[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR6.3]

[Page 47-48]
 
              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 6--IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 6.3  Collection and use of information (Privacy Act statements).

    (a) General. Any information used in whole or in part in making a 
determination about an individual's rights, benefits, or privileges 
under FEMA programs will be collected directly from the subject 
individual to the extent practicable. The system manager also shall 
ensure that information collected is used only in conformance with the 
provisions of the Act and these regulations.
    (b) Solicitation of information. System managers shall ensure that 
at the time information is solicited the solicited individual is 
informed of the authority for collecting that information, whether 
providing the information is mandatory or voluntary, the purpose for 
which the information will be used, the

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routine uses to be made of the information, and the effects on the 
individual, if any, of not providing the information. The Director, 
Office of Administrative Support and Regional Directors shall ensure 
that forms used to solicit information are in compliance with the Act 
and these regulations.
    (c) Solicitation of Social Security numbers. Before an employee of 
FEMA can deny to any individual a right, benefit, or privilege provided 
by law because such individual refuses to disclose his/her social 
security account number, the employee of FEMA shall ensure that either:
    (1) The disclosure is required by Federal statute; or
    (2) The disclosure of a social security number was required under a 
statute or regulation adopted before January 1, 1975, to verify the 
identity of an individual, and the social security number will become a 
part of a system of records in existence and operating before January 1, 
1975.

If solicitation of the social security number is authorized under 
paragraph (c) (1) or (2) of this section, the FEMA employee who requests 
an individual to disclose the social security account number shall first 
inform that individual whether that disclosure is mandatory or 
voluntary, by what statutory or other authority the number is solicited, 
and the use that will be made of it.
    (d) Soliciting information from third parties. An employee of FEMA 
shall inform third parties who are requested to provide information 
about another individual of the purposes for which the information will 
be used.

[44 FR 50293, Aug. 27, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 13149, Mar. 29, 1982; 
48 FR 12091, Mar. 23, 1983; 50 FR 40006, Oct. 1, 1985]