(a) This part is published pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a), (hereinafter the “Privacy Act”). This part:

(1) Establishes or advises of the procedures whereby an individual can:

(i) Request notification of whether the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) maintains or has disclosed a record pertaining to him in any nonexempt system of records,

(ii) Request a copy or other access to such a record or to an accounting of its disclosure,

(iii) Request that the record be amended and

(iv) Appeal any initial adverse determination of any such request;

(2) Specifies those systems of records which the Director, Headquarters NGA has determined to be exempt from the procedures established by this regulation and from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. NGA policy encompasses the safeguarding of individual privacy from any misuse of NGA records and the provision of the fullest access practicable to individuals to NGA records concerning them.