[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR705.2]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VII--COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

 

PART 705_MATERIALS AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO 5 U.S.C. 552a--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 705.2  Definitions.



    For the purpose of this part:

    (a) Commission and agency mean the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights;

    (b) Individual means a citizen of the United States or an alien 

lawfully admitted for permanent residence;

    (c) Maintain includes maintain, collect, use, or disseminate;

    (d) Record means any item, collection, or grouping of information 

about an individual that is maintained by the Commission, including, but 

not limited to, his or her education, financial transactions, medical 

history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his or her 

name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular 

assigned to the individual;

    (e) System record means a group of any records under the control of 

the Commission from which information may be retrieved by the name of 

the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other 

identifying particular assigned to that individual;

    (f) Statistical record means a record in a system of records 

maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not 

used in whole or in part in making any determination about an 

identifiable individual, except as provided in 13 U.S.C. 8;

    (g) Routine use means, with respect to the disclosure of a record, 

the use of such record for a purpose that is compatible with the purpose 

for which it was collected;

    (h) Confidential source means a source who furnished information to 

the Government under an express promise that the identity of the source 

would remain confidential, or, prior to September 27, 1975, under an 

implied promise that the identity of the source would be held in 

confidence; and

    (i) Act means the Privacy Act of 1974, Public Law 93-579.



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