- Susan's Presentation (See slides)
- The goals of her project are
- Consistent national online system for permit applications/renewals/customer service/management
- They need to find out who the participants are, who their partners are, what they need, etc.
- Currently not everything is accepted by the national permits team.
- The technical is the easiest part.
- The presentation:
- Most of our users are Existing Permit Owners
- Should we collect SSNs?
- NMS has the authority and responsibility to collection SSNs during the permit application process , but local practice is affected by concerns for data protection.
- We need to examine and document the business risks of not collecting SSNs.
- SSA will validate the relationship between names and SSNs on a yes/no basis.
- We need the "green light" from general council in order to clarify authority for NMFS to collect SSNs.Dr
- . Balsiger may need to clarify the legal mandateMay need authority from executive level to clear roadblocks.
- The permits are a many to many setup. Many people can own a single permit and a single person can own many permits.
- It is difficult to track our customers and the agents who are acting on behalf of others.
- It is then difficult to track exactly who is who and who is participating because of the brokers and the agents involved.
- Right now we verify identification by sending information through the mail.
- This could be avoided by using SSNs - it would simplify things.
- Do we have enough top-level authority to help push buy-in by all the little players?
- There are people who are able to opt out.
- For the "signing ceremony" language - it would work better to have the GPEA language than the E-Signature Act language.
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