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 USDA/FS-19

System name:  Person Interested in Forestry and Related 
      Programs, USDA/FS.

     System location:  All Forest Service field locations. Addresses of 
   Forest Service offices are listed in the telephone directories of the 
   respective cities under the heading United States Government, 
   Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
     Categories of individuals covered by the system:  Persons in 
   communications, industry, conservation, elected office, and 
   communities who are known (or expressed) to have an interest in 
   obtaining up to date information about Forest Service activities in 
   forestry or natural resource related matters.
     Categories of records in the system:  Record includes name, 
   address, and kind of Forest Service activities and programs, i.e., 
   wood, forage, water, recreation, wildlife, land use planning, 
   wilderness, etc., in which the individual has demonstrated a special 
   interest.
     Authority for maintenance of the system:  5 U.S.C. 301; 7 CFR 2.60
     Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including 
   categories of users and the purposes of such uses:  Keep interested 
   persons informed concerning current forestry or natural resource 
   elated activities. Disclosure may be made to a congressional office 
   from the record of an individual in response to an inquiry from the 
   congressional office made at the request of that individual.
     Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, 
   retaining, and disposing of records in the system: 
     Storage:  File cards, folders, computer.
     Retrievability:  Indexed by name of individual for whom address is 
   written.
     Safeguards:  File cabinets.
     Retention and disposal:  Retained as long as there is a current 
   address or evidence of continuing interest in forestry and natural 
   resource related matters.
     System manager(s) and address:  Chief, Forest Service, U.S. 
   Department of Agriculture, 12th and Independence, SW, Washington, DC 
   20250 or responsible line officer at each field unit.
     Notification procedure:  An individual may request information 
   regarding this system of records or information as to whether the 
   system contains records pertaining to him from any Forest Service 
   office, with the one in proximity to requester's home address most 
   likely.
     Record access procedures:  Use same procedures as for requesting 
   Notification.
     Contesting record procedures:  Use same procedures as for 
   requesting Notification.
     Record source categories:  Respondents on public involvement 
   issues, meetings, hearings, conversations, correspondence, telephone, 
   and published directories.