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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DHS–2008–0081] 

Privacy Act of 1974: System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS. 

ACTION: Re-publication of a Notice of 

Privacy system of records. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 

1974, the Department of Homeland 

Security is re-publishing this system of 

records notice (SORN) entitled the 

United States Coast Guard (USCG) Law 

Enforcement Information Data Base 

(LEIDB)/Pathfinder. 

On May 15, 2008, DHS originally 

published the SORN and associated 

proposed rulemaking (DHS/USCG–062) 

in the Federal Register. DHS received 

no comments on the system of records 

notice and proposed rulemaking. 

Accordingly, DHS is republishing this 

SORN as final. A final rulemaking is 

also published in this issue of the 

Federal Register in which the 

Department exempts portions of this 

system of records from one or more 

provisions of the Privacy Act because of 

criminal, civil, and administrative 

enforcement requirements. 

DATES: The established system of 

records was effective as of February 29, 

2008, based upon the prior LEIDB 

system of records notice published on 

January 30, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

system related questions please contact: 

Mike Payne (LEIDB/Pathfinder System 

Program Officer), Intelligence Division 

(CG–26), Phone 202–372–2795 or by 

mail correspondence: U.S. Coast Guard, 

2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20593–0001. For privacy issues, 

please contact: Hugo Teufel III, Chief 

Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background Information 

Law Enforcement Information Data 

Base (LEIDB/Pathfinder) is operated and 

controlled by the United States Coast 

Guard, United States Department of 

Homeland Security. The Assistant 

Commandant for Intelligence and 

Criminal Investigations through the 

Office of Intelligence, Surveillance, 

Reconnaissance Systems and 

Technology, Division of Data Analysis 

and Manipulation (CG–262), is 

responsible for managing the system for 

the Coast Guard. 

LEIDB/Pathfinder was developed to 

efficiently manage field-created 

intelligence and law enforcement 

related reports. These intelligence 

reports vary in content but are 

submitted in a standard Coast Guard 

message format which is electronically 

distributed through the Coast Guard 

Message System (CGMS) (and to a lesser 

extent the Defense Messaging System). 

CGMS is the system by which the Coast 

Guard manages all general message 

traffic to and from Coast Guard 

components and commands. After 

processing and delivering a message, 

CGMS archives the message for 30 days 

before they are deleted regardless of the 

content of the message. 

The Assistant Commandant for 

Intelligence and Criminal Investigations 

(CG–2) identified a need to archive 

messages for more than thirty (30) days 

and to be able to perform analysis of the 

data contained within the messages to 

support law enforcement (LE) and 

intelligence activities. LEIDB/Pathfinder 

was developed and implemented to 

support these requirements. 

All messages sent to the LEIDB/ 

Pathfinder address on the CGMS are 

organized within LEIDB/Pathfinder 

based on message type (e.g., Field 

Intelligence Report), when the 

information was sent, and by whom the 

information may be accessed. This 

allows for easy segregation of 

information based on user access 

controls. 

Users rely on LEIDB/Pathfinder as an 

archival system to find and retrieve 

records relevant to their analyses. Users 

of LEIDB/Pathfinder include 

intelligence analysts, watch officers, 

field intelligence officers and 

intelligence staff officers, and criminal 

investigators. Use of LEIDB/Pathfinder 

obviates the need for individual analysts 

to compile records in a local storage 

system, which reduces the risk of loss 

or of unauthorized access to intelligence 

reports. Analysts rely on LEIDB/ 

Pathfinder as the means to retrieve 

records. Searching through unstructured 

text allows the users to develop search 

terms that retrieve all messages relevant 

to an inquiry without reviewing 

irrelevant records. Messages contained 

in LEIDB/Pathfinder are not machine 

processed in any fashion to enable data 

manipulation. 

LEIDB/Pathfinder includes tools for 

analysts to conduct data correlation, 

analysis, and display of data in reports. 

These tools enable an analyst to sort, 

search, and process locally stored 

records. LEIDB/Pathfinder does not do 

predictive analysis. Any search results 

returned to the user are based on the 

search criteria entered by the user. 

LEIDB/Pathfinder is a repository for 

certain CGMS messages; users must 

craft their own searches. 

This system will contain information 

about physical characteristics of ports, 

vessels, and other maritime 

infrastructure. The physical 

characteristics may include security 

vulnerabilities, strengths and natural or 

man made attributes. This system will 

also contain information about 

individuals. The individuals will be 

U.S. Citizens, Lawful Permanent 

Residents, as well as, foreign nationals 

with whom the Coast Guard interacts, or 

can reasonably expect to interact, in the 

maritime environment. These 

individuals will be owners and 

operators of vessels, maritime facilities 

or otherwise engaged in maritime 

activities. 

Elsewhere in today’s Federal Register, 

DHS has published a final rule 

exempting this system of records from 

one or more provisions of the Privacy 

Act because of criminal, civil, and 

administrative enforcement 

requirements pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552a(j)(2), (k)(1), and (k)(2). 

Public Comments 

USCG received no public comments 

on the original system of records notice 

and proposed rulemaking. Accordingly, 

DHS and USCG are implementing the 

system of records and exemptions as 

proposed. 

II. Privacy Act 

The Privacy Act embodies fair 

information principles in a statutory 

framework governing the means by 

which the United States Government 

collects, maintains, uses, and 

disseminates individuals’ records. The 

Privacy Act applies to information that 

is maintained in a ‘‘system of records.’’ 

A ‘‘system of records’’ is a group of any 

records under the control of an agency 

from which information is retrieved by 

the name of the individual or by some 

identifying number, symbol, or other 

identifying particular assigned to the 

individual. 

The Privacy Act requires each agency 

to publish in the Federal Register a 

description denoting the type and 

character of each system of records that 

the agency maintains, and the routine 

uses that are contained in each system 

in order to make agency recordkeeping 

practices transparent, to notify 

individuals of the uses to which 

personally identifiable information is 

put, and to assist the individual to more 

easily find such files within the agency. 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), a 

report concerning this record system has 


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been sent to the Congress and to the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

SYSTEM OF RECORDS DHS/USCG–062 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Law Enforcement Information 

Database (LEIDB)/Pathfinder 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Sensitive but unclassified to 

Classified, Secret. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

The computer database is located at 

U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence 

Coordination Center, Department of 

Homeland Security, National Maritime 

Intelligence Center, Washington, DC, 

20395. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Categories of individuals covered by 

this notice consist of: 

A. Individuals, U.S. citizens, lawful 

permanent residents, and foreign 

nationals, associated with vessels, 

facilities, companies, and organizations, 

engaged in commercial and recreational 

maritime activity on or adjacent to 

waters subject to the jurisdiction of the 

United States. 

B. Individuals, U.S. citizens, lawful 

permanent residents, and foreign 

nationals, identified during enforcement 

actions taken by enforcement Officials 

and employees of the Coast Guard while 

enforcing United States (U.S.) law, 

international law, or treaties. 

C. Individuals, U.S. citizens, resident 

aliens, and foreign nationals, directly 

and indirectly associated with 

individuals listed in paragraphs A and 

B of this section 

D. Individuals, U.S. citizens, resident 

aliens, and foreign nationals, directly 

and indirectly associated with vessels, 

maritime facilities and other maritime 

infrastructure which are known, 

suspected, or alleged to be involved in 

illegal activity (e.g. contraband 

trafficking, illegal migrant smuggling, or 

terrorist activity). 

E. Individuals, U.S. citizens, resident 

aliens, and foreign nationals, identified 

during a terrorist screening process as a 

possible identity match to a known or 

suspected terrorist. 

F. Individuals, U.S. citizens, resident 

aliens, and foreign nationals, identified 

in or reasonably believed to be related 

to reports submitted by Coast Guard 

personnel engaged in enforcement 

boarding’s, safety inspections, aircraft 

over-flights or other means of 

observation, and other Coast Guard 

operational activity. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

LEIDB/Pathfinder contains: 

A. Messages delivered to the system 

automatically from the Coast Guard 

Messaging System (CGMS) or the 

Defense Messaging System (DMS). 

Additional data records may be 

delivered to LEIDB/Pathfinder by Coast 

Guard Intelligence personnel through an 

electronic mail interface. 

B. Field Intelligence Reports (FIR) 

generated by any Coast Guard unit that 

observes or otherwise obtains 

information they believe may be 

relevant to security threats, 

vulnerabilities or criminal activity. 

C. Request For Information (RFI) 

generated by any Coast Guard unit as a 

request for assistance from the 

Intelligence program to better 

understand a situation. 

D. Intelligence Information Report 

(IIR) generated by select Coast Guard 

units and other government agencies 

able to issue a standardized Department 

of Defense message reporting 

information relevant to intelligence 

requirements. 

E. Situation Reports (SITREPS) 

generated by Coast Guard operational 

units engaged in operations providing a 

status update to a developing or ongoing 

operation. 

F. Operational Status Reports 

(OPSTAT), generated by Coast Guard 

operational units to report on 

operational capability of personnel, 

units, and stations. 

G. Operations Reports (OPREPS) 

generated by Coast Guard operational 

units to report the conclusion of an 

operation. 

H. Any other operational reports in 

any format that contain information 

with intelligence value are also 

included and can be transmitted 

through CGMS or DMS. 

I. Data records related to known, 

suspected, or alleged criminals as well 

as individuals associated with them (e.g. 

immigrants being smuggled) to include 

individuals engaged in terrorist activity 

in the Maritime domain. 

J. Data records on facilities and their 

characteristics including: geographic 

location, commodities handled, 

equipment, certificates, inspection data, 

pollution incidents, casualties, and 

violations of all laws and international 

treaties, if applicable. 

K. Data records on individuals 

associated with facilities and 

information pertaining to directly and 

indirectly related individuals, 

companies, and organizations associated 

with those facilities such as owners, 

operators, managers, and employees. 

The above reports may have the 

following types of biographical 

information: names, aliases, dates of 

birth, phone numbers, addresses, 

nationality, identification numbers such 

as A-File Number, Social Security 

Number, or driver’s license number, 

employer, boat registration numbers, 

and physical characteristics. No 

biometric data is collected or 

maintained. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Federal Records Act of 1950, Title 44 

U.S.C. 3101; Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, chapter XII; The Maritime 

Transportation Security Act of 2002, 

Pub L. 107–295 The Homeland Security 

Act of 2002, Pub L. 107–296; 5 U.S.C. 

301; 14 U.S.C. 93, 14 U.S.C. 632; 46 

U.S.C. 2306, 46 U.S.C. 3717; 46 U.S.C. 

12501; 33 U.S.C. 1221 et seq. 

PURPOSE(S): 

LEIDB/Pathfinder enables Coast 

Guard Intelligence program personnel to 

manage Coast Guard message traffic that 

contains law enforcement information 

collected by Coast Guard Officers and 

employees in the course of their 

statutory duties. It also enables analysis 

of that information to improve the 

effectiveness and efficiency of Coast 

Guard mission performance. The Coast 

Guard Intelligence Program supports the 

full range of Coast Guard missions 

through data collection and analysis to 

meet operational Commanders 

information requirements. One reason 

for collection is to improve the 

awareness of operational Commanders 

such that they will be optimally 

positioned to provide services to the 

public. Another reason is to assist in the 

detection, prevention, and mitigation of 

all unlawful acts that occur within the 

maritime environment and to support 

responses to man made or naturally 

occurring threats to public safety. 

Routine uses of records maintained in 

the system, including categories of users 

and the purposes of such uses: 

In addition to those disclosures 

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a 

portion of the records or information 

contained in this system may be 

disclosed outside DHS as a routine use 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3): 

A. To an appropriate Federal, State, 

territorial, tribal, local, international, or 

foreign government intelligence entity, 

counterterrorism agency, or other 

appropriate authority charged with 

investigating threats or potential threats 

to national or international security or 

assisting in counterterrorism efforts, 

where a record, either on its face or in 

conjunction with other information, 

identifies a threat or potential threat to 

national or international security, or 

DHS reasonably believes the 

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a threat or potential treat, which 

includes terrorist and espionage 

activities, and disclosure is appropriate 

to the proper performance of the official 

duties of the person receiving the 

disclosure. 

B. To a Federal State, or local agency, 

or other appropriate entities or 

individuals, or through established 

liaison channels to selected foreign 

governments, in order to provide 

intelligence, counterintelligence, or 

other information for the purposes of 

intelligence, counterintelligence, or 

antiterrorism activities authorized by 

U.S. law, Executive Order, or other 

applicable national security directive. 

C. To appropriate Federal, state, local, 

tribal, foreign governmental agencies, 

multilateral governmental organizations, 

and non-governmental or private 

organizations for the purpose of 

protecting the vital interests of a data 

subject or other persons, including to 

assist such agencies or organizations in 

preventing exposure to or transmission 

of a communicable or quarantinable 

disease or to combat other significant 

public health threats; appropriate notice 

will be provided of any identified health 

threat or risk. 

D. To U.S. Department of Defense and 

related entities including, but not 

limited to, the Military Sealift 

Command and the U.S. Navy, to provide 

safety and security information on 

vessels or facilities chartered, leased, or 

operated by those agencies. 

E. To a Federal, State, or local agency 

responsible for response and recovery 

operations caused by a man made or 

naturally occurring disaster for use in 

such operations. 

F. To the National Transportation 

Safety Board and its related State 

counterparts for safety investigation and 

transportation safety. 

G. To the International Maritime 

Organization (IMO), intergovernmental 

organizations, nongovernmental 

organizations, or foreign governments in 

order to conduct investigations, 

operations, and inspections pursuant to 

its authority. 

H. To Federal, State, or local agencies 

or foreign government agencies 

pertaining to marine environmental 

protection activities. 

I. To an organization or individual in 

either the public or private sector, either 

foreign or domestic, where there is a 

reason to believe that the recipient is or 

could become the target of a particular 

terrorist activity or conspiracy, to the 

extent the information is relevant to the 

protection of life or property and 

disclosure is appropriate to the proper 

performance of the official duties of the 

person making the disclosure. 

J. To contractors, grantees, experts, 

and consultants, performing or working 

on a contract, service, grant, cooperative 

agreement, or other assignment for the 

Federal Government, when necessary to 

accomplish a DHS function related to 

this system of records. 

K. To an appropriate federal, state, 

territorial, tribal, local, international, or 

foreign law enforcement agency or other 

appropriate authority charged with 

investigating or prosecuting a violation 

or enforcing or implementing a law, 

rule, regulation, or order, where a 

record, either on its face or in 

conjunction with other information, 

indicates a violation or potential 

violation of law, which includes 

criminal, civil, or regulatory violations 

and such disclosure is proper and 

consistent with the official duties of the 

person making the disclosure. 

L. To the Department of Justice or 

other Federal agency conducting 

litigation or in proceedings before any 

court, adjudicative or administrative 

body, when: (a) DHS or any component 

thereof, or (b) any employee of DHS in 

his/her official capacity, or (c) any 

employee of DHS in his/her individual 

capacity where DOJ or DHS has agreed 

to represent the employee, or (d) the 

United States or any agency thereof, is 

a party to the litigation or has an interest 

in such litigation, and DHS determines 

that the records are both relevant and 

necessary to the litigation and the use of 

such records is compatible with the 

purpose for which DHS collected the 

records. 

M. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration or other Federal 

government agencies pursuant to 

records management inspections 

conducted under the authority of 44 

U.S.C. 2904 and 2906. 

N. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when (1) DHS suspects or 

has confirmed that the security or 

confidentiality of information in the 

system of records has been 

compromised; (2) the Department has 

determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed compromise 

there is a risk of harm to economic or 

property interests, identity theft or 

fraud, or harm to the security or 

integrity of this system or other systems 

or programs (whether maintained by the 

Department or another agency or entity) 

that rely upon the compromised 

information; and (3) the disclosure 

made to such agencies, entities, and 

persons is reasonably necessary to assist 

in connection with the Department’s 

efforts to respond to the suspected or 

confirmed compromise and prevent, 

minimize, or remedy such harm. 

O. To a federal, state, tribal, local or 

foreign government agency or 

organization, or international 

organization, lawfully engaged in 

collecting law enforcement intelligence 

information, whether civil or criminal, 

or charged with investigating, 

prosecuting, enforcing or implementing 

civil or criminal laws, related rules, 

regulations or orders, to enable these 

entities to carry out their law 

enforcement responsibilities, including 

the collection of law enforcement 

intelligence. 

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING

AGENCIES: 

No disclosure. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Records in this system are stored in 

electronic form in an automated data 

processing (ADP) system operated and 

maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard. 

Backups are performed daily. Copies of 

backups are stored at an offsite location. 

Personal, Sensitive but Unclassified 

(SBU), Unclassified, and Classified data 

and records reside commingled with 

each other. Classified and non-classified 

information are merged on a classified 

domain. 

Data is stored electronically. Short 

term data extracts may be in paper or 

electronic form for the duration of a 

specific analytic project or activity. Data 

extracts are stored in appropriately 

classified storage containers or on 

secured electronic media in accordance 

with existing security requirements. 

Extracted unclassified information 

will be stored in accordance with DHS 

Management Directive governing the 

marking, storage, and handling of 

unclassified sensitive information. 

Unclassified information derived from 

LEIDB/Pathfinder remains U.S. Coast 

Guard information and is For Official 

Use Only. Determinations by any user to 

further disseminate, in any form, 

LEIDB/Pathfinder derived information 

to other entities or agencies, foreign or 

domestic, must include prior 

authorization from the appropriate 

supervisor authorized to make such 

determinations. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Information can be retrieved from 

LEIDB/Pathfinder via text string search 

submitted in Boolean language query 

format. Data records in LEIDB/ 

Pathfinder do not rely on normalization 

or correlation to manipulate data, there 

are no prescribed data fields for LEIDB/ 

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Records retrieval through string 

searches enables data association by any 

term, including personal identifier. 

Unstructured text in a data record can 

be matched to any other data record. 

Specifically, information on individuals 

may be retrieved by matching 

individual name, Social Security 

Number, passport number, or the 

individual’s relationship to a vessel 

(e.g., owner, shipper, consignee, crew 

member, passenger, etc.). Information 

may also be an innumerable amount of 

non-identifying information such as 

vessel name, vessel type, port location, 

port status, etc. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Information in this system is 

safeguarded in accordance with 

applicable laws, rules and policies, 

including the DHS Information 

Technology Security Program 

Handbook. All records are protected 

from unauthorized access through 

appropriate administrative, physical, 

and technical safeguards. These 

safeguards include restricting access to 

authorized personnel who have a needto-know, using locks, and password 

protection identification features. 

Physical locations are locked after 

normal duty hours and the facilities are 

protected from the outside by security 

personnel. 

LEIDB/Pathfinder falls under the 

security guidelines of the National 

Maritime Intelligence Center (NMIC) 

and has its own approved System 

Security Plan which provides that: 

All classified LEIDB/Pathfinder 

equipment, records and storage devices 

are located within facilities or stored in 

containers approved for the storage of 

all levels of classified information. 

All statutory and regulatory 

requirements pertinent to classified and 

unclassified information have been 

identified in the LEIDB/Pathfinder 

System Security Plan and have been 

implemented. 

Access to records requiring SECRET 

level is limited strictly to personnel 

with SECRET or higher level clearances 

and who have been determined to have 

the appropriate ‘‘need to know’’. 

Access to records requiring 

CONFIDENTIAL level is limited strictly 

to personnel with CONFIDENTIAL or 

higher level clearances and who have 

been determined to have the appropriate 

‘‘need to know’’. 

Access to all records is restricted by 

login and password protection. The 

scope of access to any records via login 

and password is further limited based 

on the official need of each individual 

authorized access. The U.S. Coast Guard 

will take precautions in accordance 

with OMB Circular A–130, Appendix 

III. 

The U.S. Coast Guard will operate 

LEIDB/Pathfinder in consonance with 

Federal security regulations, policy, 

procedures, standards and guidance for 

implementing the Automated 

Information Systems Security Program. 

Specific Coast Guard operating rules 

include Command certification that an 

individual Officer or employee requires 

access to LEIDB/Pathfinder to perform 

official duties. Individual Officers and 

employees must certify knowledge of 

Coast Guard policies limiting the use of 

PII and FOUO information. Individual 

Officers and employees must certify 

agreement to proper use of data records 

contained in LEIDB/Pathfinder and 

must agree to meet minimum security 

requirements. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

All records, but not including audit 

records maintained to document user 

access to information relating to specific 

individuals, are maintained within the 

system for ten (10) years. These records 

are then destroyed. Audit records are 

maintained for five years from the date 

of last use by any given user then 

destroyed. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Department of Homeland Security 

United States Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Intelligence and 

Criminal Investigations (CG–2), Office of 

ISR Systems and Technology, Data 

Analysis and Manipulation Division 

(CG–262), 2100 2nd Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20593–0001. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Because this system contains 

classified and sensitive unclassified 

information related to intelligence, 

counterterrorism, homeland security, 

and law enforcement programs, records 

in this system have been exempted from 

notification, access, and amendment to 

the extent permitted by subsection (j)(2) 

and (k)(1) and (k)(2) of the Privacy Act. 

General inquiries regarding LEIDB/ 

Pathfinder may be directed to 

Department of Homeland Security 

United States Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Intelligence and 

Criminal Investigations (CG–2), Office of 

ISR Systems and Technology, Data 

Analysis and Manipulation Division 

(CG–262), 2100 2nd Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20593–0001. Submit a 

written request that includes your name, 

mailing address, and Social Security 

number to the above listed system 

manager. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

Because this system contains 

classified and sensitive unclassified 

information related to intelligence, 

counterterrorism, homeland security, 

and law enforcement programs, records 

in this system have been exempted from 

notification, access, and amendment to 

the extent permitted by subsection (j)(2) 

and (k)(1) and (k)(2) of the Privacy Act. 

Nonetheless, DHS will examine each 

separate request on a case-by-case basis, 

and, after conferring with the 

appropriate component or agency, may 

waive applicable exemptions in 

appropriate circumstances and where it 

would not appear to interfere with or 

adversely affect the law enforcement or 

national security purposes of the 

systems from which the information is 

recompiled or in which it is contained. 

Write the FOIA/Privacy Act Officer 

(CG–611), FOIA/Privacy Act Request at 

the address given above in accordance 

with the ‘‘Notification Procedure’’. 

When seeking records about yourself 

from this system of records or any other 

Departmental system of records your 

request must conform with the Privacy 

Act regulations set forth in 6 CFR Part 

5. You must first verify your identity, 

meaning that you must provide your full 

name, current address and date and 

place of birth. You must sign your 

request, and your signature must either 

be notarized or submitted to you under 

28 U.S.C. 1746, a law that permits 

statements to be made under penalty or 

perjury as a substitute for notarization. 

While no specific form is required, you 

may obtain forms for this purpose form 

the Director, Disclosure and FOIA, 

http://www.dhs.gov/foia or 1–866–431– 

0486. In addition you should provide 

the following: 

• An explanation of why you believe 

the Department would have information 

on you, 

• Identify which component(s) of the 

Department you believe may have the 

information about you, 

• Specify when you believe the 

records would have been created, 

• Provide any other information that 

will help the FOIA staff determine 

which DHS component agency may 

have responsive records, 

• If your request is seeking records 

pertaining to another living individual, 

you must include a statement from that 

individual certifying his/her agreement 

for you to access his/her records. 

Without this bulleted information the 

component(s) will not be able to 

conduct an effective search, and your 

request may be denied due to lack of 

specificity or lack of compliance with 

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Further information may also be 

found at www.dhs.gov/foia. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

Because this system contains 

classified and sensitive unclassified 

information related to intelligence, 

counterterrorism, homeland security, 

and law enforcement programs, records 

in this system have been exempted from 

notification, access, and amendment to 

the extent permitted by subsection (j)(2) 

and (k)(1) and (k)(2) of the Privacy Act. 

A request to amend non-exempt records 

in this system may be made by writing 

to the System Manager, identified 

above, in conformance with 6 CFR Part 

5, Subpart B, which provides the rules 

for requesting access to Privacy Act 

records maintained by DHS. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information contained in LEIDB/ 

Pathfinder is gathered from a variety of 

sources both internal and external to the 

Coast Guard. Source information may 

come from at sea boardings, 

investigations, vessel notice of arrival 

reports, U.S. Coast Guard personnel 

(both direct observations and interviews 

of non-Coast Guard personnel), law 

enforcement notices, commercial 

sources, as well as other federal, state, 

local and international agencies who are 

related to the maritime sector and/or 

national security sector. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(j)(2) of the 

Privacy Act, the records and 

information in this system are exempt 

from 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3) and (4), (d), 

(e)(1), (e)(2), (e)(3), (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I), 

(e)(5), (e)(8), (f), and (g). Pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552a(k)(1) and (k)(2) of the 

Privacy Act the records and information 

in the system are exempt from 5 U.S.C. 

552a(c)(3), (d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (e)(4)(H), 

(e)(4)(I), and (f). A Final Rule for 

exempting this record system has been 

promulgated in accordance with the 

requirements of 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(1), (2), 

and (3), (c), and (e) and is being 

published [in 6 CFR Part 5] concurrently 

with publication of this re-publication 

of the system of records notice, and the 

proposed rulemaking receiving no 

public comments. 

Dated: September 11, 2008. 

Hugo Teufel III, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E8–22612 Filed 9–29–08; 8:45 am] 

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