MEMORANDUM OPINION
This matter comes before the Court on the Motion to Amend Complaint filed by Plaintiff Truman DeHaemers. Plaintiff seeks to amend his Complaint, which asserts claims under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, in order to add claims pursuant to the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701, et seq., the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. § 633a, et seq., and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. Defendant asserts that Plaintiffs proposed amendment would be futile because venue for the claims Plaintiff proposes to add does not lie in the District of Columbia. Upon a searching review of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend and proposed Amended Complaint, Defendant’s Opposition, Plaintiffs Reply, the relevant statutes and case law, and the entire record herein, the Court concludes that Defendant has not waived, and is not judicially estopped from raising, an objection to venue with respect to Plaintiffs proposed additional claims. The Court further concludes that venue for Plaintiffs Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims does not lie in the District of Columbia, while venue for Plaintiffs ADEA claim may lie in the District of Columbia. As a portion of Plaintiffs proposed amendment would therefore be futile, the Court shall grant-in-part and deny-in-part Plaintiffs Motion to Amend.
In his Reply, Plaintiff states that if the Court determines that Defendant has not waived its objection to venue, Plaintiff wishes to withdraw his Motion to Amend and proceed on his Privacy Act claims before this Court. Nevertheless, because it appears that venue for all of Plaintiffs claims may be lie in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Court shall allow Plaintiff ten days, through and including December 14, 2007, in which to file Notice with the Court as to whether he intends to pursue his Privacy Act claims before this Court.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff filed his initial Complaint in this action on April 10, 2007, against Defendant, Michael W. Wynne, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of the Air Force (hereinafter “Defendant”), alleging violations of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, by various officials of the Air Force Audit Agency, Plaintiffs employer. Compl. ¶ 1. Plaintiffs Complaint alleges that his confidential medical and other personal information was wrongfully disclosed by Air Force personnel in connection with an administrative action he filed before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). Defendant filed an answer to Plaintiffs original Complaint on July 16, 2007. On September 6, 2007, the Court held an Initial Scheduling Conference in this matter, with counsel for Plaintiff and Defendant in attendance. During that Conference, the issue of Plaintiffs pending claims before the EEOC arose, and the parties agreed that Plaintiff would amend his Complaint to add claims arising under Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act relating to the alleged unlawful disclosure of his cоnfidential medical records.
Plaintiff filed his Motion to Amend Complaint on September 18, 2007, along with a proposed Amended Complaint, which adds claims under the Rehabilitation Act, the *244 ADEA, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that various Air Force employees violated the Rehabilitation Act’s requirements concerning confidential medical records, Am. Compl. ¶¶ 44-47, 95-100, 112-17, 129-34, 152-57, and that one employee’s dissemination оf Plaintiffs confidential medical records constituted retaliation in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, the ADEA, and Title VII, id. ¶¶ 72-83.
Like his initial Complaint, Plaintiffs Amended Complaint alleges that he is a resident of the State of Virginia and that he is employed as an Auditor with the “Air Force Audit Agency, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.” Am. Compl. ¶ 7. Despite the latter assertion, the Amended Complaint also alleges that “[a]t all times relevant to this Complaint, [Plaintiff] has worked in Arlington, Virginia.” Id. ¶ 11. This apparent contradiction is explained by the fact that the Pentagon has a Washington, D.C. mailing address, but is physically located in Arlington, Virginia. See Def.’s Opp’n at 2 n. 1. Furthermore, according to the October 2, 2007 Declaration of Nancy M. Kirkpatrick submitted in support of Defendant’s Opposition, Plaintiff works, and has worked for over ten years, in the Air Force Audit Agency office located in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. See Def.’s Opp’n, Ex. 1 (10/2/07 Kirkpatrick Decl.) at l. 1 Ms. Kirkpatriсk’s Declaration further asserts that the personnel records for civilian employees of the office in which Plaintiff works are located at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, and have been located there since the early 1990s. Id. Plaintiff does not contest these assertions in his Reply.
II. LEGAL STANDARD
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a), a party may amend its pleading once as a matter of right at any time before a responsive pleading is served.
See
Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(a). Once a responsive pleading is served, however, a party may amend its complaint only by leave of the court or by written consent of the adverse party.
Id.; Foman v. Davis,
III. DISCUSSION
A. Defendant May Challenge Venue With Respect to Plaintiff’s Proposed Additional Claims
As an initial matter, the Court addresses Plaintiffs argument that Defen
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dant has waived, or is estopped from asserting, any challenge to venue with respect to Plaintiffs proposed claims under the Rehabilitation Act, Title VII, and the ADEA. Plaintiff asserts that Defendant waived such a challengе when, during the Initial Scheduling Conference in this matter, Defendant “requested that Plaintiff file his EEO claims as an amendment to the Privacy Act case because the EEO claims arose from the same set of operative facts as the Privacy Act claims and because the Agency sought to address the case as a complete whole.” Pl.’s Reply at 2. Plaintiff also asserts that Defendant waived his venue argument in his Answer to Plaintiffs Original Comрlaint by admitting Plaintiffs assertion that Plaintiff is employed by “the Air Force Audit Agency, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.”
Id.
at 3. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(h)(1), a defense of improper venue is waived unless asserted by a pre-answer motion under Rule 12(b) or in a responsive pleading. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(h)(1); see
also Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh,
Defendant has complied with Rule 12(h)(1) by “seasonably” asserting his defense of improper venue with respect to Plaintiffs proposed additional claims at the first available opportunity. Furthermore, the Court cannot conclude that Defendant waived the defense of improper venue “by submission through conduct” in suggesting that Plaintiff add his additional claims to his Privacy Act claim. To the contrary, Plaintiffs description of the Initial Sсheduling Conference in this matter is inaccurate. The Court has reviewed the record of that Conference, and notes that it was Plaintiffs counsel — not Defendant — who initially raised the issue of amending Plaintiffs Complaint. While defense counsel certainly suggested that Defendant was unlikely to oppose Plaintiffs proposed amendment, she also noted that Defendant would need to review Plaintiffs proposed amendment befоre making a conclusive determination. Significantly, the proper venue for Plaintiffs additional claims was not raised by either party during the Initial Scheduling Conference and so the issue was never waived. Rather, it appears that Defendant discovered the defense of improper venue upon analyzing Plaintiffs proposed Amended Complaint, and promptly raised an objection to venue in his Opposition to Plaintiffs Mоtion to Amend. Nor does the Court conclude that Defendant waived a defense of improper venue with respect to Plaintiffs proposed additional claims by admitting the allegation in Plaintiffs original Complaint that he is employed by the Air Force Audit Agency, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Indeed, that allegation appears to be factually correct because the Pentagon has a Washington, D.C.' mailing address. See Def.’s Opp’n at 2 n. 1. Furthermore, as discussed below, venue over Plaintiffs Privacy Act claim is clearly proper in the District of Columbia under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(5), and does not turn on the issue of where Defendant “resides” or has his “principal office” — questions that are key to determining venue for Plaintiffs proposed additional claims.
In addition to arguing that Defendant has formally waived a venue challenge, Plaintiff appears to suggest that Defendant should be judicially estopped from asserting such a challenge because “Plaintiff expressly relied on [defense] counsel’s representations” at the Initial Scheduling Conference, and the “reliance
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is prejudicial to the Plaintiff,” who “abandoned his rights to pursue his proposed additional claims on an administrative level” by filing his EEO claims in federal court as an amendment to his Privacy Act claim. Pl.’s Reply at 3-4. As the Supreme Court has explained, the rule of judicial estoppel aims at “ ‘protect[ing] the integrity of the judicial process’ by ‘prohibiting parties from deliberately changing positions according to the exigencies of the moment.’”
New Hampshire v. Maine,
The application of these factors to the instant case demonstrate that Defendant should not be estopped from raising his venue challenge to Plaintiffs proposed additional claims. First, Defendant’s current position is his first with respect to the proper venue for Plaintiffs propоsed additional claims, and is therefore not “clearly inconsistent” with any prior position. Second, this Court has not accepted any party’s position as to venue for Plaintiffs proposed claims. Third, the impact of Defendant’s venue challenge is that both parties may be required to address Plaintiffs claims in two separate lawsuits — a situation that is equally disadvantageous for both. Finally, as to Plaintiffs argument that he detrimentally relied on defense counsel’s representations in abandoning his administrative claims, as discussed below, venue for each of Plaintiffs proposed additional claims appears to lie in the Eastern District of Virginia. Thus, insofar as Plaintiff wishes to pursue those claims, he may do so by bringing a second action in that jurisdiction. 2 Moreover, as further discussed below, to the extent that venue for all of Plaintiffs claims (including his Privacy Act claim) may lie in the Eastern District of Virginia, it appears that Plaintiff may pursue a single comprehensive action there by transferring the Privacy Act claim filed in this Court and amending it to include his other claims once transferred. 3
B. The Merits of Defendant’s Venue Challenge
The Court now turns to the merits of Defendant’s venue challenge. For the reasons set forth below, it appears that Defendant is correct that Plaintiffs proposed amendment would be largely futile because venue over his Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims does not lie in the District of Columbia. In contrast, it is unclear *247 whether venue for Plaintiffs proposed ADEA claim properly lies in the District of Columbia, while venue for Plaintiffs Privacy Act claim properly lies in the District of Columbia as well as the Eastern District of Virginia.
1. Venue Under the Rehabilitation Act and Title VII
Venue for Title VII actions is governed by the particular venue provision contained in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e—5(f)(3).
See Saran v. Harvey,
No. Civ. A. 04-1847,
This provision clearly dictates that venue for Plaintiffs Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims lies in the Eastern District of Virginia. Specifically, Plaintiffs Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims allege that Air Force officials improperly disseminated Plaintiffs confidential medical records, and that one official did so in retaliation for Plaintiffs identifying that individual as a disсriminatory actor and noticing his deposition in Plaintiffs EEOC action. It thus appears that the Air Force’s alleged improper dissemination and retaliation occurred at the Air Force Agency Office in Arlington, Virginia. Furthermore, Ms. Kirkpatrick’s Declaration establishes that any relevant employment records are maintained and administered in Arlington, Virginia, and that Plaintiff would have worked in Arlington, Virginia but for the Air Force’s alleged actions (and in fact continues to do so). See Kirkpatrick Decl. at 1.
Moreover, venue for Plaintiffs Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims is also improper in the District of Columbia under the fourth prong of the Title VII venue provision because that provision “permits venue to be laid where the respondent has his principal office only if the respondent is not found within any of the other districts covered by the statute.”
Lee v. England,
No. Civ. A. 02-2521,
2. Venue Under the ADEA
In contrast, the ADEA does not contain a special provision, rather venue for Plaintiffs ADEA claim is governed by the general venue statute for claims
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against officers of agencies of the United States acting in their official capacities, 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e).
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Under that provision, venue for Plaintiffs ADEA claim is proper (1) where the Air Force resides, (2) where a substantial part of the events giving rise to the action occurred, or (3) where Plaintiff resides. 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e). For the reasons discussed above, and because Plaintiffs Amended Complaint alleges that he is a resident of Virginia, the second and third prongs of Section 1391(e) clearly dictate that venue for Plaintiffs ADEA claim lies in the Eastern District of Virginia. Defendant asserts that the first prong likewise restricts venue for Plaintiffs ADEA claim to the Eastern District of Virginia, because the Secretary of the Air Force has his рrincipal office at the Pentagon, which is physically located in Arlington, Virginia. Def.’s Opp’n at 4. Defendant further asserts that the Pentagon’s Washington, D.C. mailing address is irrelevant for purposes of determining venue, citing to
Saran,
an ADEA case in which Judge John D. Bates determined that the Secretary of the Army resides in Arlington, Virginia notwithstanding a telephone directory that places his office in Washington, D.C.
Id.; see also Saran,
However, the cases on which
Saran
relies,
Chance v. Dewitt Army Community Center,
“[officers and agencies of the United States can have more than one residence, and venue can properly lie in more than one jurisdiction.”
Jyachosky v. Winter,
No. Civ. A. 04-01733,
3. Venue for Plaintiffs Privacy Act Claim Lies in the District of Columbia
Finally, under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(5), a Privacy Act claim may be brought where Plaintiff “resides, or has his principal place of business, or [where] the agency records are situated, or in the District of Columbia.” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(5). As such, and as Defendant admits, Plain
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tiffs Privacy Act claims are properly ven-ued in this District. Nevertheless, this Court does not assume pendent venue over Plaintiffs Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims becаuse the authority in this Circuit indicates that when a plaintiff brings a Title VII action, which is covered by Title VII’s restrictive venue provision, as well as an action governed by the general venue provision, the narrower venue provision of § 2000e — 5(f)(3) controls.
See James v. Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.,
As such, if Plaintiff chooses to pursue his Privacy Act claim in this Court, it appears that at least his Rehabilitation Act and Title VII claims must be pursued in a separate action in the Eastern District of Virginia. Plaintiffs Reply states that “[i]n the event that this court finds that the defense has not waived its objection to venue, the Plaintiff ... wishes to proceed directly on the Privacy Act claims alone ... [and to] reserv[e] the right to file the matter in Virginia at an appropriate time.” PL’s Reply at 5 (emphasis added). Nevertheless, as the maintenance of two separate actions relating to the same events flies in the face of judicial economy, the Court notes that it appears Plaintiffs claims may be pursued in a single action. Based on the record currently before the Court, venue for Plaintiffs Privacy Act claim may be equally appropriate in the Eastern District of Virginia under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(5) because Plaintiff resides in that district and the agency records at issue are located at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia. While Plaintiff asserts that his claims cannot be consolidated in a single claim in Virginia “since the Defendant opposes the amendment of the complaint in the first instance,” id. at 4, Defendant’s Opposition does not actually suggest that Defendant is opposed to addressing all of Plaintiffs claims in a single action, but simply argues that venue for some of those claims does not lie in this jurisdiction. In contrast, for the reasons set forth above, it appears that venue for all of Plaintiffs claims may properly lie in the Eastern District of Virginia. Moreover, it appears that Plaintiff could pursue a single action in that jurisdiction either by seeking a dismissal without prejudice of his Privacy Act claim, or by moving this Court to transfer his Privacy Act сlaim to the Eastern District of Virginia pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).
IV. CONCLUSION
For the reasons set forth above, Plaintiffs Motion to Amend is granted-in-part and denied-in-part. Specifically, Plaintiff may amend his Complaint to add claims under the ADEA, but may not add claims under either the Rehabilitation Act or Title VII, as venue for such claims does not lie in the District of Columbia. Furthermore, as it appears that venue for all of Plaintiffs proposed claims may lie in the Eastern District of Virginia, on or before December 14, 2007, Plaintiff shall file Notice with the Court as to whether he wishes to pursue his Privacy Act claim before this Court. An appropriate Order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.
Notes
. Ms. Kirkpatrick's title is Human Resources Specialist (Labor Relations), Air Force District of Washington, Civilian Personnel Office. Kirkpatrick Decl. at 1.
. In addition, the Court notes that unless and until the Court grants Plaintiff leave to amend his Complaint, he has not actually filed his Rehabilitation Act, ADEA, or Title VII claims with this Court. As such, unless Plaintiff has withdrawn his claims before the EEOC — a fact that is not clear on the record before the Court- — Plaintiff may still be able to pursue his claims administratively.
. The Court notes that the parties would not be significantly prejudiced by the addition of claims in this action, as they have just commenced with discovery.
. Plaintiff's Amended Complaint asserts that venue is governed by 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b), which addresses civil actions wherein jurisdiction is not founded on diversity; however, the appropriate venue provision is Section 1391(e).