# Privacy Act; Implementation
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Direct final rule; delay of effective date and reopening of public comment period. · Published 2025-02-03 · Effective 2025-03-21 · 90 FR 8781
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-02158
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 8781
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 5
- **Publication date:** 2025-02-03
- **Effective date:** 2025-03-21
- **HHS docket:** Docket Number ACF-2024-0015
## Abstract

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department) published a direct final rule in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024, which was to become effective February 6, 2025. As a result of administrative technical issues, including an incorrect email address, HHS is reopening the public comment period with a new email address for the public to submit comments and delaying the effective date to March 21, 2025. The purpose of the direct final rule was to exempt a new Privacy Act system of records maintained by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Unaccompanied Children Bureau (UCB), System No. 09- 80-0323, "ORR Unaccompanied Children Bureau (UCB) Child Abuse or Neglect Investigation Records and Central Registry," from certain requirements of the Privacy Act, in accordance with subsection (k)(2) of the Privacy Act.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02158/privacy-act-implementation)
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