research · National Institutes of Health · Rule · Published 2012-08-28 · Effective 2013-01-10 · 77 FR 51933
Document
Document number
2012-20886
Federal Register citation
77 FR 51933
CFR reference
45 CFR 5
Type
Rule
Action
Direct Final rule.
Category
research
Sub-agency
National Institutes of Health
Publication date
2012-08-28
Effective date
2013-01-10
HHS docket
Docket Number NIH-2011-0001
Abstract
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department), through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is implementing a new system of records, 09-25-0223, "NIH Records Related to Research Misconduct Proceedings, HHS/NIH." HHS is exempting this system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act to protect the integrity of NIH research misconduct proceedings and to protect the identity of confidential sources in such proceedings. HHS is issuing a direct final rule for this action because the agency expects that there will be no significant adverse comment on this rule. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, HHS is publishing a companion proposed rule under the agency's usual procedure for notice-and-comment rulemaking to provide a procedural framework to finalize the rule in the event the agency receives any significant comments and withdraws this direct final rule. The companion proposed rule and this direct final rule are substantively identical.