50784 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 168 / Thursday, August 28, 2008 / Notices 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether information about themselves 

is contained in this system of records 

should address written inquiries to the 

Chief, Capability Resource Analysis 

Division, USSTRATCOM/J81, 901 SAC 

Blvd., Offutt AFB, NE 68113–6800. 

Inquiries should contain the 

individual’s full name, mailing address, 

and bear the signature of the requester. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to 

information about themselves should 

address written inquiries to the Chief, 

Capability Resource Analysis Division, 

USSTRATCOM/J81, 901 SAC Blvd., 

Offutt AFB, NE 68113–6800. 

Inquiries should contain the 

individual’s full name, mailing address, 

and bear the signature of the requester. 

CONTESTING RECORDS PROCEDURES: 

The Air Force rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are published in Air Force Instruction 

33–332; 32 CFR part 806b; or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Contents of the records are obtained 

from the individual about whom the 

record pertains and from supervisors of 

those personnel. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

[Docket ID: USA–2008–0057] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice To Amend a System of 

Records. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

is amending a system of records notice 

in its existing inventory of record 

systems subject to the Privacy Act of 

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

DATES: This proposed action will be 

effective without further notice on 

September 29, 2008, unless comments 

are received which result in a contrary 

determination. 

ADDRESSES: Department of the Army, 

Freedom of Information/Privacy 

Division, U.S. Army Records 

Management and Declassification 

Agency, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey 

Building, Suite 144, Alexandria, VA 

22325–3905. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Vicki Short at (703) 428–6508. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of the Army systems of 

records notices subject to the Privacy 

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

amended, have been published in the 

Federal Register and are available from 

the address above. 

The specific changes to the record 

system being amended are set forth 

below followed by the notice, as 

amended, published in its entirety. The 

proposed amendments are not within 

the purview of subsection (r) of the 

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

amended, which requires the 

submission of a new or altered system 

report. 

Dated: August 22, 2008. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

0500–3 DCS 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Army Disaster Personnel 

Accountability and Assessment Records 

(ADPAAS) (July 25, 2008, 73 FR 43416). 

CHANGES: 

Change system ID to ‘‘A0500–3 DCS 

G–1.’’

* * * * * 

A0500–3 DCS G–1 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Army Disaster Personnel 

Accountability and Assessment Records 

(ADPAAS). 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Space and Naval Warfare Systems 

Center, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, 

CA 92152–5001. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Army personnel (Military, Civilian, 

and National Guard) and their families 

who are involved in a natural or other 

man-made disaster; catastrophic event; 

or in support of the Global War on 

Terrorism. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

ADPAAS Personnel Accountability 

and Needs Assessment Survey 

information that includes name; home 

and duty stations addresses; Social 

Security Number (SSN); home, business, 

and cell telephone numbers; military/ 

civilian status; date of birth; Unit 

Identification Code (UIC); Electronic 

Data Interchange—Personal Identifier 

(EDI–PI); date of last contact; insurance 

company; Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) Number; 

e-mail address; dependent information; 

travel orders/vouchers; assessment date; 

needs assessment information; type of 

event; category classification; and 

related information. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

10 U.S.C. 5013, Secretary of the Army; 

DoD Instruction 3001.02, Personnel 

Accountability in Conjunction With 

Natural or Man-made Disasters; Army 

Regulation 500–3, U.S. Army Continuity 

of Operations Program Policy and 

Planning; and E.O. 9397 (SSN). 

PURPOSE(S): 

To assess disaster-related needs (i.e., 

status of family members, housing, 

medical, financial assistance, 

employment, pay and benefits, 

transportation, child care, pastoral care/ 

counseling, and general legal matters) of 

Army personnel (Military, Civilian, and 

National Guard) and their families who 

have been involved in a natural or manmade major disaster or catastrophic 

event. To continue to maintain contact 

with the family members to ensure they 

receive all necessary support/assistance. 

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: 

The DoD ‘‘Blanket Routine Uses’’ set 

forth at the beginning of the Army’s 

compilation of systems of records 

notices also apply to this system. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Electronic storage media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Name, Social Security Number (SSN) 

and date of birth. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Password controlled system, file, and 

element access is based on predefined 

need-to-know. Physical access to 

terminals, terminal rooms, buildings 

and activities’ grounds are controlled by 

locked terminals and rooms, guards, 

personnel screening and visitor 

registers. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Event and recovery assistance records 

are destroyed two years after all actions 

are completed. 


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SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Deputy Chief of Staff, HQDA G–1, 

ATTN: DAPE–MPZ–PC, 300 Army 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0400. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether this system of records contains 

information about themselves should 

address written inquiries to the Deputy 

Chief of Staff, HQDA G–1, ATTN: 

HQDA DAPE–MPZ–PC, 300 Army 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0400. 

The request should include 

individual’s full name, Social Security 

Number (SSN), address, date of birth, 

and signature. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to records 

about themselves contained in this 

system of records should address 

written inquiries to the Deputy Chief of 

Staff, HQDA G–1, ATTN: HQDA DAPE–

MPZ–PC, 300 Army Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20310–0400. 

The request should include 

individual’s full name, Social Security 

Number (SSN), address, date of birth, 

and signature. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Army’s rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are contained in Army Regulation 340–

21; 32 CFR part 505; or may be obtained 

from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Individual; personnel files; Needs 

Assessment Survey; Defense Manpower 

Data Center; and command personnel. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education 

requests comments on the Free 

Application for Federal Student Aid 

(FAFSA) that the Secretary proposes to 

use for the 2009–2010 award year. The 

FAFSA is completed by students and 

their families and the information 

submitted on the form is used to 

determine the students’ eligibility and 

financial need for financial aid under 

the student financial assistance 

programs authorized under Title IV of 

the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (Title IV, HEA Programs). 

The Department acknowledges the 

recent passage of the Higher Education 

Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 and its 

instruction to the Department to 

simplify the Federal Student Aid 

application process, to reduce the 

number of questions on the FAFSA 

form, to create a FAFSA–EZ form, and 

to revise the form so that it contains 

consumer friendly language as well as 

take other measures to streamline the 

process of applying for federal student 

aid. The Department is committed to 

improving the federal student aid 

application process for individuals 

completing the Free Application for 

Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). We were 

challenged to incorporate each of the 

changes required to satisfy the intent of 

Congress in implementing the College 

Cost Reduction and Access Act 

(CCRAA) and the recently passed post 

9/11 legislative changes while not losing 

focus on our customers’ need for a 

simple, straightforward application. 

Because 99 percent of student 

applicants opt to apply electronically, 

much of the Department’s recent 

improvements have focused on the 

FAFSA suite of products. The most 

heavily used application, FAFSA on the 

Web, maximizes the use of ‘skip logic’

and previously submitted FAFSA data, 

to dramatically reduce the time-tocomplete benchmark for returning 

customers. New customers have the 

benefit of answering specific questions 

up front that determine if, for example, 

the student needs to provide additional 

asset or parental information. Students 

that are eligible to skip asset and/or 

parental questions complete a shorter, 

more streamlined FAFSA. During 2007–

2008, the Department launched the use 

of a ‘real-time’ PIN that enables every 

applicant to electronically sign their 

FAFSAs during their on-line session; 

eliminating the time consuming process 

of separately requesting, and waiting for 

the delivery of, a PIN. For the one 

percent of FAFSA applicants that 

complete the paper FAFSA, the 

Department has simplified the 

application process by grouping like 

questions together, incorporating 

previously supplemental worksheets 

into the application; improving the 

layout of the form; and clearly 

delineating between student and 

parental questions. For those students 

that prefer to submit a paper FAFSA but 

don’t have access to a pre-printed 

FAFSA form, the Department has 

created a FAFSA PDF that can be 

downloaded from the Internet and 

completed, either on a PC or by hand, 

and mailed to the Department. In 

addition, the Department has created 

numerous on-line and paper sources to 

assist students with the FAFSA process. 

The Web site Student Aid on the Web 

(http://www.studentaid.ed.gov) provides 

a vast array of student-centric 

information on researching colleges, 

finding scholarships, preparing 

academically, and applying for federal 

student assistance. The FAFSA4caster 

Web site (http:// 

www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov) enables 

students to obtain an early estimate of 

their eligibility for federal student aid 

while increasing their knowledge of the 

financial aid process. FAFSA4caster 

users that opt to provide demographic 

information about themselves can later 

‘pre-populate’ a FAFSA, thereby 

shortening the application completion 

time. Working with customers, 

stakeholders, partners and Congress, the 

Department will continue its 

commitment to further streamline the 

experience for FAFSA applicants into 

the future. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

27, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically through e-mail 

to FAFSA. Comments@ed.gov. 

Interested persons can access this 

document on the Internet: 

(1) Go to IFAP at http://ifap.ed.gov. 

(2) Scroll down to ‘‘Publications’’. 

(3) Click on ‘‘FAFSAs and Renewal 

FAFSAs’’. 

(4) Click on ‘‘By 2009–2010 Award 

Year’’. 

(5) Click on ‘‘Draft FAFSA Form/ 

Instructions’’. 

Please note that the free Adobe 

Acrobat Reader software, version 4.0 or 

greater, is necessary to view this file. 

This software can be downloaded for 

free from Adobe’s Web site: http:// 

www.adobe.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Secretary is publishing this request for 

comment under the Provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Under that Act, ED 

must obtain the review and approval of 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) before it may use a form to 

collect information. However, under 

procedure for obtaining approval from 

OMB, ED must first obtain public 

comment on the proposed form, and to 

obtain that comment, ED must publish 

this notice in the Federal Register. In 

addition to comments requested above, 

to accommodate the requirements of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the Secretary 

is interested in receiving comments 

with regard to the following matters: (1) 

Is this collection necessary to the proper 

functions of the Department, (2) will 


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