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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. DHS–2017–0029] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security, Privacy Office. 

ACTION: Notice of New Privacy Act 

System of Records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal 

Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA) proposes to establish a new 

DHS system of records titled ‘‘DHS/ 

FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation Planning 

and Flood Mapping Products and 

Services Records System of Records.’’ 

This system of records notice replaces 

the current DHS system of records 

titled, ‘‘Letter of Map Amendment 

(LOMA), DHS/FEMA/NFIP/LOMA–1’’ 

system of records, 71 FR 7990 (Feb. 15, 

2006). This new system of records 

notice describes FEMA’s collection and 

maintenance of records on individuals 

who are involved in the creation and 

updating of flood maps, individuals 

requesting information on or purchasing 

flood map products or services, and 

individuals involved with hazard 

mitigation planning. This newly 

established system will be included in 

the Department of Homeland Security’s 

inventory of record systems. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

November 24, 2017. This new system 

will be effective upon publication. New 

or modified routine uses are effective 

November 24, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 

2017–0029 by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–343–4010. 

• Mail: Philip S. Kaplan, Chief 

Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528–0655. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general questions, please contact: 

William Holzerland, (202) 212–7719, 

Senior Director for Information 

Management, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20472. For privacy 

questions, please contact: Philip S. 

Kaplan, (202) 343–1717, Chief Privacy 

Officer, Privacy Office, Department of 

Homeland Security, Washington, DC 

20528–0655. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) Federal 

Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA) proposes to establish a new 

DHS system of records titled ‘‘DHS/ 

FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation Planning 

and Flood Mapping Products and 

Services Records System of Records.’’ 

This replaces an existing DHS/FEMA 

system of records, titled ‘‘Letter of Map 

Amendment (LOMA), DHS/FEMA/ 

NFIP/LOMA–1’’ system of records, 71 

FR 7990 (Feb. 15, 2006). FEMA 

administers the National Flood 

Insurance Program (NFIP) and Hazard 

Mitigation Planning Programs. The 

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

Emergency Assistance Act, as amended 

by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, 

provides the legal basis for FEMA and 

other government agencies to undertake 

a risk-based approach to reducing losses 

from natural hazards through mitigation 

planning. The Federal Insurance and 

Mitigation Administration’s (FIMA) 

Mitigation Planning Program oversees 

and provides guidance to state, tribal, 

and local governments that are required 

to develop a FEMA-approved, riskbased hazard mitigation plan. This plan 

is a precondition for receiving nonemergency disaster assistance from the 

Federal Government, including funding 

for flood hazard mitigation projects. 

FEMA tracks the implementation of 

state, tribal, and local government 

hazard mitigation plans to help 

communities across the Nation identify 

new mitigation strategies, improve 

planned mitigation actions, and advance 

planned actions. 

The National Flood Insurance Act of 

1968, as amended (NFIA) (42 U.S.C. 

4001 et seq.) establishes that FEMA will 

provide flood insurance in communities 

that adopt and enforce floodplain 

management ordinances that meet the 

minimum NFIP requirements. The law 

requires FEMA to provide and maintain 

flood maps to support floodplain 

management and insurance activities. 

FEMA’s regulations implementing the 

NFIA, including the flood mapping 

program, may be found in 44 CFR parts 

59–72. 

The NFIA requires insurance 

companies that write flood insurance 

policies on behalf of the NFIP to use 

FEMA flood maps to determine 

insurance rates. These flood maps 

consist of zones or areas. Flood hazard 

areas identified on FEMA flood maps 

are identified as a Special Flood Hazard 

Area (SFHA). SFHA are defined as the 

area that will be inundated by a flood 

event having a 1-percent chance of 

being equaled or exceeded in any given 

year. The 1-percent-annual-chance flood 

is also referred to as the base flood or 

100-year flood. SFHAs are labeled as 

Zone A, Zone AO, Zone AH, Zones A1– 

A30, Zone AE, Zone A99, Zone AR, 

Zone AR/AE, Zone AR/AO, Zone AR/ 

A1–A30, Zone AR/A, Zone V, Zone VE, 

and Zones V1–V30. Moderate flood 

hazard areas, labeled Zone B or Zone X 

(shaded) are also shown on the maps, 

and are the areas between the limits of 

the base flood and the 0.2-percentannual-chance (or 500-year) flood. The 

areas of minimal flood hazard, which 

are the areas outside the SFHA and 

higher than the elevation of the 0.2- 

percent-annual-chance flood, are 

labeled Zone C or Zone X (unshaded). 

Members of the public view and review 

these FEMA maps and related products 

online free of charge to understand a 

property’s flood risk. In addition, 

community officials must use these 

maps to manage development in floodprone areas. FEMA performs the 

following tasks in support of flood map 

productions: (1) Tracks requests for 

FIRM updates from community officials; 

(2) schedules and tracks progress and 

quality of floodplain studies; (3) 

conducts community outreach and 

coordinates with communities and the 

public on the floodplain study process; 

(4) collects information from 

communities and other organizations 

such as levee owners; (5) provides 

public review of the proposed flood 

hazard data resulting from the studies; 

(6) adjudicates administrative appeals to 

the studies; and (7) coordinates and 

tracks the request and processing of 

flood map revisions and updates. 

The administrative appeals process 

referenced above satisfies due process 

obligations owed to affected 

communities and property holders. This 

requirement includes making available 

to the public the relevant data 

documenting the scientific and 

technical basis of the maps and 

documenting the community and public 

coordination processes associated with 

the development and publication of the 

maps. The NFIA also requires 

communities to adopt these maps as the 

basis for their land use regulations. 

FEMA flood maps are subject to 

revision through the Letters of Map 

Change (LOMC) administrative process. 

Letters of Map Changes are documents 

issued by FEMA to revise or amend the 

flood hazard information shown on the 

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). 

Letters of Map Changes include two 

types of map changes: Letter of Map 

Amendment (LOMA) or Letter of Map 

Revision (LOMR). A LOMA is a flood 

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placement of the floodplain boundary 

relative to existing ground elevations, 

usually for small areas. A LOMR is a 

change that often covers a larger area, 

based on better scientific or technical 

data or changes to the floodplain and 

may require a flood map revision. 

Adequate Progress (Zone A99) 

determinations, regulated through 44 

CFR part 61.12, provide for lower flood 

insurance premium rates in areas where 

FEMA determines that a community has 

made adequate progress on its 

construction or reconstruction of a 

project designed for flood risk 

reduction. These areas, landward of the 

flood protection system, are designated 

as Zone A99 on the FIRM and flood 

insurance premium rates and floodplain 

management requirements are generally 

less than those required in other SFHAs 

(e.g., Zone AE, Zone AO, and Zone AH). 

Flood Protection Restoration (Zone AR) 

determinations, regulated through 44 

CFR part 65.14, may provide reduced 

flood insurance premium rates and 

floodplain management regulations in 

areas where FEMA has issued a 

determination that a project is 

sufficiently underway to restore a flood 

protection system to meet 44 CFR part 

65.10 accreditation requirements. Areas 

landward of the flood protection system 

that is being rehabilitated are designated 

as Zone AR on the FIRM, and may have 

base flood elevations (BFE) representing 

the current risk as if the flood protection 

system was not in place. 

FEMA accepts, reviews, and tracks 

applications from levee owners and 

communities seeking Zone AR 

designations, Zone A99 designations, 

and recognition of accredited levee 

systems on FIRMs. To support a 

mapping project, levee owners and 

communities have the responsibility to 

provide documentation that either a 

levee system meets the requirements of 

44 CFR part 65.10 to have the levee 

system shown as accredited (i.e., 

provide protection from the 1-percentannual-chance flood) or the levee 

system meets the mapping procedure(s) 

for non-accredited levee systems. 

FEMA collects information about 

individuals using various forms (paper 

and electronic), information technology 

(IT), and call centers to assist states with 

mitigation planning, as well as to ensure 

FIRMs are accurate and up to date. 

Specifically, FEMA collects and uses 

personally identifiable information (PII) 

within this system of records to: (1) 

Help the public locate maps for a 

geographic area of interest; (2) provide 

responses to the flood mapping 

products and services customers; (3) 

track mitigation plan applications and 

that plan’s status with respect to the 

plan review cycle; (4) process online 

payments for LOMCs; (5) deliver 

products to community officials as new 

final mapping products become 

available; (6) create IT access accounts 

and profiles; (7) identify the property 

relevant to a LOMC request; (8) 

determine whether a structure is in the 

floodplain; (9) facilitate customer 

service surveys/focus groups; and (10) 

facilitate contact or correspondence 

between FEMA and other mitigation 

planning and flood mapping products 

and services stakeholders. 

Consistent with DHS’s information 

sharing mission, information stored in 

the DHS/FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation 

Planning and Flood Mapping Products 

and Services System of Records may be 

shared with other DHS Components that 

have a need to know the information to 

carry out their national security, law 

enforcement, immigration, intelligence, 

or other homeland security functions. In 

addition, DHS/FEMA may share 

information with appropriate Federal, 

state, local, tribal, territorial, foreign, or 

international government agencies 

consistent with the routine uses set 

forth in this system of records notice. 

This newly established system will be 

included in DHS’s inventory of record 

systems. 

II. Privacy Act 

The Privacy Act embodies fair 

information practice principles in a 

statutory framework governing the 

means by which Federal Government 

agencies collect, maintain, use, and 

disseminate 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 an individual or by some 

identifying number, symbol, or other 

identifying particular assigned to the 

individual. In the Privacy Act, an 

individual is defined to encompass U.S. 

citizens and lawful permanent 

residents. Additionally, and similarly, 

the Judicial Redress Act (JRA) provides 

a covered person with a statutory right 

to make requests for access and 

amendment to covered records, as 

defined by the JRA, along with judicial 

review for denials of such requests. In 

addition, the JRA prohibits disclosures 

of covered records, except as otherwise 

permitted by the Privacy Act. 

Below is the description of the DHS/ 

FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation Planning 

and Flood Mapping Products and 

Services Records System of Records. 

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

DHS has provided a report of this 

system of records to the Office of 

Management and Budget and to 

Congress. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

DHS/FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation 

Planning and Flood Mapping Products 

and Services Records System of 

Records. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Records are maintained at the FEMA 

Headquarters in Washington, DC and 

field offices. Additionally, records may 

be located in the Mapping Information 

Platform (MIP) system, Map Service 

Center, LOMA-Logic, and collaboration 

sites. 

Third Party addresses: 

Primary Production Server/Data 

Storage Locations: 

DHS Data Center 2 (Operated by HP): 

Clarksville, VA 

Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory Data 

Center (Operated by IBM): Rocket 

Center, WV 

CDS Operations Sites: 

Primary Local Operations Site 

(Operated by IBM) Fairfax, VA 

Secondary Local Operations Site 

(Operated by Michael Baker 

International) Alexandria, VA 

Backup Data Storage Sites (in 

addition to sites already listed above): 

DHS Data Center 1: Stennis, MS 

Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory 

(Operated by IBM): Rocket Center, WV 

Iron Mountain Secure Offsite Storage: 

Various—Specific U.S. location(s) in use 

not disclosed 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Program Management, Risk 

Management Program, Federal 

Insurance and Mitigation 

Administration, 400 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20472. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

The National Flood Insurance Act of 

1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. sec, 4001 

et seq.), 44 CFR parts 59–72, the Disaster 

Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000), and 

Fiscal Year 2009 Department of 

Homeland Security Appropriations Act 

(Pub. L. 110–329). 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

The purpose of this system is to help 

the public locate flood insurance risk 

maps for a geographic area of interest; 

provide responses to the customers 

contacting FEMA’s call centers or 

helpdesk via telephone or online chat; 

track mitigation plan applications and 

the plan’s status with respect to the plan 

review cycle; process online payments 

for LOMCs; deliver products to 


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community officials as new final 

mapping products become available; 

create IT access accounts and profiles; 

identify the property relevant to a 

LOMC request; determine whether a 

structure is in a floodplain; and 

facilitate contact or correspondence 

between FEMA and other stakeholders 

providing mitigation planning and flood 

mapping products and services. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Members of the general public, 

including: Property owners, developers, 

investors, and their representatives; 

realtors; certifiers, including but not 

limited to Registered Professional 

Engineers and Licensed Land Surveyors; 

state or local government officials with 

authority over a community’s floodplain 

management activities, which includes 

Mapping Review Partners (MRP); 

potential or confirmed respondents to 

customer service surveys/focus groups; 

and FEMA staff and stakeholders 

registered to use FEMA’s information 

technology systems and collaboration 

sites. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

• Full name; 

• Position or title; 

• Addresses (mailing and property); 

• Email addresses; 

• Company or community name; 

• Organization or agency name; 

• Six-digit NFIP community number; 

• Telephone number; 

• Fax number; 

• Professional license number; 

• Professional license expiration date; 

• Signature; 

• Signature date; 

• Fill placement and date; 

• Type of construction; 

• Elevation data; 

• Base Flood Elevation (BFE) data; 

• Legal property description; 

• FEMA region number (1–10); 

• Transcripts of conversations with 

FEMA call centers or helpdesk 

including name, address, phone 

number, email address, caller type (e.g., 

property owner, realtor); chat subject; 

and chat subject category; 

• Bank name and account 

information including electronic funds 

transfer, and credit/debit card account 

information; 

• Payment confirmation number; 

• User account creation and access 

information: 

Æ Username; 

Æ Activation code; 

Æ Password; 

Æ Roles and responsibilities; 

Æ Challenge questions and answers; 

and 

Æ System permissions or permission 

levels. 

• Voluntary responses to customer 

satisfaction and experience surveys and 

focus groups, including demographic 

information about the individual. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Records are obtained from individuals 

(e.g., homeowners, investors, and 

property developers); LOMC Certifiers 

(e.g., Registered Professional Engineers 

and Licensed Land Surveyors); state or 

local government officials with 

authority over a community’s floodplain 

management activities, which includes 

MRPs; FEMA staff and stakeholders 

registered to use SharePoint information 

and collaboration portals; the FEMA 

Community Information System (CIS) 

system; and the cloud-based LOMA– 

LOGIC tool. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

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) as 

follows: 

A. To the Department of Justice (DOJ), 

including the U.S. Attorneys Offices, or 

other Federal agency conducting 

litigation or proceedings before any 

court, adjudicative, or administrative 

body, when it is relevant or necessary to 

the litigation and one of the following 

is a party to the litigation or has an 

interest in such litigation: 

1. DHS or any component thereof; 

2. Any employee or former employee 

of DHS in his/her official capacity; 

3. Any employee or former employee 

of DHS in his/her individual capacity, 

only when DOJ or DHS has agreed to 

represent the employee; or 

4. The United States or any agency 

thereof. 

B. To a congressional office from the 

record of an individual in response to 

an inquiry from that congressional office 

made at the request of the individual to 

whom the record pertains. 

C. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) or 

General Services Administration 

pursuant to records management 

inspections being conducted under the 

authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and 2906. 

D. To an agency or organization for 

the purpose of performing audit or 

oversight operations as authorized by 

law, but only such information as is 

necessary and relevant to such audit or 

oversight function. 

E. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when: 

1. DHS determines that information 

from this system of records is 

reasonably necessary and otherwise 

compatible with the purpose of 

collection to assist another federal 

recipient agency or entity in (1) 

responding to a suspected or confirmed 

breach or (2) preventing, minimizing, or 

remedying the risk of harm to 

individuals, the recipient agency or 

entity (including its information 

systems, programs, and operations), the 

Federal Government, or national 

security, resulting from a suspected or 

confirmed breach; or 

2. DHS suspects or has confirmed that 

there has been a breach of this system 

of records; and (a) DHS has determined 

that as a result of the suspected or 

confirmed breach, there is a risk of harm 

to individuals, DHS (including its 

information systems, programs, and 

operations), the Federal Government, or 

national security; and (b) the disclosure 

made to such agencies, entities, and 

persons is reasonably necessary to assist 

with DHS’s efforts to respond to the 

suspected or confirmed breach or to 

prevent, minimize, or remedy such 

harm. 

F. To contractors and their agents, 

grantees, experts, consultants, and 

others performing or working on a 

contract, service, grant, cooperative 

agreement, or other assignment for DHS, 

when necessary to accomplish an 

agency function related to this system of 

records. Individuals provided 

information under this routine use are 

subject to the same Privacy Act 

requirements and limitations on 

disclosure as are applicable to DHS 

officers and employees. 

G. To an appropriate Federal, state, 

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, when 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. 

H. To state and local governments 

pursuant to signed agreements allowing 

such governments to assist FEMA in 

making LOMC determinations. 

I. To the United States Department of 

the Treasury for the processing of 

payments for product and services. 

J. To the news media and the public, 

with the approval of the Chief Privacy 

Officer in consultation with counsel, 


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when there exists a legitimate public 

interest in the disclosure of the 

information, when disclosure is 

necessary to preserve confidence in the 

integrity of DHS, or when disclosure is 

necessary to demonstrate the 

accountability of DHS’s officers, 

employees, or individuals covered by 

the system, except to the extent the 

Chief Privacy Officer determines that 

release of the specific information in the 

context of a particular case would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

DHS/FEMA stores records in this 

system electronically or on paper in 

secure facilities in a locked drawer 

behind a locked door. The records may 

be stored on magnetic disc, tape, and 

digital media. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

DHS/FEMA retrieves records by 

name, address information, legal 

description of property, order number, 

and account number. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

In accordance with NARA authority 

N1–311–86–1, item 2.A.2.c. and FEMA 

Records Disposition Schedule FIA–2–1, 

2 and 3, FEMA stores LOMC data in an 

active mode for 2 years after which the 

information is retired to the Federal 

Records Center (FRC). FEMA destroys 

the information 20 years after its final 

determination or map revision date. 

Pursuant to NARA authority N1–311– 

86–1, items 2.A.3., FEMA destroys 

digital preliminary flood maps five 

years after FEMA issues a flood 

elevation determination or insurance 

rate map and flood elevation 

determination (or insurance rate) map 

are cut off when superseded, transfer 

directly to the National Archives 5 years 

after cutoff for permanent storage 

pursuant to NARA authority N1–311– 

86–1, Item 2A4, FEMA Document 

Disposition Schedule at FIA–3. 

Additionally, FEMA retains both 

paper and digital copies of effective 

FIRMs permanently, stores FEMA 

Information Exchange (FMIX) chat 

session records indefinitely, and deletes 

the last 4 digits of the credit card or 

bank account number and Treasury’s 

payment confirmation information after 

2 years. See FEMA Records Disposition 

Schedule at FIA–4. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

DHS/FEMA safeguards records in this 

system according to applicable rules 

and policies, including all applicable 

DHS automated systems security and 

access policies. FEMA has imposed 

strict controls to minimize the risk of 

compromising the stored information. 

Access to the computer system 

containing the records in this system is 

limited to those individuals who have a 

need to know the information in 

furtherance of the performance of their 

official duties, and who have 

appropriate clearances or permissions. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to and 

notification of any record contained in 

this system of records, or seeking to 

contest its content, may submit a 

request in writing to the Chief Privacy 

Officer and Headquarters or FEMA’s 

FOIA Officer, whose contact 

information can be found at http://

www.dhs.gov/foia under ‘‘Contacts 

Information.’’ If an individual believes 

more than one component maintains 

Privacy Act records concerning him or 

her, the individual may submit the 

request to the Chief Privacy Officer and 

Chief Freedom of Information Act 

Officer, Department of Homeland 

Security, Washington, DC 20528–0655. 

Even if neither the Privacy Act nor the 

Judicial Redress Act provide a right of 

access, certain records about you may be 

available under the Freedom of 

Information Act. 

When an individual is seeking records 

about himself or herself from this 

system of records or any other 

Departmental system of records, the 

individual’s request must conform to 

the Privacy Act regulations set forth in 

6 CFR part 5. The individual must first 

verify his or her identity, meaning that 

the individual must provide his or her 

full name, current address, and date and 

place of birth. The individual must sign 

the request, and the individual’s 

signature must either be notarized or 

submitted under 28 U.S.C. 1746, a law 

that permits statements to be made 

under penalty of perjury as a substitute 

for notarization. While no specific form 

is required, an individual may obtain 

forms for this purpose from the Chief 

Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of 

Information Act Officer, http://

www.dhs.gov/foia or 1–866–431–0486. 

In addition, the individual should: 

• Explain why the individual believes 

the Department would have information 

on him or her; 

• Identify which component(s) of the 

Department the individual believes may 

have the information about him or her; 

• Specify when the individual 

believes the records would have been 

created; and 

• Provide any other information that 

will help the FOIA staff determine 

which DHS component agency may 

have responsive records; 

If an individual’s request is seeking 

records pertaining to another living 

individual, the first individual must 

include a statement from the second 

individual certifying his/her agreement 

for the first individual to access his or 

her records. 

Without the above information, the 

component(s) may not be able to 

conduct an effective search, and the 

individual’s request may be denied due 

to lack of specificity or lack of 

compliance with applicable regulations. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

For records covered by the Privacy 

Act or covered JRA records, see ‘‘Record 

Access Procedures’’ above. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

See ‘‘Record Access Procedures.’’ 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

‘‘Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA), 

DHS/FEMA/NFIP/LOMA–1’’ system of 

records, 71 FR 7990 (Feb. 15, 2006). 

Philip S. Kaplan, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23205 Filed 10–24–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–17–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. DHS–2017–0046] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security, Privacy Office. 

ACTION: Notice of New Privacy Act 

System of Records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 

Homeland Security proposes to 

establish a new Department of 

Homeland Security system of records 

titled, ‘‘DHS/ALL–040 DHS Personnel 

Recovery Information System of 

Records.’’ This newly established 

system will be included in the 

Department of Homeland Security’s 

inventory of record systems. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

November 24, 2017. This new system 

will be effective upon publication. 

Routine uses will be effective November 

24, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 


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