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accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
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suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
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and associated response time, must be
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should only be used to submit comments
concerning this information collection.
Please do not submit requests for individual
case status inquiries to this address. If you
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your individual case, please check ‘‘My Case
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Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
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electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension, Without Change, of
a Currently Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
USCIS Identity and Credentialing
Access Management (ICAM) and USCIS
Electronic Immigration System (USCIS
ELIS).
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: No Form;
USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. USCIS ICAM will allow the
public to create an account with USCIS
and then return as a registered user to
complete forms or to interact in other
ways that become available to the user.
The USCIS ELIS is a system that the
user can enter either through the USCIS
ICAM account, or for a select limited
number of forms, create an account
directly in USCIS ELIS and then
complete an electronic version of
certain USCIS forms.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection is 1,220,504 and the
estimated hour burden per response is
.167 hours.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 203,824 hours.
Dated: January 13, 2015.
Laura Dawkins,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5843–N–01]
Implementation of the Privacy Act of
1974, as Amended; New System of
Records, the Rental Assistance
Demonstration (RAD) Program
Evaluation Data Files
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: New System of Records.
AGENCY:
The Department’s Office of
Policy Development and Research
(PD&R) is proposing to create a new
system of records, the ‘‘RAD Program
Evaluation Data Files.’’ The
Department’s Office of PD&R is
responsible for maintaining current
information on housing needs, market
conditions and existing programs, as
well as conducting research on priority
housing and community development
issues. The principal purpose of the
evaluation of the RAD Program is to
allow the Department to assess and
report to Congress on the performance
of this program, which converts public
housing units to new forms of
ownership, focusing on: (1) Preserving
the affordable housing availability of
former public housing units; (2) the
amount of private capital leveraged as a
result of RAD conversions; and (3) the
effect that RAD conversions have on
unit residents. The new SORN allows
the Department to track RAD program
participants for the purpose of studying
the impact of the RAD program on
residents of impacted public housing
properties. In order to study the
residents as they move from the public
housing development, it is necessary to
collect their contact information at this
point in the program implementation. In
addition, the records collected through
this evaluation represent HUD’s effort to
be responsive to its Congressional
mandate to document and report the
impact of the program. A more detailed
description of the new system is
contained in this notice.
DATES: Effective Date: The notice will be
effective February 23, 2015, unless
comments are received that would
result in a contrary determination.
Comments Due Date: February 23,
2015.
SUMMARY:
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk,
Office of the General Counsel,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410–
0500. Communication should refer to
ADDRESSES:
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the above docket number and title. A
copy of each communication submitted
will be available for public inspection
and copying between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. weekdays at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donna Robinson-Staton, Chief Privacy
Officer, 451 Seventh Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410 (Attention:
Capitol View Building, 4th Floor),
telephone number: (202) 402–8073. [The
above telephone number is not a toll
free number.] A telecommunications
device for hearing-and speech-impaired
persons (TTY) is available by calling the
Federal Information Relay Service’s tollfree telephone number (800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
system of records is operated by HUD’s
Office of PD&R and includes personally
identifiable information (PII) pertaining
to participants of HUD’s RAD Program
from which information is retrieved by
a name or unique identifier. The new
system of records encompasses
programs and services of the
Department’s data collection and
management practices. Publication of
this notice allows the Department to
satisfy its reporting requirement and
keep an up-to-date accounting of its
system of records publications. The new
system of records will incorporate
Federal privacy requirements and HUD
policy requirements. The Privacy Act
provides certain safeguards for an
individual against an invasion of
personal privacy by requiring Federal
agencies to protect records contained in
an agency system of records from
unauthorized disclosure, by ensuring
that information is current and collected
only for its intended use, and by
providing adequate safeguards to
prevent misuse of such information.
Additionally, this notice demonstrates
the Department’s focus on industry best
practices in protecting the personal
privacy of the individuals covered by
this system of records notice.
This notice states the name and
location of the record system, the
authority for and manner of its
operations, the categories of individuals
that it covers, the type of records that it
contains, the sources of the information
for the records, the routine uses made of
the records and the type of exemptions
in place for the records. In addition, this
notice includes the business addresses
of the HUD officials who will inform
interested persons of the procedures
whereby they may gain access to and/
or request amendments to records
pertaining to them.
This publication does meet the SORN
threshold requirements pursuant to the
Privacy Act and OMB Circular A–130,
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and a report was submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB), the
Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs, and
the House Committee on Government
Reform as instructed by Paragraph 4c of
Appendix l to OMB Circular No. A–130,
‘‘Federal Agencies Responsibilities for
Maintaining Records About
Individuals,’’ July 25, 1994 (59 FR
37914).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a; 88 Stat. 1896; 42
U.S.C. 3535(d).
Dated: January 12, 2015.
Rafael C. Diaz,
Chief Information Officer.
SYSTEM OF RECORDS NO.: PD&R/
RRE.01
SYSTEM NAME:
Rental Assistance Demonstration
(RAD) Program Evaluation Data Files.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
The Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street
SW., Washington, DC 20140; The Urban
Institute, 2100 M Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20037; The SSRS, 53
West Baltimore Pike Media, PA 19063.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
The categories of individuals covered
by the system will include Rental
Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
Program participants who have agreed
to be part of the RAD outcome study.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
The categories of records in the
system will include the participants
name, home address, telephone number,
and personal email address.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
The authority for the collection of
records, and the maintenance of this
system is authorized by Sections 501–
502 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91–
609), 12 U.S.C. 1701z–1, 1701z–2.
PURPOSE(S):
The data collected through this effort
will be used to study the impact of the
RAD program on residents of impacted
public housing properties. RAD is an
initiative of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) and
many stakeholders that seek to preserve
public and other HUD-assisted housing,
by providing owners and Public
Housing Authorities (PHAs) with access
to additional funding to make needed
physical improvements to such
properties. In a tightened budget
environment, PHAs and private owners
have to make tough choices between
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repairing roofs and replacing
plumbing—or worse, demolishing units
altogether—because ‘‘of a chronic lack
of adequate funding’’. The public
housing inventory currently has a
capital needs backlog of $25.6 billion,
and the nation continues to lose 10,000
to 15,000 units of affordable housing
every year. RAD allows PHAs and
private owners to convert public
housing and other HUD-assisted
properties to long-term project-based
Section 8 rental assistance. It also
enables them to access private debt and
equity to address immediate and longterm capital needs of the projects. Most
needed repairs made as part of RAD are
likely to be small and residents will be
able to stay in their homes during
construction. However, some
apartments and buildings will require
more extensive rehab. In these cases,
residents may be temporarily relocated.
All tenants who are relocated will have
the right to return to their development
once construction is completed.
Generally, temporary relocation should
not last longer than 12 months. In a few
cases, a property may be too old or
deteriorated, and past the point where it
can be effectively rehabilitated,
requiring that it be demolished and
replaced. In these instances, residents
will be provided temporary relocation
and will have the right to return to the
replacement housing that is constructed.
The authorizing statute for the
demonstration program requires that
HUD assess the extent to which the
program meets the goals of preserving
and improving former public housing
units, and to assess the amount of
private capital leveraged as a result of
such conversions. The authorizing
statute also requires HUD to assess the
effect of conversion on residents. In
order to track residents as they move
from the public housing development, it
is necessary to collect their contact
information at this point in the program
implementation. PII will be collected
from a sample of 400 residents of public
housing developments participating in
HUD’s RAD program who have agreed
to be part of an outcomes study, which
will allow HUD to understand the
impact of this program on the residents
of public housing developments that are
implementing RAD. In addition, the
records collected through this
evaluation represent HUD’s effort to be
responsive to its Congressional mandate
to document and report the impact of
the RAD program.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES.
In addition to those disclosures
generally permitted under 5 U.S.C.
Section 552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or
a portion of the records or information
contained in this system may be
disclosed outside HUD as a routine use
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as
follows:
1. To Econometrica and Urban
Institute staff to track study participants
and locate participants for a future
follow-up interview. Staff may also use
the data files to match with other
datasets for tracking purposes, such as
change of address and credit bureau
databases.
2. To appropriate agencies, entities,
and persons to the extent that such
disclosures are compatible with the
purpose for which the records in this
system were collected, as set forth by
Appendix I 1—HUD’s Library of Routine
Uses published in the Federal Register
(July 17, 2012, at 77 FR 41996); and
3. To appropriate agencies, entities,
and persons when: (a) HUD suspects or
has confirmed that the security or
confidentiality of information in a
system of records has been
compromised; (b) HUD has determined
that as a result of the suspected or
confirmed compromise, there is a risk of
harm to economic or property interests,
identity theft or fraud, or harm to the
security or integrity of systems or
programs (whether maintained by HUD
or another agency or entity) that rely
upon the compromised information; and
(c) the disclosure made to such
agencies, entities, and persons is
reasonably necessary to assist in
connection with HUD’s efforts to
respond to the suspected or confirmed
compromise and prevent, minimize, or
remedy such harm for purposes of
facilitating responses and remediation
efforts in the event of a data breach.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,
RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND
DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM
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STORAGE:
All data collected will be input and
stored in a secure database. Hard-copy
materials containing respondent
identifying information will be locked
up when not in use. PII will be
accessible to the research team only at
the Urban Institute and SSRS system
locations. Transfer of PII between HUD
and HUD’s contractors through secure
file transfer protocol or transportable
media encryption or a similar standard.
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All hard-copy materials, including
completed forms and electronic records
on transportable media, will be kept in
locked cabinets when not in use. In
addition, data on transportable media
will be encrypted. Records with PII will
not be printed.
RETRIEVABILITY:
The contact database will include
personal identifiers that can be used to
locate records to update residents’
whereabouts following enrollment into
the outcomes study. Records within the
contact database can be retrieved by
name, home address, telephone number,
and personal email address.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:
The retention and disposal
procedures will be in keeping with
HUD’s records management policies as
described in 44 U.S.C. 3101 and 3303.
Records will be maintained for a period
not to exceed five years. All PII
associated with the project will be
destroyed by Econometrica, Inc. and
their subcontractors or otherwise
rendered irrecoverable per NIST SP
800–88 ‘‘Guidelines for Media
Sanitization’’ (September 2006) at the
end of the contract. At the end of the
contract, paper-based records that do
not need to be retained will be shredded
and the remainder of the files will be
shredded after the three-year retention
period required in the contract.
Carol Star, Director, Division of
Program Evaluation, Office of Policy
Development and Research, Department
of Housing and Urban Development,
451 Seventh Street SW., Washington,
DC 20410, Telephone Number (202)
402–6139.
For information, assistance, or
inquiries about the existence of records,
contact the Chief Privacy Officer,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW.,
Room 4156, Washington, DC 20410
(Attention: Capitol View Building, 4th
Floor), telephone number: (202) 402–
8073. Verification of your identity must
include original signature and be
notarized. Written request must include
the full name, Social Security Number,
date of birth, current address, and
telephone number of the individual
making the request.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
The Department’s rules for contesting
contents of records and appealing initial
denials appear in 24 CFR part 16.
Additional assistance may be obtained
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RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Initial contact information will be
extracted from the HUD’s Inventory
Management System, also known as
Public and Indian Housing Information
Center (PIC). Any necessary updates to
this contact information will be
provided directly from HUD’s Rental
Assistance Demonstration participants
who have agreed to be part of the
outcomes study. The records stored in
the contact database will include
information that can be used to locate
residents’ whereabouts following
enrollment into the outcomes study.
This data will be supplied exclusively
by the individuals themselves.
SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS
OF THE ACT:
None.
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telephone number: (202) 402–8073 or
the HUD Departmental Privacy Appeals
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Department of Housing and Urban
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5843-N-01]
Implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; New System
of Records, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program
Evaluation Data Files
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: New System of Records.
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SUMMARY: The Department's Office of Policy Development and Research
(PD&R) is proposing to create a new system of records, the ``RAD
Program Evaluation Data Files.'' The Department's Office of PD&R is
responsible for maintaining current information on housing needs,
market conditions and existing programs, as well as conducting research
on priority housing and community development issues. The principal
purpose of the evaluation of the RAD Program is to allow the Department
to assess and report to Congress on the performance of this program,
which converts public housing units to new forms of ownership, focusing
on: (1) Preserving the affordable housing availability of former public
housing units; (2) the amount of private capital leveraged as a result
of RAD conversions; and (3) the effect that RAD conversions have on
unit residents. The new SORN allows the Department to track RAD program
participants for the purpose of studying the impact of the RAD program
on residents of impacted public housing properties. In order to study
the residents as they move from the public housing development, it is
necessary to collect their contact information at this point in the
program implementation. In addition, the records collected through this
evaluation represent HUD's effort to be responsive to its Congressional
mandate to document and report the impact of the program. A more
detailed description of the new system is contained in this notice.
DATES: Effective Date: The notice will be effective February 23, 2015,
unless comments are received that would result in a contrary
determination.
Comments Due Date: February 23, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of the General Counsel,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communication should refer to
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the above docket number and title. A copy of each communication
submitted will be available for public inspection and copying between
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Robinson-Staton, Chief Privacy
Officer, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410 (Attention:
Capitol View Building, 4th Floor), telephone number: (202) 402-8073.
[The above telephone number is not a toll free number.] A
telecommunications device for hearing-and speech-impaired persons (TTY)
is available by calling the Federal Information Relay Service's toll-
free telephone number (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This system of records is operated by HUD's
Office of PD&R and includes personally identifiable information (PII)
pertaining to participants of HUD's RAD Program from which information
is retrieved by a name or unique identifier. The new system of records
encompasses programs and services of the Department's data collection
and management practices. Publication of this notice allows the
Department to satisfy its reporting requirement and keep an up-to-date
accounting of its system of records publications. The new system of
records will incorporate Federal privacy requirements and HUD policy
requirements. The Privacy Act provides certain safeguards for an
individual against an invasion of personal privacy by requiring Federal
agencies to protect records contained in an agency system of records
from unauthorized disclosure, by ensuring that information is current
and collected only for its intended use, and by providing adequate
safeguards to prevent misuse of such information. Additionally, this
notice demonstrates the Department's focus on industry best practices
in protecting the personal privacy of the individuals covered by this
system of records notice.
This notice states the name and location of the record system, the
authority for and manner of its operations, the categories of
individuals that it covers, the type of records that it contains, the
sources of the information for the records, the routine uses made of
the records and the type of exemptions in place for the records. In
addition, this notice includes the business addresses of the HUD
officials who will inform interested persons of the procedures whereby
they may gain access to and/or request amendments to records pertaining
to them.
This publication does meet the SORN threshold requirements pursuant
to the Privacy Act and OMB Circular A-130, and a report was submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on
Government Reform as instructed by Paragraph 4c of Appendix l to OMB
Circular No. A-130, ``Federal Agencies Responsibilities for Maintaining
Records About Individuals,'' July 25, 1994 (59 FR 37914).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a; 88 Stat. 1896; 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).
Dated: January 12, 2015.
Rafael C. Diaz,
Chief Information Officer.
SYSTEM OF RECORDS NO.: PD&R/RRE.01
SYSTEM NAME:
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program Evaluation Data
Files.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street
SW., Washington, DC 20140; The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20037; The SSRS, 53 West Baltimore Pike Media, PA 19063.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
The categories of individuals covered by the system will include
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program participants who have
agreed to be part of the RAD outcome study.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
The categories of records in the system will include the
participants name, home address, telephone number, and personal email
address.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
The authority for the collection of records, and the maintenance of
this system is authorized by Sections 501-502 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91-609), 12 U.S.C. 1701z-1, 1701z-2.
PURPOSE(S):
The data collected through this effort will be used to study the
impact of the RAD program on residents of impacted public housing
properties. RAD is an initiative of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) and many stakeholders that seek to preserve public
and other HUD-assisted housing, by providing owners and Public Housing
Authorities (PHAs) with access to additional funding to make needed
physical improvements to such properties. In a tightened budget
environment, PHAs and private owners have to make tough choices between
repairing roofs and replacing plumbing--or worse, demolishing units
altogether--because ``of a chronic lack of adequate funding''. The
public housing inventory currently has a capital needs backlog of $25.6
billion, and the nation continues to lose 10,000 to 15,000 units of
affordable housing every year. RAD allows PHAs and private owners to
convert public housing and other HUD-assisted properties to long-term
project-based Section 8 rental assistance. It also enables them to
access private debt and equity to address immediate and long-term
capital needs of the projects. Most needed repairs made as part of RAD
are likely to be small and residents will be able to stay in their
homes during construction. However, some apartments and buildings will
require more extensive rehab. In these cases, residents may be
temporarily relocated. All tenants who are relocated will have the
right to return to their development once construction is completed.
Generally, temporary relocation should not last longer than 12 months.
In a few cases, a property may be too old or deteriorated, and past the
point where it can be effectively rehabilitated, requiring that it be
demolished and replaced. In these instances, residents will be provided
temporary relocation and will have the right to return to the
replacement housing that is constructed. The authorizing statute for
the demonstration program requires that HUD assess the extent to which
the program meets the goals of preserving and improving former public
housing units, and to assess the amount of private capital leveraged as
a result of such conversions. The authorizing statute also requires HUD
to assess the effect of conversion on residents. In order to track
residents as they move from the public housing development, it is
necessary to collect their contact information at this point in the
program implementation. PII will be collected from a sample of 400
residents of public housing developments participating in HUD's RAD
program who have agreed to be part of an outcomes study, which will
allow HUD to understand the impact of this program on the residents of
public housing developments that are implementing RAD. In addition, the
records collected through this evaluation represent HUD's effort to be
responsive to its Congressional mandate to document and report the
impact of the RAD program.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES.
In addition to those disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C.
Section 552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a portion of the records or
information contained in this system may be disclosed outside HUD as a
routine use pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:
1. To Econometrica and Urban Institute staff to track study
participants and locate participants for a future follow-up interview.
Staff may also use the data files to match with other datasets for
tracking purposes, such as change of address and credit bureau
databases.
2. To appropriate agencies, entities, and persons to the extent
that such disclosures are compatible with the purpose for which the
records in this system were collected, as set forth by Appendix I \1\--
HUD's Library of Routine Uses published in the Federal Register (July
17, 2012, at 77 FR 41996); and
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3. To appropriate agencies, entities, and persons when: (a) HUD
suspects or has confirmed that the security or confidentiality of
information in a system of records has been compromised; (b) HUD has
determined that as a result of the suspected or confirmed compromise,
there is a risk of harm to economic or property interests, identity
theft or fraud, or harm to the security or integrity of systems or
programs (whether maintained by HUD or another agency or entity) that
rely upon the compromised information; and (c) the disclosure made to
such agencies, entities, and persons is reasonably necessary to assist
in connection with HUD's efforts to respond to the suspected or
confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize, or remedy such harm for
purposes of facilitating responses and remediation efforts in the event
of a data breach.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING,
AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM
STORAGE:
All data collected will be input and stored in a secure database.
Hard-copy materials containing respondent identifying information will
be locked up when not in use. PII will be accessible to the research
team only at the Urban Institute and SSRS system locations. Transfer of
PII between HUD and HUD's contractors through secure file transfer
protocol or transportable media encryption or a similar standard. All
hard-copy materials, including completed forms and electronic records
on transportable media, will be kept in locked cabinets when not in
use. In addition, data on transportable media will be encrypted.
Records with PII will not be printed.
RETRIEVABILITY:
The contact database will include personal identifiers that can be
used to locate records to update residents' whereabouts following
enrollment into the outcomes study. Records within the contact database
can be retrieved by name, home address, telephone number, and personal
email address.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:
The retention and disposal procedures will be in keeping with HUD's
records management policies as described in 44 U.S.C. 3101 and 3303.
Records will be maintained for a period not to exceed five years. All
PII associated with the project will be destroyed by Econometrica, Inc.
and their subcontractors or otherwise rendered irrecoverable per NIST
SP 800-88 ``Guidelines for Media Sanitization'' (September 2006) at the
end of the contract. At the end of the contract, paper-based records
that do not need to be retained will be shredded and the remainder of
the files will be shredded after the three-year retention period
required in the contract.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:
Carol Star, Director, Division of Program Evaluation, Office of
Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, Telephone
Number (202) 402-6139.
NOTIFICATION AND RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
For information, assistance, or inquiries about the existence of
records, contact the Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Room 4156, Washington, DC
20410 (Attention: Capitol View Building, 4th Floor), telephone number:
(202) 402-8073. Verification of your identity must include original
signature and be notarized. Written request must include the full name,
Social Security Number, date of birth, current address, and telephone
number of the individual making the request.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
The Department's rules for contesting contents of records and
appealing initial denials appear in 24 CFR part 16. Additional
assistance may be obtained by contacting: U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, Chief Privacy Officer, 451 Seventh Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410 (Attention: Capitol View Building, 4th Floor),
telephone number: (202) 402-8073 or the HUD Departmental Privacy
Appeals Officers, Office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington DC 20410.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Initial contact information will be extracted from the HUD's
Inventory Management System, also known as Public and Indian Housing
Information Center (PIC). Any necessary updates to this contact
information will be provided directly from HUD's Rental Assistance
Demonstration participants who have agreed to be part of the outcomes
study. The records stored in the contact database will include
information that can be used to locate residents' whereabouts following
enrollment into the outcomes study. This data will be supplied
exclusively by the individuals themselves.
SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT:
None.
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