INTERIOR/SOL-3, Patent Files

42 FR 18968 (April 11, 1977); Modification published 86 FR 50156 (September 7, 2021)

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Note: This document was originally published at 42 FR 16121 on Thursday, March 24, 1977. The appendix and systems of records were inadvertently omitted at that time. The document is being published in its entirety below.

 

The Department of the Interior hereby republishes below the notices describing the systems of records which it maintains which are subject to the requirements of section 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a. This republication replaces all previous notice publications by the Department of the Interior.

 

The notices set out below are similar to those published in the Federal Register for September 21, 1976 (41 F.R. 41222-41327) with the following exceptions:

• 1. A table of contents has been added, as has an appendix listing the addresses of facilities of the Department maintaining records subject to Privacy Act.
• 2. As part of the Department’s effort to simplify and clarify its Privacy Act system notices some notices have been rewritten in whole or in part. These are revisions of style only, however, and do not affect the substance of the notices.
• 3. The "Routine Use" paragraphs contained in the notices published in September 21, 1976, were proposed paragraphs, comments upon which were solicited. Pursuant to authority granted by 5 U.S.C. 552a, these paragraphs are now adopted as final "Routine Uses," replacing the "Routine Uses" contained in the original (and now obsolete) group of system notices which the Department of the Interior published in its 1975 annual notice publication (40 FR 41432-41507, 43467-43477, 46066-46074, 47985-47992, 50434).
• 4. In response to the request for comments, on the proposed "Routine Uses," several comments were received suggesting addition of a "Routine Use" to Bureau of Indian Affairs systems 4 (Indian Land Records), 5 (Indian Land Leases) and 12 (Indian Trust Land Mortgages) permitting disclosure to title insurance and abstracting companies and attorneys for purposes of determining ownership of and encumbrances against title. The Department agrees that such a "Routine Use" is necessary to facilitate land transactions involving Indian land and accordingly proposes adoption of a new "Routine Use" for the three systems.
• 5. Seven new systems are proposed to be added. These are Fish and Wildlife Service-28, Avitrol Authorization Records; Fish and Wildlife Service-29, Animal Damage Control Non-Federal Personnel Records; Bureau of Land Management-24, Copy Fee Deposit Records; Bureau of Land Management-27, Real Estate Appraiser Roster; Bureau of Land Management-28, Adopt A Wild Horse Program Records; Bureau of Land Management-29, Recordation of Mining Claims Records; and Office of the Secretary-82, Departmental Manager Development Program Records.

Comments on the proposed new "Routine Uses" and the proposed new system notices may be submitted to the Departmental Privacy Act Officer, Office of Administrative and Management Policy, U.S. Department of the Interior, 18th and C Streets, NW., Washington, D.C. 20240. Comments received on or before June 1, 1977, will be considered. Copies of any comments which are received will be available for inspection at the above address.

March 7, 1977.

Richard R. Hite,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

 

 

Patent Files — Interior, Office of the Solicitor-3.

 

Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, 18th and C Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240.

 

Inventors of Inventions arising from Government research and development programs; and applicants for Patents, Trademark Registrations, and Copyright Registrations.

 

Certain titles of inventions, inventor's name. Department of the Interior’s docket number, and Patent and Trademark Offices Serial Numbers and filing dates

 

• (1) 5 U.S.C. 301;
• (2) 43 U.S.C. 1457; and
• (3) 1963 and 1971 President’s Patent Policy Statements. 

The primary uses of the records are

• (a) For ongoing retrieval and docketing purposes and intraoffice management and
• (b) For the preparation of patent applications for submission to the U. S. Patent Office. 

Disclosures outside the Department of the Interior may be made

• (1) To the U. S. Patent Office;
• (2) To inventors and others directly concerned with the government funded research and development information concerning filing dates, serial numbers and patent or trademark registration numbers;
• (3) To the U. S. Department of Justice when related to litigation or anticipated litigation;
• (4) Of information indicating a violation or potential violation of a statute, regulation, rule, order or license, to appropriate Federal, State, local or foreign agencies responsible for investigating or prosecuting the violation or for enforcing or implementing the statute, rule, regulation, order or license.
• (5) To another Federal agency or Federal entity, when DOI determines that information from this system of records is reasonably necessary to assist the recipient agency or entity in:
  • (a) Responding to a suspected or confirmed breach; or
  • (b) Preventing, minimizing, or remedying the risk of harm to individuals, the recipient agency or entity (including its information systems, programs, and operations), the Federal Government, or national security, resulting from a suspected or confirmed breach.