[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: 44CFR6.6]

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              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. 6.6  Safeguarding systems of records.

    (a) Systems managers shall ensure that appropriate administrative, 
technical, and physical safeguards are established to ensure the 
security and confidentiality of records and to protect against any 
anticipated threats or hazards to their security or integrity which 
could result in substantial harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or 
unfairness to any individual on whom information is maintained.
    (b) Personnel information contained in both manual and automated 
systems of records shall be protected by implementing the following 
safeguards:
    (1) Official personnel folders, authorized personnel operating or 
work folders and other records of personnel actions effected during an 
employee's Federal service or affecting the employee's status and 
service, including information on experience, education, training, 
special qualification, and skills, performance appraisals, and conduct, 
shall be stored in a lockable metal filing cabinet when not in use by an 
authorized person. A system manager may employ an alternative storage 
system providing that it furnished an equivalent degree of physical 
security as storage in a lockable metal filing cabinet.
    (2) System managers, at their discretion, may designate additional 
records of unusual sensitivity which require safeguards similar to those 
described in paragraph (a) of this section.
    (3) A system manager shall permit access to and use of automated or 
manual personnel records only to persons whose official duties require 
such access, or to a subject individual or his or her representative as 
provided by this part.

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