Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records Notice

Citation85 FR 2747
Record Number2020-00633
Published date16 January 2020
SectionNotices
CourtHealth And Human Services Department,National Institutes Of Health
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 2747-2752]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2020-00633]
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                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
                National Institutes of Health
                Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records Notice
                AGENCY: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and
                Human Services (HHS).
                ACTION: Notice of a modified system of records and rescindment of a
                system of records notice.
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                SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of
                1974,
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                as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through
                the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is modifying system of records
                09-90-0067 to reflect that the records are now maintained by NIH, the
                Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control
                and Prevention (CDC) and to rename the system of records ``Invention,
                Patent, and Licensing Documents Related to Inventions By Public Health
                Service Employees, Grantees, Fellowship Recipients, and Contractors.''
                In addition, HHS/NIH is rescinding a related NIH system of records, 09-
                25-0168.
                DATES: The modified system of records is effective February 18, 2020,
                with the exception of the new and revised routine uses. The new and
                revised routine uses will be effective 30 days after publication of
                this notice, unless comments are received that warrant a revision to
                this notice. Comments should be submitted within 30 days of
                publication, but may be made at any time.
                ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the Privacy Act
                system of records number 09-90-0067, by any of the following methods:
                 Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://regulations.gov. Follow
                the instructions for submitting comments.
                 Email: [email protected] and include the system
                of records number, 09-90-0067, in the subject line of the message.
                 Phone: (301) 402-6201.
                 Fax: (301) 402-0169.
                 Mail: NIH Privacy Act Officer, Office of Management
                Assessment, National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Blvd., Suite
                601, MSC 7669, Rockville, MD 20892.
                 Hand Delivery/Courier: 6011 Executive Blvd., Suite 601,
                MSC 7669, Rockville, MD 20892.
                 Comments received will be available for inspection and copying at
                this same address from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,
                federal holidays excepted.
                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General questions about the modified
                system of records may be submitted by mail or telephone to: Celeste
                Dade-Vinson, NIH Privacy Act Officer, Office of Management Assessment
                (OMA), Office of the Director (OD), National Institutes of Health
                (NIH), 6011 Executive Blvd., Suite 601, MSC 7669, Rockville, MD 20892,
                telephone number (301) 402-6201 (not a toll-free number).
                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                I. Modifications to System of Records 09-90-0067
                 This system of records was established in 1979 or earlier (see 44
                FR 58144, at 58164) by HHS' Office of General Counsel which managed the
                records until approximately 1993, when that responsibility was
                transferred to NIH and NIH established related system of records 09-25-
                0168 (see 58 FR 45111). Until fiscal year (FY) 2017, NIH managed all
                records on behalf of the relevant Public Health Service (PHS)
                components (NIH, FDA, and CDC) whose funding, employment, or other
                activities give rise to the records. Starting in FY 2017, records
                related to an invention arising in FY 2017 or later that is associated
                with only one PHS component are managed by that component, and NIH now
                manages only the following records for other components: (i) Records
                related to inventions that arose prior to FY 2017, and (ii) records
                related to joint inventions associated with more than one component.
                Consequently, HHS has decided to update the department-level system of
                records notice (SORN) 09-90-0067 to cover all three components' records
                to avoid the need for multiple component-specific SORNs, and to rescind
                NIH SORN 09-25-0168.
                 The modifications to SORN 09-90-0067 include the following
                substantive changes, in addition to formatting changes required by OMB
                Circular A-108 and minor wording changes throughout the SORN:
                 The system name has been changed from ``Invention Reports
                Submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services by its
                Employees, Grantees, Fellowship Recipients, and Contractors'' to
                ``Invention, Patent, and Licensing Documents Related to Inventions By
                Public Health Service Employees, Grantees, Fellowship Recipients, and
                Contractors.''
                 The ``System Location'' and ``System Manger(s)'' sections
                now provide contact information for each relevant PHS component (NIH,
                FDA, and CDC) instead of for OGC.
                 The ``Authorities'' section, which formerly cited only 45
                CFR parts 6, 7, and 8 and Executive Orders (E.O.s) 9865 and 10096, no
                longer cites 45 CFR parts 6 and 8 but now cites many additional
                authorities which were cited in NIH SORN 09-25-0168, plus these
                additional authorities which were not cited in that SORN: 42 U.S.C.
                secs. 241, 282, and 284; 37 CFR part 401; and 15 U.S.C. 3701-3708.
                 The ``Categories of Records'' section now identifies more
                categories than just invention reports and includes the list of data
                elements that was in NIH SORN 09-25-0168, updated to include employing
                office or organization name and address, email address, phone, and fax
                numbers, status as Fellow or contract employee, educational degree(s),
                and citizenship, and to remove Social Security Number (SSN). SSN is
                needed only by HHS finance offices, to disburse royalty payments to an
                inventor; records used for disbursement and related functions are
                covered under another system of records (e.g., 09-90-0024 HHS Financial
                Management System Records).
                 The ``Purposes'' section, which previously stated: ``To
                maintain the information and patent records for the entire
                Department,'' now includes the four purposes described in NIH SORN 09-
                25-0168 (now numbered as 1, 2, 3, and 7) and three additional purposes
                (4, 5, and 6).
                 The ``Record Source Categories'' section now includes
                these additional, broadened, or updated categories: Other inventors,
                co-inventors, collaborating persons; grantees, fellowship recipients
                and contractors; other federal agencies; United States and foreign
                patent offices; prospective licensees; PHS technology development
                coordinators; internet and commercial databases; and third parties who
                PHS contacts to determine individual invention ownership or government
                ownership.
                 The ``Routine Uses'' section has been modified as follows:
                 [cir] It includes nine new routine uses (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11,
                and 14; however, closely similar versions of 5 and 10 were in NIH SORN
                09-25-0168).
                 [cir] It includes three revised routine uses:
                --Routine use 2: This routine use, which authorizes disclosures to a
                congressional office when responding to its inquiries regarding
                constituent requests, has been reworded to include the word ``written''
                in describing the constituents' requests and the congressional office's
                inquiries.
                --Routine use 3: Two previously separate litigation-related routine
                uses are now combined in routine use 3.
                --Routine use 9: Six previously separate routine uses (which were
                combined in one routine use in NIH SORN 09-25-0168 but divided in
                subparts numbered a. through f.) are now combined in routine use 9 and
                divided in subparts numbered a. through f.
                 [cir] Two breach response-related routine uses which were published
                for all HHS systems of records on February 14, 2018 (see 83 FR 6591) as
                required by
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                OMB Memorandum M-17-12 are now numbered as 12 and 13.
                 [cir] Five routine uses which were in NIH SORN 09-25-0168 (numbered
                as 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 in that SORN) have not been included in modified
                SORN 09-90-0067 because the disclosures they described would be made by
                other systems of record or otherwise are no longer needed for this
                system of records.
                 The ``Storage'' section has been updated to include
                electronic media and to list types of portable devices that could be
                used, with prior HHS approval, to access and store system records.
                 The ``Safeguards'' section has been updated to list
                additional safeguards which are now used to protect records from
                unauthorized access (e.g., privacy and security documents and training,
                encryption, smart cards, biometrics, firewalls, and intrusion
                detection).
                 The ``Retention'' section, which previously reflected that
                records are maintained onsite for the life of the patent (17 years) or
                for 7 years if the invention was not patented, and are then stored
                offsite at a federal records center (without indicating when they would
                be destroyed), now states that, currently, all records are retained in
                accordance with a NIH disposition schedule which provides for records
                to be retained for a maximum of 30 years, and that, if required,
                separate schedules will be developed for the records managed by FDA and
                CDC in FY 2017 or later.
                 The ``Record Access Procedures,'' ``Contesting Record
                Procedures,'' and ``Notification Procedures'' sections now provide more
                detailed instructions for making a sufficiently specific request and
                now also include identity verification requirements.
                II. Rescindment of NIH System of Records Notice (SORN) 09-25-0168
                 As modified, the department-level SORN 09-90-0067 now includes
                updated descriptions of the same NIH records that are covered in NIH
                SORN 09-25-0168. Accordingly, HHS is rescinding NIH SORN 09-25-0168 as
                duplicative of modified SORN 09-90-0067.
                 Dated: January 9, 2020.
                Alfred C. Johnson,
                Deputy Director for Management, National Institutes of Health.
                SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
                 Invention, Patent, and Licensing Documents Related to Inventions By
                Public Health Service Employees, Grantees, Fellowship Recipients, and
                Contractors, 09-90-0067.
                SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
                 Unclassified.
                SYSTEM LOCATION:
                 The address of each agency component responsible for the system of
                records is as shown in the System Manager(s) section.
                SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
                 The System Managers are as follows:
                 For NIH invention records, joint invention records, and
                records related to inventions that arose prior to FY 2017: National
                Institutes of Health, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Office
                of Intramural Research, Office of the Director, 6011 Executive Blvd.,
                Suite 325, Rockville, MD 20892-7660, [email protected], (301) 496-
                7057.
                 For FDA invention records related to inventions that arose
                in FY 2017 or later: Food and Drug Administration, Director, FDA
                Technology Transfer Program, Office of the Chief Scientist, 10903 New
                Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, [email protected].
                 For CDC invention records related to inventions that arose
                in FY 2017 or later: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
                Associate Director for Science, Office of Technology and Innovation,
                1600 Clifton Rd. NE, M/S D-42, Atlanta GA 30329-4018, [email protected],
                (404) 639-1330.
                AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
                 15 U.S.C. secs. 3701-3710d, National Technology Transfer and
                Advancement Act; 35 U.S.C. secs. 200-212, Patent Rights in Inventions
                Made with Federal Funding Assistance; 42 U.S.C. secs. 241, 282 and 284,
                the Public Health Service Act; Executive Order (E.O.) 9865, Providing
                for the Protection Abroad of Inventions Resulting from Research
                Financed by the Government; and E.O. 10096, Providing for a Uniform
                Patent Policy for the Government with Respect to Inventions made by
                Government Employees and for the Administration of Such Policy. See
                also 37 CFR parts 401 and 404, and 45 CFR part 7.
                PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM:
                 The records are maintained and used by HHS for these purposes:
                 1. To obtain patent protection for inventions reported by Public
                Health Service (PHS) employees, inventors, contractors, and non-profit
                and educational institutions to which title is owned or co-owned by the
                Federal Government.
                 2. To grant licenses to patents obtained through the invention
                reports.
                 3. To provide royalty payments to the relevant PHS employees,
                inventors, contractors, and non-profit and educational institutions.
                 4. To manage all assets of the technology transfer process (i.e.,
                marketing, statistics, technology abstracts).
                 5. To refer to for information needed during award processing,
                querying, and reporting.
                 6. To share relevant information with other HHS offices that manage
                grants, contracts, or personnel associated with the invention,
                including any information needed to investigate matters such as
                possible law, contract, or grant agreement violations and issues
                concerning an individual's or entity's suitability or eligibility for
                federal employment, contracts, grants, licenses, or other federal
                benefits. Records used by other HHS offices for such purposes, if
                retrieved by personal identifier, would be covered under other Systems
                of Records Notices (SORNs); see, for example, OPM/GOVT-3 covering
                Adverse Action Files, 09-90-0020 covering Suitability for Employment
                Records, and 09-90-0100 covering Civil and Administrative Investigative
                Files of the Inspector General.
                 7. To provide documentation needed for related financial management
                and debt collection functions, including effecting disbursements of
                royalty awards and payments by the Department of the Treasury
                (Treasury), coordinating with Treasury to recover any improper payments
                or other claims through offsets against federal salary and tax refund
                payments, and reporting royalty payments and uncollectible debt amounts
                to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as income. Records used for
                financial management and debt collection purposes are covered under
                other HHS System of Records Notices (SORNs); see, e.g., HHS SORN Nos.
                09-90-0024 HHS Financial Management System Records and 09-40-0012 Debt
                Management and Collection System for descriptions of purposes for which
                such records are used within HHS and routine uses for which such
                records may be disclosed to the Department of Treasury and other
                parties outside HHS.
                CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
                 The records are about inventors; i.e., any individual involved in
                the development of an NIH, FDA, or CDC technology who reported an
                invention, applied for a patent, was granted a patent, and/or is
                receiving royalties from a patent to which title is owned or co-owned
                by the Federal Government or by a grantee, fellowship recipient, or
                contractor of the Federal Government. The inventor may be a PHS (or
                other
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                HHS) employee, extramural grantee, fellowship recipient, independent
                contractor, or other outside inventor or co-inventor.
                CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
                 The records consist of invention reports, patent prosecution and
                licensing documents (such as patent applications and license
                agreements) and related documents, containing all information necessary
                to be included in such documents, for all individuals who contributed
                to the invention. Applicable data elements may include: Inventor name,
                job title, employing office or organization name and address, contact
                information (mailing and email addresses, phone numbers, and fax
                numbers), HHS employee identification number or other unique
                identifier, inventor's status as a fellow or contract employee,
                educational degree(s), citizenship, title and description of the
                invention, Employee Invention Report (EIR) number, license number (if
                an agreement provides for royalties to be paid by a third party),
                number assigned to submitted invention report, case/serial number,
                prior art related to the invention, evaluation of the commercial
                potential of the invention, prospective licensees' intended development
                of the invention, and royalty payment information.
                RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
                 Sources of information about inventors contained in these records
                include the subject individual (i.e., inventor); other inventors, co-
                inventors, and collaborating persons; grantees, fellowship recipients
                and contractors; other federal agencies; scientific experts from non-
                government organizations; contract patent counsel and their employees
                and foreign contract personnel; United States and foreign patent
                offices; prospective licensees; PHS technology development
                coordinators; internet and commercial databases; and third parties who
                PHS contacts to determine individual invention ownership or government
                ownership.
                ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
                OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
                 In addition to other disclosures authorized directly in the Privacy
                Act at 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(4) through (11), information about an inventor
                may be disclosed from this system of records to following parties
                outside of HHS without the individual's prior written consent, for
                these purposes:
                 1. HHS may make the inventor's name and other information public,
                when making information about the invention public. For example, HHS
                makes the inventor's name public in the Federal Register and/or on the
                internet when it lists inventions that are available for collaboration
                and/or licensing (i.e., to seek parties interested in licensing the
                invention or in undertaking collaborative research activities to
                further develop, evaluate, or commercialize the invention), and when
                publicizing results of agency research activities. Information made
                public without the inventor's prior, written consent would be limited
                to information that HHS would be required to release to a requester
                under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); meaning, information that
                would not result in a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.
                 2. Disclosure may be made to a congressional office from the record
                of an individual in response to a written inquiry from the
                congressional office made at the written request of the individual.
                 3. A record may be disclosed to the Department of Justice (DOJ) or
                to a court or other tribunal in litigation or other proceedings when:
                (a) HHS, or any component thereof; (b) any HHS employee in his/her
                official capacity; (c) any HHS employee in his/her individual capacity
                where the DOJ (or HHS, where it is authorized to do so) has agreed to
                represent the employee; or (d) the United States Government, is a party
                to the proceeding or has a direct and substantial interest in the
                proceeding and, by careful review, HHS determines that the records are
                both relevant and necessary to the proceeding.
                 4. Records may be disclosed to authorized federal agencies,
                programs, or other entities for purposes of program evaluation and
                assessment, including quality assurance or peer review, audit, or
                accreditation activities.
                 5. Information may be disclosed to federal agencies and HHS
                contractors, grantees, consultants, or volunteers who have been engaged
                by HHS to assist in accomplishment of an HHS function relating to the
                purposes of this system of records and need to have access to the
                records in order to assist HHS. Any contractor will be required to
                comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended.
                 6. Information about an inventor may be included in information
                disclosed to an awardee or contractor entity in connection with the
                performance, administration, or evaluation of its contract under the
                conditions of the particular award or contract.
                 7. Information about an inventor may be included in contractor past
                performance information disclosed to a federal agency upon request.
                 8. As prescribed in HHS regulations, HHS may disclose system
                information to qualified experts not within the definition of HHS
                employees in order to obtain their advice about patent, licensing, and
                other issues involved in the transfer, among agencies, of scientific
                and technical discoveries.
                 9. HHS may disclose information from this system of records for the
                purpose of obtaining patent protection for HHS inventions and licenses
                to:
                 a. Scientific personnel, both in this agency and other government
                agencies, and in non-governmental organizations such as universities,
                who possess the expertise to understand the invention and evaluate its
                importance as a scientific advance;
                 b. Contract patent counsel and their employees and foreign contract
                personnel retained by HHS for patent searching and prosecution in both
                the United States and foreign patent offices;
                 c. All other government agencies whom HHS contacts regarding the
                possible use, interest in, or ownership rights in HHS inventions;
                 d. Prospective licensees or technology finders who may further make
                the invention available to the public through sale or use;
                 e. Parties, such as supervisors of inventors, whom HHS contacts to
                determine ownership rights, and those parties contacting HHS to
                determine the Federal Government's ownership; and,
                 f. The United States and foreign patent offices involved in the
                filing of HHS patent applications.
                 10. Disclosure may be made to: (a) Potential clinical trial
                participants, consistent with the rules and regulations governing the
                HHS human subjects protections program, when informing the participants
                of an investigator's financial interests that might be relevant for
                their consideration when deciding whether or not to participate in a
                trial (i.e., if the financial interests include interests in an
                invention); and (b) the general public to reveal summary-level
                compensation that government scientists receive, under 15 U.S.C. 3710c,
                on licensed inventions generated during their government work.
                 11. HHS may disclose information to the National Archives and
                Records Administration (NARA), General Services Administration (GSA),
                or other relevant federal agencies pursuant to records management
                inspections conducted under the authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and 2906.
                 12. A record may be disclosed to appropriate agencies, entities,
                and
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                persons when (1) HHS suspects or has confirmed that there has been a
                breach of the system of records; (2) HHS has determined that as a
                result of the suspected or confirmed breach there is a risk of harm to
                individuals, HHS (including its information systems, programs, and
                operations), the Federal Government, or national security; and (3) the
                disclosure made to such agencies, entities, and persons is reasonably
                necessary to assist in connection with HHS's efforts to respond to the
                suspected or confirmed breach or to prevent, minimize, or remedy such
                harm.
                 13. A record may be disclosed to another federal agency or federal
                entity, when HHS determines that information from this system of
                records is reasonably necessary to assist the recipient agency or
                entity in (1) responding to a suspected or confirmed breach or (2)
                preventing, minimizing, or remedying the risk of harm to individuals,
                the recipient agency or entity (including its information systems,
                programs, and operations), the Federal Government, or national
                security, resulting from a suspected or confirmed breach.
                 14. Records may be disclosed to the Department of Homeland Security
                (DHS) if captured in an intrusion detection system used by HHS and DHS
                pursuant to a DHS cybersecurity program that monitors internet traffic
                to and from federal government computer networks to prevent a variety
                of types of cybersecurity incidents.
                POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF RECORDS:
                 Records are stored in electronic media (including, with prior
                approval, on approved portable/mobile devices such as laptops, tablets,
                PDAs, USB drives, media cards, portable hard drives, Blackberrys,
                Smartphones, CDs, DVDs, and/or other mobile storage devices) and in
                paper form.
                POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF RECORDS:
                 Records are retrieved by inventor name or identifying number (for
                example, the NIH Enterprise Directory or NED ID number).
                POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR RETENTION AND DISPOSAL OF RECORDS:
                 Currently, all records are retained and disposed of in accordance
                with NIH records disposition schedule N1-443-10-1 and NIH Manual
                Chapter 1743, Keeping and Destroying Records, Appendix 1, item 1100-L,
                which provides for records to be kept for a maximum of thirty years. In
                the event that separate disposition schedules are required for records
                managed by FDA and CDC in FY 2017 or later, HHS will submit disposition
                schedules for approval by the National Archives and Records
                Administration (NARA) to cover those records.
                ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL SAFEGUARDS:
                 Measures to prevent unauthorized disclosures are implemented as
                appropriate for each location or form of storage and for the types of
                records maintained. Safeguards conform to the HHS Information Security
                and Privacy Program, https://www.hhs.gov/ocio/securityprivacy/. Site(s)
                implement personnel and procedural safeguards such as the following:
                 Authorized Users: Access is strictly limited to authorized
                personnel whose official duties require such access (i.e., valid,
                business need to know).
                 Administrative Safeguards: Controls to ensure proper
                protection of information and information technology systems include,
                but are not limited to, the completion of a Security Assessment and
                Authorization (SA&A) package and a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and
                mandatory completion of annual Information Security and Privacy
                Awareness training. The SA&A package consists of a Security
                Categorization, e-Authentication Risk Assessment, System Security Plan,
                evidence of Security Control Testing, Plan of Action and Milestones (if
                applicable), Contingency Plan, and evidence of Contingency Plan
                Testing. When the design, development, or operation of a system of
                records is performed by a contractor to accomplish an agency function,
                the applicable Privacy Act Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses
                are inserted in solicitations and contracts.
                 Technical Safeguards: Controls that are generally executed
                by the computer system and are employed to minimize the possibility of
                unauthorized access, use, or dissemination of the data in the system
                include, but are not limited to, user identification, password
                protection, firewalls, virtual private network, encryption, intrusion
                detection system, common access cards, smart cards, biometrics and
                public key infrastructure.
                 Physical Safeguards: Controls to secure the data and
                protect paper and electronic records, buildings, and related
                infrastructure against threats associated with their physical
                environment include, but are not limited to, the use of the HHS
                Employee ID and/or badge number and key cards, security guards, cipher
                locks, biometrics and closed-circuit TV. Paper records are secured in
                locked file cabinets, offices and facilities. Electronic media are kept
                on secure servers or computer systems. Records are stored in a
                dedicated file room or in locking file cabinets in file folders. During
                normal business hours, assigned agency personnel, including Records
                Management staff and on-site contractor personnel, regulate
                availability of the files. During evening and weekend hours the offices
                are locked.
                RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
                 An individual who wishes to access a record about him or her in
                this system of records must submit a written request to the relevant
                System Manager, reasonably specify the record sought, and include (a)
                the inventor's full name and address, (b) the approximate date(s) the
                information was submitted, (c) the type(s) of information collected,
                and (d) the office(s) or official(s) responsible for the collection of
                information. In addition, the requester must verify his or her identity
                by providing either a notarization of the request or a written
                certification that the requester is who he or she claims to be and
                understands that the knowing and willful request of a record pertaining
                to an individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense under the
                Privacy Act, subject to a fine of up to five thousand dollars.
                Individuals may also request an accounting of disclosures that have
                been made of any records about them.
                CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
                 Records that contain factually incorrect information may be
                contested. To contest information in a record about you, write to the
                relevant System Manager; provide the same information described under
                ``Record Access Procedures,'' including identity verification
                information; and specify the information which is contested, the
                corrective action sought, and the reason(s) for requesting the
                correction, along with supporting information. The right to contest
                records is limited to information which is factually inaccurate,
                incomplete, irrelevant, or untimely (obsolete).
                NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES:
                 An individual who wishes to know if this system of records contains
                a record about him or her must write to the relevant System Manager and
                provide the same information described under ``Record Access
                Procedures,'' including identity verification information.
                EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM:
                 None.
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                HISTORY:
                 47 FR 45514 (Oct. 13, 1982), 59 FR 55845 (Nov. 9, 1994), 83 FR 6591
                (Feb. 14, 2018).
                NOTICE OF RESCINDMENT:
                 The following system of records is rescinded as duplicative of
                system 09-90-0067:
                SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
                 Invention, Patent, and Licensing Documents Submitted to the Public
                Health Service by its Employees, Grantees, Fellowship Recipients, and
                Contractors, 09-25-0168.
                HISTORY:
                 71 FR 46496 (Aug. 14, 2006), 83 FR 6591 (Feb. 14, 2018).
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