DOL/ASP-1

SYSTEM NAMES:

National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) Research File

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified.

SYSTEM LOCATIONS:

The NAWS Sponsor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210; the office of the System Manager, currently Aguirre International, 480 East 4th Avenue, Unit A, San Mateo, CA, 94401-3349; and in two locations of the NAWS Co-Sponsor, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): 1) The Division of Surveillance, Health Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, and 2) The Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road,--mail stop 180-p, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUAL COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:

The respondents in the National Agricultural Workers Survey. These will be randomly selected individuals who are engaged in crop activities. There will be approximately 4,000 individuals per year included in the file.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

The system will contain records of the employment history and living conditions of crop workers and their families. It will also contain information about the wages, working conditions and recruitment procedures, and health and occupational injury experienced by crop workers. The records will contain the names, and addresses of the respondents in the NAWS. All of this data will have been obtained in a personal interview with the respondents.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

5 U.S.C. 301.

PURPOSE(S):

To gather and analyze farm worker data on all demographic, employment, wage and working conditions, health, safety, educational, social service, and housing issues. The demographic characteristics of farmworkers have been gathered by the federal government continuously throughout the postwar period. Until 1987 they were gathered by the Current Population Survey through a supplement and then elaborated by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS). In 1987, the OASP/DOL assumed the responsibility to carry out this national survey, initially to accomplish the mandate of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 to measure the supply of the farm labor during fiscal years 1990 through 1993. Along with the task of carrying out the labor supply estimate assigned to OASP came the responsibility and the associated resources of the traditional survey on farmworkers.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

None, except for those universal routine uses listed in the General Prefatory Statement to this document with the following limitations: The Routine Uses listed at paragraphs 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 11 in the General Prefatory Statement to this document are not applicable to this system of records. The records also may be disclosed where required by law.

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES:

None.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

In the initial stages the information will be stored on interview questionnaires which will be handled by Aguirre International of San Mateo California. This company will transfer the questionnaires as quickly as possible to their San Mateo Offices where they will be kept in locked filing cabinets. The information will be entered onto computer and stored on computer tape by the System Manager, currently Aguirre International, the System Sponsor OASP/DOL and by the System Co-Sponsor NIOSH.

RETRIEVABILITY:

By names of respondents.

SAFEGUARDS:

The practice and procedure of the Assistant Secretary for Policy prohibits the transfer of any record filed with a personal identifier to any location outside of the contractors' (currently Aguirre International) premises. At all the other system locations, including OASP/DOL, only files without personal identifiers will be stored. At all locations, files will be maintained with secure password protection.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Names will be removed from the records and destroyed not later than four years after the collection of the data.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

The NAWS Sponsor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210; the System Manager, currently Aguirre International, 480 East 4th Avenue, Unit A, San Mateo, CA, 94401-3349; and the NAWS Co-Sponsor, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): 1) The Division of Surveillance, Health Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, and 2) The Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road,--mail stop 180-p, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Individuals wishing to inquire whether this system of records contains information about them should contact OASP/DOL. Individuals must furnish the following information for their records to be located and identified:

a. full name

b. year of interview

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

Individuals wishing to request access to their own records should contact OASP/DOL and comply with the requirements of the DOL regulation at 29 CFR part 71.2.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

To seek amendment of record procedures individuals should direct their requests to OASP/DOL.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

The information in this system will be received from respondents.

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISION OF THE ACT:

None.