Department of Justice 2017 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Justice Management Division, Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management (OARM), will be submitting this information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection is a Request for Corrective Action Form, available on OARM's public Web site, for current and former employees of, or applicants for employment with, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who wish to file a claim of whistleblower reprisal.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108, notice is hereby given that the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) proposes to add a new DOJ system of records titled, ``DOJ Insider Threat Program Records (ITPR),'' JUSTICE/DOJ-018. In the Federal Register of May 31, 2017, the Department is rescinding its notice of an FBI system of records notice titled ``FBI Insider Threat Program Records,'' JUSTICE/FBI-023, published on September 19, 2016. This new DOJ-wide system of records will cover the records previously claimed under JUSTICE/FBI-023. This new system of records establishes certain Department-wide capabilities to detect, deter, and mitigate insider threats. Insiders are defined to include any person with authorized access to any United States Government resource to include personnel, facilities, information, equipment, networks, or systems. DOJ personnel assigned to the DOJ Insider Threat Prevention and Detection Program (ITPDP) will use the system to facilitate management of insider threat inquiries and activities associated with inquiries and referrals, identify potential threats to DOJ resources and information assets, track referrals of potential insider threats to internal and external partners, and provide statistical reports and meet other insider threat reporting requirements. Elsewhere in this Federal Register, DOJ is concurrently issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to exempt JUSTICE/DOJ-018 from certain provisions of the Privacy Act, and withdrawing the notice of proposed rulemaking regarding for JUSTICE/FBI-023, issued in CPCLO Order No. 008-2016.

The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on March 28, 2017 allowing for a 60-day comment period.

The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is issuing this notice of intent to issue a temporary order to schedule the synthetic opioid, N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylacrylamide (acryl fentanyl or acryloylfentanyl), into Schedule I pursuant to the temporary scheduling provisions of the Controlled Substances Act. This action is based on a finding by the Administrator that the placement of this synthetic opioid into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is necessary to avoid an imminent hazard to the public safety. When it is issued, the temporary scheduling order will impose the administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions and regulatory controls applicable to Schedule I controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act on the manufacture, distribution, reverse distribution, possession, importation, exportation, research, and conduct of instructional activities, and chemical analysis of this synthetic opioid.

Registrants listed below have applied for and been granted registration by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as importers of various classes of schedule I or II controlled substances.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108, notice is hereby given that the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) proposes to rescind the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) System of Records Notice title, ``FBI Insider Threat Program Records (ITPR),'' JUSTICE/ FBI-023, last published in full on September 19, 2016, at 81 FR 64198. Records that were part of JUSTICE/FBI-023 will now be covered by the DOJ-wide system of records titled, ``DOJ Insider Threat Program Records,'' JUSTICE/DOJ-018, published elsewhere in the Federal Register.

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108, notice is hereby given that the United States Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) proposes to modify the DOJ System of Records Notices for the DOJ systems of records listed below.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register, on March 14, 2017, allowing for a 60-day comment period.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is seeking comments on revisions to the confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents. These revisions are required by the passage and implementation of provisions of the federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, which requires the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic. More details on this announcement are presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. The revisions to the confidentiality pledge were previously published in the Federal Register on March 20, 2017, allowing for a 60 day comment period. BJS received and responded to one comment.