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A Principal Investigator may designate another person to act on his or her behalf in the HawkIRB system. This person is a delegate and has the same permissions within HawkIRB as the Principal Investigator. Instructions for HawkIRB’ s Delegate Permissions system, including visual depiction of the delegation process is available on the HawkIRB Delegate Permissions Page of the Human Subjects Office website.