Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 226 / Friday, November 25, 2005 / Notices 71189 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Departmental Offices; Privacy Act of 

1974; System of Records 

AGENCY: Office of the Treasury Inspector 

General for Tax Administration, 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of alteration of Privacy 

Act system of records. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, Office of the Treasury 

Inspector General for Tax 

Administration (TIGTA), gives notice of 

a proposed alteration to the system of 

records entitled ‘‘Treasury/DO .311–

TIGTA Office of Investigations Files,’’

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 on May 22, 

2003, at 68 FR 28046. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than December 27, 2005. The 

proposed routine use will be effective 

January 4, 2006, unless the Department 

receives comments that would result in 

a contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to 

Elissa Sissman, Assistant Chief Counsel, 

Office of the Treasury Inspector General 

for Tax Administration, 1125 15th 

Street, NW., Room 700A, Washington, 

DC 20005, 202–622–4068. Comments 

will be made available for inspection 

upon written request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elissa Sissman, Assistant Chief Counsel, 

Office of the Treasury Inspector General 

for Tax Administration, 1125 15th 

Street, NW., Room 700A, Washington, 

DC 20005, 202–622–4068. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Treasury Inspector General for Tax 

Administration (TIGTA) was established 

pursuant to the Internal Revenue 

Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 

1998. TIGTA’s duties and operating 

authority are set forth in the Inspector 

General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C app. 3. 

TIGTA exercises all duties and 

responsibilities of an Inspector General 

with respect to the Department and the 

Secretary on all matters relating to the 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS). TIGTA 

conducts, supervises, and coordinates 

audits and investigations relating to the 

programs and operations of the IRS and 

related entities. 

An integral part of TIGTA’s mission is 

to detect fraud, waste, abuse, and 

instances of compromised employee 

integrity, including criminal 

misconduct. Mission success depends 

in large part on the willingness of the 

public and Internal Revenue Service 

employees to report suspected improper 

or potentially criminal conduct. New 

routine use (12) will permit TIGTA 

officials to apprise complainants and/or 

victims, or their representatives, of the 

status or results of the investigation or 

case arising from the matters of which 

they complained or were the victim, 

and, once a subject had exhausted all 

reasonable appeals, any action taken. 

This new routine use is consistent 

with the purposes for which the 

information is collected in this system. 

Like other executive branch 

components, TIGTA has responsibilities 

to protect individuals’ privacy. 

Providing upon request the limited 

information proposed here maintains an 

appropriate balance between the right to 

privacy of the individual being 

investigated and the interests of the 

public and complainant/victim in 

ensuring that TIGTA appropriately 

handled the allegations made. 

The report of an altered system of 

records, as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) 

of the Privacy Act, has been submitted 

to the Committee on Government 

Reform of the House of Representatives, 

the Committee on Homeland Security 

and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 

and the Office of Management and 

Budget, pursuant to Appendix I to OMB 

Circular A–130, ‘‘Federal Agency 

Responsibilities for Maintaining 

Records About Individuals,’’ dated 

November 30, 2000. 

TIGTA proposes to alter system of 

records Treasury/DO .311–TIGTA Office 

of Investigations Files, as follows: 

Treasury/DO .311 

SYSTEM NAME: 

TIGTA Office of Investigations Files. 

* * * * * 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

* * * * * 

Description of change: The period ‘‘.’’

at the end of routine use (11) is replaced 

with a semicolon ‘‘;’’, and the following 

routine use is added at the end thereof: 

‘‘(12) Disclose information to 

complainants, victims, or their 

representatives (defined for purposes here to 

be a complainant’s or victim’s legal counsel 

or a Senator or Representative whose 

assistance the complainant or victim has 

solicited) concerning the status and/or results 

of the investigation or case arising from the 

matters of which they complained and/or of 

which they were a victim, including, once 

the investigative subject has exhausted all 

reasonable appeals, any action taken. 

Information concerning the status of the 

investigation or case is limited strictly to 

whether the investigation or case is open or 

closed. Information concerning the results of 

the investigation or case is limited strictly to 

whether the allegations made in the 

complaint were substantiated or were not 

substantiated and, if the subject has 

exhausted all reasonable appeals, any action 

taken.’’

* * * * * 

Dated: November 16, 2005. 

Sandra L. Pack, 

Assistant Secretary for Management and 

Chief Financial Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–23241 Filed 11–23–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4811–37–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Extension of 

Information Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency (OCC), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The OCC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on a continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The OCC is soliciting comment 

concerning its information collection 

titled, ‘‘Recordkeeping Requirements for 

Securities Transactions—12 CFR part 

12.’’

DATES: You should submit comments by 

January 24, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Communications Division, 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, Public Information Room, 

Mailstop 1–5, Attention: 1557–0142, 

250 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20219. In addition, comments may be 

sent by fax to (202) 874–4448, or by 

electronic mail to 

regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. You can 

inspect and photocopy the comments at 

the OCC’s Public Information Room, 250 

E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20219. 

You can make an appointment to 

inspect the comments by calling (202) 

874–5043. 

Additionally, you should send a copy 

of your comments to OCC Desk Officer, 

1557–0142, by mail to U.S. Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., #10235, Washington, DC 

20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974.