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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 USDA/AMS-3

System name:  Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA)--
      History Files of Principals.

     System location:  Regulatory Branch, Fruit and Vegetable Division, 
   Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA, Washington, DC 20250.
     Categories of individuals covered by the system:  Partners of 
   General or limited partnerships, individual proprietors, officers, 
   directors and holders of more than ten percent of outstanding stock 
   of a corporate entity subject to the PACA.
     Categories of records in the system:  Card files used to identify 
   the partnership, corporate entity in which the principal is or was 
   responsibly connected as defined by the PACA. This system also 
   contains felony and bankruptcy information relating to the principal.
     Authority for maintenance of the system:  7 U.S.C. 499a-499s.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses:  Referral to the 
   appropriate agency, whether Federal, State, local or foreign, charged 
   with the responsibility of investigating or prosecuting a violation 
   of law, or of enforcing or implementing the statute, rule, regulation 
   or order issued pursuant thereto, of any record within this system 
   when information available indicates a violation or potential 
   violation of law, whether civil, criminal or regulatory in nature, 
   and whether arising by general statute or particular program statute, 
   or by rule, regulation or order issued pursuant thereto.
       Referral to a court, magistrate or administrative tribunal, or to 
   opposing counsel in a proceeding before any of the above, of any 
   record within the system which constitutes evidence in that 
   proceeding, or which is sought in the course of discovery. 
   ``Disclosure may be made to a congressional office from the record of 
   an individual in response to an inquiry from the congressional office 
   made at the request of that individual.''
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage:  Unlocked cardex file cabinets.
     Retrievability:  Alphabetical by name.
     Safeguards:  Government office building.
     Retention and disposal:  Records are maintained and destroyed in 
   accordance with retention schedule number NN 165-106 approved by the 
   89th Congress, first session on April 1, 1965.
     System manager(s) and address:  Chief, Regulatory Branch at the 
   address listed above.
     Notification procedure:  Any individual may request information 
   concerning himself from the system manager listed at the address 
   above.
     Record access procedures:  Any individual may obtain information as 
   to the procedure for gaining access to a record in the system that 
   pertains to him by submitting a request to the system manager at the 
   address above.
     Contesting record procedures:  Any individual may obtain 
   information as to the procedure for contesting a record in the system 
   that pertains to him by submitting a request to the system manager at 
   the address above.
     Record source categories:  Individuals, partners, and authorized 
   officers of corporate entities.