SYSTEM NAMES:

Automated Training Request Application (ATRA).

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

None.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Office.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:

BLS employees who take training.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

Employee name, employee organization, course taken, course start date, course end date, total hours for course, course completion date, and course fee.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

5 U.S.C. 301

PURPOSE(S):

The records are maintained to enable BLS to allocate costs of training to appropriate organization within BLS and managers and employees to track courses taken by employees.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

None, except for those universal routine uses listed in the General Prefatory Statement to this document.

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES:

None.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

Files are stored electronically and/or on paper.

RETRIEVABILITY:

Files are retrieved by course title, course number, name of employee attending course, or other identifying codes.

SAFEGUARDS:

Access by authorized personnel only. Computer security safeguards are used for electronically stored data and locked locations for paper files. Network passwords are necessary to access records. Access levels are created within automated systems to restrict unauthorized access to system utilities.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Records are retained for 5 years or when superseded or obsolete, whichever is sooner, in accordance with BLS Records Schedule N1-257-88-1.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

Chief, Workforce Development and Training Branch, Division of Human Resources and Organization Management, Postal Square Building, 2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, DC 20212.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Inquiries should be mailed to the System Manager.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

A request for access should be mailed to the System Manager.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

A petition for amendment should be mailed to the System Manager.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Information contained in this system is obtained from applications for employees, training forms such as SF-182, certificates of course completion, BLS routine administrative files, or other application forms BLS may designate.

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT:

None.