Notice2026-18034
Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
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Published
September 3, 2026
Issuing agencies
Agriculture Department
Abstract
USDA provides notice of a consolidated Department-wide matching program involving five USDA systems of records and the Department of the Treasury Do Not Pay (DNP) Working System. The program supports identifying, preventing, and recouping improper payments through pre-payment and pre-award eligibility verification. Treasury, in consultation with OMB, has issued a waiver of the matching agreement requirement.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 170 (Thursday, September 3, 2026)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-18034]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
AGENCY: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice of a new matching program.
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SUMMARY: USDA provides notice of a consolidated Department-wide
matching program involving five USDA systems of records and the
Department of the Treasury Do Not Pay (DNP) Working System. The program
supports identifying, preventing, and recouping improper payments
through pre-payment and pre-award eligibility verification. Treasury,
in consultation with OMB, has issued a waiver of the matching agreement
requirement.
DATES: This notice will be open for a 30-day notice and comment period
following its publication in the Federal Register, during which time
written comments may be submitted.
Submit comments on or before October 5, 2026. The matching program
will not become effective until the applicable public notice period has
expired, and it will remain in effect through September 10, 2029.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this notice, identified by Docket
Number SBA-2025-0069 by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments for Docket Number SBA-
2025-0069.
<bullet> Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Submit written comments to
Chief Privacy Officer Director, Privacy Division, Cybersecurity &
Privacy Operations Center (CPOC) 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20250
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chief Privacy Officer, Director,
Privacy Division, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20250 or
via email, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#37647a1978747e7819747e78196244535667455e4156544e774244535619505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0e3fd9efff3f9ff9ef3f9ff9ee5c3d4d1e0c2d9c6d1d3c9f0c5c3d4d19ed7dfc6">[email protected]</span></a>, telephone (202) 853-4378.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection
Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503) amended the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C.
552a) by establishing procedural safeguards related to agencies' use of
records when performing certain types of computerized matching. Section
7201 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-508)
further amended the Privacy Act regarding protections for individuals
when agencies perform these functions. The Payment Integrity
Information Act of 2019 (31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq.) provides the head of
the agency operating the DNP Working System with authority, in
consultation with OMB, to waive the requirements in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o) in
any case or class of cases for matching activities conducted under the
DNP Initiative (31 U.S.C. 3354). Pursuant to this authority, the
Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting with the OMB Director,
authorized a four-year waiver of the requirement for entering into a
matching agreement under 5 U.S.C. 552a(o) for the class of matching
programs meeting all criteria in OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing
Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay.
USDA has determined that the DNP matching programs described in
this notice is eligible for the waiver, which is effective from
September 10, 2025, through September 10, 2029. For purposes of this
notice, matching activities conducted between the USDA programs listed
in the appendix and the DNP Working System constitute a single agency-
wide matching program implementing DNP for USDA.\1\
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\1\ The statutory definition of the term ``matching program''
means ``any computerized comparison of--(i) two or more automated
systems of records or a system of records with non-Federal records''
for certain enumerated purposes. 5 U.S.C. 552a(a)(8) (emphasis
added). There is a separate statutory definition for ``Federal
benefit program.'' See OMB Memorandum M-25-32 at Appendix II, page
2, sec. a.3.iii.1 (recognizing that a single agency matching program
may consist of multiple systems of records). Thus, this notice
applies to the Do Not Pay matching program for multiple Federal
benefits programs and associated systems of records within USDA.
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Participating Agencies
USDA and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal
Service.
Authority for Conducting the Matching Program
The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (31 U.S.C. 3351 et
seq.); Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account Against
Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (90 FR 14011); and OMB Memorandum M-25-32,
Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay.
Additional statutory authorities for collection and maintenance of
information by each USDA program are identified in the applicable
systems of records notices listed in the appendix.
Purpose(s)
The purposes of this matching program are to identify and prevent
improper payments and to conduct related recoupment and recovery
activities by verifying pre-payment or pre-award eligibility through
the DNP Working System. USDA will disclose the minimum data elements
necessary for an authorized comparison. When the DNP Working System
identifies a potentially matching record, it will notify USDA and
identify the DNP source database containing the potentially matching
record. USDA will independently verify the information and determine
whether follow-up or other action is appropriate under applicable law
and program procedures. A potential match is an indicator requiring
verification and is not, standing alone, a determination of
ineligibility or a basis for adverse action.
Categories of Individuals
Records may relate to individual applicants for, or recipients of,
USDA-administered Federal funds, including sole proprietors, who are
beneficiaries; borrowers; grantees; vendors; contractors; producers;
landowners; persons doing business with the Food and Nutrition
Administration, and other individuals whose payment or award
eligibility is reviewed through the DNP Working System. Records
concerning an organization or other non-individual entity are included
only to the extent the records identify or pertain to an individual.
Categories of Records
Records involved in the computerized comparison include identifying
and payment- or award-related data submitted by USDA and records
maintained in databases included in the DNP Working System. USDA
submitted data may include name; Social Security number; Federal or
State Taxpayer Identification Number, including Employer Identification
Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, as applicable;
Unique Entity Identifier; date of birth; home, mailing, or business
address; business identifier; payment or payee identifier; award
identifier; and other identifying information necessary to conduct the
authorized comparison.
DNP responses may include a potential-match or no-match indicator,
identification of the DNP source database containing the potentially
matching record, and information authorized and necessary for USDA to
verify the potential match. The underlying DNP source records are
maintained in Treasury/Fiscal Service .017 Do Not Pay Payment
Verification Records.
USDA follow-up records may include identity-verification results,
supporting documentation, correspondence and notices, contest or
correction information, eligibility or payment determinations, and
records
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documenting prevention, recoupment, recovery, referral, or other
disposition.
System(s) of Records
Records in the DNP Working System are maintained in Department of
the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service .017 Do Not Pay Payment
Verification Records (85 FR 11776, February 27, 2020). That system
includes databases designated for inclusion in the DNP Working System
under the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 and other databases
designated by the Director of OMB, or the Director's designee, in
consultation with executive agencies. USDA records involved in the
matching program are maintained in the systems of records listed in the
appendix.
Appendix
The following USDA programs and activities are included in this
matching program as supported by the applicable systems of records.
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System of records citation Programs
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USDA/RD-1--Current or 89 FR 72820 Technical Assistance to Cooperatives; Rural Business-
Prospective Producers or (Sept. 6, 2024); Cooperative Service (RBCS) Grant Programs and Cooperative
Landowners, Applicants, 91 FR 18812 Agreement Programs; Rural Business and Cooperative Services
Borrowers, Grantees, Tenants, (April 13, 2026). (RBCS) Biobased Market Development and Access Grant Program
and Other Participants in RD (BDAP); Direct Housing Natural Disaster Loans and Grants;
Programs. Rural Business Investment Program; Rural Business-
Cooperative Service (RBCS) Grant Programs and Cooperative
Agreement Programs; Rural Business-Cooperative Service
(RBCS) Guaranteed Loan Programs; Rural Business-Cooperative
Service (RBCS) Payment Assistance; Rural Business-
Cooperative Service (RBCS) Relending Programs; Rural
Development Cooperative Agreement Program; Rural Housing
Service (RHS) Community Facilities Community Program Grants;
Rural Housing Service (RHS) Farm Labor Housing Loans
(Section 514) and Grants (Section 516); Rural Housing
Service (RHS) Housing Loans and Grants--Other; Rural Housing
Service (RHS) Multi-Family Housing Preservation and
Revitalization Demo Program; Rural Housing Service (RHS)
Multi-Family Housing Rental Assistance Program; Rural
Housing Service (RHS) Multi-Family Housing Rural Rental
Housing Direct Loans (Section 515); Rural Housing Service
(RHS) Multi-Family Housing Rural Rental Housing Direct Loans
(Section 515) (HIM Disasters); Rural Housing Service (RHS)
Single Family Housing Direct Loans; Rural Housing Service
(RHS) Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loans; Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) Congressional Earmarked Funds; Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) Grants--Other--Electric; Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) Powering Affordable Clean Energy
(PACE) Program; Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Rural
Telecommunications--Distance Learning and Telemedicine;
Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Rural Telecommunications--
ReConnect Program; Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Water and
Waste Disposal Loans and Grants Section 306C; Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) Water and Waste Disposal Systems for
Rural Communities Grants; Self Help Housing Land Development
Loans; Technical Assistance to Cooperatives.
USDA/FNS-10--Persons Doing 56 FR 40963 (Aug. Child and Adult Care Food Program; CNMI Nutrition Assistance;
Business with the Food and 20, 1991); 91 FR Commodity Supplemental Food Program; Emergency Food
Nutrition Service. 18812 (April 13, Assistance Program (Food Commodities); Food Distribution
2026). Program on Indian Reservations; Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Program; National School Lunch Program; Nutrition Assistance
for Puerto Rico; School Breakfast Program; Senior Farmers
Market Nutrition Program; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program; Special Milk Program for Children; Summer
Electronic Benefit Transfer Program for Children; Summer
Food Service Program for Children; WIC Farmers' Market
Nutrition Program (FMNP); WIC Grants to States (WGS).
USDA/FSA-14--Applicant/ 84 FR 10882 (Mar. Farm Service Agency (FSA) Boll Weevil Eradication Loan
Borrower. 22, 2019); 91 FR Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Loans; Farm
18812 (April 13, Service Agency (FSA) Farm Loan Borrower Relief Program; Farm
2026). Service Agency (FSA) Farm Operating Loans and Loan
Guarantees; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Ownership Loans
and Loan Guarantees; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Service
Agency Taxpayer Outreach Education and Technical Assistance
(American Rescue Plan Assistance); Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Indian Tribes and Tribal Corporation Loans; Farm Storage
Facility Loans; Heirs' Property Relending Program; Commodity
Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments.
USDA/FSA-2--Farm Records File 72 FR 70559 (Dec. Commodity Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments; Agriculture
(Automated). 12, 2007); 91 FR Risk/Price Loss Coverage Program; Biomass Crop Assistance
18812 (April 13, Program; Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Cotton
2026). Transition Assistance Program; Commodity Credit Corporation
(CCC) Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) Oriental Fruit Fly Program; Conservation
Loans; Conservation Reserve Program; Coronavirus Food
Assistance Program 1; Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2;
Dairy Margin Coverage; Dairy Margin Coverage Program; Direct
and Counter-Cyclical Payments Program; Emergency Assistance
for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program;
Emergency Conservation Program; Emergency Grain Storage
Facility Program; Emergency Livestock Relief Program;
Emergency Livestock Relief Program 2022; Emergency Relief
Program; Emergency Relief Program 2022; Emergency Livestock
Relief Program 2023 and 2024; Emergency Relief Program 2023
and 2024 Flood and Wildfire; Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Discrimination Financial Assistance Program; Farm Service
Agency (FSA) Commodity Container Assistance Program; Farm
Service Agency (FSA) DSA COVID Relief Program; Farm Service
Agency (FSA) Emergency Commodity Assistance Program; Farm
Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Forest Restoration Program;
Farm Service Agency (FSA) Food Safety Certification for
Specialty Crops Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Grassland
Reserve Program (previously a NRCS program); Farm Service
Agency (FSA) Milk Loss Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Organic and Transitional Education and Certification
Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Organic Certification
Cost Share Programs; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Organic Dairy
Marketing Assistance Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program; Farm Service Agency
(FSA) Seafood Trade Relief Program (STRP); Farmer Bridge
Assistance (FBA) Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program;
Hazardous Waste Management; Livestock Indemnity Program-2014
Farm Bill; Market Facilitation Program; Marketing Assistance
for Specialty Crops; Milk Income Loss 2; Noninsured Crop
Disaster Assistance Program; On-Farm Stored Commodity Loss
Program (OFSCLP); Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters
and Haulers (PATHH) Program; Pandemic Livestock Indemnity
Program; Price Loss Coverage; Quality Loss Adjustment
Program; Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program;
Rice Production Program; Quality Loss Adjustment Program;
Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP); Supplement
Disaster Relief Program; Tobacco Transition Program; Tree
Assistance Program; Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity
Program; Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Plus.
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USDA/OCFO-10--Financial 73 FR 21629 (Apr. Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Acer Access Development
Systems. 22, 2008); 91 FR Program; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Bison
18812 (April 13, Production and Marketing Grant Program; Agricultural
2026). Marketing Service (AMS)--Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
Funding to Alleviate Emergency Supply Chain Disruption in
the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP); Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS)--Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
Funding to Alleviate Emergency Supply Chain Disruption in
the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservation;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Dairy Business
Innovation Initiatives; Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS)--Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Federal-State
Marketing Improvement Program; Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS)--Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement
Program; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Local Food
Purchase Agreements with States, Tribes, and Local
Governments; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Local
Meat Capacity Grants; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--
Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants--Supplemental
Funding; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Micro-Grants
for Food Security Program; Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS)--Organic Market Development Grant (OMDG) Program;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Pandemic Relief
Activities: Farm and Food Worker Relief Grant Program;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Pandemic Relief
Activities: Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity--Technical
Assistance Grants; Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--
Regional Food Business Centers; Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS)--Regional Food System Partnerships;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Resilient Food System
Infrastructure Program; Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS)--Sheep Production and Marketing Grant Program;
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)--Specialty Crop Block
Grant Program--Farm Bill; Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (ANILCA) Agreements; Bipartisan
Infrastructure Act Nursery Vegetation; Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law Removal and Production of Flammable
Vegetation to Produce Biochar and Innovative Wood Products;
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law State, Private & Tribal
Agreements; Collaborative Forest Restoration; Community
Forest and Open Space Conservation Program (CFP); Community
Project Funds--Congressionally Directed Spending; Community
Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program; Cooperative Fire
Protection Agreement; Cooperative Forest Road Agreements;
Cooperative Forestry Assistance; Emergency Relief Program
Outreach Education and Technical Assistance; Farm Service
Agency (FSA) 220 Block Grant; Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Conservation Reserve Program Transition Incentive Program:
Outreach, Technical Assistance, and Research Agreements;
Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Labor Stabilization and
Protection Pilot Grant Program; Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program; Farm
Service Agency (FSA) Outreach Education and Technical
Assistance; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Outreach Education and
Technical Assistance for Disaster Assistance Programs; Farm
Service Agency (FSA) Testing, Mitigation, and Relief for
Agricultural Contamination by Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Texas 1944 Water
Treaty Grant; Farm Service Agency (FSA) Urban Agriculture
and Urban County Committee Outreach, Technical Assistance,
and Education; Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot
Program; Forest Legacy Program; Forest Health Protection;
Forest Service 638 Authority for Tribes; Forest Stewardship
Program; Good Neighbor Authority; Great American Outdoors
Act Deferred Maintenance Program; Grey Towers Cooperative
Authorities; Inflation Reduction Act--Forest Legacy Program;
Inflation Reduction Act--National Forest System; Inflation
Reduction Act Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance;
Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration;
Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program;
Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act Financial Assistance
to Facilities that Purchase and Process Byproducts for
Ecosystem Restoration; Infrastructure Investment and Job Act
Joint Fire Science Program (Research & Development);
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Capital Maintenance
and Improvement; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program;
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire
Defense Grants; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Firewood Bank Program; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Act Prescribed Fire/Fire Recovery; Infrastructure Investment
and Jobs Act Restoration/Revegetation; Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act Temporary Bridge Program;
International Forestry Programs; Lake Tahoe Erosion Control
Grant Program; Law Enforcement Agreements; National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation; National Forest Foundation; Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Composting and Food
Waste Reduction Cooperative Agreement Program; Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Office of Urban
Agriculture and Innovative Production; Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) People's Garden Initiative
Cooperative Agreements Program; Opal Creek Wilderness
Economic Grant Program; Partnership Agreements; Partnerships
for Climate-Smart Commodities; Research & Education
Activities; Research Joint Venture and Cost Reimbursable
Agreements; Schools and Roads--Grants to States; Southwest
Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention; State & Private
Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance; State & Private
Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program; Stewardship
Agreements; State Mediation Grants; Sugar Processor Block
Grants; Supplemental Disaster Block Grants with State;
Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program; Urban
Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP);
Urban and Community Forestry Program; Voluntary Public
Access and Habitat Incentive Program; Water Bank Program;
Water-Saving Commodities Grant; Watershed Restoration and
Enhancement Agreement Authority; Wetland Mitigation Banking
Program; Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes; Wood Education
and Resource Center (WERC); Wood Utilization Assistance.
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Levi S. Harrell,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Agriculture.
[FR Doc. 2026-18034 Filed 9-2-26; 8:45 am]
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