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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 20 / Tuesday, February 2, 2021 / Notices
system of records will become effective a minimum of 30 days after date of publication in the Federal Register. If VA receives public comments, VA shall review the comments to determine whether any changes to the notice are necessary.
Comments may be submitted through www.Regulations.gov or mailed to VA Privacy Service, 810
Vermont Avenue NW, 005R1A, Washington, DC 20420. Comments should indicate that they are submitted in response to VA VetBiz Assistance Program Pages-132VAOSDBU.
Comments received will be available at regulations.gov for public viewing, inspection or copies.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions about the system contact Carol Cleveland, Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization at 18665842344 or osdbu@va.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OSDBU
provides numerous services for veterans and service-disabled veterans who seek to open or expand a business. The OSDBU staff coordinates the tasks required of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs by several Federal laws, including:
Public Law 108183 December 2003, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, Sections 301, 305, 308.
Public Law 106554 December 2000, Sections 803 and 808.
Public Law 10650 August 1999, the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999.
Public Law 105135 December 1997, Title VII, Service-Disabled Veterans Program.
Public Law 93237 January 1974, Special Consideration for Veterans.
Public Law 10650, Section 302, Entrepreneurial Assistance, subsection 5 requires VA to support the establishment of an information clearinghouse to collect and distribute information, including electronic means, on the assistance programs of Federal, state, and local governments, and of the private sector, including information on office locations, key personnel, telephone numbers, mailing and email addresses, and contracting and sub-contracting opportunities.
The parts of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 Pub. L. 108183 that pertain to veteran entrepreneurship are contained in Title IIIEducation Benefits, Employment Provisions, and Related Matters. They are as follows:
Section 301Expand the Montgomery GI Bill program by authorizing educational assistance for
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on-job training in certain selfemployment training programs.
Section 305Authorize the use of VA education benefits to pay for nondegree/non-credit entrepreneurship courses at approved institutions:
Small Business Development Centers, and National Veterans Business Development Corporation also known as Veterans Corporation.
Section 308Furnish Federal agencies discretionary authority to:
Restrict certain contracts to disabled veteran-owned small businesses if at least two such concerns are qualified to bid on the contract, and Create sole-source contracts for disabled veteran-owned small businessesup to $5 million for manufacturing contract awards and up to $3 million for nonmanufacturing contract awards.
A Web-based application is used to allow Governmental and support sector organizations to register their services. This clearinghouse allows any user to search for business support services at the Federal, State, and local government levels and private providers in their respective category of business development, management, financial, technical or procurement assistance.
The site allows support organizations to update their business information as well as give the Department the ability to upload data from other sources to populate the proposed database. Contact information is also kept and a means to extract this information to satisfy the Departments need to send out information is available.
This modified system of records, known as the VA VetBiz Assistance Program Pages APPVA, is used to maintain and access an automated database containing the information on veteran owned businesses resources set forth in the law section 302, paragraph 5 and section 604, paragraph b.
Because some information may be retrieved by the name or other personal identifiers of individuals acting in an entrepreneurial capacity, such as a sole proprietor of a small business, VA is using this system of records.
The information in this system is maintained in electronic form. The information in these records are available to government agencies, companies, and the general public via the internet.
The name of this SORN has been changed from 132VA00VE, with VE
representing Veteran Experience, to 132VAOSDBU, with OSDBU
representing the Office of Small &
Disadvantaged Business Utilization, to
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Signing Authority The Senior Agency Official for Privacy, or designee, approved this document and authorized the undersigned to sign and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register for publication electronically as an official document of the Department of Veterans Affairs. James P. Gfrerer, Assistant Secretary of Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, approved this document on September 14, 2020 for publication.
Dated: January 21, 2021.
Amy L. Rose, Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office of Information Security, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs.
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:

VA VetBiz Assistance Program Pages132VAOSDBU.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

Information in this SORN is not classified information.
SYSTEM LOCATION:

The system is hosted on the Veterans Affairs VA Enterprise Cloud EC, Microsoft Azure Government MAG.
The VAEC MAG is located in Azure Government Region 1 USGOV
VIRGINIA and 2 USGOV TEXAS and is designed to allow U.S. government agencies, contractors and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud for addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
SYSTEM MANAGERS:

Ray Dockery, Director, Information Technology Systems Integration, Department of Veterans Affairs VA, Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization OSDBU, 810
Vermont Ave. NW, Room 1064, Washington, DC 20420. 1866584
2344.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

Public Law 10650, as amended.
PURPOSES OF THE SYSTEM:

1. VA personnel will access the system to find resources available to Veteran entrepreneurs and to register those resources that they provide. They may also utilize the database to counsel and assist Veteran entrepreneurs in starting a small business or expanding an existing small business.
2. The Office of Small &
Disadvantaged Business Utilization will use the records and reports derived from the database to manage their
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