# Privacy Act; Implementation
> **National Institutes of Health** · Final rule. · Published 2013-07-01 · Effective 2013-07-31 · 78 FR 39186
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-15596
- **Category:** research
- **Sub-agency:** National Institutes of Health
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 39186
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 5
- **Publication date:** 2013-07-01
- **Effective date:** 2013-07-31
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. NIH-2011-0001
## Abstract

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department), through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is exempting a system of records from certain requirements of the Privacy Act to protect the integrity of NIH research misconduct proceedings and to protect the identity of confidential sources in such proceedings.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/07/01/2013-15596/privacy-act-implementation)
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