[Privacy Act Issuances (2005)]
[CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]

   CPSC-9

   System name: 

       CPSC-9, General Counsel Tracking System.
     System location: 
       Office of the General Counsel, Consumer Product Safety 
   Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814.
     Categories of individuals covered by the system: 
       Attorneys working in the Office of the General Counsel.
     Categories of records in the system:
       Descriptions and dates of assignments; comments; starting and 
   completion dates; due dates; names of attorneys to whom assignments 
   are given; names of divisions within the Office of the General 
   Counsel.
     Authority for maintenance of the system: 
       44 U.S.C. 3101; 15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.; 16 CFR 1000.14.
   Purpose(s): 
       To manage the workflow in the Office of the General Counsel; to 
   assure timely completion of assignments; to respond to queries from 
   other units of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; to assist in 
   evaluating attorney performance.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses: 
       None.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage: 
       Records are maintained by a computer database management system. 
   Hard copy printouts of selected groups of records are made from time 
   to time.
     Retrievability: 
       Records are retrievable by any field, including attorney name.
     Safeguards: 
       Access to the records, and to fields within the records, is 
   controlled by passwords. Records are accessible by all Office of the 
   General Counsel staff, but not by others. Only supervisory staff may 
   create records, assign or extend due dates, or enter completion 
   dates.
     Retention and disposal: 
       Old records are purged from time to time, based on need for 
   computer storage space.
     System manager(s) and address: 
       General Counsel, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, 
   DC 20207.
     Notification procedure: 
       Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Office, Office of the 
   Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207.
     Record access procedures: 
       Same as notification.
     Contesting record procedures: 
       Same as notification.
     Record source categories: 
       Information in these records is supplied by the attorneys 
   themselves and by supervisors.