[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR297.104]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 297--PRIVACY PROCEDURES FOR PERSONNEL RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 297.104  Types of records.

    The Office manages three generic types of personnel records systems:
    (a) Internal systems of records are under the Office's physical 
control and are established and maintained by the Office solely on its 
own employees and, when appropriate, on others in contact with the 
Office regarding matters within its authority.
    (b) Centralized systems of personnel records are physically 
established and maintained by the Office with regard to most current and 
former Federal employees and some applicants for Federal employment.
    (c) Governmentwide systems of personnel records are maintained by 
the Office, and through Office delegations of authority, by Federal 
agencies with regard to their own employees or applicants for 
employment. Although they are Office records, they are in the physical 
custody of those agencies. Though in the physical custody of agencies, 
the Office retains authority under its record management authority and 
under the Privacy Act to decide appeals of initial agency determinations 
regarding access to and amendment of material in these systems.