Department of Veterans Affairs November 18, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(e) requires that all agencies publish in the Federal Register a notice of the existence and character of their systems of records. Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Human Resources Management, is amending a current system of records entitled ``Individuals Serving on a Fee Basis or Without Compensation (Consultants, Attendings, and Others) Personnel Records-VA'' (14VA135). The information in this system will be used to evaluate the qualifications of physicians, dentists, nurses, and approximately 30,000 health occupation trainees, research personnel and other scientific and technical personnel appointed under 38 U.S.C. 7406, whose stipends and fringe benefits are not centrally administered under the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 7406(c). The documents maintained in this system include copies of applications, appointment letters, and other documents and papers kept in connection with these appointments. These records are maintained for a period of one year from the expiration of appointment and then destroyed.