Treasury creates new contractor workforce privacy records system
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This notice creates a new Treasury records system for information about current and former contractors. Treasury says it will use the data to manage contracts, issue credentials, provide equipment, and oversee contractor performance and compliance. For contractors and the businesses that employ them, this means Treasury will collect and store contact details, IDs, PIV card data, work locations, contract details, and related employment information. The notice also explains that some records can be shared with law enforcement, auditors, courts, Congress, and other agencies in limited cases, and that comments on the notice are due by June 1, 2026.
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Key Changes
- Treasury is creating a new Privacy Act system of records for contractor workforce information.
- The system will store personal and work-related data on current and former contractors to support contract administration, credentialing, equipment provisioning, and oversight.
- The notice sets public comment timing and allows limited data sharing with agencies, courts, auditors, and others under routine uses.
Obligations
What this law requires
Treasury must publish a Federal Register notice of the new Privacy Act system of records, including its existence and character, and make the system effective upon publication.
Treasury must publish a Federal Register notice describing the existence and character of the new system of records it maintains for contractor workforce information.
Treasury must accept written public comments on the notice by June 1, 2026.
Treasury must provide written notice and accept public comments on the new system of records notice, with comments received by the stated deadline before routine uses become applicable.
Treasury must provide a Privacy Act system-of-records report to OMB and to the U.S. Congress for the new system.