[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR6.53]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                                SECURITY
 
PART 6_IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Requests To Amend Records
 
Sec.  6.53  Denial of requests to amend records.

    (a) If the system manager determines that an amendment of a record 
is improper or that the record should be amended in a manner other than 
that requested by an individual, he shall refer the request to amend and 
his determinations and recommendations to the appropriate official 
listed in Sec.  6.33(b) through normal supervisory channels.
    (b) If the official listed in Sec.  6.33, after reviewing the 
request to amend a record, determines to amend the record in accordance 
with the request, said official promptly shall return the request to the 
system manager with instructions to make the requested amendments in 
accordance with Sec.  6.52.
    (c) If the appropriate official listed in Sec.  6.33, after 
reviewing the request to amend a record, determines not to amend the 
record in accordance with the request, the requestor shall be promptly 
advised in writing of the determination. The refusal letter (1) shall 
state the reasons for the denial of the request to amend; (2) shall 
include proposed alternative amendments, if appropriate; (3) shall state 
the requestor's right to appeal the denial of the request to amend; and 
(4) shall state the procedures for appealing and the name and title of 
the official to whom the appeal is to be addressed.
    (d) The appropriate official listed in Sec.  6.33 shall furnish the 
Privacy Appeals Officer a copy of each initial denial of a request to 
amend a record.

[44 FR 50293, Aug. 27, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 17152, Mar. 18, 1980]