[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1611.8]

[Page 258]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
          CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
 
PART 1611_PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1611.8  Agency review of request for correction or amendment to record.

    (a) When the Commission receives a request for amendment or 
correction under Sec. 1611.7(a), the appropriate Commission official 
shall acknowledge that request in writing within 10 working days of 
receipt. He or she shall promptly either:
    (1) Determine to grant all or any portion of a request for 
correction or amendment; and:
    (i) Advise the individual of that determination;
    (ii) Make the requested correction or amendment; and
    (iii) Inform any person or agency outside the Commission to whom the 
record has been disclosed, and where an accounting of that disclosure is 
maintained in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(c), of the occurrence and 
substance of the correction or amendments, or;
    (2) Inform the requester of the refusal to amend the record in 
accordance with the request; the reason for the refusal; and the 
procedures whereby the requester can appeal the refusal to the Legal 
Counsel of the Commission.
    (b) If the Commission official informs the requester of the 
determination within the 10-day deadline, a separate acknowledgement is 
not required.
    (c) In conducting the review of a request for correction or 
amendment, the Commission official shall be guided by the requirements 
of 5 U.S.C. 552a(e).
    (d) In the event that the Commission receives a notice of correction 
or amendment from another agency that pertains to records maintained by 
the Commission, the Commission shall make the appropriate correction or 
amendment to its records and comply with paragraph (a)(1)(iii) of this 
section.
    (e) Requests for amendment or correction of records maintained in 
the government-wide systems of records listed in Sec. 1611.5(c) shall 
be governed by the appropriate agency's regulations cited in that 
paragraph. Requests for amendment or correction of records maintained by 
other agencies in system EEOC/GOVT-1 shall be governed by the 
Commission's regulations in this part.

[42 FR 7949, Feb. 8, 1977, as amended at 56 FR 29581, June 28, 1991]