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sessions the Panel will engage the

Service Chiefs on their perspective of

the Quadrennial Defense Review.

Additionally, discussion will include,

but not limited to, Dynamic

commitment and the congressional

perspective of the Quadrennial Defense

Review. These discussions are based

upon classified information provided by

the DoD QDR Panels.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Please contact the National Defense

Panel at (703) 602–4175/6.

Dated: April 3, 1997.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Meeting of the President’s Security

Policy Advisory Board; Action Notice

SUMMARY: The President’s Security

Policy Advisory Board has been

established pursuant to Presidential

Decision Directive/NSC–29, which was

signed by President on September 16,

1994.

The Board will advise the President

on proposed legislative initiatives and

executive orders pertaining to U.S.

security policy, procedures and

practices as developed by the U.S.

Security Policy Board, and will function

as a federal advisory committee in

accordance with the provisions of

Public Law 92–463, the ‘‘Federal

Advisory Committee Act.’’

The President has appointed from the

private sector, three of five Board

members each with a prominent

background and expertise related to

security policy matters. General Larry

Welch, USAF (Ret.) will chair the

Board. Other members include: Admiral

Thomas Brooks, USN (Ret.) and Ms.

Nina Stewart.

The next meeting of the Board will be

held on May 13, 1997, 0900 at Lockheed

Martin, 12506 Lake Underhill Road,

Orlando, Florida 32825 and will be

open to the public.

For further information please contact

Mr. Terence Thompson, telephone: 703–

602–9969.

Dated: April 3, 1997.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service

Privacy Act of 1974; System of Record

AGENCY: Defense Finance and

Accounting Service, DOD.

ACTION: Notice to alter a record system.

SUMMARY: The Defense Finance and

Accounting Service proposes to alter a

system of records notice in its inventory

of record systems subject to the Privacy

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

DATES: The alteration will be effective

on May 8, 1997, unless comments are

received that would result in a contrary

determination.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to

Administrative Policy and Support,

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service, Room 416, Arlington, VA

22240-5291

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Genevieve Turney at (703) 607–5165.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The proposed system report, as

required by 5 U.S.C. 522a(r) of the

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, was

submitted on March 28, 1997, to the

House Committee on Government

Reform and Oversight, the Senate

Committee on Governmental Affairs,

and the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) pursuant to paragraph 4c

of Appendix I to OMB Circular No. A–

130, ‘Federal Agency Responsibilities

for Maintaining Records About

Individuals,’ dated February 8, 1996

(February 20, 1996, 61 FR 6427).

Dated: April 3, 1997.

L. M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

T7332

SYSTEM NAME:

Defense Debt Management System

(December 23, 1996, 61 FR 67534).

CHANGES:

* * * * *

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM:

Delete entry and replace with

‘Contractors and individuals who are

indebted to a Department of Defense

(DoD) agency that have transferred debts

to the Defense Debt Management System

serviced by the Defense Finance and

Accounting Service. EXCLUSION: This

system does not include individuals or

contractors who are indebted to a DoD

agency and who have been identified as

currently receiving pay from DoD.’

* * * * *

T7332

SYSTEM NAME:

Defense Debt Management System.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

Primary location: Defense Finance

and Accounting Service-Denver Center,

6760 East Irvington Place, Denver, CO

80279–8000.

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service-Indianapolis Center, 8899 East

56th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46249–

1460;

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service-Columbus Center, 4280 East 5th

Avenue, Building 3, Columbus, OH

43218–2317;

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service-Cleveland Center, 1240 East 9th

Street, Cleveland, OH 44199–2056;

Defense Finance and Accounting

Service-Kansas City Center, 1500 East

95th Street, Kansas City, MO 64197–

0001;

Defense Accounting Offices at

military bases and at National Guard

activities, and Reserve units of all the

military services. Official mailing

address can be obtained from the Chief,

Debt Management Systems Division,

Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service-Denver Center, 6760

East Irvington Place, Denver, CO 80279–

8000.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM:

Contractors and individuals who are

indebted to a Department of Defense

(DoD) agency that have transferred debts

to the Defense Debt Management System

serviced by the Defense Finance and

Accounting Service. EXCLUSION: This

system does not include individuals or

contractors who are indebted to a DoD

agency and who have been identified as

currently receiving pay from DoD.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

Information varies depending on the

debtor and the related history of debt

collection activity. Normally, the name,

taxpayer identification number, address,

amount of debt or delinquent amount,

basis of the debt, date debt arose, office

referring debt, collection efforts, credit

reports, debt collection letters, and

correspondence to or from the debtor

relating to the debt.

Correspondence with employing

agencies of debtors requesting that

action begin to collect the delinquent

debt through voluntary or involuntary

offset procedures against the employees’

salary or compensation due a retiree.

Correspondence with other agencies

requesting offset from payments due the

debtor. These records may include
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individuals name, rank, date of birth,

Social Security Number, debt amount

documentation establishing

overpayment status, military pay

records, financial status affidavits,

credit references, and substantiating

documents such as military pay orders,

pay adjustment authorizations, military

master pay account printouts, records of

travel payments, financial record data

folders, miscellaneous vouchers, debtor

financial records, credit reports,

promissory notes, and debtor financial

statements.

Information on U. S. Treasury

Department, Internal Revenue Service

(IRS) and General Accounting Office

(GAO) inquiries, judicial proceedings

regarding bankruptcy, pay account

histories, and token payment

information.

Applications for waiver of erroneous

payment or for remission of

indebtedness with supporting

documents including statements of

financial status (personal income and

expenses), statements of commanders or

Defense Accounting Officers,

correspondence with members and

employees, or overpayments of Survivor

Benefit Plan (SBP) benefits.

Delinquent accounts receivable from

field Defense Accounting Officers

including returned checks, medical

services billings, collection records, and

summaries of military investigations.

Reports from probate courts regarding

estates of deceased members.

Reports from bankruptcy courts

regarding claims of the U.S. Government

against debtors.

Correspondence between contracting

officer, administrative contracting

officer, or a DFAS center and contractor,

that terminates a contract, demands

payment, and establishes debt, and any

other related papers.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

5 U.S.C. 301, 5512, 5513, 5514, and

5584; 10 U.S.C. 1442, 1453, 2774, 2775,

9835; 31 U.S.C. 3325, 3342, 3526, 3702,

3711, 3716–3718; 32 U.S.C. 710, 716; 37

U.S.C. 1007(c); 40 U.S.C. 721, 723, 725,

726, 727, 728, 729; 49 U.S.C. 3101

Chapter 1 et. seq.; Pub.L. 97–365, as

amended by Pub.L. 104–134; Pub.L. 89–

508; E.O. 9397 (SSN); and DoD 7000.14-

R, Department of Defense Financial

Management Regulation, Volume 5, Part

Two.

PURPOSE(S):

For the administrative management

and collection of all delinquent debts,

including past due loan payments,

overpayments, fines, interest, penalties,

fees, damages, leases, sales of real or

personal property, etc., due to the DoD

and debts due to other Federal

departments and agencies of the U.S.

Government that may be referred to the

DoD for collection.

To provide for the implementation of

the salary offset (SOL is 10 years)

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5514, the

administrative offset provisions of 31

U.S.C. 3711 and 3716–3718 and the

provisions of the Federal Claims

Collection Standards (FCCS), which

applies to personal debts.

To permit collection of delinquent

claims and debts owed to the U.S.

Government under any program or

service administered by any creditor

DoD operating administration or

component thereof.

To maintain and distribute a list of

contractors indebted to the U.S.

Government, and to initiate collection

against a contractor which is indebted to

the U.S. Government, and to determine

whether judicial proceedings should be

initiated against the contractor.

Guidance regarding contract debts is

contained in the Federal Acquisition

Regulation, and the Financial

Management Regulation (DoD 7000.14–

R), volume 10.

To determine the validity of waivers

or to make referrals to the Government

Accounting Office (GAO).

To maintain records of investigations

conducted for the purpose of

confirmation, cancellation, and

remission of debt, waivers, and other

determinations regarding the accuracy

and validity of a debt.

All records in this system are subject

to use in authorized computer matching

programs within DoD and with other

Federal agencies or non-Federal

agencies as regulated by the Privacy Act

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

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

In addition to those disclosures

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C.

552a(b) of the Privacy Act, these records

or information contained therein may

specifically be disclosed outside the

DoD as a routine use pursuant to 5

U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:

To the U.S. General Accounting Office

(GAO), the Department of Justice, and

the United States Attorney General, or

other Federal agencies for further

collection action on any delinquent

account when circumstances warrant.

To commercial credit reporting

agencies for the purpose of either

adding to a credit history file on an

individual or business entity for use in

the administration of debt collection.

Delinquent debt information may be

furnished for purposes of providing an

inducement for debtors to pay their

obligations to the Federal government.

To any Federal agency where the

debtor is employed or receiving some

type of payment for the purpose of

enabling that agency to collect a debt

owed the U.S. Government on behalf of

the agency by counseling the debtor for

voluntary repayment or by initiating

administrative or salary offset

procedures under the provisions of the

Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Pub.L. 97–

365, as amended by Pub.L. 104–134).

To any other Federal agency

including, but not limited to the Internal

Revenue service (IRS) pursuant to 31

U.S.C. 3720A, for the purpose of

effecting an administrative offset against

the debtor for a delinquent debt owed

the U.S. Government by the debtor.

To the Department of Veteran Affairs

for administration of laws pertaining to

veterans’ benefits.

To any other Federal agency for the

purpose of administrative offset of a

debt, including but not limited to the

Office of Personnel Management for

personnel management functions, or the

IRS to obtain a mailing address of a

taxpayer for the purpose of locating

such taxpayer to collect or compromise

a Federal claim against the taxpayer

pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 1603(m)(2) and in

accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3711, 3217,

and 3718; to obtain locator status for

delinquent accounts receivable; to

report write-off amounts as taxable

income as pertains to amounts

compromised and accounts barred from

litigation due to age; and to provide for

offset of tax refunds.

To any other Federal, state, or local

agency for the purpose of conducting an

authorized computer matching program

to identify and locate delinquent

debtors for recoupment of debts owed

the DoD or one of its components.

To commercial collection agencies for

the purpose of collection services to

recover moneys owed to the U.S.

Government.

To publish or otherwise publicly

disseminate information regarding the

identity of the debtor and the existence

of the nontax debt, subject to review by

the Secretary of the Treasury.

The ‘Blanket Routine Uses’ published

at the beginning of the DFAS

compilation of record system notices

also apply to this system.

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES:

Disclosures pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

552a(b)(12) may be made from this

system to ‘consumer reporting agencies’

as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting

Act (14 U.S.C. 1681a(f)) or the Federal

Claims Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C.
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3701(a)(3)). The purpose of this

disclosure is to aid in the collection of

outstanding debts owed to the Federal

government; typically to provide an

incentive for debtors to repay

delinquent Federal government debts by

making these debts part of their credit

records.

The disclosure is limited to

information necessary to establish the

identity of the individual, including

name, address, and taxpayer

identification number (Social Security

Number); the amount, status, and

history of the claim; and the agency or

program under which the claim arose

for the sole purpose of allowing the

consumer reporting agency to prepare a

commercial credit report.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

Records are maintained on computer

disks, magnetic tape, microfiche, and

paper file folders. Computer disks,

magnetic tape, microfiche, and paper

file folders.

RETRIEVABILITY:

Retrieved by name, Taxpayer

Identification Number, other

identification number or system

identifier, or name of accountable

disbursing office in whose custody the

public funds were entrusted when the

debt arose.

SAFEGUARDS:

Records are accessed by the custodian

of the record system and by personnel

responsible for servicing the record

system in performance of their official

duties. Records are stored in locked

cabinets or rooms, or in guarded

buildings.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

All cases will remain active until

settled by full payment, waiver or writeoff. The system contains records

requiring a retention period of up to 10

years after final action. Records are

retired to National Records Centers.

Destruction is accomplished by tearing,

shredding, pulping, macerating, or

burning.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

Chief, Debt Management Systems

Division, Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service - Indianapolis

Center, 8899 East 56th Street,

Indianapolis, IN 46249–1460;

Chief, Debt Management Systems

Division, Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service - Columbus Center,

4280 East 5th Avenue, Building 3,

Columbus, OH 43218–2317;

Chief, Debt Management Systems

Division, Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service - Cleveland Center,

1240 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH

44199–2056;

Chief, Debt Management Systems

Division, Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service - Denver Center,

6760 East Irvington Place, Denver, CO

80279–8000;

Chief, Debt Management Systems

Division, Directorate of Debt and Claims

Management, Defense Finance and

Accounting Service - Kansas City

Center, 1500 East 95th Street, Kansas

City, MO 64197–0001.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Individuals seeking to determine

whether information about themselves

is contained in this system should

address written inquiries to the Privacy

Act Officer at the appropriate DFAS

Center identified under ‘System

manager’.

Individual should furnish name,

taxpayer identification number (Social

Security Number), or other identifying

information verifiable from the records.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

Individuals seeking access to

information about themselves contained

in this system of records should address

written inquiries to the Privacy Act

Officer at the appropriate DFAS Center

identified under ‘System manager’.

Individual should furnish name,

taxpayer identification number (Social

Security Number), or other information

verifiable from the records itself.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

The DFAS rules for accessing records,

for contesting contents and appealing

initial agency determinations are

published in DFAS Regulation 5400.11–

R; 32 CFR part 324; or may be obtained

from the Privacy Act Officer at any

DFAS Center.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Records are obtained from the debtor,

DFAS centers, other DoD organizations,

and agencies of Federal state, and local

governments, as applicable or

appropriate for processing the case.

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM:

None.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Kirtland Area

Office (Sandia); Notice of Open

Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is

hereby given of the following Advisory

Committee meeting: Environmental

Management Site-Specific Advisory

Board, Kirtland Area Office (Sandia).

DATE: Wednesday, April 16, 1997: 6:50

p.m.–9:15 p.m. (Mountain Standard

Time).

ADDRESSES: Loma Linda Community

Center, 1700 Yale Boulevard SE,

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mike Zamorski, Acting Manager,

Department of Energy Kirtland Area

Office, P.O. Box 5400, Albuquerque, NM

87185 (505) 845–4094.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of

the Board is to make recommendations

to DOE and its regulators in the areas of

environmental restoration, waste

management, and related activities.

Tentative Agenda

6:50 p.m.—Public Comment Period

7:00 p.m.—Approval of Agenda

7:05 p.m.—Chair’s Report—Jesse D.

Dompreh

7:20 p.m.—Chemical Waste Landfill

Update

7:50 p.m.—Site Prioritization Update

8:05 p.m.—Break

8:20 p.m.—Membership and

Nominating Committee Report

8:35 p.m.—New/Other Business

8:50 p.m.—Agenda Items for Next

Meeting

9:00 p.m.—Public Comment Period

9:15 p.m.—Announcement of Next

Meeting/Adjourn

A final agenda will be available at the

meeting Wednesday, April 16, 1997.

Public Participation: The meeting is

open to the public. Written statements

may be filed with the Committee either

before or after the meeting. Individuals

who wish to make oral statements

pertaining to agenda items should

contact Mike Zamorski’s office at the

address or telephone number listed

above. Requests must be received 5 days

prior to the meeting and reasonable

provision will be made to include the

presentation in the agenda. The

Designated Federal Official is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a