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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 180 / Tuesday, September 21, 2021 / Notices
provided for the data that is input, using password security linked to the AAC
Top Secret Security system, with mandated changes every 90 days. Data from individual facilities is uploaded nightly and stored on Direct Access Storage Devices at the AAC, Austin, Texas, and on optical disks at VA
Central Office, Washington, DC. AAC
stores registry tapes for disaster back up at an off-site location. VA Central Office also has back-up optical disks stored offsite. In addition to electronic data, registry reports are maintained on paper documents and microfiche. The optical disk system is currently being utilized where there is no access to the secure web-based system. The optical disk system is scheduled to be discontinued in 2004 and all access to the GWR
system will be through the secure webbased data entry system. Records will be maintained and disposed of in accordance with records disposition authority approved by the Archivist of the United States. This section is updated to state that all registry data is stored electronically in the registry database.
Policies and Practices for Retention and Disposal of Records is being updated to remove Records will be maintained and disposed of in accordance with records disposition authority approved by the Archivist of the United States. This section is updated to state that Records are scheduled in accordance with RCS 10
1, 1202.1e, permanent disposition;
cutoff at the end of calendar year.
Records are transferred to NARA in 5year blocks 1 year after the cutoff of the most recent records in the block. N1
015002, item 2e.
The Physical, Procedural and Administrative Safeguards section is being updated to remove, Data is securely located behind the VA firewall and only accessible from the VA Local Area Network LAN through the VA
Intranet. Read access to the data is granted through a telecommunications network to authorized VA Central Office personnel. AAC reports are also accessible through a telecommunications network on a readonly basis to the owner VA facility of the data. Access is limited to authorized employees by individually unique access codes which are changed periodically. Physical access to the AAC
is generally restricted to AAC staff, VA
Central Office, custodial personnel, Federal Protective Service and authorized operational personnel through electronic locking devices. All other persons gaining access to the computer rooms are escorted. Backup records stored off-site for both the AAC

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and VA Central Office are safeguarded in secured storage areas. A disaster recovery plan is in place and system recovery is tested at an off-site facility in accordance with established schedules. This section is updated to state that there are multiple levels of security to ensure the confidentiality of all data stored within the GWR. The registry is stored on a password protected system located in a locked room. Registry application is web-based and accessible behind the VA firewall.
Access to the facility is limited by PIV
access, security card, metal scanners at the entrance, and security guards.
The Report of Intent to Amend a System of Records Notice and an advance copy of the system notice have been sent to the appropriate Congressional committees and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget OMB as required by 5
U.S.C. 552ar Privacy Act and guidelines issued by OMB 65 FR
77677, December 12, 2000.
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. Dominic A. Cussatt, Acting Assistant Secretary of Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, approved this document on August 5, 2021 for publication.
Dated: September 16, 2021
Amy L. Rose, Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office of Information Security, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs.
SYSTEM NAME

Gulf War RegistryVA 93VA10
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:

Character-based data from Gulf War Registry GWR Code Sheets are maintained in a registry data set at the Austin Information Technology Center AITC, 1615 Woodward Street, Austin, Texas 78772 and may be maintained at contracted data repository sites, such as the Cerner Technology Centers CTC:
Primary Data Center in Kansas City, MO
and Continuity of Operations/Disaster Recovery COOP/DR Data Center in Lee Summit, MO. Since the data set at the AITC is not all-inclusive, i.e., narratives, signatures, etc., noted on the code
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sheets are not entered into this system, images of the code sheets are maintained at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Post Deployment Health Services 12POP5, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420.
These are electronic images of paper records, i.e., code sheets, medical records, questionnaires and correspondence.
SYSTEM MANAGERS:

Deputy Chief Consultant, Post Deployment Health Services 12POP5.
VA Central Office, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420. Telephone number 2022664511 this is not a tollfree number.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

Title 38, United States Code U.S.C.
1117, Public Laws 102585 and 100
687.
PURPOSES OF THE SYSTEM:

The records will be used for the purpose of providing information about:
Veterans who have had a GWR
examination at a VA medical facility and their spouses and/or children who have had examinations by VA or nonVA clinicians to assist in generating hypotheses for research studies;
providing management with the capability to track patient demographics; reporting birth defects among Veterans children and grandchildren; planning the delivery of health care services and associated cost;
and assisting in the adjudication of claims possibly related to exposure to a toxic substance or environmental hazard.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:

Veterans who may have been exposed to toxic substances or environmental hazard while serving in the Southwest Theatre of Operations during the Gulf War from August 2, 1990, until such time as Congress by law ends the Gulf War, and have had a Gulf War Registry GWR examination at a VA medical facility. Also, a spouse or child suffering from an illness or disorder including birth defects, miscarriages, or stillbirth, which cannot be disassociated from the Veterans service in the Southwest Asia Theatre of Operations and who has had a GWR examination performed by a VA
or non-VA clinician.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

These records consist of code sheet records recording VA facility code identifier where Veteran was examined or treated; Veterans name; address;
Social Security number; date of birth;
race/ethnicity; marital status; sex;

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