22 CFR § 1101.1 - Purpose and scope.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t22/s1101.1"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "22 CFR § 1101.1 - Purpose and scope."
title_number: 22
title_name: "Foreign Relations"
section_number: "1101.1"
section_name: "Purpose and scope."
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, UNITED STATES SECTION"
part_number: "1101"
part_name: "PRIVACY ACT OF 1974"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-579, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a)."
regulatory_source: "57 FR 24945, June 12, 1992, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1101"
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# 1101.1 Purpose and scope.

The purpose of these regulations is to prescribe responsibilities, rules, guidelines, and policies and procedures to implement the Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-579, as amended; 5 U.S.C. 552a) to assure that personal information about individuals collected by the United States Section is limited to that which is legally authorized and necessary and is maintained in a manner which precludes unwarranted intrusions upon individual privacy. Further, these regulations establish procedures by which an individual can: (a) Determine if the United States Section maintains records or a system of records which includes a record pertaining to the individual and (b) gain access to a record pertaining to him or her for the purpose of review, amendment or correction.