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 USDA/P&SA-2

System name: Persons Engaged in Business as Livestock Market 
      Agencies and Dealers under the Provisions of the Packers and 
      Stockyards Act, USDA/P&SA.

     System location: 
       Financial Protection Branch, Livestock Marketing Division, 
   Packers and Stockyards Administration, U.S. Department of 
   Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Also files for specific 
   geographical regions maintained in the thirteen (13) Regional 
   Supervisory Offices of P&SA.
     Categories of individuals covered by the system: 
       Individuals who have applied for registration or are registered 
   as livestock market agencies and dealers under the Packers and 
   Stockyards Act.
     Categories of records in the system: 
       The system consists of index cards bearing the names of 
   individuals who are registered under the provisions of the Act. Also 
   cross-reference cards bearing the names of individuals who are owners 
   or officers of registrant firms. From the index cards access may be 
   gained to other systems of records identified as follows: (1) 
   Registration Record Cards, (2) Case Record Cards, (3) Bond Claim 
   Record Cards, (4) Registration Jurisdictional Files, and (5) 
   Stockyard Jurisdictional Files.
     Authority for maintenance of the system: 
       7 U.S.C. 181 et seq.
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses: 
       To answer inquiries from Federal and State agencies, livestock 
   trade organizations, and others having a definite and proved interest 
   in such records.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage: 
       Records are maintained in card file cabinets and file folders at 
   the applicable address listed above.
     Retrievability: 
       All index cards are maintained in an alphabetical order by name 
   of registrant and by name of owners or officers of registrant firms.
     Safeguards: 
       Records are kept in locked cabinets under the supervision of 
   competent personnel.
     Retention and disposal: 
       All files mentioned are maintained during active life of 
   registration. When rendered inactive records are maintained for a 
   period of two years in accordance with an approved records 
   disposition schedule.
     System manager(s) and address: 
       Chief, Financial Protection Branch, Livestock Marketing Division, 
   Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA, Washington, DC 20250.
     Notification procedure: 
       Any individual may request information regarding this system of 
   records or information as to whether the system contains records 
   pertaining to him from System Manager, Telephone (202-447-4615 or 
   16). A request for information pertaining to an individual should 
   contain that individual's full name, and current mailing address.
     Record access procedures: 
       Any individual desiring to gain access to a record maintained in 
   the system which pertains to him may do so by submitting a written 
   request to the appropriate official referred to in the preceding 
   paragraph.
     Contesting record procedures: 
       Use same procedures as followed in seeking access.
     Record source categories: 
       Information in this system comes primarily from individuals who 
   make application for registration or who are registered under the 
   Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended. A limited amount of 
   information in the system is obtained from other sources such as 
   corporate surety companies, persons acting as trustee on bonds or 
   bond equivalents and Packers and Stockyards Administration, Regional 
   Supervisory personnel.

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