Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 14 (Friday, January 22, 2016)

The hope is this will lead to better communications between DHS proposes to add, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Automated Targeting System (ATS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Directorate, to the ``DHS Watchlist Service.'' The DHS Watchlist Service is used to transmit Terrorist Screening Database information from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security, and to DHS components thereafter.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to update and reissue a current
Department-wide system of records titled, ``Department of Homeland
Security(DHS)/ALL-030 Use of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)
System of Records,'' 76 FR 39408, July 6, 2011. This system of records
allows the DHS to maintain a synchronized copy of the Department of
Justice's (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Terrorist
Screening Database (TSDB), which includes categories of individuals
covered by DOJ/FBI-019, ``Terrorist Screening Records Center System,''
72 FR 77846, Dec. 14, 2011. DHS maintains a synchronized copy to
automate and simplify the transmission of information in the Terrorist
Screening Database to DHS and its components. With this updated notice,
DHS is adding two new consumers, Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Automated Targeting System (ATS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS)
Directorate, to the ``DHS Watchlist Service.'' The DHS Watchlist
Service is the technological mechanism used to transmit Terrorist
Screening Database information from the Department of Justice to the
Department of Homeland Security, and to DHS components thereafter. DHS
is also clarifying an existing category of individuals, adding two new
categories of individuals, and clarifying the categories of records
maintained in this system. Additionally, this notice includes non-
substantive changes to simplify the formatting and text of the
previously published notice.
DHS is also issuing a new notice of proposed rulemaking to cover
the exemptions applied to these new categories of individuals covered
by this system of records notice. The notice of proposed rulemaking
will be published concurrently with this notice. The existing Final
Rule for Privacy Act exemptions will continue to apply until the new
Final Rule is published. This updated system will be included in DHS's
inventory of record systems.