[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28236-28237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12762]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Privacy Act of 1974; Report of Amended Matching Program

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
intends to conduct a recurring computer matching program matching 
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) records with VA pension and 
parents' dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) records.
    The goal of this match is to compare income status as reported to 
VA with records maintained by OPM.
    VA plans to match records of veterans and surviving spouses and 
children who receive pension, and parents who receive DIC from VA with 
OPM benefit records maintained by OPM. The match with OPM will provide 
VA with data from OPM civil service benefit records.
    VA will use this information to update the master records of VA 
beneficiaries receiving income dependent benefits and to adjust VA 
benefit payments as prescribed by law. Otherwise, information about a 
VA beneficiary's receipt of OPM benefits is obtained from reporting by 
the beneficiary. The proposed matching program will enable VA to ensure 
accurate reporting of income.

Records To Be Matched

    The VA records involved in the match are the VA system of records, 
VA Compensation, Pension and Education and Rehabilitation Records--VA 
(58 VA 21/22) first published at 41 FR 924 (March 3, 1976), and last 
amended at 63 FR 37941 July 14, 1998, with other amendments as cited 
therein. The OPM records involved in the match are from the OPM Civil 
Service Retirement Pay File identified as OPM Central-1, Civil Service 
Retirement and Insurance Records, published as 64 FR 54930, October 8, 
1999, as amended May 3, 2000 (65 FR 25775). In accordance with Title 5 
U.S.C. 552a(o)(2) and (r), copies of the agreement are being sent to 
both Houses of Congress and to the Office of Management and Budget.
    This notice is provided in accordance with the provisions of the 
Privacy Act of 1974 as amended by Public Law 100-503.
    The match will start no sooner than 30 days after publication of 
this Notice in the Federal Register, or 40 days after copies of this 
Notice and the agreement of the parties are submitted to Congress and 
the Office of Management and

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Budget, whichever is later, and end not more than 18 months after the 
agreement is properly implemented by the parties. The involved 
agencies' Data Integrity Boards (DIBs) may extend this match for 12 
months provided the agencies certify to their DIBs, within three months 
of the ending date of the original match, that the matching program 
will be conducted without change and that the matching program has been 
conducted in compliance with the original matching program.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments, 
suggestions, or objections regarding the proposal to conduct the 
matching program to the Director, Office of Regulations Management 
(02D), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 
1154, Washington, DC 20420. All written comments received will be 
available for public inspection in the Office of Regulations 
Management, Room 1158, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, 
between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday except holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Trowbridge (212A), (202) 273-
7218.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information is required by Title 5 
U.S.C. subsection 552a(e)(12), the Privacy Act of 1974. A copy of this 
notice has been provided to both Houses of Congress and the Office of 
Management and Budget.

    Approved: May 7, 2001.
Anthony J. Principi,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 01-12762 Filed 5-21-01; 8:45 am]
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