---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 2.225"
title: "43"
number: "2.225"
heading: "Federal Register notices describing systems of records."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/2.225"
---

# §2.225. Federal Register notices describing systems of records.

- (a) The Privacy Act requires publication of a notice in the Federal Register describing each system of records subject to the Act. Such notice will be published prior to the establishment or a revision of the system of records. [5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4)](/usc/5/552a.md?p=e-4).
- (b) Each bureau shall notify the Departmental Privacy Act Officer promptly of any modifications or amendments which are required in the then-current notice describing a system of records for which it is responsible.
- (c) A bureau desiring to establish a new system of records or a new use for an existing system of records shall notify the Departmental Privacy Act Officer, no fewer than ninety (90) calendar days in advance.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 56583, Dec. 22, 1983]

### Source

Source: 40 FR 44505, Sept. 26, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 67 FR 64530, Oct. 21, 2002. Redesignated at 77 FR 76902, Dec. 31, 2012; 78 FR 6216, Jan. 30, 2013.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552, 552a, 553, 31 U.S.C. 3717, 43 U.S.C. 1460, 1461, the Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017, Pub. L. 115-59, September 15, 2017.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 7305, Feb. 19, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 56583, Dec. 22, 1983]