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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 126 / Tuesday, July 6, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
procedure for the public to request withdrawal or modification of a guidance document. Removal of these procedures imposes no significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. Therefore, the undersigned certifies that this rule will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Executive Order 13132, Federalism E.O. 13132 entitled Federalism prohibits an agency from publishing any rule that has federalism implications if the rule either: 1 Imposes substantial direct compliance costs on State and local governments and is not required by statute, or 2 preempts State law, unless the agency meets the consultation and funding requirements of Section 6 of the E.O. This Interim final rule does not have federalism implications and does not impose substantial direct compliance costs on State and local governments nor preempt state law within the meaning of the E.O.
List of Subjects in 24 CFR Part 11
Administrative practice and procedure.
PART 11 REMOVED
Accordingly, for the reasons described in the preamble and under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 3535d, the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development removes 24 CFR part 11.

Dated: June 24, 2021.
Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Secretary 31 CFR Part 1
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Privacy Act; Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Departmental Offices, Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices DO, is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to exempt portion of the following new systems of records maintained by the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery SIGPR

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from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. The exemption is intended to comply with the legal prohibitions against the disclosure of certain kinds of information and to protect certain information maintained in this system of records.
DATES: Effective July 6, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice and privacy issues, contact: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privacy, Transparency, and Records at U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20220; telephone:
202 6225710.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background SIGPR was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security CARES Act of 2020. SIGPR
has the duty to conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits, evaluations, and investigations of the making, purchase, management, and sale of loans, loan guarantees, and other investments made by the Secretary of the Treasury under programs established by the Secretary, as authorized by Section 4018c of the CARES Act, and the management by the Secretary of programs, as authorized by Section 4018c of the CARES Act.
SIGPRs duties and responsibilities are set forth in Section 4018 of the CARES
Act, and in the Inspector General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. app. 3. SIGPR plans to create these systems of records to facilitate SIGPRs audits, evaluations, investigations, and other operations to 1 promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of such programs; 2 prevent and detect fraud and abuse in the programs and operations within its jurisdiction; and 3 keep the head of the establishment and the Congress fully informed about problems and deficiencies relating to the administration of such programs and operations and the necessity for and progress of corrective action. Treasury is publishing separately the notice of the new system of records to be maintained by SIGPR.
Under 5 U.S.C. 552aj2 and k2, the head of a federal agency may promulgate rules to exempt a system of records from certain provisions of 5
U.S.C. 552a if the system of records contains investigatory materials compiled for law enforcement purposes.
Pursuant to these provisions, Treasury exempts the following system of records from 5 U.S.C. 552a c3, c4, d1, d2, d3, d4, e1, e2, e3, e4G, e4H, e4I, e5, e8, f, and g of the Privacy Act:

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SIGPR .420Audit and Evaluations Records SIGPR .421Case Management System and Investigative Records SIGPR .423Legal Records The following are the reasons the investigatory materials contained in the above-referenced systems of records maintained by SIGPR may be exempted from various provisions of the Privacy Act pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552aj2 and k2:
1 Exempted from 5 U.S.C.
552ae4G and fl Agency Requirements and Rules because release would give individuals an opportunity to learn whether they have been identified as suspects or subjects of investigation. As further described in the following paragraph, access to such knowledge may impair the ability of the Department of the Treasury and SIGPR
the Department/SIGPR to carry out its respective missions, since individuals could:
i Take steps to avoid detection;
ii Inform associates that an investigation is in progress;
iii Learn the nature of the investigation;
iv Learn whether they are suspects or, instead, have been identified as alleged law violators;
v Begin, continue, or resume illegal conduct upon learning that they are not identified in the system of records; or vi Destroy evidence needed to prove the violation.
2 Exempted from 5 U.S.C.
552ad1, e4H and f2, 3 and 5 Access to Records and Agency Requirements and Rules because release might compromise the Departments/SIGPRs ability to provide useful tactical and strategic information to law enforcement agencies by:
i Permitting access to records contained in the systems of records such that it might provide information concerning the nature of current investigations and enable possible violators to avoid detection or apprehension by:
A Allowing the discovery of facts that could form the basis for violators arrests;
B Enabling violators to destroy or alter evidence of alleged criminal conduct that could form the basis for arrest; and C Using knowledge of the status of criminal investigations to delay the commission of a crime or commit a crime at a location that might not be under surveillance.
ii Permitting access to either ongoing or closed investigative files might also reveal investigative techniques and
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