{"data":{"id":"us/28-cfr-22.25","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"28 CFR 22.25","heading":"Final disposition of identifiable materials.","body":"Upon completion of a research or statistical project the security of identifiable research or statistical information shall be protected by:\n(a) Complete physical destruction of all copies of the materials or the identifiable portion of such materials after a three-year required recipient retention period or as soon as authorized by law, or\n(b) Removal of identifiers from data and separate maintenance of a name-code index in a secure location.\nThe Privacy Certificate shall indicate the procedures to be followed and shall, in the case of paragraph (b) of this section, describe procedures to secure the name index.","path":["Title 28—Judicial Administration","CHAPTER I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","PART 22—CONFIDENTIALITY OF IDENTIFIABLE RESEARCH AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-28.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:14Z","sha256":"9483b91124077a21235f6b905a352468973d8afb354845105a9bf6a3017467f1","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/28-cfr-22.24","next":"us/28-cfr-22.26"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}