *

Dated: February 18, 1997.

Alex Rodriguez,

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration).

[FR Doc. 97–4691 Filed 2–25–97; 8:45 am]

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