# Privacy Act, Exempt Record System; Withdrawal
> **National Institutes of Health** · Direct final rule; withdrawal. · Published 2013-01-15 · Effective 2013-01-10 · 78 FR 2892
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-00726
- **Category:** research
- **Sub-agency:** National Institutes of Health
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 2892
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 5
- **Publication date:** 2013-01-15
- **Effective date:** 2013-01-10
- **HHS docket:** Docket Number NIH-2011-0001
## Abstract

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published in the Federal Register of August 28, 2012, a direct final rule to exempt a new system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 in order to protect the integrity of NIH research misconduct proceedings and to protect the identity of confidential sources in such proceedings. The comment period for this direct final rule closed November 13, 2012. HHS is withdrawing the direct final rule because the agency has received significant adverse comment.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/01/15/2013-00726/privacy-act-exempt-record-system-withdrawal)
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