34448 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 128 / Tuesday, July 2, 1996 / Notices

The OMB is particularly interested in

comments which:

* Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

* Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

* Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

* Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration, Office of Federal

Contract Compliance Programs.

Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting

Requirements—Supply and Service.

OMB Number: 1215–0072.

Frequency: As requested.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 88,797.

Estimated Time Per Respondent:

163.83 hours.

Total Burden Hours: 14,547,229.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): 0.

Description: This final rule makes

three general types of revisions to the

current regulations implementing

section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of

1973. First, the regulations’

nondiscrimination provisions generally

are conformed to the regulations

published by the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission implementing

Title I of the Americans with

Disabilities Act of 1990. Second, the

regulations incorporate recent statutory

amendments to section 503. Third, the

regulations are revised to strengthen and

clarify various existing provisions

relating to affirmative action for

qualified individuals with disabilities,

record retention, enforcement and other

issues.

The interim rule published

concurrent with this final rule modifies

the OFCCP regulation requiring

Government contractors to invite job

applicants to inform the contractor

whether the applicant believes that he

or she may be covered by the affirmative

action provisions of the Vietnam Era

Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act

of 1974, and wishes to benefit under the

contractor’s affirmative action program.

These changes are substantively

identical to OFCCP’s revision to the rule

requiring invitations to self-identify

under section 503 of the Rehabilitation

Act of 1973.

Agency: Employment Standards

Administration, Office of Federal

Contract Compliance Programs.

Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting

Requirements—Construction.

OMB Number: 1215–0163.

Frequency: As requested.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 136,321.

Estimated Time Per Respondent:

38.32 hours.

Total Burden Hours: 5.223.173.

Total Annualized capital/startup

costs: 0.

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): 0.

Description: This final rule makes

three general types of revisions to the

current regulations implementing

section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of

1973. First, the regulations’

nondiscrimination provisions generally

are conformed to the regulations

published by the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission implementing

Title I of the Americans with

Disabilities Act of 1990. Second, the

regulations incorporate recent statutory

amendments to section 503. Third, the

regulations are revised to strengthen and

clarify various existing provisions

relating to affirmative action for

qualified individuals with disabilities,

record retention, enforcement and other

issues.

The interim rule published

concurrent with this final rule modifies

the OFCCP regulation requiring

Government contractors to invite job

applicants to inform the contractor

whether the applicant believes that he

or she may be covered by the affirmative

action provisions of the Vietnam Era

Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act

of 1974, and wishes to benefit under the

contractor’s affirmative action program.

These changes are substantively

identical to OFCCP’s revision to the rule

requiring invitations to self-identify

under section 503 of the Rehabilitation

Act of 1973.

Theresa M. O’Malley,

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–16515 Filed 7–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–27–M

MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION

BOARD

Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed New

System of Records

AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection

Board.

ACTION: Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of

New System of Records.

SUMMARY: As required by The Privacy

Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Merit

Systems Protection Board (Board) is

publishing a notice proposing

establishment of a new system of

records. This new records system is the

Office of Appeals Counsel Decision Data

Base. The system is intended to provide

research materials to Board employees

involved in the adjudication of petitions

for review and other matters under the

Board’s original and appellate

jurisdictions. Information contained in

these records will be used in drafting

various legal documents in the

adjudication process.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before August 1, 1996. This system of

records becomes effective as proposed,

without further notice, on September 3,

1996, unless comments are received

which would result in a contrary

determination. Comments may be

mailed to the Merit Systems Protection

Board, Office of the Clerk of the Board,

1120 Vermont Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC. 20419, or faxed to the

same address on 202–653–7130.

Electronic mail comments may be sent

via the Internet to mspb@mspb.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael H. Hoxie, Office of the Clerk of

the Board, 202–653–7200.

Dated: June 27, 1996.

Robert E. Taylor,

Clerk of the Board.

MSPB/INTERNAL–4

SYSTEM NAME:

Office of Appeals Counsel Decision

Data Base

SYSTEM LOCATION:

Office of Appeals Counsel, Merit

Systems Protection Board (MSPB), 1120

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20419.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM:

a. Current and former Federal

employees, applicants for employment,

annuitants, and other individuals who

have filed petitions or requests for

review with MSPB or its predecessor

agency, or have been a party in an

original jurisdiction case.
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CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

a. These records contain advisory

memoranda prepared by the Office of

Appeals Counsel for the Board, or

individual members of the Board, and

instructions from members of the Board

regarding the preparation of decisions

for Board issuance. These records also

contain individual appellant’s names,

and may contain social security

numbers, home addresses, veterans

status, race, sex, national origin and

disability status data.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

5 U.S.C. 1205, 1206, 1207, 1208, 7701

and 7702.

PURPOSE:

These records are used for internal

legal research by Board employees

involved in adjudicating petitions for

review and other matters arising under

the Board’s original and appellate

jurisdictions.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSE OF SUCH USES:

Information from the record may be

disclosed:

a. to the Government Accounting

Office in response to an official inquiry

or investigation;

b. to the Department of Justice for use

in litigation when:

(1) The Board, or any component

thereof; or

(2) Any employee of the Board in the

employee’s official capacity; or

(3) Any employee of the Board in the

employee’s individual capacity where

the Department of Justice has agreed to

represent the employee; or

(4) The United States, where the

agency determines that litigation is

likely to affect the agency or any of its

components, is a party to litigation or

has an interest in such litigation, and

the use of such records by the

Department of Justice is deemed by the

agency to be relevant and necessary to

the litigation, provided, however, that in

each case, the agency determines that

disclosure of the records to the

Department of Justice is a use of the

information contained in the records

that is compatible with the purpose for

which the records were collected, or

approval or consultation is required.

c. In any proceeding before a court or

adjudicative body before which the

Board is authorized to appear, when:

(1) The Board, or any component

thereof; or

(2) Any employee of the Board in the

employee’s official capacity; or

(3) Any employee of the Board in the

employee’s individual capacity where

the agency has agreed to represent the

employee; or

(4) The United States, where they

agency determines that litigation is

likely to affect the agency or any of its

components, is a party to litigation or

has an interest in such litigation, and

the agency determines that use of such

records is relevant and necessary to the

litigation, provided, however, that in

each case the agency determines that the

disclosure of the records to the

Department of Justice is a use of the

information contained in the records

that is compatible with the purpose for

which the records were collected, or

approval or consultation is required.

d. To the National Archives and

Records Administration in records

management inspections conducted

under authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and

2906; and

e. In response to a request for

discovery or for appearance of a

witness, if the requested information is

relevant to the subject matter involved

in a pending judicial or administrative

proceeding.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

These records are maintained in

electronic form on a file server

connected to a local area network

serving the Office of Appeals Counsel.

RETRIEVABILITY:

These records are retrieved by the

names of the individuals on whom they

are maintained, and by MSPB docket

numbers.

SAFEGUARDS:

Access to these records is limited to

persons whose official duties require

such access. Automated records are

protected from unauthorized access

through password identification

procedures and other system-based

protection methods.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Electronic records in this system may

be maintained indefinitely, or until the

Board no longer needs them.

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS:

The Office of Appeals Counsel, 1120

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC. 20419.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES:

Individuals wishing to inquire

whether this system of records contains

information about them should contact

the Clerk of the Board and must follow

the MSPB Privacy Act regulations at 5

CFR 1205.11 regarding such inquires.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

Individuals requesting access to their

records should contact the Clerk of the

Board. Such requests should be

addressed to the Clerk of the Board,

Merit Systems Protection Board, 1120

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20419. Requests for access to records

must follow the MSPB Privacy Act

regulations at 5 CFR 1205.11.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

Individuals requesting amendment of

records should write the Clerk of the

Board. Requests must follow the MSPB

Privacy act regulations at 5 CFR

1205.21.

These provisions for amendment of

the record are not intended to permit

the alteration of evidence presented in

the course of adjudication before the

MSPB either before or after the MSPB

has rendered a decision on the appeal.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

The sources of these records are:

a. The individual to whom the record

pertains;

b. The agency employing the above

individual;

c. The Merit Systems Protection

Board, the Office of Personnel

Management, the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission, the Office of

the Special Counsel; and

d. Other individuals or organizations

from whom the MSPB has received

testimony, affidavits or other

documents.

[FR Doc. 96–16865 Filed 7–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7400–01–M

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

ADMINISTRATION

Records Schedules; Availability and

Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Archives and Records

Administration, Office of Records

Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of

proposed records schedules; request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The National Archives and

Records Administration, (NARA)

publishes notice at least once monthly

of certain Federal agency requests for

records disposition authority (records

schedules). Records schedules identify

records of sufficient value to warrant

preservation in the National Archives of

the United States. Schedules also

authorize agencies after a specified

period to dispose of records lacking

administrative, legal, research, or other

value. Notice is published for records