Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records Notice

The Department of Transportation's Office of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT/OST) proposes to establish a DOT-wide system of records under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) to cover emergency contact records that are not covered by the government-wide System of Records Notice (SORN) of the Office of Personnel Management, OPM/GOVT-1. (OPM/GOVT-1 covers some but not all employee contact records that are maintained outside the Official Personnel File, does not cover agencies' emergency-program-related contact records, and does not cover contact information about contractor personnel.) The DOT-wide system, known as the Emergency Contact Records system (ECR), is more thoroughly detailed below.