Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 85 / Monday, May 4, 1998 / Notices 24563

Correction

In the Federal Register issue of March

13, 1998, in FR Doc. 98–6517 on page

12502, in the third column replace the

dates and locations of public hearings

with the following:

DATES: Formal public hearings on the

environmental document are scheduled

as listed below. Organizations and

individuals may present oral or written

comments at the public hearings by

signing up when arriving at the hearing.

• May 11, 1998, 12:30—3:30 p.m.,

Elks Point NV

• May 11, 1998, 6—9 p.m., Truckee

CA

• May 12, 1998, 6—9 p.m., Fallon NV

• May 13, 1998, 6—9 p.m., Nixon NV

• May 14, 1998, 6—9 p.m., Fernley

NV

• May 15, 1998, 6—9 p.m., Sparks NV

Locations

• Tahoe Regional Planning Agency,

308 Dorla Court, Elks Point NV

• Truckee-Donner Public Utilities

District Board Room, 11571 Donner Pass

Road, Truckee CA

• Community Center, 100 Campus

Way, Fallon NV

• Pyramid Lake Tribal Council

Chambers, 210 Capitol Hill, Nixon NV

• Fernley Town Complex, 595 Silver

Lace, Fernley NV

• Sparks City Council Chambers, 431

Prater Way, Sparks NV

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

David Overvold, Bureau of Reclamation,

PO Box 640, Carson City NV 89702–

0640, telephone (702) 882–3436; Mr.

Chet Buchanan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Reno NV

89502-5093, telephone (702) 784–5227;

or Mr. Paul Dabbs, California

Department of Water Resources, 3251 S

Street, Sacramento CA 95816, telephone

(916) 227–7564.

Dated: April 28, 1998.

Willie R. Taylor,

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and

Compliance.

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BILLING CODE 4310–94–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Privacy Act of 1974, As Amended;

Revisions to Existing System of

Records

AGENCY: Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Proposed revisions to an

existing system of records.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 55a(e)(11),

as amended (Privacy Act of 1974 (5

U.S.C. 552a(e)(11)), as amended (Privacy

Act), the Department of the Interior

(DOI) is issuing public notice of its

intent to amend the existing system of

records entitled ‘‘Payroll, Attendance,

Retirement, and Leave Records—

Interior, Office of the Secretary-85’’

(OS–85), by adding a new routine use,

and updating several other sections of

the system notice.

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on

the proposed routine use must do so by

June 3, 1998.

Effective Date: The proposed revised

system of records will become effective

without further notice on June 3, 1998,

unless comments received result in a

contrary determination. DOI will

publish a new notice if changes are

made based on review of comments

received.

ADDRESSES: Interested individuals may

comment on this publication by writing

to the Privacy Act Officer, Department

of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Mail

Stop 5312, Washington, DC 20240.

Hand delivered comments may be made

to DOI, 1849 C Street NW, room 5312,

Washington, DC 20240, from 8: a.m. to

4:30 p.m. on business days, or they may

be sent by facsimile transmission to

FAX number (202) 501–2360.

Comments will be available for

inspection at the DOI, 1849 C Street

NW, room 5312, from 8 a.m. to 4:30

p.m. on business days.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William W. Wolf, Office of Information

Resources Management, DOI, 1849 C

Street N.W., Mail Stop 5312,

Washington, D.C. 20240, telephone:

(202) 208–5339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to Public Law 104–193, the Personal

Responsibility and Work Reconciliation

Act of 1996, the DOI will disclose data

from its payroll records (OS–85) to the

Office 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 System (FPLS)

and Federal Tax Offset System, DHHS/

OCSE No. 09–90–0074, last published in

the Federal Register on July 25, 1996

(61 FR 38754). A description of the

Federal Locator Service was published

in the Federal Register on October 2,

1997 (62 FR 51663).

The FPLS is a computerized network

through which States request location

information from Federal and State

agencies to find non-custodial parents

and their employers for purposes of

establishing paternity and securing

support. On October 1, 1997, the FPLS

was expanded to include the National

Directory of New Hires, a database

containing employment information on

employees recently hired, quarterly

wage data on private and public sector

employees, and information on

unemployment compensation benefits.

On October 1, 1998, the FPLS will be

expanded further 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. State requests to the

FPLS for location information will also

continue to be processed after October

1, 1998.

When individuals are hired by the

DOI, it may disclose to the FPLS their

names, social security numbers, home

address, dates of birth, dates of hire, and

information identifying the DOI as the

employer. The DOI also may disclose to

FPLS names, social security numbers,

and quarterly earnings if each DOI

employee, within one month of the end

of the quarterly reporting period.

Information submitted by the DOI 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 DOI to the

FPLS also will 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.

The DOI also is updating the

following sections of the system notice:

System Location; Categories of Records

in the System; Storage and System

Manager(s) and address.

Accordingly, the DOI proposes to

amend OS–85, originally published at

51 FR 39918 (November 3, 1986), and

amended at 53 FR 51324 (December 21,

1988), as follows:

Dated: April 29, 1998.

William W. Wolf,

Departmental Privacy Act Officer.

INTERIOR/OS-85

SYSTEM NAME:

Payroll, Attendance, Retirement, and

Leave Records Interior—Office of the

Secretary-85.
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SYSTEM LOCATION:

(1) Bureau of Reclamation,

Administrative Service Center, Payroll

Operations Division, 7201 West

Mansfield Avenue, Denver, CO 80235–

2230.

(2) All Departmental Offices and

locations which prepare and provide

input documents and information for

data processing and administrative

actions.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEMS:

All employees of the Department of

the Interior, and employees of

Independent Agencies, Councils, and

Commissions who are provided payroll

administrative support by the

Department.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEMS:

Employee identification, pay rate and

grade, retirement, and location data;

length of service; pay, leave, time and

attendance, allowances, and cost

distribution records; deductions for

Medicare or FICA, savings bonds,

FEGLI, union dues, taxes, allotments,

quarters, charities, health benefits,

Thrift Savings Fund contributions,

awards, shift schedules, pay

differentials, IRS tax lien data,

commercial garnishments, child support

and/or alimony wage assignments; and

related payroll and personnel data. Also

included is information on debts owed

to the government as a result of

overpayment, refunds owed, or a debt

referred for collection on a transferred

employee. The payroll, attendance,

retirement, and leave records described

in this notice form a part of the

information contained in the

Department’s integrated payroll and

personnel automated information

system. Personnel records contained in

the system are covered under the

governmentwide system of records

notice published by the Office of

Personnel Management (OPM/GOVT–1).

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEMS:

5 U.S.C. 5101, et seq; 31 U.S.C. 3512.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSE OF SUCH USES:

The primary uses of the records are

for fiscal operations for payroll,

attendance, leave, insurance, tax,

retirement and cost accounting

programs; and to prepare related reports

to other Federal agencies including the

Department of the Treasury and the

Office of Personnel Management.

Disclosures outside the Department of

the Interior may be made: (1) To the

Department of the Treasury for

preparation of payroll checks and other

checks to Federal, State, and local

government agencies, non-governmental

organizations, and individuals; (2) to the

Internal Revenue Service and to State,

local, tribal and territorial governments

for tax purposes; (3) to the Office of

Personnel Management in connection

with programs administered by that

office; (4) to another Federal agency to

which an employee has transferred; (5)

to the U.S. Department of Justice or in

a proceeding before a court or

adjudicative body when (a) the United

States, the Department of the Interior, a

component of the Department or, when

represented by the government, an

employee of the Department is a party

to litigation or anticipated litigation or

has an interest in such litigation, and (b)

the Department of the Interior

determines that the disclosure is

relevant or necessary to the litigation

and is compatible with the purpose for

which the records were compiled; (6) to

disclose pertinent information to an

appropriate Federal, State, local, or

foreign agency responsible for

investigating, prosecuting, enforcing, or

implementing a statute, rule, regulation,

or order, where the disclosing agency

becomes aware of an indication of a

violation or potential violation of civil

or criminal law or regulation; (7) to a

congressional office from the record of

an individual in response to an inquiry

from that congressional office made at

the request of the individual; (8) to a

Federal agency which has requested

information relevant or necessary to its

hiring or retention of an employee, or

issuance of a security clearance, license,

contract, grant or other benefit; (9) to

Federal, State or local agencies where

necessary to enable the Department of

the Interior to obtain information

relevant to the hiring or retention of an

employee, or the issuance of a security

clearance, contract, license, grant or

other benefit; (10) to appropriate Federal

and State agencies to provide required

reports including data on

unemployment insurance; (11) to the

Social Security administration to report

FICA deductions; (12) to labor unions to

report union dues deductions; (13) to

insurance carriers to report

withholdings for health insurance; (14)

to charitable institutions to report

contributions; (15) to a Federal agency

for the purpose of collecting a debt

owed the Federal government through

administrative or salary offset; (16) to

other Federal agencies conducting

computer matching programs to help

eliminate fraud and abuse and to detect

unauthorized overpayments made to

individuals; (17) to provide addresses

obtained from the Internal Revenue

Service to debt collection agencies for

purposes of locating a debtor to collect

or compromise a Federal claim against

the debtor; (18) with respect to Bureau

of Indian Affairs employee records, to a

Federal, State, local agency, or Indian

tribal group or any establishment or

individual that assumes jurisdiction,

either by contract or legal transfer, of

any program under the control of the

Bureau of Indian Affairs; (19) with

respect to Bureau of Reclamation

employee records, to non-Federal

auditors under contract with the

Department of the Interior or Energy or

water user and other organizations with

which the Bureau of Reclamation has

written agreements permitting access to

financial records to perform financial

audits; (20) to the Federal Retirement

Thrift Investment Board with respect to

Thrift Savings Fund contributions; (21)

to disclose debtor information to the

IRS, or another Federal agency or its

contractor solely to aggregate

information for the IRS, to collect debts

owed to the Federal government

through the offset of tax refunds; (22) to

disclose the names, social security

numbers, home addresses, dates of

birth, dates of hire, quarterly earnings,

employer identifying information, and

State of hire of employees to the Office

of Child Support Enforcement,

Administration for Children and

Families, Department of Health and

Human Services 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 actions as required

by the Personal Responsibility and

Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

(Welfare Reform Law, Pub. L. 104–193).

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES:

Disclosure pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

552a(b)(12). Disclosures may be made

from this system to consumer reporting

agencies as defined in the Fair Credit

Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(f)) or the

Federal Claims Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C.

3701(a)(3)).

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

Maintained in manual, microfilm,

microfiche, imaged and printout form in

the Payroll Office. Currently applicable

records are stored on magnetic media at

the computer processing center, historic

records are stored on magnetic media at

the computer center. Original input

documents are kept in standard office
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filing equipment and/or stored as

imaged documents on magnetic media.

RETRIEVABILITY:

Indexed by name, social security

number, and organizational code.

SAFEGUARDS:

Maintained with safeguards meeting

the requirements of 43 CFR 2.51.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

The records contained in this system

of records have varying retention

periods as described in General Records

Schedule 2 issued by the Archivist of

the United States, and are disposed of

in accordance with the National

Archives and Records Administration

Regulations, 36 CFR part 1228 et seq.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

The following system manager is

responsible for the payroll records

contained in the Department’s

integrated payroll and personnel

automated information system. These

records are pertinent to all Department

of the Interior bureaus and offices and

client agencies. Personnel records

contained in the system fall under the

jurisdiction of the Office of Personnel

Management as prescribed in 5 CFR part

293 and 5 CFR part 297.

Chief, Benefits and Program

Information Branch, Bureau of

Reclamation, Administrative Service

Center, Payroll Operations Division,

7201 West Mansfield Avenue, Denver,

CO 80235–2230.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES:

Inquiries regarding the existence of

records should be addressed to the

System Manager. The request must be in

writing, signed by the requester, and

meet the content requirements of 43

CFR 2.60.

RECORDS ACCESS PROCEDURES:

A request for access may be addressed

to the System Manager. The request

must be in writing, signed by the

requester, and meet the content

requirements of 43 CFR 2.63.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

A petition for amendment should be

addressed to the System Manager. The

request must be in writing, signed by

the requester, and meet the content

requirements of 43 CFR 2.71.

RECORDS SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Individuals on whom the records are

maintained, supervisors, timekeepers,

official personnel records, previous

employers, and the Internal Revenue

Service.

[FR Doc. 98–11718 Filed 5–1–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–RK–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Intent To Amend an

Incidental Take Permit: Inclusion of

Bull Trout on the Plum Creek Timber

Company Permit for Timber Harvest in

the State of Washington

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public

that the Fish and Wildlife Service

(Service) has received a request to add

bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) to the

species covered by permit PRT–808398

issued to Plum Creek Timber Company,

L.P., on June 27, 1996. This request is

pursuant to the Implementation

Agreement for the Habitat Conservation

Plan accompanying incidental take

permit PRT–808398. The Service is

proposing to add bull trout to Plum

Creek’s permit.

DATES: Written comments regarding the

addition of bull trout to the Plum Creek

permit should be received on or before

June 3, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to Mr. John Engbring,

Western Washington Fish and Wildlife

Office, 510 Desmond Drive, S.E., Suite

101, Lacey, Washington 98503.

Documents cited in this notice and

comments received will be available for

public inspection by appointment

during normal business hours (8 a.m. to

5 p.m., Monday through Friday).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

William Vogel, Wildlife Biologist,

Western Washington Fish and Wildlife

Office, 510 Desmond Drive, S.E., Suite

101, Lacey, Washington 98503;

telephone (360) 753–4367.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On June 27, 1996, the Fish and

Wildlife Service (Service) issued an

incidental take permit (PRT–808398) to

Plum Creek Timber Company, L.P.,

pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the

Endangered Species Act (Act) of 1973,

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1532 et seq.).

This permit authorizes the incidental

take of the threatened northern spotted

owl (Strix occidentalis caurina),

marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus

marmoratus marmoratus), and grizzly

bear (Ursus arctos=U.a. horribilis), and

the endangered gray wolf (Canis lupus),

in the course of the otherwise legal

forest management and related land-use

activities in portions of King and

Kittitas Counties, Washington. Pursuant

to the Habitat Conservation Plan and the

Implementation Agreement, Plum Creek

received assurances from the Service

that then-unlisted vertebrate species

would be added to the permit upon

listing under the Act, if doing so were

consistent with the Implementation

Agreement.

On June 13, 1997 (62 FR 32268), the

Service proposed to list the Klamath

River population of bull trout as

endangered and the Columbia River

population of bull trout as threatened.

On September 11, 1997, Plum Creek

requested that bull trout be added to its

permit. While the Service has not yet

made a final decision on listing bull

trout as a threatened or endangered

species, the Service is proposing to

respond to Plum Creek’s request and

determine if addition of the Columbia

River distinct population segment of

bull trout to the permit is warranted.

The purpose of this notice is to seek

public comment on the Service’s

proposal to add bull trout to Plum

Creek’s permit.

Implementation Agreement Provisions

The Implementation Agreement is a

legal document describing the roles and

responsibilities of the Service and Plum

Creek during the permit period. Under

the Implementation Agreement, plan

species are those vertebrate species

dependent on the various habitat types

analyzed in the Habitat Conservation

Plan. In the Plum Creek Habitat

Conservation Plan, bull trout are a plan

species. The Implementation Agreement

specifies that should any of the plan

species that were unlisted at the time of

permit issuance subsequently become

listed under the Act, Plum Creek may

request a permit amendment to have

that species added to their permit.

Plum Creek received assurances that,

absent extraordinary circumstances,

plan species would be added to the

permit without requiring additional

mitigation from Plum Creek if the

Service determined that such action

would not appreciably reduce the

likelihood of the survival and recovery

of the affected species, or any other

species, in the wild and that adding the

species to the permit would be

consistent with the Service’s other

responsibilities. Absent extraordinary

circumstances, plan species would be

added to the permit without requiring

additional mitigation from Plum Creek.

Extraordinary circumstances are defined

in the Implementation Agreement as a

substantial and material adverse change

in the status of the species.

To determine whether adding bull

trout to Plum Creek’s permit would

appreciably reduce the likelihood of the

survival and recovery of bull trout or