80_FR_18697 80 FR 18631 - Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an Altered System of Records

80 FR 18631 - Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an Altered System of Records

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 66 (April 7, 2015)

Page Range18631-18638
FR Document2015-07899

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing notice of a proposed alteration of the system of records entitled and numbered ``Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (NHSC LRP), Students to Service, (S2S), NHSC Student/Resident Experiences and Rotations in Community Health (SEARCH), NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP) formerly the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP), NURSE Corps Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP) formerly the Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP), Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP), and Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP), Applicants and/or Participants Records System, HHS/HRSA/BHW,'' No. 09-15-0037. The proposed alterations affect the system name, system location, categories of records, purposes, routine uses, safeguards, records retention and disposal, system manager title and address, as well as minor editorial corrections and clarifications.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 2015)
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an Altered System of Records

AGENCY:  Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department).

ACTION:  Notice of an Altered System of Records.

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SUMMARY:  In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 
1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) is publishing notice of a proposed alteration of the system of 
records entitled and numbered ``Public Health and National Health 
Service Corps Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), National Health Service 
Corps Loan Repayment Program (NHSC LRP), Students to Service, (S2S), 
NHSC Student/Resident Experiences and Rotations in Community Health 
(SEARCH), NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP) formerly 
the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP), NURSE Corps 
Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP) formerly the Nursing Scholarship 
Program (NSP), Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP), and 
Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP), Applicants and/or Participants 
Records System, HHS/HRSA/BHW,'' No. 09-15-0037. The proposed 
alterations affect the system name, system location, categories of 
records, purposes, routine uses, safeguards, records retention and 
disposal, system manager title and address, as well as minor editorial 
corrections and clarifications.

DATES:  HRSA filed an altered system report with the Chair of the House 
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the Chair of the Senate 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the 
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) on March 30, 2015. To ensure all parties 
have adequate time in which to comment, the altered system, including 
the routine uses, will become effective 30 days from the publication of 
the notice or 40 days from the date it was submitted to OMB and 
Congress, whichever is later, unless HRSA receives comments that 
require alterations to this notice.

ADDRESSES:  Please address comments to: Associate Administrator, Bureau 
of Health Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W-37, Rockville, MD 20857, telephone 
(301) 594-4130, or FAX (301) 594-4076. Comments received will be 
available for inspection at this same address from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 
p.m. (Eastern Standard Time Zone), Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  BMISS System Manager, Bureau of 
Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W-37, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: 301-
443-1587.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Explanation of Changes

     The system of records notice name has been shortened to 
``HHS/HRSA/BHW Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program Records.''
     The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) has been renamed the 
NURSE Corps Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP), and the Nursing 
Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) has been renamed the NURSE 
Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP) and all associated 
records have been merged into a new central database system as noted 
below.
     A new information system, BHW Management Information 
System Solution (BMISS), has replaced Bureau of Health Care Delivery 
and Assistance NET (BHCDANET), and serves as the central database for 
information concerning the, NHSC SP, NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE Corps SP, 
NURSE Corps LRP, FLRP, and NHHSP.
     The system location section has been updated to indicate 
that electronic records and electronic copies of paper records for 
applicants and participants under various programs are now stored in 
BMISS and to include locations of records not stored in BMISS (for 
example, Ambassador records are electronic but currently maintained in 
an online Web site directory while a BMISS database is being designed 
and built, at which point the records will be merged into BMISS).
     The categories of records have been updated to include 
``information concerning educational loans.''
     The purpose(s) section has been updated to consolidate 
certain descriptions (i.e., to combine the loan repayment and 
scholarship program monitoring activities previously described in 
purpose 4 with the other program selection and monitoring activities 
previously described in purpose 8), and to include intra-agency 
transfers of information previously described as routine uses by 
mistake (i.e., transfers to HHS' debt and financial management 
systems).

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     The routine uses have been revised for editorial clarity 
and otherwise updated as follows:
    [cir] Former routine use 15, pertaining to preparation of financial 
management and accounting documentation and information to be provided 
to the Department of the Treasury, has been deleted and is instead 
covered in the SORN for the ``Unified Financial Management System,'' 
System No. 09-90-0024, which receives information from this system for 
that purpose.
    [cir] Former routine uses 17, 18, 21 and 22, and a portion of what 
is now routine use 16 (formerly 14 and 24), pertaining to collection of 
delinquent federal debts, have been deleted because they are included 
in the SORN for the ``Debt Management and Collection System,'' System 
No. 09-40-0012 (see 7, 10, 11, 13), which receives information from 
this system for those purposes.
    [cir] Routine use 8 has been updated to specify that the 
information that may be disclosed includes a participant's name, Social 
Security number (SSN), mailing address, email address, phone number, 
health professions school, residency training, specialty, program 
status, award years, service start and end dates, and service site 
address and phone number.
    [cir] Routine use 11 has been updated allowing HHS to release to 
the participant's service site information from the participant's file, 
including but not limited to, his/her allegations concerning conditions 
at the site, disputes with site management, or circumstances 
surrounding his/her resignation/termination for the purpose of 
monitoring the program participant's compliance with the service 
obligation, including fact-finding to calculate service credit, to 
decide transfer requests, or to make default determinations.
    [cir] Routine use 14 has been added to allow HHS to disclose 
information consisting of name, address, SSN, health professions 
license number, and place of employment to a state or local government 
agency, including any agent thereof, maintaining criminal, civil, or 
administrative violation records, or other pertinent information such 
as records regarding the investigation or resolution of allegations 
involving a program participant. The purpose of this disclosure is to 
enable HHS to monitor compliance with program requirements and make 
determinations regarding administrative actions or other remedies, 
including default determinations.
    [cir] Routine use 15 has been added to allow HHS to disclose 
Ambassador information consisting of name, email and social network 
address(es), phone number(s), employment information, and professional 
biographies to current and prospective participants in BHW programs and 
other interested individuals. The purpose of this disclosure is to 
allow these individuals to contact Ambassadors who serve as mentors and 
local resources for the NHSC programs.
    [cir] Routine use 17 (formerly 16) has been updated to allow HHS to 
disclose information to loan servicing agencies for the purposes of 
obtaining payoff balances on educational loans and determining whether 
loans are eligible for repayment under the programs.
    [cir] Routine use 19 (formerly 20) has been updated to allow HHS to 
disclose information to the Department of the Treasury to determine if 
the applicant's name appears on the Do Not Pay List for program 
integrity/applicant eligibility purposes.
     The safeguards section has been updated to include 
encryption, intrusion detection, and firewalls.
     The retention and disposal section has been expanded and 
updated to include records created in BMISS or digitized and migrated 
into BMISS, and to cite applicable disposition schedules.
     The system manager contact information has been updated.
     The notification procedure has been revised to reflect the 
information that must be included in a notification request made by 
mail.
     The record source categories have been revised to include 
these additional sources: System for Awards Management (SAM) (formerly 
the Excluded Parties List System); HHS Office of Inspector General Web 
site listing individuals excluded from Medicare, Medicaid, and all 
other federal health care programs; and HHS database of Health 
Professional Shortage Areas.
     Other minor editorial corrections have been made to 
reflect the elimination of the Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and 
Services (BCRS) and the transfer of its functions to the newly 
established Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW).

II. The Privacy Act

    The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) governs the means by which the U.S. 
Government collects, maintains, and uses information about individuals 
in a system of records. A ``system of records'' is a group of any 
records under the control of a federal agency from which information 
about an individual is retrieved by the individual's name or other 
personal identifier. The Privacy Act requires each agency to publish in 
the Federal Register a system of records notice (SORN) identifying and 
describing each system of records the agency maintains, including the 
purposes for which the agency uses information about individuals in the 
system, the routine uses for which the agency discloses such 
information outside the agency, and how individual record subjects can 
exercise their rights under the Privacy Act (e.g., to seek access to 
their records in the system).

    Dated: March 31, 2015.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
System Number: 09-15-0037

System name:
    HHS/HRSA/BHW Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program Records

Security classification:
    Unclassified

System location:
    The servers for the central database (known as the Bureau of Health 
Workforce (BHW) Management Information System Solution (BMISS)) are 
located at the Center for Information Technology, National Institutes 
of Health, 12 South Drive, Room 1100, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and are 
accessed from computer workstations in program offices listed below. 
Paper copies of records included in the central database, and any paper 
or electronic records not included in the central database, are also 
stored in the program offices listed below:
     Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP) records 
are located at the BHW, Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 5600 
Fishers Lane, Room 9-105, Rockville, MD 20857 and at Papa Ola Lokahi, 
894 Queen St., #706, Honolulu, HI 96813.
     Ready Responder electronic records are located at BHW, 
HRSA, HHS, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15W-21D, Rockville, MD 20857.
     NHSC Student/Resident Experiences and Rotations in 
Community Health (SEARCH) records are located at BHW HRSA, HHS, 5600 
Fishers Lane, Room 7-100, Rockville, MD 20857.
    Additional records (e.g., spreadsheets created to perform their 
duties) are kept by contractors who assist with the implementation of 
the NHSC LRP, NHSC SP, NURSE Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), NURSE Corps SP 
(formerly NSP), FLRP, and are maintained at the below contractor 
locations:

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     Customer Care Center, Teletech, 8123 South Hardy Dr., 
Tempe, AZ 85284;
     Futrend Technology, Inc., 8605 Westwood Center Dr., Suite 
502, Vienna, VA 22182;
     Sapient Government Services, 1515 N. Courthouse Rd., 4th 
Floor, Arlington, VA 22201.
    Because contractors may change, a current listing of contractors 
and locations (if different from above) is available upon request by 
contacting the Policy-Coordinating Official. Archived records 
(including scanned paper files that have been merged into BMISS) are 
stored at the Washington National Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road, 
Suitland, MD 20746.

Categories of individuals covered by the system:
    The system contains information about the following categories of 
individuals:
     Individuals who have applied for, who are receiving, or 
who have received awards under the following programs: the National 
Health Service Corps Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), the National Health 
Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (NHSC LRP), Students to Service 
(S2S), the NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP) 
formerly the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP), the 
NURSE Corps Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP) formerly the Nursing 
Scholarship Program (NSP), the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship 
Program (NHHSP), and the Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP).
     Individuals who have applied to participate, are 
participating, or have participated in the NHSC Student/Resident 
Experiences and Rotations in Community Health (SEARCH) Program.
     Individuals who are current or former Ambassadors, Alumni, 
or Ready Responders.
     Individuals who indicate an interest in employment in or 
an assignment to a medical facility located in a Health Professional 
Shortage Area (HPSA) or a medically underserved population area, 
including public and federal medical facilities, such as Bureau of 
Prisons medical facilities, Indian Health Service health care 
facilities, and other federally sponsored health care facilities.

Categories of records in the system:
    Records include the individual's name, address(es), telephone 
number(s), email address(es), Social Security number (SSN); 
scholarship, loan repayment, Ambassadors, Alumni, Ready Responders or 
SEARCH application and associated forms/documents, contracts, 
employment data, professional performance and credentialing history of 
licensed health professionals; preference for site-selection; personal, 
professional, and demographic background information; academic and/or 
service progress reports (which include related data, correspondence, 
and professional performance information consisting of continuing 
education, performance awards, and adverse or disciplinary actions); 
commercial credit reports, educational data including tuition and other 
related education expenses; educational data including academic program 
and status; information concerning educational loans; employment status 
verification (which includes certifications and verifications of 
service obligation); medical data, financial data, payment data and 
related forms, deferment/placement/suspension/waiver data and 
supporting documentation; repayment/delinquent/default status 
information, correspondence to and from Program applicants and 
participants and/or their representatives, Claims Collection Litigation 
Reports for default cases referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Authority for maintenance of the system:
     Section 333 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 254f), Assignment of Corps Personnel;
     Section 225 of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 234), as in effect 
on September 30, 1977, PH/NHSC Scholarship Training Program;
     Section 409(b) of the Health Professions Educational 
Assistance Act of 1976, (42 U.S.C. 295g), PSASP;
     Sections 338A-H of the PHS Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
254l-q), NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs;
     Sections 336(c) and 331(b)(1) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 
254h-1(c) and 254d(b)(1)), SEARCH;
     Section 846 of the PHS Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 297n), 
NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (formerly the Nursing Education Loan 
Repayment Program) and NURSE Corps Scholarship Program (formerly the 
Nursing Scholarship Program);
     Section 10 of the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 11709), NHHSP;
     Section 738(a) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 293b(a)), Faculty 
Loan Repayment Program;
     Section 202 of Title II of Pub. L. 92-157 (42 U.S.C. 
3505d), National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse;
     31 U.S.C. 7701(c), Debt Collection Improvement Act of 
1996, Requirement That Applicant Furnish Taxpayer Identifying Number;
     Section 215(a) of the PHS Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
216(a)), pertaining to PHS commissioned officers, and 5 U.S.C. 3301 
pertaining to civil service employees, both of which authorize 
verification of an individual's suitability for employment.

Purpose(s):
    Relevant agency personnel use records about individuals from this 
system on a need to know basis for the following purposes:
    1. To obtain marketing and recruitment information concerning 
individuals who registered to complete an online application, but did 
not submit or complete an application.
    2. To identify and select qualified individuals to participate in 
the above-identified Programs.
    3. To maintain records on and to verify Program applicants' or 
participants' credentials and educational background, and previous and 
current professional employment data and performance history 
information to verify that all claimed background and employment data 
are valid and all claimed credentials are current and in good standing 
from selection for an award through the completion of service.
    4. To assist the HHS Program Support Center (PSC), the DOJ, and 
other government entities in the collection of Program debts.
    5. To respond to inquiries from Program applicants and 
participants, their attorneys or other authorized representatives, and 
Congressional representatives.
    6. To compile and generate managerial and statistical reports.
    7. With respect to the PH/NHSC and NHSC SP, NHHSP, NURSE Corps SP 
(formerly NSP), NHSC LRP, NURSE Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP: 
(a) to select and match scholarship recipients, loan repayors, and 
other individuals for assignment to or employment with a health care or 
other facility appropriate to the Programs' purposes; (b) to perform 
loan repayment and scholarship program administrative activities, 
including, but not limited to, payment tracking, deferment of the 
service obligation, monitoring a participant's compliance with the 
service requirements, determination of service completion, review of 
suspension or waiver requests, default determinations, and calculation 
of liability upon default; and (c) to monitor

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the services provided by the Programs' health care providers.
    8. With respect to the SEARCH Program: (a) to track recruitment of 
SEARCH participants for the NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment 
Programs; and (b) to determine how many non-obligated SEARCH 
participants ultimately practice primary health care in a Health 
Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
    9. With respect to the Ambassador and Alumni activities: (a) to 
advocate for more health professions students to choose primary care; 
(b) to mentor students and clinicians; and (c) to recruit students and 
clinicians for the NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs, and to 
train community leaders and local clinicians to care about and for 
people in need.
    10. To transfer records of delinquent federal debts to System No. 
09-40-0012, Debt Management and Collection System, for debt collection 
purposes.
    11. To transfer information to System No. 09-90-0024, Unified 
Financial Management System (UFMS), for purposes of effecting payment 
of program funds (through the Department of the Treasury) and preparing 
and maintaining financial management and accounting documentation 
related to obligations and disbursements of funds, (including providing 
notifications to the Department of the Treasury) related to payments 
to, or on behalf of, awardees. Information transferred to UFMS for 
these purposes is limited to the individual's name, address, SSN and 
other information necessary to identify him/her, the funding being 
sought or amount of qualifying educational loans, and the program under 
which the awardee is being processed.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories 
of users and the purposes of such uses:
    In addition to the disclosures authorized by the Privacy Act at 5 
U.S.C. 552a(b)(2) and (b)(4)-(b)(11), information about an individual 
may be disclosed from this system of records to parties outside HHS, 
without the individual's prior, written consent, for these routine 
uses:
    1. HHS may disclose to a Member of Congress or to a Congressional 
staff member information from the record of an individual in response 
to a written inquiry from the Congressional office made at the written 
request of that individual.
    2. HHS may disclose information from this system of records to the 
Department of Justice (DOJ) or to a court or other tribunal when
    a. HHS, or any component thereof, or
    b. Any HHS employee in his or her official capacity, or
    c. Any HHS employee in his or her individual capacity where the DOJ 
(or HHS, where it is authorized to do so) has agreed to represent the 
employee, or
    d. The United States Government, is a party to litigation or has an 
interest in such litigation, and by careful review, HHS determines that 
the records are both relevant and necessary to the litigation and that, 
therefore, the use of such records by the DOJ, court, or other tribunal 
is deemed by HHS to be compatible with the purpose for which the 
records were collected.
    3. In the event that a record on its face, or in conjunction with 
other records, indicates a violation or potential violation of law, 
whether civil, criminal, or regulatory in nature, and whether arising 
by general statute or particular program statute, or by regulation, 
rule or order issued pursuant thereto, disclosure may be made to the 
appropriate public authority, whether federal, state, local, tribal, or 
otherwise, responsible for enforcing, investigating or prosecuting such 
violation or charged with enforcing or implementing the statute or 
rule, regulation or order issued pursuant thereto, if the information 
is relevant to the enforcement, regulatory, investigative, or 
prosecutorial responsibility of the receiving entity. This includes, 
but is not limited to, disciplinary actions by state licensing boards 
against current or former Program participants.
    4. HHS may disclose information consisting of names, SSN, 
disciplines and/or medical specialties, current mailing addresses, 
dates of scholarship support, and dates of graduation of NHSC SP, NURSE 
Corps SP (formerly NSP) and NHHSP scholarship recipients to: (a) 
designated coordinators at each health professions school participating 
in the scholarship program for the purpose of determining educational 
expenses and resulting levels of scholarship support, and for the 
purpose of guiding and informing these recipients about the nature of 
their service obligation; and (b) schools attended by scholarship 
recipients who have taken a leave of absence from school, have 
terminated enrollment or been dismissed from school, or are repeating 
coursework, for the purpose of determining their academic status and 
whether their scholarship support should be suspended or resumed, as 
appropriate.
    5. HHS may disclose information consisting of name, address, 
discipline and/or medical specialty, and SSN from this system of 
records to a Program participant's health professions school, residency 
program, or other postgraduate training program, for the purpose of 
ascertaining the participant's enrollment status and training 
completion or graduation date.
    6. HHS may disclose records consisting of names, disciplines and/or 
medical specialties, current business or school mailing addresses, 
email addresses of the Programs' scholarship and loan repayment 
participants to contractors, Ambassadors, Alumni, and professional 
organizations in underserved communities for the purpose of supporting 
these clinicians in the course of their service obligation in a HPSA, 
school of nursing, or critical shortage facility.
    7. HHS or its contractors may disclose records consisting of a 
SEARCH participant's name, mailing address, email address, phone 
number, health professions school, residency training and specialty to 
state Primary Care Offices (PCOs) and Primary Care Associations (PCAs) 
and site representatives for the purpose of matching participants to 
potential employment sites.
    8. HHS may disclose records consisting of a participant's name, 
SSN, mailing address, email address, phone number, health professions 
school, residency training, specialty, program status, award years, 
service start and end dates, and service site address and phone number 
to Department grantees, contractors and subcontractors who assist with 
the implementation of the above-identified Programs, for the purposes 
of collecting, compiling, aggregating, analyzing, or refining records 
in the system, or improving Program operations. Grantees and 
contractors maintain, and contractors are also required to ensure that 
subcontractors maintain, Privacy Act safeguards with respect to such 
records.
    9. HHS may disclose biographical data and information supplied by 
Program applicants or participants: (a) To references listed on the 
application and associated forms for the purpose of evaluating the 
applicant's or participant's professional qualifications, experience, 
and suitability; (b) to a state or local government licensing board 
and/or to the Federation of State Medical Boards or a similar non-
government entity for the purpose of verifying that all claimed 
background and employment data are valid and all claimed credentials 
are current and in good standing; and (c) to prospective, current or 
former employers, or to site representatives, PCAs, and PCOs for the 
purpose of appraising the applicant's professional qualifications and

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suitability for site assignment or employment.
    10. HHS may disclose an applicant's or participant's name, mailing 
address, email address, phone number, SSN, health professions school, 
residency training, and specialty to Department grantees, site 
representatives, contractors, and subcontractors who assist with the 
implementation of the above-identified Programs, for the purpose of 
recruiting, screening, evaluating, and matching, placing, or assigning 
health professionals to a service site appropriate to the relevant 
Program's purposes. In addition, Department grantees, contractors and 
subcontractors may disclose biographical data and information supplied 
by Program applicants, participants, or references listed on the 
application and associated forms: (a) To other references for the 
purpose of evaluating the applicant's or participant's professional 
qualifications, experience, and suitability; (b) to a state or local 
government licensing board and/or to the Federation of State Medical 
Boards or a similar non-government entity for the purpose of verifying 
that all claimed background and employment data are valid and all 
claimed credentials are current and in good standing; (c) to the System 
for Awards Management (formerly Excluded Parties List System) for the 
purpose of determining whether applicants or participants are 
suspended, debarred, or disqualified from participation in covered 
transactions; (d) to the National Practitioner Data Bank for the 
purpose of determining whether applicants or participants have 
information on their reports; and (e) to prospective employers, or to 
site representatives, for the purpose of appraising the applicant's or 
participant's professional qualifications and suitability for site 
assignment or employment. Grantees and contractors maintain, and 
contractors are also required to ensure that subcontractors maintain, 
Privacy Act safeguards with respect to such records.
    11. HHS may disclose records consisting of name, mailing address, 
email address, phone number, SSN, specialty, and requested or actual 
placement site(s) to State Loan Repayment Grantees, state PCOs and 
PCAs, and site representatives to facilitate PCO, PCA and site 
activities related to recruitment and placement of Program participants 
at service sites. For the purpose of monitoring the program 
participant's compliance with the service obligation, including fact-
finding to calculate service credit, to decide transfer requests, or to 
make default determinations, HHS may release to the participant's 
service site other information from the participant's file, including 
but not limited to, his/her allegations concerning conditions at the 
site, disputes with site management, or circumstances surrounding his/
her resignation/termination.
    12. HHS may disclose records to a state or local government 
licensing board and/or to the Federation of State Medical Boards or a 
similar non-government entity which maintains records concerning: (a) 
An individual's employment history; (b) the issuance, retention, 
suspension, revocation, or reinstatement of licenses or registrations 
necessary to practice a health professional occupation or specialty; 
(c) disciplinary action against the individual or other sanctions 
imposed by a state or local government licensing board; or (d) the 
individual's attempts to pass health professions licensure exam(s). 
This disclosure may include the applicant's or participant's name, 
address, SSN, employment history, educational data, accreditation, 
licensing, and professional qualification data, and facts concerning 
any clinical competence, unprofessional behavior, or substance abuse 
problem of which HHS is aware. The purposes of this disclosure are: (1) 
To enable HHS to obtain information relevant to a decision concerning a 
health professional's accomplishments, professional and personal 
background qualifications, experience, and any licensure sanctions 
related to substance abuse, to determine the individual's suitability 
for employment, retention, or termination as a health services provider 
at a health care facility approved by the relevant Program; and (2) to 
inform health professions licensing boards or the appropriate non-
government entities about the health care practices or conduct of a 
practicing, terminated, resigned, or retired health services provider 
whose professional conduct so significantly failed to conform to 
generally accepted standards of professional practice for health care 
providers as to raise reasonable concern for the health and safety of 
patients.
    13. HHS may disclose information consisting of name, address, SSN, 
health professions license number, and place of employment from this 
system of records to federal, state, or local health agencies and law 
enforcement regarding a program participant who has a physical or 
mental condition that is, or has the potential to become, a risk to 
patients or to the public at large, or whose aberrant behavior poses 
such a risk (e.g., commission of a sexual assault, illegal use or 
distribution of narcotics).
    14. HHS may disclose information consisting of name, address, SSN, 
health professions license number, and place of employment to a state 
or local government agency, including any agent thereof, maintaining 
criminal, civil, or administrative violation records, or other 
pertinent information such as records regarding the investigation or 
resolution of allegations involving a program participant. The purpose 
of this disclosure is to enable HHS to monitor compliance with program 
requirements and make determinations regarding administrative actions 
or other remedies, including default determinations.
    15. HHS may disclose Ambassador information consisting of name, 
email and social network address(es), phone number(s), employment 
information, and professional biographies to current and prospective 
participants in BHW programs and other interested individuals. The 
purpose of this disclosure is to allow these individuals to contact 
Ambassadors who serve as mentors and local resources for the NHSC 
programs.
    16. HHS may disclose information from this system of records to a 
consumer reporting agency, as defined in 31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3), for the 
following purposes:
    a. To obtain a commercial credit report to assess the 
creditworthiness of a scholarship or loan repayment applicant;
    b. To verify information provided on the scholarship or loan 
repayment application concerning whether the applicant has ever 
defaulted on a federal or non-federal obligation, or had delinquent 
federal or non-federal debts or judgment liens;
    c. To determine and verify the eligibility of loans submitted for 
repayment;
    d. To assess and verify ability of a debtor to repay debts owed to 
the federal government; and
    e. To provide an incentive for debtors to repay federal debts by 
making these debts part of their credit records.
    Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3711(e)(1)(F), the information disclosed to 
the consumer reporting agency is limited to (i) information necessary 
to establish the identity of the person, including name, address, and 
taxpayer identification number; (ii) the amount, status, and history of 
the claim; and (iii) the agency or program under which the claim arose.
    17. HHS may disclose information about NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE Corps 
LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP

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applicants or participants to lending institutions and loan servicing 
agencies for the purpose of obtaining payoff balances on educational 
loans and determining whether loans are eligible for repayment under 
the Program. Disclosure will be limited to the applicant/participant's 
name, address, SSN, the loan account number(s), the pre-verified loan 
balance, account status, and other information necessary to identify 
the LRP applicant/participant and his/her loans for this purpose.
    18. HHS may disclose information to the Department of the Treasury, 
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), about an individual applying under the 
above-identified Programs to find out whether the applicant has a 
delinquent tax debt. This disclosure is for the sole purpose of 
determining the applicant's eligibility for funding and/or 
creditworthiness and is limited to the individual's name, address, SSN, 
other information necessary to identify him/her, and the program for 
which the information is being obtained.
    19. HHS may disclose information from this system of records to 
another federal, state, or local agency or private employer to whom a 
Program defaulter has applied for federal grant funds, federal 
scholarship, loan, or loan repayment funds, or employment involving 
federal funds, for the purpose of ensuring that the Program defaulter 
does not receive federal funds for which he/she is ineligible. 
Disclosure will be limited to the defaulter's name, address, SSN, 
inclusion on the Do Not Pay List, and any other information necessary 
to identify him/her.
    20. HHS may disclose information from this system of records to the 
DOJ and applicable state agencies in order to exclude a debtor from all 
federal health care programs, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f), 
including Medicare and Medicaid, or to conclude a settlement agreement 
staying such an exclusion.
    21. HHS may disclose information from this system of records to 
other federal, state, and local agencies, and public and private 
entities that provide scholarship and/or loan repayment funding or 
include bonus clauses in employment contracts, for the following 
purposes: (a) to curtail fraud and abuse of federal funds by 
identifying individuals who have applied for, or accepted, funding from 
another source for performance of the same service; and (b) to 
determine if an applicant has an existing service obligation to another 
federal, state, local, or other entity.
    22. HHS may disclose to federal, state, and local agencies, and 
public and private non-profit entities for research purposes, the name, 
address(es), SSN, discipline and service sites of applicants and 
participants in the above-identified Programs when the Department:
    i. has determined that the use or disclosure does not violate legal 
or policy limitations under which the record was provided, collected, 
or obtained;
    ii. has determined that a bona fide research/analysis purpose 
exists;
    iii. has required the recipient to:
     establish strict limitations concerning the receipt and 
use of applicant- and participant-identified data;
     establish reasonable administrative, technical, and 
physical safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the data and to 
prevent the unauthorized use or disclosure of the record;
     remove, destroy, or return the information that identifies 
the applicant or participant at the earliest time at which removal or 
destruction can be accomplished consistent with the purpose of the 
research project, unless the recipient has presented adequate 
justification of a research nature for retaining such information; and
     make no further use or disclosure of the record except as 
authorized by HHS or when required by law; and
    iv. has secured a written statement attesting to the recipient's 
understanding of, and willingness to abide by these provisions.
    23. Disclosure may be made in response to a subpoena from another 
federal agency having the power to subpoena other agencies' records, 
such as the IRS or U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
    24. Disclosure of information from this system of records may be 
made to the HHS/PSC/Federal Occupational Health contract physicians to 
review and provide a written opinion of the medical documentation 
submitted by scholarship and loan repayment Program participants 
seeking a suspension or waiver of their service or payment obligation.
    25. Disclosure to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if 
captured in an intrusion detection system used by HHS and DHS pursuant 
to a DHS cybersecurity program that monitors Internet traffic to and 
from federal government computer networks to prevent a variety of types 
of cybersecurity incidents.
    26. HHS may disclose records to appropriate federal agencies and 
Department contractors that have a need to know the information for the 
purpose of assisting the Department's efforts to respond to a suspected 
or confirmed breach of the security or confidentiality of information 
maintained in this system of records, when the information disclosed is 
relevant and necessary for that assistance.
    Because, as described in the Purposes section, certain information 
from this system of records is transferred to HHS' financial and debt 
management systems, those systems' SORNs should be consulted for 
additional routine use disclosures that may be made without the 
individual's consent. See Unified Financial Management System, System 
No. 09-90-0024, and Debt Management and Collection System, System No. 
09-40-0012.

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, 
and disposing of records in the system--
Storage:
    Records are maintained in electronic database servers and backup 
servers, file folders, and for NHHSP records, backup tapes.

Retrievability:
    Records are retrieved by an individual's name, Social Security 
number, or other identifying numbers or characteristics.

Safeguards:
    a. Authorized Users: Password-protected access is limited to 
persons authorized and needing to use the electronic records, which 
includes system managers and their staff, BHW headquarter officials and 
staff, HRSA Division of Regional Operations staff, financial and fiscal 
management personnel, Office of the General Counsel, Office of 
Information Technology personnel, and at Papa Ola Lokahi (POL), an 
entity which collaborates with HRSA/BHW in the administration of the 
Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP) through a 
Cooperative Agreement to assist with the implementation of the NHHSP. 
POL is physically located at 894 Queen St., Honolulu, HI 96813.
    b. Additional Authorized Users: Password-protected access is also 
provided to applicants, participants, and service sites for the purpose 
of inputting data, uploading documents, or submitting queries through 
BMISS.
    c. Physical Safeguards: Rooms where records are located are locked 
when not in use. During regular business hours, rooms are unlocked but 
are controlled by on-site personnel. Security guards perform random 
checks on the physical security of the offices (storage locations) 
after duty hours, including weekends and holidays.
    Servers and other computer equipment used to process identifiable

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data are located in secured areas and use physical access devices 
(e.g., keys, locks, combinations, card readers) and/or security guards 
to control entries into the facility. All facilities housing HRSA 
information systems maintain fire suppression and detection devices/
systems (e.g., sprinkler systems, handheld fire extinguishers, fixed 
fire hoses, and or smoke detectors) that can be activated in the event 
of a fire.
    With respect to NHHSP records located at Papa Ola Lokahi (POL), an 
entity HRSA/BWH collaborates with to administer the NHHSP, the building 
in which POL's office is located is publicly accessible but secured, 
with limited accessibility before and after work hours. Security guards 
visit the building at night. NHHSP's office suite is kept locked during 
work hours and individual offices are also locked when vacant. 
Applicant and participant files are kept in a locked cabinet in a 
locked office. Access to these files is limited to approved staff 
members, and when the area the files are in is not under the direct 
control of NHHSP staff, the office and cabinet are kept locked. The 
file server is behind a locked office door in a locked server cabinet. 
Backup tapes are stored in a locked, fireproof floor safe, and a 
secure, confidential off-site vault.
    Technical safeguards: Encryption, intrusion detection and firewalls 
are utilized. Scans are run against the BMISS platform for web and 
architecture vulnerabilities. Complex or strong passwords are required 
and are changed frequently.

Retention and disposal:
    Records are retained and disposed of as follows:
     Files concerning participants who complete their 
obligations or whose obligations are waived, cancelled, or terminated 
are transferred to the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, 
Maryland and are destroyed 6 years after final payment, under 
disposition schedule HSA B-351 3. 1.
     HRSA has digitized and uploaded paper files concerning 
active participants in BHW scholarship and loan repayment programs into 
BMISS. The paper files are stored at the Washington National Records 
Center and are destroyed 15 years after closeout, under disposition 
schedule N1-512-92-01, item 25P 1 and 2.
     Unfunded or withdrawn applicant records are destroyed 6 
months after the close of each fiscal year application period, under 
disposition schedule N1-512-92-01, item 25P 1.
     Currently, all records migrated to BMISS or created in 
BMISS are retained indefinitely, pending NARA's approval of a revised 
schedule.

System manager(s) and address:
    The System Manager for the system of records is the following 
Policy-Coordinating Official:
    Director, Division of Policy and Shortage Designation, Bureau of 
Health Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W-42, Rockville, MD 20857.
    Points of contact for specific programs/activities:
     NHSC SP and NHSC LRP Applications/Awards; Participant 
Placement/Assignment; Ready Responders: Director, Division of the 
National Health Service Corps, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C-
26, Rockville, MD 20857.
     NURSE Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), NURSE Corps SP (formerly 
NSP), and FLRP Applications/Awards; Participant Placement/Assignment: 
Director, Division of Health Careers and Financial Support, BHW, HRSA, 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-105, Rockville, MD 20857.
     NHSC SP, NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), 
NURSE Corps SP (formerly NSP), and FLRP Participants' service from 
matching through service completion: Director, Division of Participant 
Support and Compliance, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15W-50, 
Rockville, MD 20857.
     Suspension/Waiver/Default Determination for all BHW 
Programs: Chief, Legal and Compliance Branch, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Room 8-73, Rockville, MD 20857.
     NHHSP: Administrator, Papa Ola Lokahi, 894 Queen St., # 
706, Honolulu, HI 96813.
     SEARCH and Ambassadors: Director, Division of External 
Affairs, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 7-100, Rockville, MD 20857.

Notification procedure:
    To find out if the system contains records about you, contact the 
Policy-Coordinating Official, Director, Division of Policy and Shortage 
Designation, Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W-42, 
Rockville, MD 20857 who will refer you to the appropriate Point of 
Contact for the program/activity.
    Requests in person: A subject individual who appears in person at a 
specific location seeking access to or disclosure of records relating 
to him/her shall provide his/her name, current address, Social Security 
Number or other identifying information (e.g., date of birth), the name 
of the Program(s) in which the individual participated (or applied but 
was not selected), and at least one piece of tangible identification, 
such as driver's license, passport, or voter registration card. 
Identification papers with current photographs are preferred but not 
required. (A federally-issued picture ID is required to access many 
federal facilities such as the Parklawn Building.) If a subject 
individual has no identification but is personally known to an agency 
employee, such employee shall make a written record verifying the 
subject individual's identity. Where the subject individual has no 
identification papers, the responsible agency official shall require 
that the subject individual certify in writing that he/she is the 
individual who he/she claims to be and that he/she understands that the 
knowing and willful request for or acquisition of a record concerning 
an individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense subject to a 
$5,000 fine.
    Requests by mail: A written request must contain the name and 
address of the requester, Social Security number or other identifying 
information, and his/her signature which is either notarized to verify 
his/her identity or includes a written certification that the requester 
is the person he/she claims to be and that he/she understands that the 
knowing and willful request for or acquisition of records pertaining to 
an individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense subject to a 
$5,000 fine. In addition, the following information is needed: the name 
of the Program(s) in which the individual participated (or applied but 
was not selected), and the requester's current status (e.g., in 
training, in deferment, in service, or in default).
    Requests by telephone: Because positive identification of the 
caller cannot be established, telephone requests are not honored.

Record access procedures:
    Same as notification procedure. Requesters may also ask for an 
accounting of disclosures that have been made of their records, if any.

Contesting record procedures:
    Same as notification procedure. Contact the Policy-Coordinating 
Official; specify the information being contested, the corrective 
action sought, and the reasons for requesting the correction, along 
with supporting information to show how the record is inaccurate, 
incomplete, untimely, or irrelevant.

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Record source categories:
    Records are obtained directly from the subject individuals, or from 
the following sources: educational institutions; internship and/or 
residency training programs; employers; NHSC-approved service sites; 
critical shortage facilities; schools of nursing; lending institutions 
and loan servicing agencies; health professional associations; National 
Practitioner Data Bank; System for Awards Management (formerly Excluded 
Parties List System); HHS Office of Inspector General Web site listing 
of individuals excluded from Medicare, Medicaid, and all other federal 
health care programs; HHS database of Health Professional Shortage 
Areas; HHS grantees and contractors/subcontractors; consumer reporting 
agencies/credit bureaus; other federal agencies, including but not 
limited to the Department of the Treasury, IRS, and the U.S. Postal 
Service; state health professions licensing boards and/or the 
Federation of State Medical Boards or a similar non-government entity; 
and third parties who provide references or other information 
concerning the subject individual.

System exempted from certain provisions of the Act:
    None.

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                                                                                                           TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN 1
                                                                                                                                                           Number of                             Average
                                                    Guidance for industry on risk evaluation and mitigation                              Number of                          Total annual
                                                                                                                                                         responses per                         burden per   Total hours
                                                           strategies: modifications and revisions                                      respondents                          responses
                                                                                                                                                           respondent                           response

                                                  REMS revisions ...................................................................       117                   1              152               30          4,560
                                                     1 There    are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.


                                                  III. Comments                                                       National Health Service Corps Loan                     Fishers Lane, Room 11W–37, Rockville,
                                                     Interested persons may submit either                             Repayment Program (NHSC LRP),                          MD 20857, Telephone: 301–443–1587.
                                                  electronic comments regarding this                                  Students to Service, (S2S), NHSC                       SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                  document to http://www.regulations.gov                              Student/Resident Experiences and
                                                  or written comments to the Division of                              Rotations in Community Health                          I. Explanation of Changes
                                                                                                                      (SEARCH), NURSE Corps Loan
                                                  Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES). It
                                                                                                                      Repayment Program (NURSE Corps                            • The system of records notice name
                                                  is only necessary to send one set of                                                                                       has been shortened to ‘‘HHS/HRSA/
                                                  comments. Identify comments with the                                LRP) formerly the Nursing Education
                                                                                                                      Loan Repayment Program (NELRP),                        BHW Scholarship and Loan Repayment
                                                  docket number found in brackets in the                                                                                     Program Records.’’
                                                  heading of this document. Received                                  NURSE Corps Scholarship Program
                                                                                                                      (NURSE Corps SP) formerly the Nursing                     • The Nursing Scholarship Program
                                                  comments may be seen in the Division                                                                                       (NSP) has been renamed the NURSE
                                                  of Dockets Management between 9 a.m.                                Scholarship Program (NSP), Native
                                                                                                                      Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program                    Corps Scholarship Program (NURSE
                                                  and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and                                                                                     Corps SP), and the Nursing Education
                                                  will be posted to the docket at http://                             (NHHSP), and Faculty Loan Repayment
                                                                                                                      Program (FLRP), Applicants and/or                      Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) has
                                                  www.regulations.gov.                                                                                                       been renamed the NURSE Corps Loan
                                                                                                                      Participants Records System, HHS/
                                                  IV. Electronic Access                                               HRSA/BHW,’’ No. 09–15–0037. The                        Repayment Program (NURSE Corps
                                                    Persons with access to the Internet                               proposed alterations affect the system                 LRP) and all associated records have
                                                  may obtain the document at http://                                  name, system location, categories of                   been merged into a new central database
                                                  www.fda.gov/Drugs/                                                  records, purposes, routine uses,                       system as noted below.
                                                  GuidanceCompliance                                                  safeguards, records retention and                         • A new information system, BHW
                                                  RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/                                    disposal, system manager title and                     Management Information System
                                                  default.htm, http://www.fda.gov/                                    address, as well as minor editorial                    Solution (BMISS), has replaced Bureau
                                                  BiologicsBloodVaccines/                                             corrections and clarifications.                        of Health Care Delivery and Assistance
                                                  GuidanceCompliance                                                  DATES: HRSA filed an altered system                    NET (BHCDANET), and serves as the
                                                  RegulatoryInformation/default.htm, or                               report with the Chair of the House                     central database for information
                                                  http://www.regulations.gov.                                         Committee on Government Reform and                     concerning the, NHSC SP, NHSC LRP,
                                                                                                                      Oversight, the Chair of the Senate                     S2S, NURSE Corps SP, NURSE Corps
                                                    Dated: April 2, 2015.
                                                                                                                      Committee on Homeland Security and                     LRP, FLRP, and NHHSP.
                                                  Leslie Kux,
                                                                                                                      Governmental Affairs, and the                             • The system location section has
                                                  Associate Commissioner for Policy.
                                                                                                                      Administrator, Office of Information                   been updated to indicate that electronic
                                                  [FR Doc. 2015–08015 Filed 4–6–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                                      and Regulatory Affairs, Office of                      records and electronic copies of paper
                                                  BILLING CODE CODE 4164–01–P
                                                                                                                      Management and Budget (OMB) on                         records for applicants and participants
                                                                                                                      March 30, 2015. To ensure all parties                  under various programs are now stored
                                                                                                                      have adequate time in which to                         in BMISS and to include locations of
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                                                                                                      comment, the altered system, including                 records not stored in BMISS (for
                                                  HUMAN SERVICES
                                                                                                                      the routine uses, will become effective                example, Ambassador records are
                                                  Health Resources and Services                                       30 days from the publication of the                    electronic but currently maintained in
                                                  Administration                                                      notice or 40 days from the date it was                 an online Web site directory while a
                                                                                                                      submitted to OMB and Congress,                         BMISS database is being designed and
                                                  Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an                                   whichever is later, unless HRSA                        built, at which point the records will be
                                                  Altered System of Records                                           receives comments that require                         merged into BMISS).
                                                  AGENCY:  Health Resources and Services
                                                                                                                      alterations to this notice.                               • The categories of records have been
                                                  Administration (HRSA), Department of                                ADDRESSES: Please address comments                     updated to include ‘‘information
                                                  Health and Human Services (HHS or                                   to: Associate Administrator, Bureau of                 concerning educational loans.’’
                                                  Department).                                                        Health Workforce (BHW), Health                            • The purpose(s) section has been
                                                                                                                      Resources and Services Administration                  updated to consolidate certain
                                                  ACTION: Notice of an Altered System of
                                                                                                                      (HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W–                   descriptions (i.e., to combine the loan
                                                  Records.                                                            37, Rockville, MD 20857, telephone                     repayment and scholarship program
                                                  SUMMARY:   In accordance with the                                   (301) 594–4130, or FAX (301) 594–4076.                 monitoring activities previously
                                                                                                                      Comments received will be available for
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                                                  requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974                                                                                    described in purpose 4 with the other
                                                  (5 U.S.C. 552a), the Health Resources                               inspection at this same address from                   program selection and monitoring
                                                  and Services Administration (HRSA) is                               9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard               activities previously described in
                                                  publishing notice of a proposed                                     Time Zone), Monday through Friday.                     purpose 8), and to include intra-agency
                                                  alteration of the system of records                                 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                       transfers of information previously
                                                  entitled and numbered ‘‘Public Health                               BMISS System Manager, Bureau of                        described as routine uses by mistake
                                                  and National Health Service Corps                                   Health Workforce, Health Resources and                 (i.e., transfers to HHS’ debt and
                                                  Scholarship Program (NHSC SP),                                      Services Administration (HRSA), 5600                   financial management systems).


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                                                     • The routine uses have been revised                 and social network address(es), phone                 the Federal Register a system of records
                                                  for editorial clarity and otherwise                     number(s), employment information,                    notice (SORN) identifying and
                                                  updated as follows:                                     and professional biographies to current               describing each system of records the
                                                     Æ Former routine use 15, pertaining                  and prospective participants in BHW                   agency maintains, including the
                                                  to preparation of financial management                  programs and other interested                         purposes for which the agency uses
                                                  and accounting documentation and                        individuals. The purpose of this                      information about individuals in the
                                                  information to be provided to the                       disclosure is to allow these individuals              system, the routine uses for which the
                                                  Department of the Treasury, has been                    to contact Ambassadors who serve as                   agency discloses such information
                                                  deleted and is instead covered in the                   mentors and local resources for the                   outside the agency, and how individual
                                                  SORN for the ‘‘Unified Financial                        NHSC programs.                                        record subjects can exercise their rights
                                                  Management System,’’ System No. 09–                        Æ Routine use 17 (formerly 16) has                 under the Privacy Act (e.g., to seek
                                                  90–0024, which receives information                     been updated to allow HHS to disclose                 access to their records in the system).
                                                  from this system for that purpose.                      information to loan servicing agencies                 Dated: March 31, 2015.
                                                     Æ Former routine uses 17, 18, 21 and                 for the purposes of obtaining payoff
                                                  22, and a portion of what is now routine                                                                      Mary K. Wakefield,
                                                                                                          balances on educational loans and
                                                  use 16 (formerly 14 and 24), pertaining                                                                       Administrator.
                                                                                                          determining whether loans are eligible
                                                  to collection of delinquent federal debts,              for repayment under the programs.                     System Number: 09–15–0037
                                                  have been deleted because they are                         Æ Routine use 19 (formerly 20) has
                                                  included in the SORN for the ‘‘Debt                     been updated to allow HHS to disclose                 SYSTEM NAME:
                                                  Management and Collection System,’’                     information to the Department of the                    HHS/HRSA/BHW Scholarship and
                                                  System No. 09–40–0012 (see 7, 10, 11,                   Treasury to determine if the applicant’s              Loan Repayment Program Records
                                                  13), which receives information from                    name appears on the Do Not Pay List for
                                                  this system for those purposes.                         program integrity/applicant eligibility               SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
                                                     Æ Routine use 8 has been updated to                  purposes.                                                Unclassified
                                                  specify that the information that may be                   • The safeguards section has been
                                                  disclosed includes a participant’s name,                updated to include encryption,                        SYSTEM LOCATION:
                                                  Social Security number (SSN), mailing                   intrusion detection, and firewalls.                     The servers for the central database
                                                  address, email address, phone number,                      • The retention and disposal section               (known as the Bureau of Health
                                                  health professions school, residency                    has been expanded and updated to                      Workforce (BHW) Management
                                                  training, specialty, program status,                    include records created in BMISS or                   Information System Solution (BMISS))
                                                  award years, service start and end dates,               digitized and migrated into BMISS, and                are located at the Center for Information
                                                  and service site address and phone                      to cite applicable disposition schedules.             Technology, National Institutes of
                                                  number.                                                    • The system manager contact                       Health, 12 South Drive, Room 1100,
                                                     Æ Routine use 11 has been updated                    information has been updated.                         Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and are
                                                  allowing HHS to release to the                             • The notification procedure has been              accessed from computer workstations in
                                                  participant’s service site information                  revised to reflect the information that
                                                  from the participant’s file, including but                                                                    program offices listed below. Paper
                                                                                                          must be included in a notification                    copies of records included in the central
                                                  not limited to, his/her allegations                     request made by mail.                                 database, and any paper or electronic
                                                  concerning conditions at the site,                         • The record source categories have
                                                  disputes with site management, or                                                                             records not included in the central
                                                                                                          been revised to include these additional
                                                  circumstances surrounding his/her                                                                             database, are also stored in the program
                                                                                                          sources: System for Awards
                                                  resignation/termination for the purpose                                                                       offices listed below:
                                                                                                          Management (SAM) (formerly the
                                                  of monitoring the program participant’s                 Excluded Parties List System); HHS                      • Native Hawaiian Health
                                                  compliance with the service obligation,                 Office of Inspector General Web site                  Scholarship Program (NHHSP) records
                                                  including fact-finding to calculate                     listing individuals excluded from                     are located at the BHW, Health
                                                  service credit, to decide transfer                      Medicare, Medicaid, and all other                     Resources and Services Administration
                                                  requests, or to make default                            federal health care programs; and HHS                 (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and
                                                  determinations.                                         database of Health Professional Shortage              Human Services (HHS), 5600 Fishers
                                                     Æ Routine use 14 has been added to                   Areas.                                                Lane, Room 9–105, Rockville, MD 20857
                                                  allow HHS to disclose information                          • Other minor editorial corrections                and at Papa Ola Lokahi, 894 Queen St.,
                                                  consisting of name, address, SSN, health                have been made to reflect the                         #706, Honolulu, HI 96813.
                                                  professions license number, and place                   elimination of the Bureau of Clinician                  • Ready Responder electronic records
                                                  of employment to a state or local                       Recruitment and Services (BCRS) and                   are located at BHW, HRSA, HHS, 5600
                                                  government agency, including any agent                  the transfer of its functions to the newly            Fishers Lane, Room 15W–21D,
                                                  thereof, maintaining criminal, civil, or                established Bureau of Health Workforce                Rockville, MD 20857.
                                                  administrative violation records, or                    (BHW).                                                  • NHSC Student/Resident
                                                  other pertinent information such as                                                                           Experiences and Rotations in
                                                  records regarding the investigation or                  II. The Privacy Act                                   Community Health (SEARCH) records
                                                  resolution of allegations involving a                      The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a)                    are located at BHW HRSA, HHS, 5600
                                                  program participant. The purpose of this                governs the means by which the U.S.                   Fishers Lane, Room 7–100, Rockville,
                                                  disclosure is to enable HHS to monitor                  Government collects, maintains, and                   MD 20857.
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                                                  compliance with program requirements                    uses information about individuals in a                 Additional records (e.g., spreadsheets
                                                  and make determinations regarding                       system of records. A ‘‘system of                      created to perform their duties) are kept
                                                  administrative actions or other                         records’’ is a group of any records under             by contractors who assist with the
                                                  remedies, including default                             the control of a federal agency from                  implementation of the NHSC LRP,
                                                  determinations.                                         which information about an individual                 NHSC SP, NURSE Corps LRP (formerly
                                                     Æ Routine use 15 has been added to                   is retrieved by the individual’s name or              NELRP), NURSE Corps SP (formerly
                                                  allow HHS to disclose Ambassador                        other personal identifier. The Privacy                NSP), FLRP, and are maintained at the
                                                  information consisting of name, email                   Act requires each agency to publish in                below contractor locations:


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                                                    • Customer Care Center, Teletech,                     application and associated forms/                       • 31 U.S.C. 7701(c), Debt Collection
                                                  8123 South Hardy Dr., Tempe, AZ                         documents, contracts, employment data,                Improvement Act of 1996, Requirement
                                                  85284;                                                  professional performance and                          That Applicant Furnish Taxpayer
                                                    • Futrend Technology, Inc., 8605                      credentialing history of licensed health              Identifying Number;
                                                  Westwood Center Dr., Suite 502,                         professionals; preference for site-                     • Section 215(a) of the PHS Act, as
                                                  Vienna, VA 22182;                                       selection; personal, professional, and                amended (42 U.S.C. 216(a)), pertaining
                                                    • Sapient Government Services, 1515                   demographic background information;                   to PHS commissioned officers, and 5
                                                  N. Courthouse Rd., 4th Floor, Arlington,                academic and/or service progress                      U.S.C. 3301 pertaining to civil service
                                                  VA 22201.                                               reports (which include related data,                  employees, both of which authorize
                                                    Because contractors may change, a                     correspondence, and professional                      verification of an individual’s suitability
                                                  current listing of contractors and                      performance information consisting of                 for employment.
                                                  locations (if different from above) is                  continuing education, performance
                                                  available upon request by contacting the                awards, and adverse or disciplinary                   PURPOSE(S):
                                                  Policy-Coordinating Official. Archived                  actions); commercial credit reports,                     Relevant agency personnel use
                                                  records (including scanned paper files                  educational data including tuition and                records about individuals from this
                                                  that have been merged into BMISS) are                   other related education expenses;                     system on a need to know basis for the
                                                  stored at the Washington National                       educational data including academic                   following purposes:
                                                  Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road,                     program and status; information                          1. To obtain marketing and
                                                  Suitland, MD 20746.                                     concerning educational loans;                         recruitment information concerning
                                                                                                          employment status verification (which                 individuals who registered to complete
                                                  CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
                                                  SYSTEM:
                                                                                                          includes certifications and verifications             an online application, but did not
                                                                                                          of service obligation); medical data,                 submit or complete an application.
                                                    The system contains information                       financial data, payment data and related                 2. To identify and select qualified
                                                  about the following categories of                       forms, deferment/placement/                           individuals to participate in the above-
                                                  individuals:                                            suspension/waiver data and supporting                 identified Programs.
                                                    • Individuals who have applied for,
                                                                                                          documentation; repayment/delinquent/                     3. To maintain records on and to
                                                  who are receiving, or who have received
                                                                                                          default status information,                           verify Program applicants’ or
                                                  awards under the following programs:
                                                                                                          correspondence to and from Program                    participants’ credentials and
                                                  the National Health Service Corps
                                                                                                          applicants and participants and/or their              educational background, and previous
                                                  Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), the
                                                                                                          representatives, Claims Collection                    and current professional employment
                                                  National Health Service Corps Loan
                                                                                                          Litigation Reports for default cases                  data and performance history
                                                  Repayment Program (NHSC LRP),
                                                                                                          referred to the Department of Justice                 information to verify that all claimed
                                                  Students to Service (S2S), the NURSE
                                                                                                          (DOJ).                                                background and employment data are
                                                  Corps Loan Repayment Program
                                                                                                                                                                valid and all claimed credentials are
                                                  (NURSE Corps LRP) formerly the                          AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
                                                                                                                                                                current and in good standing from
                                                  Nursing Education Loan Repayment                           • Section 333 of the Public Health                 selection for an award through the
                                                  Program (NELRP), the NURSE Corps                        Service (PHS) Act, as amended (42                     completion of service.
                                                  Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP)                    U.S.C. 254f), Assignment of Corps
                                                  formerly the Nursing Scholarship                                                                                 4. To assist the HHS Program Support
                                                                                                          Personnel;                                            Center (PSC), the DOJ, and other
                                                  Program (NSP), the Native Hawaiian                         • Section 225 of the PHS Act (42
                                                  Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP),                                                                           government entities in the collection of
                                                                                                          U.S.C. 234), as in effect on September
                                                  and the Faculty Loan Repayment                                                                                Program debts.
                                                                                                          30, 1977, PH/NHSC Scholarship
                                                  Program (FLRP).                                                                                                  5. To respond to inquiries from
                                                                                                          Training Program;
                                                    • Individuals who have applied to                        • Section 409(b) of the Health                     Program applicants and participants,
                                                  participate, are participating, or have                 Professions Educational Assistance Act                their attorneys or other authorized
                                                  participated in the NHSC Student/                       of 1976, (42 U.S.C. 295g), PSASP;                     representatives, and Congressional
                                                  Resident Experiences and Rotations in                      • Sections 338A–H of the PHS Act, as               representatives.
                                                  Community Health (SEARCH) Program.                      amended (42 U.S.C. 254l-q), NHSC                         6. To compile and generate
                                                    • Individuals who are current or                      Scholarship and Loan Repayment                        managerial and statistical reports.
                                                  former Ambassadors, Alumni, or Ready                    Programs;                                                7. With respect to the PH/NHSC and
                                                  Responders.                                                • Sections 336(c) and 331(b)(1) of the             NHSC SP, NHHSP, NURSE Corps SP
                                                    • Individuals who indicate an interest                PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 254h-1(c) and                      (formerly NSP), NHSC LRP, NURSE
                                                  in employment in or an assignment to                    254d(b)(1)), SEARCH;                                  Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP:
                                                  a medical facility located in a Health                     • Section 846 of the PHS Act, as                   (a) to select and match scholarship
                                                  Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) or a                  amended (42 U.S.C. 297n), NURSE                       recipients, loan repayors, and other
                                                  medically underserved population area,                  Corps Loan Repayment Program                          individuals for assignment to or
                                                  including public and federal medical                    (formerly the Nursing Education Loan                  employment with a health care or other
                                                  facilities, such as Bureau of Prisons                   Repayment Program) and NURSE Corps                    facility appropriate to the Programs’
                                                  medical facilities, Indian Health Service               Scholarship Program (formerly the                     purposes; (b) to perform loan repayment
                                                  health care facilities, and other federally             Nursing Scholarship Program);                         and scholarship program administrative
                                                  sponsored health care facilities.                          • Section 10 of the Native Hawaiian                activities, including, but not limited to,
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                                                                                                          Health Care Improvement Act, as                       payment tracking, deferment of the
                                                  CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:                    amended (42 U.S.C. 11709), NHHSP;                     service obligation, monitoring a
                                                    Records include the individual’s                         • Section 738(a) of the PHS Act (42                participant’s compliance with the
                                                  name, address(es), telephone number(s),                 U.S.C. 293b(a)), Faculty Loan                         service requirements, determination of
                                                  email address(es), Social Security                      Repayment Program;                                    service completion, review of
                                                  number (SSN); scholarship, loan                            • Section 202 of Title II of Pub. L. 92–           suspension or waiver requests, default
                                                  repayment, Ambassadors, Alumni,                         157 (42 U.S.C. 3505d), National Health                determinations, and calculation of
                                                  Ready Responders or SEARCH                              Professional Shortage Clearinghouse;                  liability upon default; and (c) to monitor


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                                                  the services provided by the Programs’                     b. Any HHS employee in his or her                  residency program, or other
                                                  health care providers.                                  official capacity, or                                 postgraduate training program, for the
                                                     8. With respect to the SEARCH                           c. Any HHS employee in his or her                  purpose of ascertaining the participant’s
                                                  Program: (a) to track recruitment of                    individual capacity where the DOJ (or                 enrollment status and training
                                                  SEARCH participants for the NHSC                        HHS, where it is authorized to do so)                 completion or graduation date.
                                                  Scholarship and Loan Repayment                          has agreed to represent the employee, or                6. HHS may disclose records
                                                  Programs; and (b) to determine how                         d. The United States Government, is                consisting of names, disciplines and/or
                                                  many non-obligated SEARCH                               a party to litigation or has an interest in           medical specialties, current business or
                                                  participants ultimately practice primary                such litigation, and by careful review,               school mailing addresses, email
                                                  health care in a Health Professional                    HHS determines that the records are                   addresses of the Programs’ scholarship
                                                  Shortage Area (HPSA).                                   both relevant and necessary to the                    and loan repayment participants to
                                                     9. With respect to the Ambassador                    litigation and that, therefore, the use of            contractors, Ambassadors, Alumni, and
                                                  and Alumni activities: (a) to advocate                  such records by the DOJ, court, or other              professional organizations in
                                                  for more health professions students to                 tribunal is deemed by HHS to be                       underserved communities for the
                                                  choose primary care; (b) to mentor                      compatible with the purpose for which                 purpose of supporting these clinicians
                                                  students and clinicians; and (c) to                     the records were collected.                           in the course of their service obligation
                                                  recruit students and clinicians for the                    3. In the event that a record on its               in a HPSA, school of nursing, or critical
                                                  NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment                     face, or in conjunction with other                    shortage facility.
                                                  Programs, and to train community                        records, indicates a violation or
                                                                                                                                                                  7. HHS or its contractors may disclose
                                                  leaders and local clinicians to care                    potential violation of law, whether civil,
                                                                                                                                                                records consisting of a SEARCH
                                                  about and for people in need.                           criminal, or regulatory in nature, and
                                                                                                                                                                participant’s name, mailing address,
                                                     10. To transfer records of delinquent                whether arising by general statute or
                                                                                                                                                                email address, phone number, health
                                                  federal debts to System No. 09–40–0012,                 particular program statute, or by
                                                                                                                                                                professions school, residency training
                                                  Debt Management and Collection                          regulation, rule or order issued pursuant
                                                                                                                                                                and specialty to state Primary Care
                                                  System, for debt collection purposes.                   thereto, disclosure may be made to the
                                                                                                          appropriate public authority, whether                 Offices (PCOs) and Primary Care
                                                     11. To transfer information to System                                                                      Associations (PCAs) and site
                                                  No. 09–90–0024, Unified Financial                       federal, state, local, tribal, or otherwise,
                                                                                                          responsible for enforcing, investigating              representatives for the purpose of
                                                  Management System (UFMS), for                                                                                 matching participants to potential
                                                  purposes of effecting payment of                        or prosecuting such violation or charged
                                                                                                          with enforcing or implementing the                    employment sites.
                                                  program funds (through the Department                                                                           8. HHS may disclose records
                                                  of the Treasury) and preparing and                      statute or rule, regulation or order
                                                                                                          issued pursuant thereto, if the                       consisting of a participant’s name, SSN,
                                                  maintaining financial management and                                                                          mailing address, email address, phone
                                                  accounting documentation related to                     information is relevant to the
                                                                                                          enforcement, regulatory, investigative,               number, health professions school,
                                                  obligations and disbursements of funds,                                                                       residency training, specialty, program
                                                  (including providing notifications to the               or prosecutorial responsibility of the
                                                                                                          receiving entity. This includes, but is               status, award years, service start and
                                                  Department of the Treasury) related to                                                                        end dates, and service site address and
                                                  payments to, or on behalf of, awardees.                 not limited to, disciplinary actions by
                                                                                                          state licensing boards against current or             phone number to Department grantees,
                                                  Information transferred to UFMS for                                                                           contractors and subcontractors who
                                                  these purposes is limited to the                        former Program participants.
                                                                                                             4. HHS may disclose information                    assist with the implementation of the
                                                  individual’s name, address, SSN and                                                                           above-identified Programs, for the
                                                                                                          consisting of names, SSN, disciplines
                                                  other information necessary to identify                                                                       purposes of collecting, compiling,
                                                                                                          and/or medical specialties, current
                                                  him/her, the funding being sought or                                                                          aggregating, analyzing, or refining
                                                                                                          mailing addresses, dates of scholarship
                                                  amount of qualifying educational loans,                                                                       records in the system, or improving
                                                                                                          support, and dates of graduation of
                                                  and the program under which the                                                                               Program operations. Grantees and
                                                                                                          NHSC SP, NURSE Corps SP (formerly
                                                  awardee is being processed.                                                                                   contractors maintain, and contractors
                                                                                                          NSP) and NHHSP scholarship recipients
                                                  ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE               to: (a) designated coordinators at each               are also required to ensure that
                                                  SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND               health professions school participating               subcontractors maintain, Privacy Act
                                                  THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:                              in the scholarship program for the                    safeguards with respect to such records.
                                                     In addition to the disclosures                       purpose of determining educational                      9. HHS may disclose biographical
                                                  authorized by the Privacy Act at 5                      expenses and resulting levels of                      data and information supplied by
                                                  U.S.C. 552a(b)(2) and (b)(4)-(b)(11),                   scholarship support, and for the                      Program applicants or participants: (a)
                                                  information about an individual may be                  purpose of guiding and informing these                To references listed on the application
                                                  disclosed from this system of records to                recipients about the nature of their                  and associated forms for the purpose of
                                                  parties outside HHS, without the                        service obligation; and (b) schools                   evaluating the applicant’s or
                                                  individual’s prior, written consent, for                attended by scholarship recipients who                participant’s professional qualifications,
                                                  these routine uses:                                     have taken a leave of absence from                    experience, and suitability; (b) to a state
                                                     1. HHS may disclose to a Member of                   school, have terminated enrollment or                 or local government licensing board
                                                  Congress or to a Congressional staff                    been dismissed from school, or are                    and/or to the Federation of State
                                                  member information from the record of                   repeating coursework, for the purpose of              Medical Boards or a similar non-
                                                  an individual in response to a written                  determining their academic status and                 government entity for the purpose of
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                                                  inquiry from the Congressional office                   whether their scholarship support                     verifying that all claimed background
                                                  made at the written request of that                     should be suspended or resumed, as                    and employment data are valid and all
                                                  individual.                                             appropriate.                                          claimed credentials are current and in
                                                     2. HHS may disclose information from                    5. HHS may disclose information                    good standing; and (c) to prospective,
                                                  this system of records to the Department                consisting of name, address, discipline               current or former employers, or to site
                                                  of Justice (DOJ) or to a court or other                 and/or medical specialty, and SSN from                representatives, PCAs, and PCOs for the
                                                  tribunal when                                           this system of records to a Program                   purpose of appraising the applicant’s
                                                     a. HHS, or any component thereof, or                 participant’s health professions school,              professional qualifications and


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                                                  suitability for site assignment or                      decide transfer requests, or to make                  assault, illegal use or distribution of
                                                  employment.                                             default determinations, HHS may                       narcotics).
                                                     10. HHS may disclose an applicant’s                  release to the participant’s service site                14. HHS may disclose information
                                                  or participant’s name, mailing address,                 other information from the participant’s              consisting of name, address, SSN, health
                                                  email address, phone number, SSN,                       file, including but not limited to, his/her           professions license number, and place
                                                  health professions school, residency                    allegations concerning conditions at the              of employment to a state or local
                                                  training, and specialty to Department                   site, disputes with site management, or               government agency, including any agent
                                                  grantees, site representatives,                         circumstances surrounding his/her                     thereof, maintaining criminal, civil, or
                                                  contractors, and subcontractors who                     resignation/termination.                              administrative violation records, or
                                                  assist with the implementation of the                      12. HHS may disclose records to a                  other pertinent information such as
                                                  above-identified Programs, for the                      state or local government licensing                   records regarding the investigation or
                                                  purpose of recruiting, screening,                       board and/or to the Federation of State               resolution of allegations involving a
                                                  evaluating, and matching, placing, or                   Medical Boards or a similar non-                      program participant. The purpose of this
                                                  assigning health professionals to a                     government entity which maintains                     disclosure is to enable HHS to monitor
                                                  service site appropriate to the relevant                records concerning: (a) An individual’s               compliance with program requirements
                                                  Program’s purposes. In addition,                        employment history; (b) the issuance,                 and make determinations regarding
                                                  Department grantees, contractors and                    retention, suspension, revocation, or                 administrative actions or other
                                                  subcontractors may disclose                             reinstatement of licenses or registrations            remedies, including default
                                                  biographical data and information                       necessary to practice a health                        determinations.
                                                  supplied by Program applicants,                         professional occupation or specialty; (c)                15. HHS may disclose Ambassador
                                                  participants, or references listed on the               disciplinary action against the                       information consisting of name, email
                                                  application and associated forms: (a) To                individual or other sanctions imposed                 and social network address(es), phone
                                                  other references for the purpose of                     by a state or local government licensing              number(s), employment information,
                                                  evaluating the applicant’s or                           board; or (d) the individual’s attempts to            and professional biographies to current
                                                  participant’s professional qualifications,              pass health professions licensure                     and prospective participants in BHW
                                                  experience, and suitability; (b) to a state             exam(s). This disclosure may include                  programs and other interested
                                                  or local government licensing board                     the applicant’s or participant’s name,                individuals. The purpose of this
                                                  and/or to the Federation of State                       address, SSN, employment history,                     disclosure is to allow these individuals
                                                  Medical Boards or a similar non-                        educational data, accreditation,                      to contact Ambassadors who serve as
                                                  government entity for the purpose of                    licensing, and professional qualification             mentors and local resources for the
                                                  verifying that all claimed background                   data, and facts concerning any clinical               NHSC programs.
                                                  and employment data are valid and all                   competence, unprofessional behavior, or                  16. HHS may disclose information
                                                  claimed credentials are current and in                  substance abuse problem of which HHS                  from this system of records to a
                                                  good standing; (c) to the System for                    is aware. The purposes of this                        consumer reporting agency, as defined
                                                  Awards Management (formerly                             disclosure are: (1) To enable HHS to                  in 31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3), for the following
                                                  Excluded Parties List System) for the                   obtain information relevant to a                      purposes:
                                                  purpose of determining whether                          decision concerning a health                             a. To obtain a commercial credit
                                                  applicants or participants are                          professional’s accomplishments,                       report to assess the creditworthiness of
                                                  suspended, debarred, or disqualified                    professional and personal background                  a scholarship or loan repayment
                                                  from participation in covered                           qualifications, experience, and any                   applicant;
                                                  transactions; (d) to the National                       licensure sanctions related to substance                 b. To verify information provided on
                                                  Practitioner Data Bank for the purpose                  abuse, to determine the individual’s                  the scholarship or loan repayment
                                                  of determining whether applicants or                    suitability for employment, retention, or             application concerning whether the
                                                  participants have information on their                  termination as a health services                      applicant has ever defaulted on a federal
                                                  reports; and (e) to prospective                         provider at a health care facility                    or non-federal obligation, or had
                                                  employers, or to site representatives, for              approved by the relevant Program; and                 delinquent federal or non-federal debts
                                                  the purpose of appraising the                           (2) to inform health professions                      or judgment liens;
                                                  applicant’s or participant’s professional               licensing boards or the appropriate non-                 c. To determine and verify the
                                                  qualifications and suitability for site                 government entities about the health                  eligibility of loans submitted for
                                                  assignment or employment. Grantees                      care practices or conduct of a practicing,            repayment;
                                                  and contractors maintain, and                           terminated, resigned, or retired health                  d. To assess and verify ability of a
                                                  contractors are also required to ensure                 services provider whose professional                  debtor to repay debts owed to the
                                                  that subcontractors maintain, Privacy                   conduct so significantly failed to                    federal government; and
                                                  Act safeguards with respect to such                     conform to generally accepted standards                  e. To provide an incentive for debtors
                                                  records.                                                of professional practice for health care              to repay federal debts by making these
                                                     11. HHS may disclose records                         providers as to raise reasonable concern              debts part of their credit records.
                                                  consisting of name, mailing address,                    for the health and safety of patients.                   Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3711(e)(1)(F),
                                                  email address, phone number, SSN,                          13. HHS may disclose information                   the information disclosed to the
                                                  specialty, and requested or actual                      consisting of name, address, SSN, health              consumer reporting agency is limited to
                                                  placement site(s) to State Loan                         professions license number, and place                 (i) information necessary to establish the
                                                  Repayment Grantees, state PCOs and                      of employment from this system of                     identity of the person, including name,
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                                                  PCAs, and site representatives to                       records to federal, state, or local health            address, and taxpayer identification
                                                  facilitate PCO, PCA and site activities                 agencies and law enforcement regarding                number; (ii) the amount, status, and
                                                  related to recruitment and placement of                 a program participant who has a                       history of the claim; and (iii) the agency
                                                  Program participants at service sites. For              physical or mental condition that is, or              or program under which the claim
                                                  the purpose of monitoring the program                   has the potential to become, a risk to                arose.
                                                  participant’s compliance with the                       patients or to the public at large, or                   17. HHS may disclose information
                                                  service obligation, including fact-                     whose aberrant behavior poses such a                  about NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE Corps
                                                  finding to calculate service credit, to                 risk (e.g., commission of a sexual                    LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP


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                                                  applicants or participants to lending                   purposes, the name, address(es), SSN,                 of information maintained in this
                                                  institutions and loan servicing agencies                discipline and service sites of applicants            system of records, when the information
                                                  for the purpose of obtaining payoff                     and participants in the above-identified              disclosed is relevant and necessary for
                                                  balances on educational loans and                       Programs when the Department:                         that assistance.
                                                  determining whether loans are eligible                     i. has determined that the use or                     Because, as described in the Purposes
                                                  for repayment under the Program.                        disclosure does not violate legal or                  section, certain information from this
                                                  Disclosure will be limited to the                       policy limitations under which the                    system of records is transferred to HHS’
                                                  applicant/participant’s name, address,                  record was provided, collected, or                    financial and debt management systems,
                                                  SSN, the loan account number(s), the                    obtained;                                             those systems’ SORNs should be
                                                  pre-verified loan balance, account                         ii. has determined that a bona fide                consulted for additional routine use
                                                  status, and other information necessary                 research/analysis purpose exists;                     disclosures that may be made without
                                                  to identify the LRP applicant/                             iii. has required the recipient to:                the individual’s consent. See Unified
                                                  participant and his/her loans for this                     • establish strict limitations                     Financial Management System, System
                                                  purpose.                                                concerning the receipt and use of                     No. 09–90–0024, and Debt Management
                                                     18. HHS may disclose information to                  applicant- and participant-identified                 and Collection System, System No. 09–
                                                  the Department of the Treasury, Internal                data;                                                 40–0012.
                                                  Revenue Service (IRS), about an                            • establish reasonable administrative,
                                                  individual applying under the above-                    technical, and physical safeguards to                 POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING,
                                                  identified Programs to find out whether                 protect the confidentiality of the data               RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND
                                                                                                          and to prevent the unauthorized use or                DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM—
                                                  the applicant has a delinquent tax debt.
                                                  This disclosure is for the sole purpose                 disclosure of the record;                             STORAGE:
                                                  of determining the applicant’s eligibility                 • remove, destroy, or return the                     Records are maintained in electronic
                                                  for funding and/or creditworthiness and                 information that identifies the applicant             database servers and backup servers, file
                                                  is limited to the individual’s name,                    or participant at the earliest time at                folders, and for NHHSP records, backup
                                                  address, SSN, other information                         which removal or destruction can be                   tapes.
                                                  necessary to identify him/her, and the                  accomplished consistent with the
                                                  program for which the information is                    purpose of the research project, unless               RETRIEVABILITY:
                                                  being obtained.                                         the recipient has presented adequate                    Records are retrieved by an
                                                     19. HHS may disclose information                     justification of a research nature for                individual’s name, Social Security
                                                  from this system of records to another                  retaining such information; and                       number, or other identifying numbers or
                                                  federal, state, or local agency or private                 • make no further use or disclosure of             characteristics.
                                                  employer to whom a Program defaulter                    the record except as authorized by HHS
                                                                                                                                                                SAFEGUARDS:
                                                  has applied for federal grant funds,                    or when required by law; and
                                                  federal scholarship, loan, or loan                         iv. has secured a written statement                   a. Authorized Users: Password-
                                                  repayment funds, or employment                          attesting to the recipient’s                          protected access is limited to persons
                                                  involving federal funds, for the purpose                understanding of, and willingness to                  authorized and needing to use the
                                                  of ensuring that the Program defaulter                  abide by these provisions.                            electronic records, which includes
                                                  does not receive federal funds for which                   23. Disclosure may be made in                      system managers and their staff, BHW
                                                  he/she is ineligible. Disclosure will be                response to a subpoena from another                   headquarter officials and staff, HRSA
                                                  limited to the defaulter’s name, address,               federal agency having the power to                    Division of Regional Operations staff,
                                                  SSN, inclusion on the Do Not Pay List,                  subpoena other agencies’ records, such                financial and fiscal management
                                                  and any other information necessary to                  as the IRS or U.S. Commission on Civil                personnel, Office of the General
                                                  identify him/her.                                       Rights.                                               Counsel, Office of Information
                                                     20. HHS may disclose information                        24. Disclosure of information from                 Technology personnel, and at Papa Ola
                                                  from this system of records to the DOJ                  this system of records may be made to                 Lokahi (POL), an entity which
                                                  and applicable state agencies in order to               the HHS/PSC/Federal Occupational                      collaborates with HRSA/BHW in the
                                                  exclude a debtor from all federal health                Health contract physicians to review                  administration of the Native Hawaiian
                                                  care programs, as defined in 42 U.S.C.                  and provide a written opinion of the                  Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP)
                                                  1320a–7b(f), including Medicare and                     medical documentation submitted by                    through a Cooperative Agreement to
                                                  Medicaid, or to conclude a settlement                   scholarship and loan repayment                        assist with the implementation of the
                                                  agreement staying such an exclusion.                    Program participants seeking a                        NHHSP. POL is physically located at
                                                     21. HHS may disclose information                     suspension or waiver of their service or              894 Queen St., Honolulu, HI 96813.
                                                  from this system of records to other                    payment obligation.                                      b. Additional Authorized Users:
                                                  federal, state, and local agencies, and                    25. Disclosure to the U.S. Department              Password-protected access is also
                                                  public and private entities that provide                of Homeland Security (DHS) if captured                provided to applicants, participants,
                                                  scholarship and/or loan repayment                       in an intrusion detection system used by              and service sites for the purpose of
                                                  funding or include bonus clauses in                     HHS and DHS pursuant to a DHS                         inputting data, uploading documents, or
                                                  employment contracts, for the following                 cybersecurity program that monitors                   submitting queries through BMISS.
                                                  purposes: (a) to curtail fraud and abuse                Internet traffic to and from federal                     c. Physical Safeguards: Rooms where
                                                  of federal funds by identifying                         government computer networks to                       records are located are locked when not
                                                  individuals who have applied for, or                    prevent a variety of types of                         in use. During regular business hours,
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                                                  accepted, funding from another source                   cybersecurity incidents.                              rooms are unlocked but are controlled
                                                  for performance of the same service; and                   26. HHS may disclose records to                    by on-site personnel. Security guards
                                                  (b) to determine if an applicant has an                 appropriate federal agencies and                      perform random checks on the physical
                                                  existing service obligation to another                  Department contractors that have a need               security of the offices (storage locations)
                                                  federal, state, local, or other entity.                 to know the information for the purpose               after duty hours, including weekends
                                                     22. HHS may disclose to federal, state,              of assisting the Department’s efforts to              and holidays.
                                                  and local agencies, and public and                      respond to a suspected or confirmed                      Servers and other computer
                                                  private non-profit entities for research                breach of the security or confidentiality             equipment used to process identifiable


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                                                  data are located in secured areas and                   indefinitely, pending NARA’s approval                 address, Social Security Number or
                                                  use physical access devices (e.g., keys,                of a revised schedule.                                other identifying information (e.g., date
                                                  locks, combinations, card readers) and/                                                                       of birth), the name of the Program(s) in
                                                                                                          SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:
                                                  or security guards to control entries into                                                                    which the individual participated (or
                                                  the facility. All facilities housing HRSA                 The System Manager for the system of                applied but was not selected), and at
                                                  information systems maintain fire                       records is the following Policy-                      least one piece of tangible identification,
                                                  suppression and detection devices/                      Coordinating Official:                                such as driver’s license, passport, or
                                                  systems (e.g., sprinkler systems,                         Director, Division of Policy and                    voter registration card. Identification
                                                  handheld fire extinguishers, fixed fire                 Shortage Designation, Bureau of Health                papers with current photographs are
                                                  hoses, and or smoke detectors) that can                 Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and                 preferred but not required. (A federally-
                                                  be activated in the event of a fire.                    Services Administration (HRSA), 5600                  issued picture ID is required to access
                                                     With respect to NHHSP records                        Fishers Lane, Room 11W–42, Rockville,                 many federal facilities such as the
                                                  located at Papa Ola Lokahi (POL), an                    MD 20857.                                             Parklawn Building.) If a subject
                                                  entity HRSA/BWH collaborates with to                      Points of contact for specific                      individual has no identification but is
                                                  administer the NHHSP, the building in                   programs/activities:                                  personally known to an agency
                                                  which POL’s office is located is publicly                 • NHSC SP and NHSC LRP                              employee, such employee shall make a
                                                  accessible but secured, with limited                    Applications/Awards; Participant                      written record verifying the subject
                                                  accessibility before and after work                     Placement/Assignment; Ready                           individual’s identity. Where the subject
                                                  hours. Security guards visit the building               Responders: Director, Division of the                 individual has no identification papers,
                                                  at night. NHHSP’s office suite is kept                  National Health Service Corps, BHW,                   the responsible agency official shall
                                                  locked during work hours and                            HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C–26,                  require that the subject individual
                                                  individual offices are also locked when                 Rockville, MD 20857.                                  certify in writing that he/she is the
                                                  vacant. Applicant and participant files                   • NURSE Corps LRP (formerly                         individual who he/she claims to be and
                                                  are kept in a locked cabinet in a locked                NELRP), NURSE Corps SP (formerly                      that he/she understands that the
                                                  office. Access to these files is limited to             NSP), and FLRP Applications/Awards;                   knowing and willful request for or
                                                  approved staff members, and when the                    Participant Placement/Assignment:                     acquisition of a record concerning an
                                                  area the files are in is not under the                  Director, Division of Health Careers and              individual under false pretenses is a
                                                  direct control of NHHSP staff, the office               Financial Support, BHW, HRSA, 5600                    criminal offense subject to a $5,000 fine.
                                                  and cabinet are kept locked. The file                   Fishers Lane, Room 9–105, Rockville,                     Requests by mail: A written request
                                                  server is behind a locked office door in                MD 20857.                                             must contain the name and address of
                                                  a locked server cabinet. Backup tapes                     • NHSC SP, NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE                     the requester, Social Security number or
                                                  are stored in a locked, fireproof floor                 Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), NURSE                     other identifying information, and his/
                                                  safe, and a secure, confidential off-site               Corps SP (formerly NSP), and FLRP                     her signature which is either notarized
                                                  vault.                                                  Participants’ service from matching                   to verify his/her identity or includes a
                                                     Technical safeguards: Encryption,                    through service completion: Director,                 written certification that the requester is
                                                  intrusion detection and firewalls are                   Division of Participant Support and                   the person he/she claims to be and that
                                                  utilized. Scans are run against the                     Compliance, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers                   he/she understands that the knowing
                                                  BMISS platform for web and                              Lane, Room 15W–50, Rockville, MD                      and willful request for or acquisition of
                                                  architecture vulnerabilities. Complex or                20857.                                                records pertaining to an individual
                                                  strong passwords are required and are                     • Suspension/Waiver/Default                         under false pretenses is a criminal
                                                  changed frequently.                                     Determination for all BHW Programs:                   offense subject to a $5,000 fine. In
                                                                                                          Chief, Legal and Compliance Branch,                   addition, the following information is
                                                  RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:                                 BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room                    needed: the name of the Program(s) in
                                                    Records are retained and disposed of                  8–73, Rockville, MD 20857.                            which the individual participated (or
                                                  as follows:                                               • NHHSP: Administrator, Papa Ola                    applied but was not selected), and the
                                                    • Files concerning participants who                   Lokahi, 894 Queen St., # 706, Honolulu,               requester’s current status (e.g., in
                                                  complete their obligations or whose                     HI 96813.                                             training, in deferment, in service, or in
                                                  obligations are waived, cancelled, or                     • SEARCH and Ambassadors:                           default).
                                                  terminated are transferred to the                       Director, Division of External Affairs,                  Requests by telephone: Because
                                                  Washington National Records Center in                   BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room                    positive identification of the caller
                                                  Suitland, Maryland and are destroyed 6                  7–100, Rockville, MD 20857.                           cannot be established, telephone
                                                  years after final payment, under                                                                              requests are not honored.
                                                                                                          NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:
                                                  disposition schedule HSA B–351 3. 1.
                                                    • HRSA has digitized and uploaded                       To find out if the system contains                  RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
                                                  paper files concerning active                           records about you, contact the Policy-                  Same as notification procedure.
                                                  participants in BHW scholarship and                     Coordinating Official, Director, Division             Requesters may also ask for an
                                                  loan repayment programs into BMISS.                     of Policy and Shortage Designation,                   accounting of disclosures that have been
                                                  The paper files are stored at the                       Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW),                     made of their records, if any.
                                                  Washington National Records Center                      Health Resources and Services
                                                  and are destroyed 15 years after                        Administration (HRSA), 5600 Fishers                   CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
                                                  closeout, under disposition schedule                    Lane, Room 11W–42, Rockville, MD                         Same as notification procedure.
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                                                  N1–512–92–01, item 25P 1 and 2.                         20857 who will refer you to the                       Contact the Policy-Coordinating
                                                    • Unfunded or withdrawn applicant                     appropriate Point of Contact for the                  Official; specify the information being
                                                  records are destroyed 6 months after the                program/activity.                                     contested, the corrective action sought,
                                                  close of each fiscal year application                     Requests in person: A subject                       and the reasons for requesting the
                                                  period, under disposition schedule N1–                  individual who appears in person at a                 correction, along with supporting
                                                  512–92–01, item 25P 1.                                  specific location seeking access to or                information to show how the record is
                                                    • Currently, all records migrated to                  disclosure of records relating to him/her             inaccurate, incomplete, untimely, or
                                                  BMISS or created in BMISS are retained                  shall provide his/her name, current                   irrelevant.


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                                                  RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:                               were included in five (5) publications                and/or peer review committee, or as a
                                                     Records are obtained directly from the               and three (3) grant applications                      consultant; and
                                                  subject individuals, or from the                        submitted to NINR, NIH:                                 (3) to request that the following
                                                  following sources: educational                          Behavioural Brain Research 279:112–22,                publications be retracted: BBR 2015, JNI
                                                  institutions; internship and/or residency                  2015 Feb 15 (hereafter referred to as              2014, JNT 2009, JNT 2011, and NS 2014.
                                                  training programs; employers; NHSC-                        ‘‘BBR 2015’’)                                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                  approved service sites; critical shortage               • Journal of Neuroinflammation 11:13,                 Acting Director, Office of Research
                                                  facilities; schools of nursing; lending                    2014 Jan 22 (hereafter referred to as              Integrity, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
                                                  institutions and loan servicing agencies;                  ‘‘JNI 2014’’)                                      750, Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453–
                                                  health professional associations;                       • Journal of Neurotrauma 26(4):613–25,                8200.
                                                  National Practitioner Data Bank; System                    2009 Apr (hereafter referred to as
                                                  for Awards Management (formerly                                                                               Donald Wright,
                                                                                                             ‘‘JNT 2009’’)
                                                                                                                                                                Acting Director, Office of Research Integrity.
                                                  Excluded Parties List System); HHS                      • Journal of Neurotrauma 28(12):2485–
                                                  Office of Inspector General Web site                       92, 2011 Dec (hereafter referred to as             [FR Doc. 2015–07896 Filed 4–6–15; 8:45 am]
                                                  listing of individuals excluded from                       ‘‘JNT 2011’’)                                      BILLING CODE CODE 4150–31–P
                                                  Medicare, Medicaid, and all other                       • Neuroscience 262:143–55, 2014 Mar
                                                  federal health care programs; HHS                          14 (hereafter referred to as ‘‘NS 2014’’)
                                                  database of Health Professional Shortage                • R01 NR011167–01                                     DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                                  Areas; HHS grantees and contractors/                    • R01 NR011167–01A1                                   HUMAN SERVICES
                                                  subcontractors; consumer reporting                      • R01 NR 011167–01A2
                                                  agencies/credit bureaus; other federal                                                                        Office of the Secretary
                                                                                                             ORI found that Respondent falsified
                                                  agencies, including but not limited to                  and/or fabricated data by falsely                     Findings of Research Misconduct
                                                  the Department of the Treasury, IRS,                    reporting the results of Western blot
                                                  and the U.S. Postal Service; state health               experiments that examined                             AGENCY:   Office of the Secretary, HHS.
                                                  professions licensing boards and/or the                 neuroinflammation, amyloidogenesis,                   ACTION:   Notice.
                                                  Federation of State Medical Boards or a                 and/or cognitive impairment in a rat
                                                  similar non-government entity; and                                                                            SUMMARY:   Notice is hereby given that
                                                                                                          model of cerebral ischemia. Specifically,
                                                  third parties who provide references or                                                                       the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
                                                                                                          Respondent duplicated, reused, and
                                                  other information concerning the                                                                              has taken final action in the following
                                                                                                          falsely relabeled Western blot gel images
                                                  subject individual.                                                                                           case:
                                                                                                          and claimed they represented different                  Ryousuke Fujita, Ph.D., Columbia
                                                  SYSTEM EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS                 experiments in:                                       University: Based on the report of an
                                                  OF THE ACT:                                             • BBR 2015, Figures 2E and 5D                         investigation conducted by Columbia
                                                     None.                                                • JNI 2014, Figures 2A and 2C                         University (CU) and additional analysis
                                                  [FR Doc. 2015–07899 Filed 4–6–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                          • JNT 2009, Figures 2B and 5                          conducted by ORI in its oversight
                                                                                                          • JNT 2011, Figure 2                                  review, ORI found that Dr. Ryousuke
                                                                                                          • NS 2014, Figure 4
                                                  BILLING CODE CODE 4160–15–P
                                                                                                                                                                Fujita, former Postdoctoral Scientist,
                                                                                                          • R01 NR011167–01, Figures 5 and 6                    Taub Institute for the Aging Brain,
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                • R01 NR011167–01A1, Figures 4A and                   Departments of Pathology and Cell
                                                  HUMAN SERVICES                                             4B                                                 Biology and Neurology, CU Medical
                                                                                                          • R01 NR011167–01A2, Figures 4A and
                                                                                                                                                                Center, engaged in research misconduct
                                                  Office of the Secretary                                    4B
                                                                                                                                                                in research supported by National
                                                                                                             As a result of this Agreement,                     Institute of Neurological Disorders and
                                                  Findings of Research Misconduct                         Respondent will request that the                      Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of
                                                  AGENCY:   Office of the Secretary, HHS.                 following publications be retracted: BBR              Health (NIH), grant R01 NS064433 and
                                                                                                          2015, JNI 2014, JNT 2009, JNT 2011, and               National Institute of Aging (NIA), NIH,
                                                  ACTION:   Notice.
                                                                                                          NS 2014.                                              grant R01 AG042317.
                                                  SUMMARY:   Notice is hereby given that                     Dr. Briones has entered into a                       ORI found that Respondent engaged
                                                  the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)                  Voluntary Exclusion Agreement                         in research misconduct by falsifying and
                                                  has taken final action in the following                 (Agreement) and has voluntarily agreed                fabricating data for specific protein
                                                  case:                                                   for a period of three (3) years, beginning            expressions in human-induced neuronal
                                                     Teresita L. Briones, Ph.D., Wayne                    on March 12, 2015:                                    (hiN) cells derived skin fibroblasts of
                                                  State University: Based on the report of                   (1) to exclude herself from any                    Alzheimer’s disease patients and
                                                  an inquiry conducted by Wayne State                     contracting or subcontracting with any                unaffected individuals in seventy-four
                                                  University (WSU) and additional                         agency of the United States Government                (74) panels included in figures in the
                                                  analysis conducted by ORI in its                        and from eligibility for or involvement               following two (2) publications and one
                                                  oversight review, ORI found that Dr.                    in nonprocurement programs of the                     (1) unpublished manuscript:
                                                  Teresita L. Briones, former Associate                   United States Government referred to as                 • Cell 146:359–371, 2011 (hereafter
                                                  Professor, College of Nursing, WSU,                     ‘‘covered transactions’’ pursuant to                  referred to as ‘‘Cell 2011’’).
                                                  engaged in research misconduct in                       HHS’ Implementation (2 CFR part 376 et                  • Nature 500:45–53, 2013 (hereafter
                                                  research supported by National Institute                seq) of OMB Guidelines to Agencies on                 referred to as ‘‘Nature 2013’’).
                                                                                                                                                                   • ‘‘Human induced neuron models of
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                                                  of Nursing Research (NINR), National                    Governmentwide Debarment and
                                                  Institutes of Health (NIH), grants P30                  Suspension, 2 CFR part 180 (collectively              APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease
                                                  NR009014, R01 NR005260, and R01                         the ‘‘Debarment Regulations’’);                       display altered APP endocytosis and
                                                  NR007666.                                                  (2) to exclude herself voluntarily from            processing.’’ Unpublished manuscript.
                                                     ORI found that Respondent                            serving in any advisory capacity to the                  ORI found that Respondent engaged
                                                  intentionally, knowingly, and recklessly                U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)                      in research misconduct by knowingly
                                                  engaged in research misconduct by                       including, but not limited to, service on             and intentionally fabricating and
                                                  falsifying and/or fabricating data that                 any PHS advisory committee, board,                    falsifying research in seventy-four (74)


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Document Created: 2018-02-21 10:05:25
Document Modified: 2018-02-21 10:05:25
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of an Altered System of Records.
DatesHRSA filed an altered system report with the Chair of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on March 30, 2015. To ensure all parties have adequate time in which to comment, the altered system, including the routine uses, will become effective 30 days from the publication of the notice or 40 days from the date it was submitted to OMB and Congress, whichever is later, unless HRSA receives comments that require alterations to this notice.
ContactBMISS System Manager, Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W-37, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: 301- 443-1587.
FR Citation80 FR 18631 

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