45 CFR 17.7
§ 17.7 Retractions or corrections.
United States · 45 CFR — Public Welfare · Status: effective
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- 45 CFR 17.7, § 17.7 Retractions or corrections, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/216213
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Where the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs finds that information released by the Department was misleading or a misstatement of fact and any person named therein requests a retraction or correction, the Department shall issue a retraction or correction in the same manner to all of the media outlets that received the original information (or as many of them as is feasible). Where information shown to be misleading or misstatement of fact has been released by a principal operating component of the Department and any person named therein requests a retraction or correction, the agency head shall issue a retraction or correction in the same manner to all of the media outlets that received the original information (or as many of them as is feasible).
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.