SORN 09-90-0021
System name: Training Management Information System, HHS/OS/ASPER.
Security classification: None.
System location: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20201. Personnel offices shown in Applicants for Employment Records, HHS System 09-90-0006, Appendix 1.
Categories of individuals covered by the system: All employees who receive training in a course which was more than 8 hours in length and which was authorized under the authority of the Government Employees Training Act.
Categories of records in the system: The Training Management Information System consists of a variety of records relating to training received by an employee. In addition to the name of the employee, the system includes information about the employee's Social Security Account Number, position title, grade, salary, pay plan, series, tenure, years of continuous service, nature of training taken, cost of training and dates of training.
Authority for maintenance of the system: 5 U.S.C. 4101 et seq., Executive Order 11348.
Purpose(s):
Records in this system are used to maintain a history of employee training, to help determine future training needs, to evaluate the Department's training program, and for audit and budgetary planning purposes. These records are maintained in each component of the Department.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purposes of such uses:
Information in this system of records is used:
(1) In the event that this system of 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, the relevant records, in the system of records may be referred, as a routine use, to the appropriate agency, whether federal, or foreign, charged with the responsibility of investigating or prosecuting such violation or charged with enforcing or implementing the statute, or rule, regulation or order issued pursuant thereto.
(2) A record from this system of records may be disclosed to a federal agency, in response to its request, in connection with the hiring or retention of an employees, the issuance of a security clearance, the reporting of an investigation of an employee, the letting of a contract, or the issuance of a license, grant, or other benefit by the requesting agency, to the extent that the record is relevant and necessary to the requesting agency's decision on the matter.
(3) In the event that this system of 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, the relevant records in the system of records may be referred, as a routine use of the appropriate agency, whether state or local charged with the responsibility of investigating or prosecuting such violation or charged with enforcing or implementing the statute, or rule, regulation or order issued pursuant thereto.
(4) Where federal agencies having the power to subpoena other federal agencies' records, such as the Internal Revenue Service or the Civil Rights Commission, issue a subpoena to the Department for records in this system of records, the Department will make such records available.
(5) Where a contract between a component of the Department and a labor organization recognized under E.O. 11491 or 5 U.S.C. Chapter 71 provides that the agency will disclose personal records relevant to the organization's mission, records in this system of records may be disclosed to such organization.
(6) The Department contemplates that it will contract with a private firm for the purpose of collating, analyzing, aggregating or otherwise refining records in this system. Relevant records will be disclosed to such a contractor. The contractor shall be required to maintain Privacy Act safeguards with respect to such records.
(7) By the Office of Personnel Management in carrying out its functions.
(8) To other Federal agencies or private organizations to authorize training.
(9) Disclosure may be made to a congressional office from the record of an individual in response to an inquiry from the Congressional office made at the request of that individual.
(10) In the event of litigation where the defendant is (a) the Department, any component of the Department, or any employee of the Department in his or her official capacity; (b) the United States where the Department determines that the claim, if successful, is likely to directly affect the operations of the Department or any of its components; or (c) any Department employee in his or
her individual capacity where the Justice Department has agreed to represent such employee, the Department may disclose such records as it deems desirable or necessary to the Department of Justice to enable that Department to present an effective defense, provided such disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which the records were collected.
(11) Records may be disclosed to student volunteers, individuals working under a personal services contract, and other individuals performing functions for the Department but technically not having the status of agency employees, if they need access to the records in order to perform their assigned agency functions.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system:
Storage: Data tape.
Retrievability: Records are indexed by any combination of name, birth date, SSN or transaction number.
Safeguards: The information is available only to authorized personnel. Personnel screening is used to prevent unauthorized disclosure.
Retention and disposal: Records are retained in the automated data file until the individual leaves the Department.
System manager(s) and address: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Personnel Office of the Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201.
Notification procedure: Contact the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Personnel or the personnel office shown in Applicants for Employment Records, HHS System 09-90-0006, Appendix 1, which services the organizational unit in which the individual is employed. The individual should indicate name, position title, grade and series and organization in which located.
Record access procedures: Same as notification procedures. Requester should also reasonably specify the record contents being sought. (These access procedures are in accordance with Department Regulations (45 CFR 5b.5(a)(2)) Federal register, October 8, 1975, page 47410.)
Contesting record procedures: Contact the official at the address specified under notification procedures above, and reasonably identify the record and specify, the information to be contested, and state the corrective action sought and the reasons for the correction. (These procedures are in accordance with Department Regulations (45 CFR 5b.7) Federal Register. October 8, 1975, page 47411.)
Record source categories: Information in this system of record is: (1) Supplied directly by the individual, or (2) derived from information supplied by the individual, or (3) supplied by Department or by source of training officials.
Systems exempted from certain provisions of the act: None.