Department of Defense January 6, 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Defense Commissary Agency proposes to alter a system of records, Z0035-01, entitled ``Commissary Retail Sales Transaction Data'' in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The Commissary Retail Sales Transaction Data System of Records enables the Defense Commissary Agency to carry out its mission to enhance the quality of life of members of the uniformed services, retired members, and dependents of such members, and to support military readiness, recruitment and retention, by providing a world- wide system of commissaries similar to commercial grocery stores and selling merchandise and household goods similar to that sold in commercial grocery stores by, among other things, enable the authentication of authorized patrons, record purchases and purchases prices, calculate the total amount owed by the customer, and accept payment by various media; enable the collection of debts due the United States in the event a patron's medium of payment is declined or returned unpaid; enable the monitoring of purchases of restricted items outside the United States, its territories and possession and to comply with age restrictions applicable to certain purchases by minors or those under allowable ages; and to obtain aggregate demographic data concerning patron satisfaction with the delivery of the commissary benefit, and in determining appropriate product availability meeting the commissary customers' current and future needs and wants; and to facilitate implementation of various e-commerce initiatives.

The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.