Department of Homeland Security April 21, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
Results 1 - 7 of 7
United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program; Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the US-VISIT Plan for Potential Changes to Immigration and Border Management Processes
A Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are available to the public for electronic download. The Final PEA examines the potential environmental impacts of four strategic approaches to enhance immigration and border management processes and addresses the substantive comments received on the Draft PEA during the public comment period. These four approaches are aimed at improving information available to determine the identity and immigration status of individuals traveling to and from the United States. The Final PEA resulted in a FONSI that selected the proposed action, or Hybrid Alternative, as the approach to enhance the immigration and border management enterprise. The Final PEA and FONSI are made available to the public in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for implementing NEPA.
Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of Records
This notice announces a revision to and expansion of a previously-established Privacy Act system of records, the Global Enrollment System, to facilitate the creation of a consolidated database to collect biometric and biographic data for individuals who voluntarily exchange personally identifiable information in return for expedited transit at U.S. border entry points. The Global Enrollment System will enhance transportation security by affording United States Customs and Border Protection, the system owner, the opportunity to perform advanced screening on low-risk trusted travelers and to expedite the security screening process of these trusted travelers as their low-risk status is confirmed.
Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee
The Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC), its Subcommittees on Outreach and Hazardous Cargo Transportation Security (HCTS), and its Working Group on Barge Emissions and Barge Placarding will meet to discuss various issues relating to the marine transportation of hazardous materials in bulk. These meetings will be open to the public.
Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of Records
The Department of Homeland Security is issuing a final rule to exempt two Privacy Act systems of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(j) and (k). These systems are the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act System of Records and the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Matters System of Records.
Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Potomac River, Between Maryland and Virginia
The Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District, has approved a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial (I-95) Bridge, mile 103.8, across the Potomac River between Alexandria, Virginia and Oxon Hill, Maryland. This deviation allows the drawbridge to remain closed-to-navigation from 8 p.m. on June 9, 2006, until 5 a.m. on June 12, 2006; and from 8 p.m. on July 14, 2006, until 5 a.m. on July 17, 2006, to facilitate the Outer and Inner Loop shifts of vehicular traffic for the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge construction project.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Privacy Policy and
Terms of Service apply.
