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any HUD employee in his or her official 

capacity; or (3) any HUD employee in 

his or her individual capacity where the 

Department of Justice or agency 

conducting the litigation has agreed to 

represent the employee; or (4) the 

United States, or any agency thereof, 

where HUD determines that litigation is 

likely to affect HUD or any of its 

components. 

(9) To the USDA for sharing 

information on investigations involving 

the same title VI and title VIII Federal 

funding recipients. 

(10) To the FFIEC for investigating 

banks that are respondents in title VIII 

investigations. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

Paper and electronic records. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Inquiry Number, Case Number, Fair 

Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) 

Case Number, Case Name, Address. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

Permanent. The retention period for 

the information in HEMS is maintained 

for the life of the case to support the 

activity and other enforcement activities 

that may become related to the case. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

A User ID and password are required 

for authentication. Users must sign a 

Rules of Behavior form prior to being 

granted system access. These rules 

emphasize privacy protection of 

personally identifiable information in 

HEMS. Manual records are stored in 

lockable file cabinets; computer 

facilities are secured and accessible only 

by authorized personnel, and all files 

are stored in a secured area. Technical 

restraints are employed regarding 

accessing the computer and data files. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting records of 

themselves should address written 

inquiries to the Department of Housing 

Urban and Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. For 

verification, individuals should provide 

their full name, current address, and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The HUD rule for contesting the 

content of any record pertaining to the 

individual by the individual concerned 

is published in 24 CFR 16.8 or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting notification of 

records of themselves should address 

written inquiries to the Department of 

Housing Urban Development, 451 7th 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. 

For verification purposes, individuals 

should provide their full name, office or 

organization where assigned, if 

applicable, and current address and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

The housing discrimination related 

records in HEMS are maintained for use 

in civil rather than criminal actions and 

are prohibited from disclosure pursuant 

to exemption 5 U.S.C. 552a(d)(5) of the 

Privacy Act. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552a(k)(2), all investigatory materials, 

including conciliation files, in records 

contained in this system which meet the 

criteria of this subsection, are exempt 

from the notice, access, and contest 

requirements (under 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), 

(d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (H), (I), and (f)) as 

promulgated in 24 CFR 16.15(a)(1). 

HISTORY: 

Docket No. FR–5763–N–12, 79 FR 

62658, October 20, 2014. 

LaDonne L. White, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27443 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7077–C–03] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development 

and Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD), Office of Policy 

Development and Research (PD&R), 

gives notice of a proposed revision of an 

existing Privacy Act system of records. 

The system of records is being updated 

in support of a follow-up information 

collection with the participants of the 

Homeless Families Impact Study (now 

called the Family Options Study). The 

overall goal of the Family Options Study 

is to determine which housing and 

service intervention works best to 

promote housing stability, family 

preservation, and family well-being, and 

self-sufficiency for homeless families 

with children. The new information 

collected will be added to the existing 

Homeless Families Impact Study Data 

Files. The Department proposes to 

expand the data collected under the 

previous study to capture additional 

data to determine the effects that 

housing and service interventions have 

had on the young children who are part 

of the sample. Refer to the ‘‘Categories 

of Records’’ section to identify new 

record types. Additionally, this Notice 

updates the routine uses of the data 

collected. This notice supersedes the 

previously published notice (February 

26, 2014; FR–5763–N–02). 

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or 

before January 16, 2024. This proposed 

action will be effective immediately 

upon publication. Routine uses will 

become effective on the date following 

the end of the comment period unless 

comments are received which result in 

a contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number by one of 

these methods: 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Fax: 202–619–8365. 

Email: privacy@hud.gov. 

Mail: Attention: Privacy Office; 

LaDonne White, Chief Privacy Officer; 

The Executive Secretariat; 451 Seventh 

Street SW, Room 10139 Washington, DC 

20410–0001. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this rulemaking. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov. including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LaDonne White; 451 Seventh Street SW, 

Room 10139 Washington, DC 20410– 

0001; telephone number 202–708–3054 

(this is not a toll-free number). HUD 

welcomes and is prepared to receive 

calls from individuals who are deaf or 

hard of hearing, as well as individuals 

with speech or communication 

disabilities. To learn more about how to 

make an accessible telephone call, 

please visit https://www.fcc.gov/ 

consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD 

launched the Family Options Study in 

2008 with the intent of generating 


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evidence about the relative effectiveness 

of various housing and services 

interventions designed to address family 

homelessness. HUD awarded the 

contract for the Family Options Study to 

Abt Associates and their partner, 

Vanderbilt University, who have 

conducted prior phases of the study and 

will conduct this next phase of the 

evaluation. Specific changes to the 

SORN include: 

a. Changes to categories of records in 

the system and sources categories. The 

upcoming follow-up information 

collection with the participants of the 

Family Options Study will include 

additional categories of records which 

will be stored as part of the Homeless 

Families Impact Study Data Files. 

b. Updated routine uses. The routine 

uses have been updated to remove those 

which are no longer relevant to this data 

collection (including the Congressional 

Inquiries Routine Use, the Department 

of Justice for Litigation Disclosure 

Routine Use, the Court or Law 

Enforcement Proceeding Routine Use, 

and the Law Enforcement Investigation 

Routine Use) and to add a new Research 

and Statistical Analysis Disclosure 

Routine Use. 

c. Updated the System Location to 

reflect current addresses of contractors. 

The contractor has moved offices since 

the publication of the original SORN in 

2014, and thus the System Location has 

been updated to reflect the current 

address. 

d. Updated the Purpose to reflect the 

additional phase of the study. The 

original SORN was published in 2014 

and did not forecast this new follow up 

information collection, thus the SORN 

is being revised to refer to this 

additional phase of the study. 

e. Updated record retention and 

disposal and safeguards sections to 

reflect current retention requirements 

and current safeguard procedures. This 

section has been updated to reflect 

current record retention requirements 

and current safeguard procedures. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Family Options Study HUD/PD&R– 

04. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Data Files are maintained by Abt 

Associates which has principal offices 

at the following locations: Abt 

Associates Inc., 10 Fawcett Street, Suite 

5, Cambridge, MA; Abt Associates Inc., 

6130 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 

20852; and the U.S. Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20410– 

0001. The Abt Associates system is 

hosted inside Amazon Web Services US 

East Cloud Region. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Carol Star, Director, Division of 

Program Evaluation, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, Office 

of Policy Development and Research, 

451 Seventh Street SW, Room 8120, 

Washington, DC 20410–0001. Phone: 

(202) 402–6139. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Sections 501 and 502 of the Housing 

and Urban Development Act of 1970 

(Pub. L. 91–609) (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1; 

1701z–2(d) and (g)). 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

The purpose of the Family Options 

Study will be to store the information 

that is needed to measure the long-term 

outcomes of the Family Options Study. 

The information to be maintained in 

this records system is necessary to 

identify and track the participating 

families over the course of the study and 

determine the effectiveness of the 

interventions. The data in this system 

will be analyzed using statistical 

methods and any results shared with the 

public or published in anyway will be 

reported only in the aggregate. Resulting 

reports will not disclose or identify any 

individuals or sensitive personal 

information. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Families enrolled in Family Options 

Study and children in these families 

who have aged into adulthood and 

enrolled in the study. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The data sets will contain the 

following categories of records. 

Responses to surveys: Includes 

participant’s full name; social security 

number; study identifier; birth date; 

contact information (home address, 

telephone numbers, email address); 

demographic characteristics of the 

family head and children; income and 

employment history; health 

information; housing history; program 

service participation and experiences; 

and child well-being. 

Administrative data: Includes data on 

tenant’s full name, date of birth, age, 

gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, 

income/salary, geolocation information, 

home address, unique household 

identifier; employment status, earned 

income, name of employer, email 

address, phone number. 

Locational data: Includes data such as 

the address and location of participating 

household. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Families enrolled in the Family 

Options Study, HUD’s PIH Inventory 

Management System/PIH Information 

Center (IMS/PIC), National Director of 

New Hires (NDNH), National Student 

Clearinghouse, Research Data 

Assistance Center, National Center for 

Health Statistics, National Change of 

Address (NCOA), and Accurint. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

(1) To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants, Federal agencies, and nonFederal entities, including, but not 

limited to, State and local governments 

and other research institutions or their 

parties, and entities and their agents 

with whom HUD has a contract, service 

agreement, grant, cooperative 

agreement, or other agreement for the 

purposes of statistical analysis and 

research in support of program 

operations, management, performance 

monitoring, evaluation, risk 

management, and policy development, 

or to otherwise support the 

Department’s mission. Records under 

this routine use may not be used in 

whole or in part to make decisions that 

affect the rights, benefits, or privileges 

of specific individuals. The results of 

the matched information may not be 

disclosed in identifiable form. 

(2) To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants and their agents, or others 

performing or working under a contract, 

service, grant, cooperative agreement, or 

other agreement with HUD, or its 

contractor Abt Associates, when 

necessary to accomplish an agency 

function related to a system of records. 

Disclosure requirements are limited to 

only those data elements considered 

relevant to accomplishing an agency 

function. 

(3) (a) To appropriate agencies, 

entities, and persons when: (1) HUD 

suspects or has confirmed there has 

breached the system of records; (2) HUD 

has determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed breach there is 

a risk of harm to individuals, HUD 

(including its information systems, 

programs, and operations), the Federal 

Government, or national security; and 

(3) The disclosure made to such 

agencies, entities, and persons is 

reasonably necessary to assist with 

HUD’s efforts to respond to the 

suspected or confirmed breach or to 

prevent, minimize, or remedy such 

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(4) To another Federal agency or 

Federal entity, when HUD determines 

that information from this system of 

records is reasonably necessary to assist 

the recipient agency or entity in (1) 

responding to suspected or confirmed 

breach, or (2) preventing, minimizing, or 

remedying the risk of harm to 

individuals, the recipient agency or 

entity (including its information 

systems, programs, and operations), the 

Federal Government, or national 

security, resulting from a suspected or 

confirmed breach. 

(5) To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants, Federal agencies, and nonFederal entities, including, but not 

limited to, State and local governments 

and other research institutions or 

employees or contractors, and other 

entities and their agents for the conduct 

of HUD-approved ancillary studies 

relevant to the Family Options Study. 

Records under this routine use may not 

be used in whole or in part to make 

decisions that affect the rights, benefits, 

or privileges of specific individuals. 

Research reports resulting from any 

such ancillary studies would be 

required to report all results in the 

aggregate and to ensure that no 

individual was identifiable. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

Electronic and paper. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Name, Social Security Number, Date 

of Birth and Unique Study ID. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICIES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

Temporary. Destroy upon verification 

of successful creation of the final 

document or file, or when no longer 

needed for business use, whichever is 

later. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

For Electronic Records: All personal 

data will be maintained on a secure 

virtual server that is protected by a 

firewall and complex passwords in a 

directory that can only be accessed by 

the system administrators and the 

analysts actively working on the data; 

access rights to the data are granted to 

limited researchers on a need-to-know 

basis, and the level of access provided 

to each researcher is based on the 

minimal level required that individual 

to fulfill his research role; all systems 

used to process or store data have 

Federal security controls applied to 

them; the data will be backed up on a 

regular basis to safeguard against system 

failures or disasters; and, unencrypted 

data will not be stored on a laptop or on 

removable media such as CDs, diskettes, 

or USB flash drives. 

For Paper Records: Any paper records 

with personal identifiers will be 

securely stored until they are shipped to 

the evaluation contractor via 

commercial mail services; all hard copy 

forms with personal identifying data 

(informed consent forms) will be stored 

securely in a locked cabinet that can 

only be accessed by authorized 

individuals working on the data. The 

locked cabinet will be stored in a locked 

office in a limited-access building. 

Additionally, permissions will be 

defined for each authorized user based 

on the user’s role on the project. Study 

data will be aggregated or de-identified 

at the highest level possible for each 

required, authorized use. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting records of 

themselves should address written 

inquiries to the Department of Housing 

Urban and Development, 451 7th Street 

, SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. For 

verification, individuals should provide 

their full name, current address, and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The HUD rule for contesting the 

content of any record pertaining to the 

individual by the individual concerned 

is published in 24 CFR 16.8 or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting notification of 

records of themselves should address 

written inquiries to the Department of 

Housing Urban Development, 451 7th 

street SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. 

For verification purposes, individuals 

should provide their full name, office or 

organization where assigned, if 

applicable, and current address and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

This is a revision to the previously 

published notice published in the 

Federal Register on February 26, 2014, 

at 79 FR 10823. 

LaDonne White, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27445 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_UT_FRN_MO4500169719; UTU–75392] 

Notice of Proposed Withdrawal 

Extension, Public Meetings and 

Correction for Segments of the 

Colorado, Dolores, and Green River 

Corridors; Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: At the request of the Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM), the 

Secretary of the Interior proposes to 

extend Public Land Order (PLO) No. 

7618, which withdrew public lands 

from location and entry under the 

United States mining laws, subject to 

valid existing rights, to protect the 

recreational, scenic, cultural, riparian, 

and fish and wildlife values of the 

Colorado, Dolores, and Green River 

Corridors, for an additional 20-year 

term. Lands included in PLO No. 7618 

have been surveyed or resurveyed and 

corrected. Their official land description 

has been changed, requiring that the 

land descriptions be modified and 

corrected to include lands that were 

inadvertently not listed in the original 

PLO. The acreage has been changed 

from 111,895 acres to 109,287 acres to 

reflect the updated land description. 

The land would remain closed to 

location and entry under the U.S. 

mining laws. This notice provides a 90- 

day public comment period and 

announces that the BLM will host one 

in-person public meeting in Moab and 

one virtual meeting regarding this 

proposal. 

DATES: All comments must be received 

by March 13, 2024. The BLM will hold 

an in-person public meeting in 

connection with the proposed 

withdrawal extension on January 16, 

2024, at the BLM Moab Field Office, 82 

Dogwood Ave., Moab, Utah, from 5 to 6 

p.m. Mountain Time (MT). The BLM 

will also hold a virtual public meeting 

in connection with the proposed 

withdrawal extension on January 18, 

2024, at 6 to 7 p.m. Mountain Time 

(MT). The BLM will publish the date 

and instructions for access to the online 


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