Comment from YEAGER, JESSE

RE: SORN—TREAS-DO-2026-0463 This proposed new System of Records (“SOR”) by the US Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) appears consistent with the intent of Executive Order 14395 “Establishing the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud” and Executive Order 14249 “Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.” This proposed SOR, as written, enables seven Purposes. As the fraud.gov website will be a mechanism for reporting “suspected waste, fraud, abuse, improper payments, misuse of Federal funds, or other misconduct affecting Federal programs”, it is not unreasonable that an allegation may be against a federal employee who would fall under the Category of Individuals Covered by the System. The Treasury should consider revising this SOR before its effective date to include the additional Users under the Routine Use provision: 1.To the Office of the President, in response to an inquiry received from that office made on behalf of, and at the request of, the subject of record or a third party acting on the subject’s behalf; 2.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, when requested in connection with investigations into alleged or possible discriminatory practices in the Federal sector; 3.To the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), or the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), in connection with appeals, special studies of the civil service and other merit systems, review of rules and regulations, investigations of alleged or possible prohibited personnel practices, and other such functions; 4.To the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Office of the Special Counsel, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Federal Service Impasses Panel, or an arbitrator requesting information, in connection with the investigations of allegations of unfair practices, matters before an arbitrator, or the Federal Service Impasses Panel; 5.To debt collection contractors for the purpose of collecting debts owed to the government, as authorized under the Debt Collection Act of 1982, 31 U.S.C. 3718, and subject to applicable Privacy Act safeguards; 6.The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the purpose of obtaining advice regarding agency obligations under the Privacy Act, or in connection with the review of private relief legislation; 7.To contractors, volunteers, interns or other authorized individuals who have a “need to know” the information contained in the Categories of Record to perform their officially assigned or designated duties for or on behalf of the respective agency. The Categories of Users and the Purposes of Such Uses listed above are examples contained within Routine Use notices in other federal agency SOR’s. An allegation against a federal employee may necessitate Treasury’s disclosure from this proposed SOR to any of the parties I listed in numbers 1 - 7 above for any of their stated Purposes. The Treasury should include the above parties numbered 1 – 7 as additional Category of Users in this proposed SOR to ensure the Category of Records information collected under this SOR is disclosable. I encourage their addition to make certain that accountability and due process against a federal employee is maintained throughout the lifecycle of a fraud allegation.