NOTE: COMMENTS REGARDING ANY FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE MUST BE SENT TO THE ADDRESS INDICATED IN THE DOCUMENT. ANY COMMENTS ON THE RAPID INFORMATION BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM (RIBBS) ABOUT ANY FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES WILL NOT BE USED OR CONSIDERED IN THE COURSE OF ANY RULE MAKING. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== [Federal Register: June 12, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 114)] [Notices] [Page 29774] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTAL SERVICE Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records AGENCY: Postal Service. ACTION: Notice of the addition of a routine use to an existing system of records. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This document publishes notice of the addition of a routine use to Privacy Act system of records USPS 050.020, Finance Records-- Payroll System. The routine use allows disclosure of limited information to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for the purpose of identifying postal employees who are absent parents owing child support obligations and/or parents involved in parental kidnapping and child custody cases. This notice complies with subsection (e)(11) of the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a), which requires agencies to publish advance notice of any new use of information in a system of records. DATES: Any interested party may submit written comments on the proposed routine use. This proposal will become effective without further notice July 22, 1996, unless comments received on or before that date result in a contrary determination. ADDRESSES: Written comments on this proposal should be mailed or delivered to Payroll Accounting/Records, United States Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 8650, Washington, DC 20260-5242. Copies of all written comments will be available at the above address for public inspection and photocopying between 8 a.m. and 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty E. Sheriff, (202) 268-2608. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Privacy Act system of records USPS 050.020, Finance Records--Payroll System, contains records about current and former postal employees. The records are used for handling payroll and other administrative functions. It is proposed that the system be amended to add routine use No. 31, which will allow the Postal Service to disclose limited information to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for the purpose of identifying postal employees who are absent parents owing child support obligations and/or individuals involved in parental kidnapping and child custody cases. The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the DHHS operates a Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) pursuant to section 653 of Title 42, U.S.C. The FPLS was established to locate absent parents and later broadened to locate persons involved in parental kidnapping and child custody cases. The FPLS obtains from state child support enforcement agencies information about individuals who owe child support obligations and/or individuals who are involved in the unlawful taking or restraint of a child. It compares that information to federal employment data and returns matching records to the state child support enforcement agencies for follow-up. Proposed routine use No. 31 allows the Postal Service to disclose to DHHS information about current or former postal employees for matching under the FPLS. Information disclosed will be limited to those data elements considered relevant to that purpose. The proposed routine use is compatible with the purpose for collecting the information; that is, for handling all necessary payroll functions. It is the policy of the Postal Service that postal employees should honor their parental responsibilities and financial obligations. In implementing that policy, the Postal Service helps enforce court orders for child support by garnishment of wages. Because information within system USPS 050.020 is collected to handle payroll functions, and wage garnishment is a primary means of child support enforcement, proposed routine use No. 31 is clearly compatible with the purpose of the system. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11), interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, or arguments on this proposal. A report of the proposed routine use has been sent to Congress and to the Office of Management and Budget for their evaluation. USPS Privacy Act system 050.020 was last published in its entirety in the Federal Register on December 4, 1992 (57 FR 57515-57519) and was amended in the Federal Register on November 22, 1993 (58 FR 61718- 61719). The Postal Service proposes adding routine use No. 31 as shown below. USPS 050.020 SYSTEM NAME: Finance Records--Payroll System, 050.020. * * * * * ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: * * * * * 31. Disclosure of limited information about current or former postal employees, who are identified through computer matching, may be made to the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 653, Parent Locator Service, for further release to state child support enforcement agencies when needed for locating noncustodial parents in order to establish and/or enforce child support obligations and for locating parents who may be involved in parental kidnapping or child custody cases. Stanley F. Mires, Chief Counsel, Legislative. [FR Doc. 96-14917 Filed 6-11-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7710-12-P