Department of Justice January 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This rule proposes to add Appendix E to Part 61 of the Department of Justice's regulations to ensure better compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The rule supplements existing Department procedures and regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality and only pertains to internal procedures of the United States Marshals Service.

The Department of Justice (the Department) hereby amends title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations to authorize access to FBI- maintained criminal justice information systems to effectuate the Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004, which was enacted as section 6402 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. This law authorizes a fingerprint-based check of state and national criminal history records to screen prospective and current private security officers and requires the Attorney General to issue rules to regulate the ``security, confidentiality, accuracy, use, submission, dissemination, destruction of information and audits, and record keeping'' of the criminal history record information (CHRI) and related information; standards for qualifying as an authorized employer; and the imposition of fees.