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Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, 

approved this document on October 31, 

2017, for publication. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4) 

Dated:October 31, 2017. 

Jeffrey Martin, 

Office Program Manager, Office of Regulation 

Policy & Management, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24139 Filed 11–6–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice of Modified Matching 

Program. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) has a current 12 month 

computer matching agreement (CMA) 

re-establishment agreement with the 

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) 

regarding Veterans who are in Federal 

prison and are also in receipt of 

compensation and pension benefits. The 

purpose of this CMA is to renew the 

agreement between VA, Veterans 

Benefits Administration (VBA) and the 

United States Department of Justice 

(DOJ), BOP. BOP will disclose 

information about individuals who are 

in federal prison. VBA will use this 

information as a match for recipients of 

Compensation and Pension benefits for 

adjustments of awards. 

DATES: Comments on this new system of 

records must be received no later than 

30 days after date of publication in the 

Federal Register. If no public comment 

is received during the period allowed 

for comment or unless otherwise 

published in the Federal Register by 

VA, the new system will become 

effective 30 days after date of 

publication in the Federal Register. 

This matching program will be valid for 

18 months from the effective date of this 

notice. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted through 

www.Regulations.gov; by mail or handdelivery to Director, Regulation Policy 

and Management (00REG), Department 

of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave. 

NW., Room 1064, Washington, DC 

20420; or by fax to (202) 273–9026 (not 

a toll-free number). Comments should 

indicate that they are submitted in 

response to CMA re-establishment 

agreement with the Federal BOP. Copies 

of comments received will be available 

for public inspection in the Office of 

Regulation Policy and Management, 

Room 1063B, between the hours of 8:00 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday (except holidays). Please call 

(202) 461–4902 for an appointment. 

(This is not a toll-free number.) In 

addition, comments may be viewed 

online at www.Regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Robinson (VBA), 202–443–6016 (this is 

not a toll-free number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

agreement continues an arrangement for 

a periodic computer-matching program 

between VA (VBA as the matching 

recipient agency) and DOJ (BOP as the 

matching source agency). This 

agreement sets forth the responsibilities 

of VBA and BOP with respect to 

information disclosed pursuant to this 

agreement and takes into account both 

agencies’ responsibilities under the 

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

amended by the Computer Matching 

and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, as 

amended, and the regulations 

promulgated thereunder, including 

computer matching portions of a 

revision of OMB Circular No. A–130, 65 

FR 77677 dated December 12, 2000. 

Participating Agencies: VA (VBA as 

the matching recipient agency) and DOJ 

(BOP as the matching source agency). 

Authority for Conducting the Matching 

Program: The legal authority to conduct this 

match is 38 U.S.C. 1505, 5106, and 5313. 

Section 5106 requires any Federal 

department or agency to provide VA such 

information as VA requests for the purposes 

of determining eligibility for, or the amount 

of VA benefits, or verifying other information 

with respect thereto. Section 1505 provides 

that no VA pension benefits shall be paid to 

or for any person eligible for such benefits, 

during the period of that person’s 

incarceration as the result of conviction of a 

felony or misdemeanor, beginning on the 

61st day of incarceration. Section 5313 

provides that VA compensation or 

dependency and indemnity compensation 

above a specified amount shall not be paid 

to any person eligible for such benefit, during 

the period of that person’s incarceration as 

the result of conviction of a felony, beginning 

on the 61st day of incarceration. 

Purpose(s): The purpose of this 

matching program between VBA and 

BOP is to identify those Veterans and 

VA beneficiaries who are in receipt of 

certain VA benefit payments and who 

are confined (see Article II.G.) for a 

period exceeding 60 days due to a 

conviction for a felony or a 

misdemeanor. VBA has the obligation to 

reduce or suspend compensation, 

pension, and dependency and 

indemnity compensation benefit 

payments to Veterans and VA 

beneficiaries on the 61st day following 

conviction and incarceration in a 

Federal, State, or Local institution for a 

felony or a misdemeanor. VBA will use 

the BOP records provided in the match 

to update the master records of Veterans 

and VA beneficiaries receiving benefits 

and to adjust their VA benefits, 

accordingly, if needed. 

Categories of Individuals: Veterans 

who have applied for compensation for 

service-connected disability under 38 

U.S.C. Chapter 11; Veterans who have 

applied for nonservice-connected 

disability under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 15; 

Veterans entitled to burial benefits 

under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 23; Surviving 

spouses and children who have claimed 

pensions based on nonserviceconnected death of a Veteran under 38 

U.S.C. Chapter 15; Surviving spouses 

and children who have claimed death 

compensation based on serviceconnected death of a Veteran under 38 

U.S.C. Chapter 11; Surviving spouses 

and children who have claimed 

dependency and indemnity 

compensation for service connected 

death of a Veteran under 38 U.S.C. 

Chapter 13; Parents who have applied 

for death compensation based on service 

connected death of a Veteran under 38 

U.S.C. Chapter 11; Parents who have 

applied for dependency and indemnity 

compensation for service-connected 

death of a Veteran under 38 U.S.C. 

Chapter 13; Individuals who applied for 

educational assistance benefits 

administered by VA under title 38 of the 

U.S. Code; Individuals who applied for 

educational assistance benefits 

maintained by the Department of 

Defense under title 10 of the U.S. Code 

that are administered by VA; Veterans 

who apply for training and employers 

who apply for approval of their 

programs under the provisions of the 

Emergency Veterans’ Job Training Act of 

1983, Public Law 98–77; Any VA 

employee who generates or finalizes 

adjudicative actions using the Benefits 

Delivery Network (BDN) or the Veterans 

Service Network (VETSNET) computer 

processing systems; Veterans who apply 

for training and employers who apply 

for approval of their programs under the 

provisions of the Service Members 

Occupational Conversion and Training 

Act of 1992, Public Law 102–484; 

Representatives of individuals covered 

by the system. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS: 

The record, or information contained 

in the record, may include identifying 

information (e.g., name, address, social 

security number); military service and 

active duty separation information (e.g., 

name, service number, date of birth, 

rank, sex, total amount of active service, 

branch of service, character of service, 

pay grade, assigned separation reason, 


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service period, whether Veteran was 

discharged with a disability, reenlisted, 

received a Purple Heart or other military 

decoration); payment information (e.g., 

Veteran payee name, address, dollar 

amount of readjustment service pay, 

amount of disability or pension 

payments, number of non-pay days, any 

amount of indebtedness (accounts 

receivable) arising from title 38 U.S.C. 

benefits and which are owed to the VA); 

medical information (e.g., medical and 

dental treatment in the Armed Forces 

including type of service-connected 

disability, medical facilities, or medical 

or dental treatment by VA health care 

personnel or received from private 

hospitals and health care personnel 

relating to a claim for VA disability 

benefits or medical or dental treatment); 

personal information (e.g., marital 

status, name and address of dependents, 

occupation, amount of education of a 

Veteran or a dependent, dependent’s 

relationship to Veteran); education 

benefit information (e.g., information 

arising from utilization of training 

benefits such as a Veteran trainee’s 

induction, reentrance or dismissal from 

a program or progress and attendance in 

an education or training program): 

Applications for compensation, 

pension, education, and vocational 

rehabilitation benefits and training 

which may contain identifying 

information, military service and active 

duty separation information, payment 

information, medical and dental 

information, personal and education 

benefit information relating to a Veteran 

or beneficiary’s incarceration in a penal 

institution (e.g., name of incarcerated 

Veteran or beneficiary, claims folder 

number, name and address of penal 

institution, date of commitment, type of 

offense, scheduled release date, 

Veteran’s date of birth, beneficiary 

relationship to Veteran and whether 

Veteran or beneficiary is in a work 

release or half-way house program, on 

parole or has been released from 

incarceration); the VA employee’s BDN 

or VETSNET identification numbers, the 

number and kind of actions generated 

and/or finalized by each such employee, 

the compilation of cases returned for 

each employee. 

SYSTEM(S) OF RECORDS: 

Compensation, Pension, Education, 

and Vocational Rehabilitation and 

Employment Records—VA (58 VA 21/ 

22/28)’’, published at 74 FR 29275 (June 

19, 2009), last amended at 77 FR 42593 

on July 19, 2012. Justice/BOP–005,’’ 

published on June 7, 1984 (48 FR 2371 

1), republished on May 9, 2002 (67 FR 

31371), January 25, 2007 (72 FR 3410) 

and April 26, 2012 (77 FR 24982) and 

last modified on April 18, 2016 (81 FR 

22639), routine use (i). 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document and 

authorized the undersigned to sign and 

submit the document to the Office of the 

Federal Register for publication 

electronically as an official document of 

the Department of Veterans Affairs. Gina 

S. Farrisee, Deputy Chief of Staff, 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 

approved this document on June 12, 

2017 for publication. 

Dated: November 2, 2017. 

Kathleen M. Manwell, 

Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office 

of Privacy Information and Identity 

Protection, Office of Quality, Privacy and 

Risk, Office of Information and Technology, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24168 Filed 11–6–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Joint Biomedical Laboratory Research 

and Development and Clinical Science 

Research and Development Services 

Scientific Merit Review Board 

Amended Notice of Meetings 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92– 

463; Title 5 U.S.C. App. 2 (Federal 

Advisory Committee Act) that the 

subcommittees of the Joint Biomedical 

Laboratory Research and Development 

and Clinical Science Research and 

Development Services Scientific Merit 

Review Board (JBL/CS SMRB) will meet 

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the dates 

indicated below (unless otherwise 

listed): 

Subcommittee Date Location 

Surgery ............................................................................................... November 15, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Pulmonary Medicine ........................................................................... November 15, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Infectious Diseases—B ...................................................................... November 16, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Oncology—A/D ................................................................................... November 16, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Hematology ........................................................................................ November 17, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Oncology—C ...................................................................................... November 17, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Cellular & Molecular Medicine ........................................................... November 20, 2017 ....................................... VA Central Office.* 

Oncology—B ...................................................................................... November 20, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Infectious Diseases—A ...................................................................... November 21, 2017 ....................................... VA Central Office.* 

Epidemiology ...................................................................................... November 28, 2017 ....................................... VA Central Office.* 

Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences—A .......................................... November 28, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Nephrology ......................................................................................... November 28, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Oncology—E ...................................................................................... November 28, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Immunology & Dermatology—A ......................................................... November 29, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences—B .......................................... November 29–30, 2017 ................................. 20 F Conference Center. 

Cardiovascular Studies—A ................................................................ November 30, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Endocrinology—A ............................................................................... November 30, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Neurobiology—C ................................................................................ November 30, 2017 ....................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Neurobiology—A ................................................................................ December 1, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Neurobiology—E ................................................................................ December 1, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Endocrinology—B ............................................................................... December 4, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Neurobiology—B ................................................................................ December 5, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Special Panel for Sheep Review ....................................................... December 5, 2017 ......................................... VA Central Office.* 

Neurobiology—F ................................................................................. December 6, 2017 ......................................... VA Central Office.* 

Cardiovascular Studies—B ................................................................ December 7, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Gastroenterology ................................................................................ December 7, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Neurobiology—D ................................................................................ December 8, 2017 ......................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Gulf War Research ............................................................................. December 8, 2017 ......................................... VA Central Office.* 

Special Emphasis Panel on Million Veteran Prog Proj ...................... January 11–12, 2018 ..................................... 20 F Conference Center. 

Eligibility .............................................................................................. January 19, 2018 ........................................... 20 F Conference Center. 


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