Department of Justice 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130, notice is hereby given that the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), proposes to establish a new system of records entitled ``Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-DEx),'' DOJ/FBI-020.

As part of its implementation of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (CMEA), ``regulated sellers'' or persons and entities selling scheduled listed chemical products at retail locations are required to self-certify with DEA relative to certain requirements of the CMEA. The Diversion Control Program is required to recover the full costs of the certification process, under the Controlled Substances Act; as such the DEA is proposing to charge regulated sellers, who are not DEA registrants, a fee for self-certification.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is exempting a Privacy Act system of records from the following subsections of the Privacy Act: (c)(3) and (4), (d)(1), (2), (3), and (4); (e)(1), (2), (3), (5), and (8); and (g), pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a (j) and (k). The Privacy Act system of records is the ``El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) Seizure System, (JUSTICE/DEA- 022).'' The exemptions are necessary to prevent the compromise of ongoing investigative efforts, to help ensure the integrity of law enforcement and investigatory information, to ensure third party privacy, and to protect the physical safety of sources of information and law enforcement personnel.