WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Office of the Secretary has issued a notice called: Privacy Act of 1974: System of Records.

The notice was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 20 by Nicholas J. Cormier, Acting Chief Privacy Officer and Director of Open Government, Office of Privacy and Open Government, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Summary: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Commerce is modifying 16 systems of records, listed below, to add a new routine use that allows information in each system to be disclosed to the Department of the Treasury for purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments through Treasury's Do Not Pay Working System. This modification makes no other changes to t...