Privacy Act; Implementation; Further Delay of Effective Date
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On January 16, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule to make effective the exemptions that were previously proposed for a new Privacy Act system of records, "NIH Police Records," maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), from certain requirements of the Act. That final rule was originally scheduled to take effect on February 18, 2025. Subsequently, the effective date was delayed until March 21, 2025, in response to the memorandum titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," issued by the President on January 20, 2025. This notice further delays the effective date until May 5, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 55 (Monday, March 24, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 13416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04979]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
45 CFR Part 5b
RIN 0925-AA69
Privacy Act; Implementation; Further Delay of Effective Date
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Final rule; further delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: On January 16, 2025, the Department of Health and Human
Services published a final rule to make effective the exemptions that
were previously proposed for a new Privacy Act system of records, ``NIH
Police Records,'' maintained by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), from certain requirements of the Act. That final rule was
originally scheduled to take effect on February 18, 2025. Subsequently,
the effective date was delayed until March 21, 2025, in response to the
memorandum titled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' issued by the
President on January 20, 2025. This notice further delays the effective
date until May 5, 2025.
DATES: As of March 21, 2025, the effective date of the final rule
published on January 16, 2025 (90 FR 4673), delayed until March 21,
2025 (90 FR 9844), is further delayed until May 5, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dustin Close, Office of Management
Assessment, National Institutes of Health, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite
601, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, telephone 301-402-6469, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0474766d7265677d4469656d682a6a6d6c2a636b72"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="19696b706f787a60597478707537777071377e766f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 16, 2025, HHS issued a final rule
(90 FR 4673) to make effective the exemptions that were proposed (89 FR
48536) for a new Privacy Act system of records maintained by NIH from
certain requirements of the Act. The new system of records covers
criminal and non-criminal law enforcement investigatory material
maintained by the NIH Division of Police, a component of NIH which
performs criminal law enforcement as its principal function. The
exemptions are necessary and appropriate to protect the integrity of
law enforcement proceedings and records compiled during the course of
NIH Division of Police activities, prevent disclosure of investigative
techniques, and protect the identity of confidential sources involved
in those activities.
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a memorandum
titled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' (90 FR 8249) that
instructs Federal agencies to consider delaying the effective date of
rules published in the Federal Register, but which have not yet taken
effect, for a period of 60 days from the date of the memorandum. In
accordance with that memorandum, HHS delayed for 60 days from the date
of the President's memorandum the effective date of the final rule
titled ``Privacy Act; Implementation'' that published on January 16,
2025.
The effective date of that final rule, which would have been March
21, 2025, is now May 5, 2025.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2025-04979 Filed 3-21-25; 8:45 am]
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