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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of the Attorney General
[AG Order No. 3481–2014]
Attorney General Guidelines Stating
Principles for Working With Federally
Recognized Indian Tribes
Office of the Attorney General,
Department of Justice.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Attorney General is
issuing guidelines stating principles for
working with federally recognized
Indian tribes.
DATES: This notice is effective December
3, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Tracy Toulou, Director,
Office of Tribal Justice, Department of
Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Room 2310, Washington, DC 20530,
email OTJ@usdoj.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Tracy Toulou, Director, Office of Tribal
Justice, Department of Justice, at (202)
514–8812 (not a toll-free number) or
OTJ@usdoj.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Attorney General Guidelines state the
following principles for working with
federally recognized Indian tribes:
SUMMARY:
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Overarching Principles
• The Department of Justice honors
and strives to act in accordance with the
general trust relationship between the
United States and tribes.
• The Department of Justice is
committed to furthering the
government-to-government relationship
with each tribe, which forms the heart
of our federal Indian policy.
• The Department of Justice respects
and supports tribes’ authority to
exercise their inherent sovereign
powers, including powers over both
their citizens and their territory.
• The Department of Justice promotes
and pursues the objectives of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
• The Department of Justice is
committed to tribal self-determination,
tribal autonomy, tribal nation-building,
and the long-term goal of maximizing
tribal control over governmental
institutions in tribal communities,
because tribal problems generally are
best addressed by tribal solutions,
including solutions informed by tribal
traditions and custom.
Consultation and Communication With
Tribes
• The Department of Justice
recognizes that its commitment to tribal
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self-determination requires regular,
meaningful, and informed consultation
with American Indian and Alaska
Native tribal officials when developing
new or amended policies, regulations,
and legislative actions initiated by the
Department that may affect tribes, as
detailed in the Department’s Policy
Statement on Tribal Consultation.
• The Department of Justice
recognizes that—in addition to, but not
in lieu of, formal consultation—there
can be great benefit in timely, detailed,
informal communications with tribal
officials and other community leaders.
• The Department of Justice supports
the Attorney General’s Tribal Nations
Leadership Council and other task
forces and advisory groups that allow
elected tribal representatives to provide
direct input to the Department’s leaders
and components.
Culture and Mutual Respect
• The Department of Justice
recognizes that each tribe’s history and
contemporary culture are unique, and
that solutions that work for one tribe
may not be suitable for others.
• The Department of Justice works to
respectfully consider traditional tribal
cultural practices and values, and is
sensitive to the need for effective crosscultural communication.
• The Department of Justice seeks to
foster an internal Departmental culture,
from top to bottom, that will encourage
its officers and employees to identify
and be responsive to the needs of tribes
routinely, not merely as an afterthought.
Law Enforcement and Litigation
• The Department of Justice is
committed to helping protect all Native
Americans from violence, takes
seriously its role in enforcing federal
criminal laws that apply in Indian
country, and recognizes that, absent the
Department’s action, some serious
crimes might go unaddressed.
• The Department of Justice
prioritizes helping protect Native
American women and children from
violence and exposure to violence, and
works with tribes to hold perpetrators
accountable, to protect victims, and to
reduce the incidence of domestic
violence, sexual assault, and child abuse
and neglect in tribal communities.
• The Department of Justice is
committed to protecting tribal treaty
rights, tribal lands and natural
resources, and tribal jurisdiction
through litigation, where appropriate,
and to handling litigation involving
tribes in a manner that is mindful of the
government-to-government relationship.
• The Department of Justice promotes
the proper application of the Indian
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Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), and
seeks to protect tribes and Native
American families from unwarranted
removal of their children.
• The Department of Justice works to
safeguard the civil rights of Native
Americans by prosecuting hate crimes,
protecting the right to vote, and
otherwise helping ensure that Native
Americans are free from illegal
discrimination.
Nation-Building and Tribal Justice
Systems
• The Department of Justice believes
that stable funding at sufficient levels
for essential tribal justice functions is
critical to the long-term growth of tribal
institutions.
• The Department of Justice seeks to
increase tribes’ flexibility to administer
grant programs and thus design
solutions appropriate to their
communities, while ensuring strict
accountability.
• The Department of Justice believes
that pilot and demonstration projects
that are available to state or local
governments should be available to
similarly situated tribal governments,
and endeavors, where appropriate and
practicable, to give serious
consideration to locating projects in
tribal communities.
• The Department of Justice is
committed to fully implementing the
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA),
the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010
(TLOA), and the Violence Against
Women Reauthorization Act of 2013
(VAWA), and believes that working
with tribes to strengthen their justice
systems, including indigent defense
services, is critical to fulfilling the
promise of these statutes.
• The Department of Justice supports
tribes’ efforts to build innovative
approaches to law enforcement, public
safety, and victim services, and, where
appropriate, to evaluate those
approaches by collecting empirical
evidence and conducting scientific and
statistical research.
Coordination and Outreach
• The Department of Justice, when
working with other federal agencies on
issues involving tribes, advocates
respecting tribal self-determination,
tribal autonomy, tribal nation-building,
and the government-to-government
relationship.
• The Department of Justice works to
facilitate communication and build
relationships among the federal agencies
engaged with tribal governments and to
promote the sharing of federal resources
and expertise.
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• The Department of Justice works to
facilitate communication and build
relationships between tribes and state,
local, and private partners in law
enforcement, public safety, victim
services, and civil rights, to promote
prosperous and resilient tribal
communities, and to use dispute
resolution techniques such as mediation
to resolve community conflicts and
tensions.
• The Department of Justice
recognizes the link between healthy,
prospering families and public safety,
and the need to coordinate law
enforcement efforts with educational,
housing, environmental-protection, and
public-health services.
Sustainability
• The Department of Justice will
continue taking steps to institutionalize
its commitment to tribal justice and to
make its officers and employees aware
of these Attorney General Guidelines
stating principles for working with
federally recognized Indian tribes, so
that progress in areas important to tribes
continues regardless of changes in
Department personnel.
These guidelines and principles are
intended to improve the internal
management of the Department of
Justice. They are not intended to and do
not create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or in equity by any party in any
matter, civil or criminal, against the
United States, its departments, agencies,
or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person, nor do these
guidelines or principles place any
limitations on otherwise lawful
litigative prerogatives of the Department
of Justice. Please contact the
Department’s Office of Tribal Justice
(OTJ) with any questions about these
guidelines and principles.
Dated: December 3, 2014.
Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives
[Docket No. ATF 2014R–50N]
Granting of Relief; Federal Firearms
Privileges
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF),
Department of Justice.
AGENCY:
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Notice of granting of restoration
of Federal firearms privileges.
ACTION:
Northrop Grumman Systems
Corporation (NGSC), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Northrop Grumman
Corporation (NGC), has been granted
relief from the disabilities imposed by
Federal laws by the Director of ATF
with respect to the acquisition, receipt,
transfer, shipment, transportation, or
possession of firearms.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shermaine Kenner, Enforcement
Programs and Services; Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives; U.S. Department of Justice;
99 New York Avenue NE., Washington,
DC 20226; telephone (202) 648–7070.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Attorney General is responsible for
enforcing the provisions of the Gun
Control Act of 1968 (GCA), 18 U.S.C.
Chapter 44. He has delegated that
responsibility to the Director of ATF,
subject to the direction of the Attorney
General and the Deputy Attorney
General. 28 CFR 0.130(a). ATF has
promulgated regulations that implement
the provisions of the GCA in 27 CFR
part 478.
Section 922(g) of the GCA prohibits
certain persons from shipping or
transporting any firearm in interstate or
foreign commerce, or receiving any
firearm which has been shipped or
transported in interstate or foreign
commerce, or possessing any firearm in
or affecting commerce. These
prohibitions apply to any person who—
(1) Has been convicted in any court of
a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a term exceeding
one year;
(2) Is a fugitive from justice;
(3) Is an unlawful user of or addicted to
any controlled substance;
(4) Has been adjudicated as a mental
defective or committed to a mental
institution;
(5) Is an alien illegally or unlawfully in
the United States or, with certain
exceptions, aliens admitted to the
United States under a
nonimmigrant visa;
(6) Has been discharged from the Armed
Forces under dishonorable
conditions;
(7) Having been a citizen of the United
States, has renounced U.S.
citizenship;
(8) Is subject to a court order that
restrains the person from harassing,
stalking, or threatening an intimate
partner or child of such intimate
partner; or
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(9) Has been convicted in any court of
a misdemeanor crime of domestic
violence.
The term ‘‘person’’ is defined in
section 921(a)(1) as including ‘‘any
individual, corporation, company,
association, firm, partnership, society,
or joint stock company.’’ Section 925(c)
of the GCA provides that a person who
is prohibited from possessing, shipping,
transporting, or receiving firearms or
ammunition may make application to
the Attorney General to remove the
firearms disabilities imposed under
section 922(g) ‘‘if it is established to his
satisfaction that the circumstances
regarding the disability, and the
applicant’s record and reputation, are
such that the applicant will not be likely
to act in a manner dangerous to public
safety and that the granting of the relief
would not be contrary to the public
interest.’’ The Attorney General has
delegated the authority to grant relief
from firearms disabilities to the Director
of ATF.
Section 925(c) further provides that
‘‘[w]henever the Attorney General grants
relief to any person pursuant to this
section he shall promptly publish in the
Federal Register notice of such action,
together with the reasons therefor.’’
Regulations implementing the
provisions of section 925(c) are set forth
in 27 CFR 478.144.
Since 1992, Congress has eliminated
funding for ATF to investigate or act
upon applications for relief from federal
firearms disabilities submitted by
individuals. However, since 1993,
Congress has authorized funding for
ATF to investigate and act upon
applications filed by corporations for
relief from Federal firearms disabilities.
An application to ATF for relief from
Federal firearms disabilities under 18
U.S.C. 925(c) was submitted for NGSC.
In the matter under review, between
1993 and 2002, NGSC, a wholly owned
subsidiary of NGC, merged with and
succeeded the assets and business
operations of three non-surviving
entities that had been convicted in
Federal court of crimes punishable by
imprisonment for a term exceeding one
year. Specifically, TRW Electronic
Products, Inc. was convicted on
September 25, 1987, in the United
States District Court for the District of
Colorado, Case No. 87 CR–250, for
violations of 18 U.S.C. 2 and 1001.
TRW, Inc. was convicted on August 25,
1988, in the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Ohio for a
violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. Litton
Applied Technology Division was
convicted on June 30, 1999, in the
United States District Court for the
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of the Attorney General
[AG Order No. 3481-2014]
Attorney General Guidelines Stating Principles for Working With
Federally Recognized Indian Tribes
AGENCY: Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Attorney General is issuing guidelines stating principles
for working with federally recognized Indian tribes.
DATES: This notice is effective December 3, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Tracy Toulou, Director, Office of Tribal Justice,
Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Room 2310,
Washington, DC 20530, email OTJ@usdoj.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Tracy Toulou, Director, Office of
Tribal Justice, Department of Justice, at (202) 514-8812 (not a toll-
free number) or OTJ@usdoj.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Attorney General Guidelines state the
following principles for working with federally recognized Indian
tribes:
Overarching Principles
The Department of Justice honors and strives to act in
accordance with the general trust relationship between the United
States and tribes.
The Department of Justice is committed to furthering the
government-to-government relationship with each tribe, which forms the
heart of our federal Indian policy.
The Department of Justice respects and supports tribes'
authority to exercise their inherent sovereign powers, including powers
over both their citizens and their territory.
The Department of Justice promotes and pursues the
objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
The Department of Justice is committed to tribal self-
determination, tribal autonomy, tribal nation-building, and the long-
term goal of maximizing tribal control over governmental institutions
in tribal communities, because tribal problems generally are best
addressed by tribal solutions, including solutions informed by tribal
traditions and custom.
Consultation and Communication With Tribes
The Department of Justice recognizes that its commitment
to tribal self-determination requires regular, meaningful, and informed
consultation with American Indian and Alaska Native tribal officials
when developing new or amended policies, regulations, and legislative
actions initiated by the Department that may affect tribes, as detailed
in the Department's Policy Statement on Tribal Consultation.
The Department of Justice recognizes that--in addition to,
but not in lieu of, formal consultation--there can be great benefit in
timely, detailed, informal communications with tribal officials and
other community leaders.
The Department of Justice supports the Attorney General's
Tribal Nations Leadership Council and other task forces and advisory
groups that allow elected tribal representatives to provide direct
input to the Department's leaders and components.
Culture and Mutual Respect
The Department of Justice recognizes that each tribe's
history and contemporary culture are unique, and that solutions that
work for one tribe may not be suitable for others.
The Department of Justice works to respectfully consider
traditional tribal cultural practices and values, and is sensitive to
the need for effective cross-cultural communication.
The Department of Justice seeks to foster an internal
Departmental culture, from top to bottom, that will encourage its
officers and employees to identify and be responsive to the needs of
tribes routinely, not merely as an afterthought.
Law Enforcement and Litigation
The Department of Justice is committed to helping protect
all Native Americans from violence, takes seriously its role in
enforcing federal criminal laws that apply in Indian country, and
recognizes that, absent the Department's action, some serious crimes
might go unaddressed.
The Department of Justice prioritizes helping protect
Native American women and children from violence and exposure to
violence, and works with tribes to hold perpetrators accountable, to
protect victims, and to reduce the incidence of domestic violence,
sexual assault, and child abuse and neglect in tribal communities.
The Department of Justice is committed to protecting
tribal treaty rights, tribal lands and natural resources, and tribal
jurisdiction through litigation, where appropriate, and to handling
litigation involving tribes in a manner that is mindful of the
government-to-government relationship.
The Department of Justice promotes the proper application
of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), and seeks to protect
tribes and Native American families from unwarranted removal of their
children.
The Department of Justice works to safeguard the civil
rights of Native Americans by prosecuting hate crimes, protecting the
right to vote, and otherwise helping ensure that Native Americans are
free from illegal discrimination.
Nation-Building and Tribal Justice Systems
The Department of Justice believes that stable funding at
sufficient levels for essential tribal justice functions is critical to
the long-term growth of tribal institutions.
The Department of Justice seeks to increase tribes'
flexibility to administer grant programs and thus design solutions
appropriate to their communities, while ensuring strict accountability.
The Department of Justice believes that pilot and
demonstration projects that are available to state or local governments
should be available to similarly situated tribal governments, and
endeavors, where appropriate and practicable, to give serious
consideration to locating projects in tribal communities.
The Department of Justice is committed to fully
implementing the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA), the Tribal Law
and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA), and the Violence Against Women
Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA), and believes that working with
tribes to strengthen their justice systems, including indigent defense
services, is critical to fulfilling the promise of these statutes.
The Department of Justice supports tribes' efforts to
build innovative approaches to law enforcement, public safety, and
victim services, and, where appropriate, to evaluate those approaches
by collecting empirical evidence and conducting scientific and
statistical research.
Coordination and Outreach
The Department of Justice, when working with other federal
agencies on issues involving tribes, advocates respecting tribal self-
determination, tribal autonomy, tribal nation-building, and the
government-to-government relationship.
The Department of Justice works to facilitate
communication and build relationships among the federal agencies
engaged with tribal governments and to promote the sharing of federal
resources and expertise.
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The Department of Justice works to facilitate
communication and build relationships between tribes and state, local,
and private partners in law enforcement, public safety, victim
services, and civil rights, to promote prosperous and resilient tribal
communities, and to use dispute resolution techniques such as mediation
to resolve community conflicts and tensions.
The Department of Justice recognizes the link between
healthy, prospering families and public safety, and the need to
coordinate law enforcement efforts with educational, housing,
environmental-protection, and public-health services.
Sustainability
The Department of Justice will continue taking steps to
institutionalize its commitment to tribal justice and to make its
officers and employees aware of these Attorney General Guidelines
stating principles for working with federally recognized Indian tribes,
so that progress in areas important to tribes continues regardless of
changes in Department personnel.
These guidelines and principles are intended to improve the
internal management of the Department of Justice. They are not intended
to and do not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party in any matter, civil or
criminal, against the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person, nor
do these guidelines or principles place any limitations on otherwise
lawful litigative prerogatives of the Department of Justice. Please
contact the Department's Office of Tribal Justice (OTJ) with any
questions about these guidelines and principles.
Dated: December 3, 2014.
Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General.
[FR Doc. 2014-28903 Filed 12-11-14; 8:45 am]
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