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AGENCY: Financial Management Service,
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ACTION: Notice of amendment to system
of records.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (Pub. L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App.
2), with the concurrence of the General
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government securities and financial
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The Designated Federal Official for
the Advisory Committee is the Director
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Privacy Act of 1974; Amended System
of Records
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the
Financial Management Service gives
notice of a proposed amendment to its
Privacy Act system of records entitled
‘‘Treasury/FMS .006—Direct Deposit
Enrollment Records—Treasury/
Financial Management Service.’’
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than August 18, 2011. The
proposed new system of records will
become effective August 29, 2011 unless
comments are received that would
result in a contrary determination.
ADDRESSES: You should send your
comments to Peter Genova, Deputy
Chief Information Officer, Financial
Management Service, 401 14th Street,
SW., Washington, DC 20227. Comments
received will be available for inspection
at the same address between the hours
of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday. You may send your comments
by electronic mail to
peter.genova@fms.treas.gov or https://
www.regulations.gov. All comments,
including attachments and other
supporting materials, received are
subject to public disclosure. You should
submit only information that you wish
to make available publicly.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peter Genova, Deputy Chief Information
Officer, (202) 874–1736.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the provisions of the Privacy Act of
1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, notice
is given that the Financial Management
Service (FMS), a bureau of the
Department of the Treasury (Treasury),
proposes to amend its system of records
entitled ‘‘Direct Deposit Enrollment
Records—Treasury/Financial
Management Service’’ (Treasury/FMS
.006). FMS is adding additional
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categories of records in the system and
is amending its routine uses to allow for
the processing of waivers related to the
requirement that all Federal payments,
other than tax payments, be made
electronically. On December 22, 2010,
FMS published an amendment to its
regulation at 31 CFR part 208 (Part 208)
(see, 75 FR 80315), which implements
31 U.S.C. 3332 (Section 3332). Section
3332 generally requires that all Federal
payments, other than tax payments, be
made by electronic funds transfer (EFT),
unless waived by the Secretary of the
Treasury. Direct deposit is the primary
method used to make EFT Federal
payments to individuals.
Part 208 requires recipients of Federal
payments, other than tax payments, to
receive payment by EFT, effective May
1, 2011. The effective date is delayed
until March 1, 2013, for individuals
receiving Federal payments by check on
May 1, 2011; and for individuals who
file claims for Federal benefits before
May 1, 2011 and request check
payments when they file. Individuals
who do not choose direct deposit of
their payments to an account at a
financial institution will be enrolled in
the Direct Express® Debit MasterCard®
card 1 program, a prepaid card program
established pursuant to terms and
conditions approved by FMS. Treasury
waives the EFT requirement for
recipients born prior to May 1, 1921,
who are receiving payments by paper
check on March 1, 2013; for payments
not eligible for deposit to a Direct
Express® prepaid card account; and for
recipients whose Direct Express® card
has been suspended or cancelled. In
addition, payment recipients may
request a waiver if the EFT requirement
creates a hardship due to his or her
mental impairment or remote
geographic location.
The proposed amendments to this
system are necessary to process waivers
of the EFT requirement. In some cases,
FMS automatically applies the waivers
based on information FMS will receive
into its system of records from its own
existing payment records, direct deposit
enrollment records of its fiscal or
financial agents and their contractors, or
from Federal agencies. For example,
FMS will receive information about a
check payment recipient’s date of birth
from the Social Security Administration
1 Direct Express® is a registered service mark of
the Financial Management Service, U.S.
Department of the Treasury. The Direct Express®
Debit MasterCard® card is issued by FMS’s
financial agent, Comerica Bank, pursuant to a
license by MasterCard International Incorporated.
MasterCard® and the MasterCard® Brand Mark are
registered trademarks of MasterCard International
Incorporated.
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in order to apply the waiver from the
EFT requirement for recipients born
prior to May 1, 1921. FMS also will
receive information from its financial
agent when a Federal payment
recipient’s Direct Express® card has
been suspended or cancelled by the
financial agent (but not when the
individual cancels his or her own card)
in order to process the applicable
automatic waiver.
For waivers based on a hardship due
to a payment recipient’s mental
impairment or remote geographic
location, individual payment recipients
must submit an application to FMS, or
its agent, to request the waiver. In these
cases, individuals will voluntarily
submit to FMS information already
covered in the categories of records in
the system, such as name, social
security number, and home address. In
addition, to claim a hardship based on
mental impairment or geographic
location, the individual will state that
the waiver application is based on his
or her inability to manage a bank
account or prepaid debit card due to a
mental impairment or remote
geographic location.
Therefore, FMS is amending the
paragraph under ‘‘Categories of records
in the system’’ to add ‘‘date of birth’’ as
an example of identifying information,
and the following additional categories:
‘‘information related to the cancellation
or suspension of an individual’s Direct
Express® debit card by FMS’s financial
agent’’ and ‘‘information provided by an
individual due to a remote geographic
location or about his or her inability to
manage a bank account or prepaid debit
card due to mental impairment.’’
FMS also is amending the ‘‘Routine
uses of records maintained in the
system’’ section of its system of record
revising routine use (4) to reflect the
need to process waivers from the
requirement to receive Federal
payments electronically, as follows:
(4) Fiscal agents, financial agents,
financial institutions, and contractors
for the purposes of (a) Processing Direct
Deposit enrollment applications,
including, but not limited to, processing
Direct Deposit enrollment forms and
implementing programs related to Direct
Deposit; investigating and rectifying
possible erroneous information; creating
and reviewing statistics to improve the
quality of services provided; conducting
debt collection services for debts arising
from Direct Deposit activities; or
developing, testing and enhancing
computer systems; and (b) processing
waivers from the requirement to receive
payments electronically, including, but
not limited to, processing automatic
waivers and applications for waivers, as
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well as implementing the waivers;
investigating and rectifying possible
erroneous information or fraud; creating
and reviewing statistics to improve the
quality of services provided; or
developing, testing and enhancing
computer systems.
Finally, FMS is adding ‘‘Treasury
financial agents’’ under the heading
‘‘Record source category’’ for
information about the cancellation or
suspension of a recipient’s Direct
Express® card by a financial agent.
Without these amendments to its system
of records, FMS, its fiscal agents and
contractors, would not be able to
process the waivers from the EFT
requirements, as required under Part
208, and as requested by individuals.
FMS recognizes the sensitive nature
of the confidential information it
obtains when collecting financial
institution account information from the
public and has many safeguards in place
to protect the information from theft or
inadvertent disclosure. When
appropriate, FMS’s arrangements with
its fiscal agents and contractors include
requirements that preclude them from
retaining, disclosing, and using the
information for purposes other than the
processing of waivers. In addition to
various procedural and physical
safeguards, access to computerized
records is limited, through the use of
access codes, encryption techniques
and/or other internal mechanisms.
Access to records is granted only as
authorized by a business line manager at
FMS or FMS’s fiscal agent to those
whose official duties require access
solely for the purposes outlined in the
proposed system. The amendments to
the Direct Deposit Enrollment Records
system will allow the public to obtain
and seek waivers, as authorized by
FMS’s regulations.
The notice for the system of records
was last published in its entirety on
May 15, 2009, at 74 FR 23012.
The altered system of records report,
as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) of the
Privacy Act, has been submitted to the
Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight of the House of
Representatives, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate and the Office of
Management and Budget, pursuant to
Appendix I to OMB Circular A–130,
‘‘Federal Agency Responsibilities for
Maintaining Records About
Individuals,’’ dated November 30, 2000.
For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, FMS proposes to amend its
system of records entitled ‘‘Direct
Deposit Enrollment Records—Treasury/
Financial Management Service’’
(Treasury/FMS .006), as follows:
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SYSTEM NAME:
Direct Deposit Enrollment Records—
Treasury/Financial Management
Service.
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CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
Description of the change: Remove
current entry and in its place add the
following:
‘‘The records may contain identifying
information, such as an individual’s
name(s), social security number, home
address, home and work telephone
number, personal e-mail address (home
and work), and date of birth;
information about an individual’s bank
account(s) and other types of accounts
to which payments are made, such as
the individual’s bank account number
and the financial institution routing and
transit number; information about an
individual’s payments received from the
United States, including the type of
payment received and the Federal
agency responsible for authorizing the
payment; information related to the
cancellation or suspension of an
individual’s Direct Express® debit card 2
by FMS’s financial agent; and
information provided by an individual
regarding a hardship due to a remote
geographic location or about his or her
inability to manage a bank account or
prepaid debit card due to mental
impairment.’’
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
*
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*
Description of the change: Remove
current routine use (4) and in its place
add the following: ‘(4) Fiscal agents,
financial agents, financial institutions,
and contractors for the purposes of (a)
Processing Direct Deposit enrollment
applications, including, but not limited
to, processing Direct Deposit enrollment
forms and implementing programs
related to Direct Deposit; investigating
and rectifying possible erroneous
information; creating and reviewing
statistics to improve the quality of
services provided; conducting debt
collection services for debts arising from
Direct Deposit activities; or developing,
testing and enhancing computer
systems; and (b) processing waivers
from the requirement to receive
payments electronically, including, but
2 Direct Express® is a registered service mark of
the Financial Management Service, U.S.
Department of the Treasury. The Direct Express®
debit card is issued by FMS’s financial agent,
Comerica Bank.
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not limited to, processing automatic
waivers and applications for waivers, as
well as implementing the waivers;
investigating and rectifying possible
erroneous information or fraud; creating
and reviewing statistics to improve the
quality of services provided; or
developing, testing and enhancing
computer systems.’’
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RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Description of change: Remove
current entry and in its place add the
following: ‘‘Information in this system is
provided by the individual on whom
the record is maintained (or by his or
her authorized representative), other
persons who electronically authorize
payments from the Federal government,
Federal agencies responsible for
authorizing payments, Federal agencies
responsible for disbursing payments,
Treasury financial agents, and Treasury
fiscal agents that process Direct Deposit
enrollment applications, and
contractors.’’
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Dated: July 1, 2011.
Melissa Hartman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privacy,
Transparency, and Records.
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Office of Thrift Supervision
Application for Issuance of
Subordinated Debt Securities/Notice of
Issuance of Subordinated Debt or
Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred
Stock
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AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision
(OTS), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed and continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift
Supervision within the Department of
the Treasury will submit the proposed
information collection requirement
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting
public comments on its proposal to
extend this information collection.
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DATES: Submit written comments on or
before September 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to
the collection by title of the proposal or
by OMB approval number, to
Information Collection Comments, Chief
Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift
Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20552.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
can request additional information
about this information collection by
sending an e-mail to
ira.mills@ots.treas.gov.
OTS may
not conduct or sponsor an information
collection, and respondents are not
required to respond to an information
collection, unless the information
collection displays a currently valid
OMB control number. As part of the
approval process, we invite comments
on the following information collection.
Comments should address one or
more of the following points:
a. Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of OTS;
b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed information
collection;
c. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
d. Ways to minimize the burden of the
information collection on respondents,
including through the use of
information technology.
We will summarize the comments
that we receive and include them in the
OTS request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. In this notice, OTS is
soliciting comments concerning the
following information collection.
Title of Proposal: Application for
Issuance of Subordinated Debt
Securities/Notice of Issuance of
Subordinated Debt or Mandatory
Redeemable Preferred Stock.
OMB Number: 1550–0030.
Form Numbers: 1344 and 1561.
Description: The information
collection provides the OTS with
necessary details to determine if the
proposed issuance of securities will
benefit the savings association or create
unreasonable risks. If the information
required were not collected, the OTS
would not be able to properly evaluate
whether the request to issue securities
conforms to the applicable statutory and
regulatory requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Estimated Frequency of Response: On
occasion.
Estimated Total Burden: 3 hours.
Dated: July 13, 2011.
Ira L. Mills,
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of Chief
Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Thrift Supervision
Management Officials Interlocks
AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision
(OTS), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed and continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift
Supervision within the Department of
the Treasury will submit the proposed
information collection requirement
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting
public comments on its proposal to
extend this information collection.
DATES: Submit written comments on or
before September 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to
the collection by title of the proposal or
by OMB approval number, to
Information Collection Comments, Chief
Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift
Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20552; (202) 906–6518.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
can request additional information
about this proposed information
collection by sending an e-mail to
ira.mills@ots.treas.gov.
OTS may
not conduct or sponsor an information
collection, and respondents are not
required to respond to an information
collection, unless the information
collection displays a currently valid
OMB control number. As part of the
approval process, we invite comments
on the following information collection.
Comments should address one or
more of the following points:
a. Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of OTS;
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Privacy Act of 1974; Amended System of Records
AGENCY: Financial Management Service, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of amendment to system of records.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the
Financial Management Service gives notice of a proposed amendment to
its Privacy Act system of records entitled ``Treasury/FMS .006--Direct
Deposit Enrollment Records--Treasury/Financial Management Service.''
DATES: Comments must be received no later than August 18, 2011. The
proposed new system of records will become effective August 29, 2011
unless comments are received that would result in a contrary
determination.
ADDRESSES: You should send your comments to Peter Genova, Deputy Chief
Information Officer, Financial Management Service, 401 14th Street,
SW., Washington, DC 20227. Comments received will be available for
inspection at the same address between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday. You may send your comments by electronic mail to
peter.genova@fms.treas.gov or https://www.regulations.gov. All comments,
including attachments and other supporting materials, received are
subject to public disclosure. You should submit only information that
you wish to make available publicly.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Genova, Deputy Chief Information
Officer, (202) 874-1736.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy
Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, notice is given that the
Financial Management Service (FMS), a bureau of the Department of the
Treasury (Treasury), proposes to amend its system of records entitled
``Direct Deposit Enrollment Records--Treasury/Financial Management
Service'' (Treasury/FMS .006). FMS is adding additional categories of
records in the system and is amending its routine uses to allow for the
processing of waivers related to the requirement that all Federal
payments, other than tax payments, be made electronically. On December
22, 2010, FMS published an amendment to its regulation at 31 CFR part
208 (Part 208) (see, 75 FR 80315), which implements 31 U.S.C. 3332
(Section 3332). Section 3332 generally requires that all Federal
payments, other than tax payments, be made by electronic funds transfer
(EFT), unless waived by the Secretary of the Treasury. Direct deposit
is the primary method used to make EFT Federal payments to individuals.
Part 208 requires recipients of Federal payments, other than tax
payments, to receive payment by EFT, effective May 1, 2011. The
effective date is delayed until March 1, 2013, for individuals
receiving Federal payments by check on May 1, 2011; and for individuals
who file claims for Federal benefits before May 1, 2011 and request
check payments when they file. Individuals who do not choose direct
deposit of their payments to an account at a financial institution will
be enrolled in the Direct Express[supreg] Debit MasterCard[supreg] card
\1\ program, a prepaid card program established pursuant to terms and
conditions approved by FMS. Treasury waives the EFT requirement for
recipients born prior to May 1, 1921, who are receiving payments by
paper check on March 1, 2013; for payments not eligible for deposit to
a Direct Express[supreg] prepaid card account; and for recipients whose
Direct Express[supreg] card has been suspended or cancelled. In
addition, payment recipients may request a waiver if the EFT
requirement creates a hardship due to his or her mental impairment or
remote geographic location.
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\1\ Direct Express[supreg] is a registered service mark of the
Financial Management Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury. The
Direct Express[supreg] Debit MasterCard[supreg] card is issued by
FMS's financial agent, Comerica Bank, pursuant to a license by
MasterCard International Incorporated. MasterCard[supreg] and the
MasterCard[supreg] Brand Mark are registered trademarks of
MasterCard International Incorporated.
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The proposed amendments to this system are necessary to process
waivers of the EFT requirement. In some cases, FMS automatically
applies the waivers based on information FMS will receive into its
system of records from its own existing payment records, direct deposit
enrollment records of its fiscal or financial agents and their
contractors, or from Federal agencies. For example, FMS will receive
information about a check payment recipient's date of birth from the
Social Security Administration
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in order to apply the waiver from the EFT requirement for recipients
born prior to May 1, 1921. FMS also will receive information from its
financial agent when a Federal payment recipient's Direct
Express[supreg] card has been suspended or cancelled by the financial
agent (but not when the individual cancels his or her own card) in
order to process the applicable automatic waiver.
For waivers based on a hardship due to a payment recipient's mental
impairment or remote geographic location, individual payment recipients
must submit an application to FMS, or its agent, to request the waiver.
In these cases, individuals will voluntarily submit to FMS information
already covered in the categories of records in the system, such as
name, social security number, and home address. In addition, to claim a
hardship based on mental impairment or geographic location, the
individual will state that the waiver application is based on his or
her inability to manage a bank account or prepaid debit card due to a
mental impairment or remote geographic location.
Therefore, FMS is amending the paragraph under ``Categories of
records in the system'' to add ``date of birth'' as an example of
identifying information, and the following additional categories:
``information related to the cancellation or suspension of an
individual's Direct Express[supreg] debit card by FMS's financial
agent'' and ``information provided by an individual due to a remote
geographic location or about his or her inability to manage a bank
account or prepaid debit card due to mental impairment.''
FMS also is amending the ``Routine uses of records maintained in
the system'' section of its system of record revising routine use (4)
to reflect the need to process waivers from the requirement to receive
Federal payments electronically, as follows:
(4) Fiscal agents, financial agents, financial institutions, and
contractors for the purposes of (a) Processing Direct Deposit
enrollment applications, including, but not limited to, processing
Direct Deposit enrollment forms and implementing programs related to
Direct Deposit; investigating and rectifying possible erroneous
information; creating and reviewing statistics to improve the quality
of services provided; conducting debt collection services for debts
arising from Direct Deposit activities; or developing, testing and
enhancing computer systems; and (b) processing waivers from the
requirement to receive payments electronically, including, but not
limited to, processing automatic waivers and applications for waivers,
as well as implementing the waivers; investigating and rectifying
possible erroneous information or fraud; creating and reviewing
statistics to improve the quality of services provided; or developing,
testing and enhancing computer systems.
Finally, FMS is adding ``Treasury financial agents'' under the
heading ``Record source category'' for information about the
cancellation or suspension of a recipient's Direct Express[supreg] card
by a financial agent. Without these amendments to its system of
records, FMS, its fiscal agents and contractors, would not be able to
process the waivers from the EFT requirements, as required under Part
208, and as requested by individuals.
FMS recognizes the sensitive nature of the confidential information
it obtains when collecting financial institution account information
from the public and has many safeguards in place to protect the
information from theft or inadvertent disclosure. When appropriate,
FMS's arrangements with its fiscal agents and contractors include
requirements that preclude them from retaining, disclosing, and using
the information for purposes other than the processing of waivers. In
addition to various procedural and physical safeguards, access to
computerized records is limited, through the use of access codes,
encryption techniques and/or other internal mechanisms. Access to
records is granted only as authorized by a business line manager at FMS
or FMS's fiscal agent to those whose official duties require access
solely for the purposes outlined in the proposed system. The amendments
to the Direct Deposit Enrollment Records system will allow the public
to obtain and seek waivers, as authorized by FMS's regulations.
The notice for the system of records was last published in its
entirety on May 15, 2009, at 74 FR 23012.
The altered system of records report, as required by 5 U.S.C.
552a(r) of the Privacy Act, has been submitted to the Committee on
Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate
and the Office of Management and Budget, pursuant to Appendix I to OMB
Circular A-130, ``Federal Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining
Records About Individuals,'' dated November 30, 2000.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, FMS proposes to amend
its system of records entitled ``Direct Deposit Enrollment Records--
Treasury/Financial Management Service'' (Treasury/FMS .006), as
follows:
Treasury/FMS .006
System name:
Direct Deposit Enrollment Records--Treasury/Financial Management
Service.
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Categories of records in the system:
Description of the change: Remove current entry and in its place
add the following:
``The records may contain identifying information, such as an
individual's name(s), social security number, home address, home and
work telephone number, personal e-mail address (home and work), and
date of birth; information about an individual's bank account(s) and
other types of accounts to which payments are made, such as the
individual's bank account number and the financial institution routing
and transit number; information about an individual's payments received
from the United States, including the type of payment received and the
Federal agency responsible for authorizing the payment; information
related to the cancellation or suspension of an individual's Direct
Express[supreg] debit card \2\ by FMS's financial agent; and
information provided by an individual regarding a hardship due to a
remote geographic location or about his or her inability to manage a
bank account or prepaid debit card due to mental impairment.''
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\2\ Direct Express[supreg] is a registered service mark of the
Financial Management Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury. The
Direct Express[supreg] debit card is issued by FMS's financial
agent, Comerica Bank.
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Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories
of users and the purposes of such uses:
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Description of the change: Remove current routine use (4) and in
its place add the following: `(4) Fiscal agents, financial agents,
financial institutions, and contractors for the purposes of (a)
Processing Direct Deposit enrollment applications, including, but not
limited to, processing Direct Deposit enrollment forms and implementing
programs related to Direct Deposit; investigating and rectifying
possible erroneous information; creating and reviewing statistics to
improve the quality of services provided; conducting debt collection
services for debts arising from Direct Deposit activities; or
developing, testing and enhancing computer systems; and (b) processing
waivers from the requirement to receive payments electronically,
including, but
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not limited to, processing automatic waivers and applications for
waivers, as well as implementing the waivers; investigating and
rectifying possible erroneous information or fraud; creating and
reviewing statistics to improve the quality of services provided; or
developing, testing and enhancing computer systems.''
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Record source categories:
Description of change: Remove current entry and in its place add
the following: ``Information in this system is provided by the
individual on whom the record is maintained (or by his or her
authorized representative), other persons who electronically authorize
payments from the Federal government, Federal agencies responsible for
authorizing payments, Federal agencies responsible for disbursing
payments, Treasury financial agents, and Treasury fiscal agents that
process Direct Deposit enrollment applications, and contractors.''
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Dated: July 1, 2011.
Melissa Hartman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privacy, Transparency, and Records.
[FR Doc. 2011-18207 Filed 7-18-11; 8:45 am]
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