[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17805-17806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8415]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Privacy Act of 1974--Notice of Establishment of System of Records
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(5 U.S.C. 552a), notice is hereby given that the Department of the
Interior proposes to establish a new system of records to be maintained
by the Bureau of Reclamation. The system, entitled ``Lower Colorado
River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48,'' will include information
pertaining to individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one
well on their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water.
The information contained in this system will be used to protect and
manage water entitlement holders' rights to use Colorado River water in
the lower Colorado River basin. The notice is published in its entirety
below.
As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C.
552a(r)), the Office of Management and Budget, the Senate Committee on
Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight have been notified of this action.
5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11) requires that the public be provided a 30-day
period in which to comment on the intended use of the information in
the system of records. The Office of Management and Budget, in its
Circular A-130, requires a 40-day period in which to review such
proposals. Written comments on this proposal can be addressed to the
Departmental Privacy Act Officer, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Administrative Services, 1849 ``C'' Street NW, Mail Stop 5412 MIB,
Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 208-6045, fax (202) 208-7971.
Comments received within 40 days of publication in the Federal Register
(May 17, 1995) will be considered. The system will be effective as
proposed at the end of the comment period, unless comments are received
which would require a contrary determination.
Dated: March 28, 1995.
Albert C. Camacho,
Director, Office of Administrative Services.
INTERIOR/BOR-48
Lower Colorado River Well Inventory--Interior, BOR-48.
Bureau of Reclamation, Division of Water, Land, and Power, Lower
Colorado Region, Boulder City, Nevada 89006-1470.
Individuals and/or their lessees who have at least one well on
their property that may pump mainstream Colorado River water. Note:
This system also contains records pertaining to corporations and other
public entities. Only those records relating to individuals are covered
by the Privacy Act.
Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of covered individuals;
Assessor Parcel Numbers; contract numbers; categories of uses to which
the water is put; methods of disposal of unconsumed portions of water
pumped; volumes of water pumped; physical characteristics and locations
of wells; water purveyor, municipal, or other administrative boundaries
within which wells are located; and water levels of wells located in
hydraulically connected areas adjacent to the floodplain.
Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, 43 U.S.C. 391), as
amended and supplemented; the Colorado River Front Work and Levee
System Adjacent to Yuma Project Act of March 3, 1925 (Pub. L. 79-469,
43 Stat. 1186, 1198), as amended and supplemented; the Boulder Canyon
Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057, 43 U.S.C. 617), as
amended and supplemented; the Reclamation Project Act of August 4, 1939
(53 Stat. 1187, 43 U.S.C. 485); the Colorado River Basin Project Act of
September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885); the Reclamation Reform Act of
October 12, 1982 (96 Stat. 1261, 43 U.S.C. 390); and the Supreme Court
opinion rendered June 3, 1963 (373 U.S. 546), and Decrees entered March
9, 1964 (376 U.S. 340), January 9, 1979 (439 U.S. 419), and April 16,
1984 (466 U.S. 144), in Arizona v. California et al.
The primary purposes of the records are: (a) To assist in the
administration and negotiation of water use contracts with individual
landowners, lessees, or other classes of water users; and (b) to
support the annual compilation and publication of records of
consumptive use of mainstream Colorado River water.
Disclosure outside the Department of the Interior may be made: (1)
To the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada to assist them in
administering their apportionments of mainstream Colorado River water;
(2) to the U.S. Department of Justice or to a court or adjudicative
body with jurisdiction when (a) the United States, the Department of
the Interior, a component of the Department, or, when represented by
the Government, an employee of the Department is a party to litigation
or anticipated litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and
(b) the Department of the Interior determines that the disclosure is
relevant or necessary to the litigation and is compatible with the
purpose for which the records were compiled; (3) to a congressional
office in response to an inquiry the individual has made to the
congressional office; (4) to appropriate Federal, State, tribal,
territorial, local or foreign agencies responsible for investigating or
prosecuting the violation of, or for enforcing, implementing, or
administering a statute, rule, regulation, program, facility, order,
lease, license, contract, grant, or other agreement, of information
indicating a violation or potential violation of a statute, rule,
regulation, program, facility, order, lease, license, contract, grant
or other agreement will be disclosed; (5) to interested parties upon
written request, of data pertaining to volumes of water pumped,
consumptive uses of water, and points of diversion.
Disclosures pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12). Disclosures may be
made from this system to consumer reporting agencies as defined in the
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 168a(f) or the Federal Claims
Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3)).
Records are stored in automated form on computer databases and in
manual form in file folders. [[Page 17806]]
Records stored in computer databases will be retrievable by any
record category. Records stored in manual files will be retrievable by
name of property owner or contract holder.
Data will be maintained with safeguards meeting the requirements of
43 CFR 2.51 for manual and computerized records.
In accordance with approved retention and disposal schedules,
records will be retained in the Bureau of Reclamation for 10 years,
relocated to the Federal Records Center and retained there for an
additional 75 years, and then transferred to the National Archives and
Records Administration for permanent retention.
Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Regional Office, Regional
Supervisor of Water, Land, and Power, P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City,
Nevada 89006-1470.
An individual requesting notification of the existence of records
on him or her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The
request must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with
the content requirements of 43 CFR 2.60.
An individual requesting access to records maintained on him or her
should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request must
be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the content
requirements of 43 CFR 2.63.
An individual requesting amendment of a record maintained on him or
her should address his/her request to the System Manager. The request
must be in writing, signed by the requester, and comply with the
content requirements of 43 CFR 2.71.
Individuals on whom records are maintained, state and county well
permits, land ownership and water use records and databases, and the
U.S. Geological Survey Ground Water Site Inventory database.
None.
[FR Doc. 95-8415 Filed 4-6-95; 8:45 am]
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