[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR10.21]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 10_MAINTENANCE OF AND ACCESS TO RECORDS PERTAINING TO INDIVIDUALS
--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C_Maintenance of Records
 
Sec.  10.21  General.


    Except to the extent that a system of records is exempt in 
accordance with subpart G of this part, the Department, with respect to 
each system of records:
    (a) Maintains in its records only such information about an 
individual as is relevant and necessary to accomplish a purpose of the 
Department required to be accomplished by statute or by executive order 
of the President;
    (b) Collects information to the greatest extent practicable directly 
from the subject individual when the information may result in adverse 
determinations about an individual's rights, benefits, or privileges 
under Federal programs;
    (c) Informs each individual whom it asks to supply information, on 
the form which it uses to collect the information or on a separate form 
that can be retained by the individual of:
    (1) The authority (whether granted by statute, or by executive order 
of the President) which authorizes the solicitation of the information 
and whether disclosure of such information is mandatory or voluntary;
    (2) The principal purpose or purposes for which the information is 
intended to be used;
    (3) The routine uses, as published pursuant to paragraph (d)(4) of 
this section, which may be made of the information; and
    (4) The effects, if any, on the individual of not providing all or 
any part of the requested information;
    (d) Publishes in the Federal Register at least annually a notice of 
the existence and character of the system of records, including:
    (1) The name and location of the system;
    (2) The categories of individuals on whom records are maintained in 
the system;
    (3) The categories of records maintained in the system;

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    (4) Each routine use of the records contained in the system, 
including the categories of users and the purpose of such use;
    (5) The policies and practices regarding storage, retrievability, 
access controls, retention, and disposal of the rec[chyph]ords;
    (6) The title and business address of the official responsible for 
the system of records;
    (7) The procedures whereby an individual can be notified upon 
request if the system of records contains a record pertaining to that 
individual;
    (8) The procedures whereby an individual can be notified upon 
request how to gain access to any record pertaining to that individual 
contained in the system of records, and how to contest its content; and
    (9) The categories of sources of rec[chyph]ords in the system;
    (e) Maintains all records which are used in making any determination 
about any individual with such accuracy, relevancy, timeliness, and 
completeness as is reasonably necessary to assure fairness to the 
individual in the determination;
    (f) Prior to disseminating any record about an individual to any 
person other than an agency, unless the dissemination is made pursuant 
to Sec.  10.35(a)(2), makes reasonable efforts to assure that such 
records are accurate, complete, timely, and relevant for the 
Department's purposes;
    (g) Maintains no record describing how any individual exercises 
rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless:
    (1) Expressly authorized by the General Counsel; and
    (2) Expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom 
the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of 
an authorized law enforcement activity;
    (h) Makes reasonable efforts to serve notice on an individual when 
any record on such individual is made available to any person under 
compulsory legal process when such process becomes a matter of public 
record.