Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records Notice, 2747-2752 [2020-00633]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices New Hampshire Ave., Hillandale Building, 4th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002 or the Office of Communication, Outreach and Development, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 3128, Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your requests. The draft guidance may also be obtained by mail by calling CBER at 1– 800–835–4709 or 240–402–8010. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic access to the draft guidance document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Reaman, Oncology Center of Excellence, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 22, Rm. 2202, Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301–796–0785; or Stephen Ripley, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 7301, Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 240– 402–7911. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES I. Background FDA is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ‘‘Pediatric Study Plans for Oncology Drugs: Questions and Answers.’’ This draft guidance provides information regarding the submission of an iPSP, as required by section 505B(e) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355c(e)), for oncology drugs only. When finalized, this draft guidance will provide FDA’s current thinking regarding iPSPs for oncology drugs in light of the amendments to section 505B of the FD&C Act (also referred to as the Pediatric Research Equity Act, or PREA) made by section 504 of FDARA (Pub. L. 115–52). This draft guidance does not contain a complete discussion of general requirements for development of drugs for pediatric use under PREA or section 505A of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355a) (also referred to as the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act or BPCA (Pub. L. 107–109)). Section 504 of FDARA amended section 505B of the FD&C Act to require—for original applications submitted on or after August 18, 2020— pediatric investigations of certain targeted cancer drugs with new active ingredients, based on molecular mechanism of action rather than clinical indication. FDARA thus created a mechanism to require evaluation of certain novel medicines that may have the potential to address an unmet VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 medical need in the pediatric population. Timely investigation in children of the antitumor activity of potentially effective targeted drugs under development in adults and of those drugs’ toxicities relative to the unique growth and developmental considerations of pediatric patients, is intended to accelerate early pediatric evaluation of these products and ultimately facilitate development of appropriate new therapies for pediatric patients. This draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA’s good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the current thinking of FDA on ‘‘Pediatric Study Plans for Oncology Drugs: Questions and Answers.’’ It does not establish any rights for any person and is not binding on FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if it satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. II. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 This draft guidance refers to previously approved collections of information found in FDA regulations. These collections of information are subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3521). The collections of information in 21 CFR part 314 have been approved under OMB control number 0910–0001. The collections of information in 21 CFR part 312 have been approved under OMB control number 0910–0014. The collections of information in 21 CFR part 601 have been approved under OMB control number 0910–0338. III. Electronic Access Persons with access to the internet may obtain the draft guidance at either https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/Guidance ComplianceRegulatoryInformation/ Guidances/default.htm, https:// www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/ GuidanceComplianceRegulatory Information/Guidances/default.htm, or https://www.regulations.gov. Dated: January 10, 2020. Lowell J. Schiller, Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 2020–00592 Filed 1–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4164–01–P PO 00000 2747 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given of the following meeting. The meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Name of Committee: National Institute on Aging Special Emphasis Panel; Early Diagnosis and Prediction. Date: February 13, 2020. Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: National Institute on Aging, Gateway Building, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Telephone Conference Call). Contact Person: Nijaguna Prasad, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Gateway Building, Suite 2W200, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496–9667, nijaguna.prasad@nih.gov. (Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.866, Aging Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) Dated: January 10, 2020. Miguelina Perez, Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc. 2020–00577 Filed 1–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records Notice 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. AGENCY: In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, SUMMARY: Frm 00055 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16JAN1.SGM 16JAN1 2748 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices 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. 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. DATES: 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: https:// regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. • Email: celeste.dade-vinson@nih.gov 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 DadeVinson, 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: khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES ADDRESSES: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 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 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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: Æ 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). Æ 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. Æ 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 E:\FR\FM\16JAN1.SGM 16JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices OMB Memorandum M–17–12 are now numbered as 12 and 13. Æ 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 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 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. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 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, nihott@ mail.nih.gov, (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, techtransfer@ fda.hhs.gov. • 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, TTO@ cdc.gov, (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, PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 2749 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 E:\FR\FM\16JAN1.SGM 16JAN1 2750 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices 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. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 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 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 E:\FR\FM\16JAN1.SGM 16JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices 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). khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 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 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 2751 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. E:\FR\FM\16JAN1.SGM 16JAN1 2752 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 11 / Thursday, January 16, 2020 / Notices 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). [FR Doc. 2020–00633 Filed 1–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given of the following meetings. The meetings will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Name of Committee: Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies Integrated Review Group; Clinical Management of Patients in Community-Based Settings Study Section. Date: February 10–11, 2020. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Ritz Carlton Hotel, 1150 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037. Contact Person: Lauren Fordyce, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3214, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827–8269, fordycelm@mail.nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Collaborative Clinical Studies of Mental Illness. Date: February 11, 2020. Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:49 Jan 15, 2020 Jkt 250001 Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Lorien Hotel & Spa, 1600 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Contact Person: Serena Chu, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3178, MSC 7848, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–500– 5829, sechu@csr.nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Immunology AREA Review. Date: February 12, 2020. Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). Contact Person: Liying Guo, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4016F Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–0908, lguo@ mail.nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Urology and Urogynecology. Date: February 13, 2020. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Embassy Suites at the Chevy Chase Pavilion, 4300 Military Road NW, Washington, DC 20015. Contact Person: Julia Spencer Barthold, MD, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–402–3073, julia.barthold@ nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders. Date: February 13–14, 2020. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Canopy by Hilton, 940 Rose Avenue, North Bethesda, MD 20852. Contact Person: Afia Sultana, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4189, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827–7083, sultanaa@ mail.nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology. Date: February 13, 2020. Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). Contact Person: Christopher Payne, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–402–3702, christopher.payne@nih.gov. Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Development of Appropriate Pediatric Formulations and Pediatric Drug Delivery Systems. Date: February 14, 2020. Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Telephone Conference Call). Contact Person: Paek-Gyu Lee, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4201, MSC 7812, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 613– 2064, leepg@csr.nih.gov. (Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National Institutes of Health, HHS) Dated: January 10, 2020. Tyeshia M. Roberson, Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc. 2020–00578 Filed 1–15–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given of the following meeting. The meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The contract proposals and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the contract proposals, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Name of Committee: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special Emphasis Panel; HHS–NIH–CDC SBIR PHS 2020–1 Topic 85: Broad spectrum antibody against human enteroviruses. Date: February 10, 2020. Time: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate contract proposals. Place: National Institutes of Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20892 (Telephone Conference Call). 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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: https://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).

[FR Doc. 2020-00633 Filed 1-15-20; 8:45 am]
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