Department of Justice September 6, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Justice Programs (``OJP'') is finalizing the following regulation with minor modifications as a result of comments concerning the original notice of proposed rulemaking published at 70 FR 49518-49525, on August 24, 2005. This regulation implements provisions of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (the ``VOCA'') (42 U.S.C. 10601 et seq.), which authorize the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime (``OVC''), a component of OJP, to establish an International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program (hereinafter referred to as the ``ITVERP'') to reimburse eligible ``direct'' victims of acts of international terrorism that occur outside the United States for ``expenses associated with that victimization.''

On January 18, 2005, DEA published in the Federal Register a solicitation of comments on the subject of dispensing controlled substances for the treatment of pain. Many of the comments that DEA received asked the agency to elaborate on the legal requirements and agency policy relating to this subject. This document provides such information.