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• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4285-4286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-388]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY


Privacy Office; Published Privacy Impact Assessments on the Web

AGENCY: Privacy Office, Office of the Secretary, Department of Homeland 
Security.

ACTION: Notice of Publication of Privacy Impact Assessments.

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SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security is 
making available four Privacy Impact Assessments on various programs 
and systems in the Department. These assessments were approved and 
published on the Privacy Office's Web site between December 1, 2006 and 
December 31, 2006.

DATES: The Privacy Impact Assessments will be available on the DHS Web 
site until April 2, 2007, after which they may be obtained by 
contacting the DHS Privacy Office (contact information below).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy 
Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528; by 
telephone (571) 227-3813, facsimile (866) 466-5370, or e-mail: 
pia@dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Between December 1, 2006 and December 31, 
2006, the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS) approved and published four Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on 
the DHS Privacy Office Web site, https://www.dhs.gov/privacy, under the 
link for ``Privacy Impact Assessments.'' Below is a short summary of 
each of those systems, indicating the DHS component responsible for the 
system, and the date on which the PIA was approved. Additional 
information can be found on the Web site or by contacting the Privacy 
Office.
    1. System: DisasterHelp.gov.
    Component: Science and Technology.
    Date of approval: December 19, 2006.
    The DisasterHelp.Gov (DHelp) Web site or Web portal is operated by 
the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland 
Security. It is intended to assist political and civil service 
leadership, emergency managers, homeland security advisors, and first 
responders in the execution of their disaster management 
responsibilities. The information on this Web site will be used to 
enhance disaster management on an interagency and intergovernmental 
basis by helping users find information and services. The types of 
personally identifiable information used will include contact 
information for these individuals. The collection of this personally 
identifiable information is the reason for this privacy impact 
assessment.
    2. System: Alien Flight Student Program (Amended).
    Component: Transportation Security Administration.
    Date of approval: December 22, 2006.
    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will collect 
personal information about flight-training candidates to conduct the 
security threat assessments on alien flight students required by the 
Aviation and Transportation Security Act and section 612 of Vision 
100--Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act. For pilots seeking 
recurrent training, the Alien Flight Student Program will verify 
eligibility for such training. TSA is amending the PIA originally 
published in June 2004 to reflect certain updates after periodic 
review, including its use of commercial data for identity verification 
purposes, and the promulgation of an applicable record retention 
schedule.
    3. System: Threat Assessment for Airport Badge and Credential 
Holders.
    Component: Transportation Security Administration.
    Date of approval: December 20, 2006.
    TSA is amending the PIA for the Security Threat Assessment for 
Airport Badge and Credential Holders to reflect an expansion of the 
covered population. Recently amended airport security directives now 
require that each individual to whom an airport issues an 
identification badge or credentials undergo a security threat 
assessment regardless of the level of unescorted access permitted the 
individual. Name-based security threat assessments will be performed on 
all individuals seeking or holding airport identification badges or 
credentials. Fingerprint-based criminal history checks, in addition to 
the name-based security threat assessments, will continue to be

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required for those individuals seeking access to the Security 
Identification Area or Sterile Area. TSA is amending this PIA to 
reflect the amended requirements.
    4. System: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program 
Final Rule.
    Component: Transportation Security Administration.
    Date of approval: December 29, 2006.
    TSA is publishing a joint Final Rule with the United States Coast 
Guard to implement the Transportation Worker Identification Credential 
(TWIC) program to provide a biometric credential that can be used to 
confirm the identity of workers in the national transportation system. 
For each person subject to the program, TSA will conduct a security 
threat assessment before issuing the credential. TSA will collect 
identifying information, supporting documentation, a digital 
photograph, and fingerprints, as more fully set forth in section 1.1 of 
the PIA. The PIA reflects the TWIC Program as set out in the Final Rule 
and follows on the PIA for the TWIC Prototype, which was published at 
https://www.dhs.gov on November 5, 2004, and the PIA for the Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which was published at https://www.dhs.gov 
on May 9, 2006. The updated PIA reflects changes made to the TWIC 
program in response to public comment on the NPRM and lessons learned 
from the TWIC Prototype.

    Dated: January 24, 2007.
Hugo Teufel III,
Chief Privacy Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-388 Filed 1-29-07; 8:45 am]
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