Notice2026-15955
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
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Published
August 6, 2026
Effective
October 5, 2026
Issuing agencies
Federal Trade Commission
Abstract
The FTC proposes to modify its Privacy Act system of records notices (SORNs) by adding a routine use to four specific SORNs to comply with Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, and OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay. The FTC is also separately making technical changes to three of these SORNs.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 150 (Thursday, August 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50838-50842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-15955]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
ACTION: Notice of modified systems of records.
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SUMMARY: The FTC proposes to modify its Privacy Act system of records
notices (SORNs) by adding a routine use to four specific SORNs to
comply with Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account
Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, and OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing
Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay. The FTC is
also separately making technical changes to three of these SORNs.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by September 8, 2026. These routine
uses, which are being published in proposed form, will become final and
effective on October 5, 2026, without further notice unless otherwise
amended or repealed by the Commission on the basis of any comments
received.
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ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``Privacy Act of 1974;
System of Records: FTC File No. P072104'' on your comment, and file
your comment online at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment
on paper, mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail
Stop H-144 (Annex S), Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: G. Richard Gold, Attorney, Office of
the General Counsel, FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20580, email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2f5d4840434b6f495b4c01484059"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3a1b4bcbfb793b5a7b0fdb4bca5">[email protected]</span></a>, phone: (202) 326-3355.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
For the FTC to consider a comment, we must receive it on or before
September 8, 2026. Your comment, including your name and your State,
will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including the
<a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> website.
You can file a comment online or on paper. Due to heightened
security screening, postal mail addressed to the Commission will be
subject to delay. We encourage you to submit your comments online
through the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> website.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``Privacy Act of 1974;
System of Records: FTC File No. P072104,'' on your comment and on the
envelope, and mail it to the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail
Stop H-144 (Annex S), Washington, DC 20580.
Because your comment will become publicly available at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, you are solely responsible for making sure that
your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential
information. In particular, your comment should not include any
sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else's Social
Security number; date of birth; driver's license number or other State
identification number, or foreign country equivalent; passport number;
financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You are also
solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include
any sensitive health information, such as medical records or other
individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment
should not include any ``trade secret or any commercial or financial
information which . . . is privileged or confidential''--as provided by
section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2),
16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)--including, in particular, competitively sensitive
information, such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is
requested must (1) be filed in paper form, (2) be clearly labeled
``Confidential,'' and (3) comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). In particular,
the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the
comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and
must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from
the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has
been posted publicly at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, we cannot redact or remove
your comment unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the
requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General
Counsel grants that request.
The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit
the collection of public comments to consider and use in this
proceeding as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and
responsive public comments that it receives on or before September 8,
2026. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including
routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy">https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy</a>.
Analysis To Aid Public Comment
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, this
document provides public notice that the FTC is proposing to add one
new routine use to the SORNs for FTC-III-2--Travel Management System,
FTC-III-3--Financial Management System, FTC-III-4--Automated
Acquisitions System, and FTC-III-5--Employee Transportation Program
Records, to comply with E.O. 14249. The Privacy Act authorizes the
agency to adopt routine uses that are compatible with the purpose for
which the information is collected. 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3); see also 5
U.S.C. 552a(a)(7).
On March 28, 2025, President Trump issued E.O. 14249, ``Protecting
America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse,'' \1\ which
states in relevant part \2\ that--
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\1\ 90 FR 14011 (Mar. 28, 2025).
\2\ Section 3(d) of E.O. 14249.
Within 90 days of the date of this order [i.e., by June 23,
2025], agency heads shall review and modify, as applicable, their
relevant system of records notices under the Privacy Act of 1974 to
include a `routine use' that allows for the disclosure of records to
the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of identifying,
preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments, to the extent
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permissible by law.
On August 20, 2025, Russell T. Vought, the Director of OMB, issued
guidance that advised \3\ each Senior Agency Official for Privacy, in
consultation with the agency's Chief Financial Officer and Chief
Information Officer, to consider adding a routine use that includes the
following language:
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\3\ OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and
Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay (Aug. 20, 2025).
To the U.S. Department of the Treasury when disclosure of the
information is relevant to review payment and award eligibility
through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of
identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an
applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds
disbursed by a state (meaning a state of the United States, the
District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the United
States, or a federally recognized Indian tribe) in a state-
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administered, federally funded program.
After completing the required review of agency Privacy Act systems
and to ensure compliance with E.O. 14249, the Commission proposes to
add a new routine use applicable to four agency Privacy Act SORNs using
the language set out immediately above from the OMB guidance. This
includes FTC-III-2--Travel Management System, FTC-III-3--Financial
Management System, FTC-III-4--Automated Acquisitions System, and FTC-
III-5--Employee Transportation Program Records.
The FTC believes that it is compatible with the collection of
information pertaining to individuals to disclose Privacy Act records
about them when, in doing so, it will help with Administration
priorities to help identify, prevent, or recoup fraud and improper
payments, to the extent permissible by law. E.O. 14249 specifically
directs the FTC and other agencies to ensure that sharing for such
purposes is authorized by the agencies' Privacy Act systems' routine
uses. The FTC believes the proposed routine use should not affect the
privacy protections
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of individuals. Adding this routine use to four specific SORNs is a
reasonable step to help the Administration, the FTC, and the Department
of Treasury identify, prevent, or recoup fraud or improper payments,
and is compatible with the purpose of the collection. In addition, the
proposed routine use cannot override statutory restrictions on sharing
information.\4\ Accordingly, the Commission concludes that it is
authorized under the Privacy Act to adopt the proposed routine use
permitting disclosure of Privacy Act records for the purposes described
above.
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\4\ See, e.g., 15 U.S.C. 18a, 46(f) and 57b-2.
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In accordance with the Privacy Act, see 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) and
(11), the FTC is publishing notice of the proposed routine use and
giving the public a 30-day period to comment before adopting them as
final. The FTC has provided advance notice of this proposed system
notice amendment to OMB and Congress, as required by the Act, 5 U.S.C.
552a(r), and OMB Circular A-108 (2016). The Commission proposes that
the new routine uses become effective on October 5, 2026, unless the
Commission amends or revokes the routine uses on the basis of any
comments received.
Additionally, the FTC is making technical changes to three of these
SORNs. For Travel Management System--FTC (FTC-III-2), the FTC is
replacing a reference within the routine use section that previously
stated the applicable routine uses were those routine uses associated
with GSA/GOVT-4, or any successor system notice for that system, with
language from ten specific routine uses from GSA/GOVT-4. For Financial
Management System--FTC (FTC-III-3), the FTC is replacing a reference
within the routine use section to the routine uses associated with
Treasury.009 (Treasury Financial Management Systems), or any successor
system notice for that system, with language from ten specific routine
uses from Treasury.009 (Treasury Financial Management Systems). For
Employee Transportation Program Records-FTC (FTC-III-5), the FTC is
revising the language of routine use #1 relating to the disclosure to
the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for purposes of processing
and distributing subsidies to FTC employees and verifying employee
compliance with program rules to delete any reference to how DOT may
then disclose these records under the applicable DOT routine uses.
Accordingly, the FTC hereby proposes to amend its Systems of
Records Notices as follows:
FTC Systems of Records Notices
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III. Federal Trade Commission Financial Systems of Records
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SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
Travel Management System--FTC (FTC-III-2).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Financial Management Office, Federal Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580. This system of records is
principally operated and maintained off-site for the FTC under an
interagency agreement with the Department of the Treasury's
Administrative Resource Center, which is part of the Bureau of Fiscal
Services, although this system is also intended to include any
miscellaneous official FTC travel data that may be maintained on-site
by individual FTC offices and retrieved by name or other personally
assigned identifier about individuals on official FTC travel. For other
locations where records may be maintained or accessed, see Appendix III
(Locations of FTC Buildings and Regional Offices), available on the
FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacyact-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacyact-systems</a> and 87 FR 57698 (Sept. 21, 2022).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Chief Financial Officer, Financial Management Office, Federal Trade
Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580, email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0c5f435e427f4c6a786f226b637a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="74273b263a07341200175a131b02">[email protected]</span></a>.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
Records in this system may be disclosed:
1. To another Federal agency, Travel Management Center (TMC),
online booking engine suppliers and the airlines that are required to
support the DHS/TSA Secure Flight program. In this program, DHS/TSA
assumes the function of conducting pre-flight comparisons of airline
passenger information to Federal Government watch lists. In order to
supply the appropriate information, these mentioned parties are
responsible for obtaining new data fields consisting of personal
information for date of birth, gender, redress number, and known
traveler number. At this time, the redress number is optional and the
known traveler number is for future programs. They may be required to
be stored in another phase of the Secure Flight program.
2. To a credit card company for billing purposes, including
collection of past due amounts.
3. To a Federal agency by the contractor in the form of itemized
statements or invoices, and reports of all transactions, including
refunds and adjustments to enable audits of charges to the Federal
Government.
4. To a Federal agency in connection with the hiring or retention
of an employee; the issuance of a security clearance; the reporting of
an investigation; the letting of a contract; or the issuance of a
grant, license, or other benefit to the extent that the information is
relevant and necessary to a decision.
5. To an authorized appeal or grievance examiner, formal complaints
examiner, equal employment opportunity investigator, arbitrator, or
other duly authorized official engaged in investigation or settlement
of a grievance, complaint, or appeal filed by an employee to whom the
information pertains.
6. To the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), or the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) when the information is required for program evaluation purposes.
7. To officials of labor organizations recognized under 5 U.S.C.
chapter 71 when relevant and necessary to their duties of exclusive
representation concerning personnel policies, practices, and matters
affecting working conditions.
8. To a travel services provider for billing and refund purposes.
9. To a carrier or an insurer for settlement of an employee claim
for loss of or damage to personal property incident to service under 31
U.S.C. 3721, or to a party involved in a tort claim against the Federal
Government resulting from an accident involving a traveler.
10. To a credit reporting agency or credit bureau, as allowed and
authorized by law, for the purpose of adding to a credit history file
when it has been determined that an individual's account with a
creditor with input to the system is delinquent.
11. To the U.S. Department of the Treasury when disclosure of the
information is relevant to review payment and award eligibility through
the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of identifying,
preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or
recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a
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State (meaning a State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
a territory or possession of the United States, or a federally
recognized Indian tribe) in a State-administered, federally funded
program.
For other ways that the Privacy Act permits the FTC to use or
disclose system records outside the agency, see Appendix I (Authorized
Disclosures and Routine Uses Applicable to All FTC Privacy Act Systems
of Records), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and at 83 FR
55541, 55542-55543 (Nov. 6, 2018).
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HISTORY:
82 FR 50872-50882 (November 2, 2017); 75 FR 52749-52751 (August 27,
2010); 73 FR 33591-33634 (June 12, 2008).
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SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
Financial Management System--FTC (FTC-III-3).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Financial Management Office, Federal Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580. This system of records is
principally operated and maintained off-site for the FTC under
interagency agreement with the Department of the Treasury's
Administrative Resource Center (ARC), which is part of the Bureau of
Fiscal Services. For other locations where records may be maintained or
accessed, see Appendix III (Locations of FTC Buildings and Regional
Offices), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and 87 FR 57698 (Sept.
21, 2022).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
(1) Chief Financial Officer, Financial Management Office, Federal
Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580,
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f9aab6abb78ab99f8d9ad79e968f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="04574b564a77446270672a636b72">[email protected]</span></a>; (2) The following system manager has overall
responsibility for the Federal Financial System: Fiscal Accounting,
Assistant Commissioner, Department of the Treasury's Administrative
Resource Center (ARC).
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
Records in this system may be disclosed:
1. To a Federal, State, local, or other public authority
maintaining civil, criminal or other relevant enforcement information
or other pertinent information, which has requested information
relevant to or necessary to the requesting agency's, bureau's, or
authority's hiring or retention of an individual, or issuance of a
security clearance, license, contract, grant, or other benefit;
2. To the news media in accordance with guidelines contained in 28
CFR 50.2 which pertain to an agency's functions relating to civil and
criminal proceedings;
3. Through a computer matching program, information on individuals
owing debts to the Department of the Treasury, or any of its
components, to other Federal agencies for the purpose of determining
whether the debtor is a Federal employee or retiree receiving payments
which may be used to collect the debt through administrative or salary
offset;
4. To other Federal agencies to effect salary or administrative
offset for the purpose of collecting debts, except that addresses
obtained from the IRS shall not be disclosed to other agencies;
5. To a consumer reporting agency, including mailing addresses
obtained from the Internal Revenue Service, to obtain credit reports;
6. To a debt collection agency, including mailing addresses
obtained from the Internal Revenue Service, for debt collection
services;
7. To unions recognized as exclusive bargaining representatives
under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. 7111 and 7114, the
Merit Systems Protection Board, arbitrators, the Federal Labor
Relations Authority, and other parties responsible for the
administration of the Federal labor-management program for the purpose
of processing any corrective actions, or grievances, or conducting
administrative hearings or appeals, or if needed in the performance of
other authorized duties;
8. To a public or professional auditing organization for the
purpose of conducting financial audit and/or compliance audits;
9. To insurance companies or other appropriate third parties,
including common carriers and warehousemen, in the course of settling
an employee's claim for lost or damaged property filed with the
Commission;
10. To the IRS for any applicable tax reporting purposes;
11. May be disclosed to the U.S. Department of the Treasury when
disclosure of the information is relevant to review payment and award
eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of
identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant
for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a
State (meaning a State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
a territory or possession of the United States, or a federally
recognized Indian tribe) in a State-administered, federally funded
program; and
12. To the extent they pertain to FTC acquisition activities, to
the General Service Administration's Federal Procurement Data System, a
central repository for statistical information on Government
contracting, for purposes of providing public access to Government-wide
data about agency contract actions.
For other ways that the Privacy Act permits the FTC to use or
disclose system records outside the agency, see Appendix I (Authorized
Disclosures and Routine Uses Applicable to All FTC Privacy Act Systems
of Records), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and at 83 FR
55542- 55543 (Nov. 6, 2018).
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HISTORY:
85 FR 16349-16360 (March 23, 2020); 80 FR 9460-9465 (February 23,
2015); 73 FR 33591-33634 (June 12, 2008).
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SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
Automated Acquisitions System--FTC (FTC-III-4).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20580. This system of records is principally operated and maintained
off-site for the FTC under interagency agreement with the Department of
the Treasury's Administrative Resource Center (ARC), which is part of
the Bureau of Fiscal Services. For other locations where records may be
maintained or accessed, see Appendix III (Locations of FTC Buildings
and Regional Offices), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and
at 87 FR 57698 (Sept. 21, 2022).
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SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Chief, Acquisitions Branch, Financial Management Office, Federal
Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580,
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#65362a372b16250311064b020a13"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2d7e627f635e6d4b594e034a425b">[email protected]</span></a>.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
1. Records in this system pertaining to FTC acquisition activities
may be transmitted or disclosed to the General Service Administration's
Federal Procurement Data System, a central repository for statistical
information on Government contracting, for purposes of providing public
access to Government-wide data about agency contract actions.
2. Records in this system may be disclosed to the U.S. Department
of the Treasury when disclosure of the information is relevant to
review payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working
System for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping
improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds,
including funds disbursed by a State (meaning a State of the United
States, the District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the
United States, or a federally recognized Indian tribe) in a State-
administered, federally funded program.
For other ways that the Privacy Act permits the FTC to use or
disclose system records outside the agency, see Appendix I (Authorized
Disclosures and Routine Uses Applicable to All FTC Privacy Act Systems
of Records), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and at 83 FR
55542- 55543 (Nov. 6, 2018).
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HISTORY:
73 FR 33591-33634 (June 12, 2008).
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SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
Employee Transportation Program Records--FTC (FTC-III-5).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20580. For other locations where records may be maintained or
accessed, see Appendix III (Locations of FTC Buildings and Regional
Offices), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and 87 FR 57698 (Sept.
21, 2022).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Chief Administrative Services Officer, Office of the Chief
Administrative Services Officer, Office of the Executive Director,
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20580, email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0f5c405d417c4f697b6c21686079"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="25766a776b56654351460b424a53">[email protected]</span></a>.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
Records in this system:
1. May be disclosed to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
for purposes of processing and distributing subsidies to FTC employees
and verifying employee compliance with program rules;
2. May be disclosed to the U.S. Department of the Treasury when
disclosure of the information is relevant to review payment and award
eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of
identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant
for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a
State (meaning a State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
a territory or possession of the United States, or a federally
recognized Indian tribe) in a State-administered, federally funded
program; and
3. May be disclosed to other investigatory or law enforcement
authorities, where necessary, to investigate, prosecute, discipline, or
pursue other appropriate action against suspected program fraud or
abuse, if any.
For other ways that the Privacy Act permits the FTC to use or
disclose system records outside the agency, see Appendix I (Authorized
Disclosures and Routine Uses Applicable to All FTC Privacy Act Systems
of Records), available on the FTC's website at <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems">https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/foia/foia-reading-rooms/privacy-act-systems</a> and at 83 FR
55542-55543 (Nov. 6, 2018).
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HISTORY:
87 FR 964-974 (January 7, 2022); 82 FR 50871-50882 (November 2,
2017); 73 FR 33591-33634 (June 12, 2008).
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2026-15955 Filed 8-5-26; 8:45 am]
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