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Justice Department
The U.S. Department of Justice serves as counsel for its citizens. It represents them in enforcing the law in the public interest. Through its thousands of lawyers, investigators, and agents, the Department plays the key role in protection against criminals and subversion, ensuring healthy business competition, safeguarding the consumer, and enforcing drug, immigration, and naturalization laws.
The Department of Justice was established by act of June 22, 1870 (28 U.S.C. 501, 503, 509 note), with the Attorney General as its head. The affairs and activities of the Department of Justice are generally directed by the Attorney General.
- Agency URL:
- http://www.justice.gov/
- Sub-agencies:
- Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau
- Antitrust Division
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Executive Office for Immigration Review
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Federal Prison Industries
- Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
- Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Justice Programs Office
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- Parole Commission
- Prisons Bureau
- United States Marshals Service
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Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers
The Department of Justice (``DOJ'') and the Department of Homeland Security (``DHS'') (collectively, ``the Departments'') are proposing to amend the regulations governing the determination of certain protection claims raised by individuals subject to expedited removal and found to have a credible fear of persecution or torture. Under the...
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Registration Requirements for Narcotic Treatment Programs With Mobile Components
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is publishing this final rule to revise existing regulations for narcotic treatment programs (NTPs) to allow the operation of a mobile component associated with a DEA-registered NTP to be considered a coincident activity permitted under the NTP's registration. Based on these revisions, NTP registrants...
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Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Formula Grants Program
The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, is amending the Formula Grants Program implementing regulation authorized under title II, part B, of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDP Act) and promulgated in 1996, to remove sections and/or provisions that were rendered obsolete by amendments made to the JJDP Act in...
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Factoring Criteria for Firearms With Attached “Stabilizing Braces”
The Department of Justice (``Department'') proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (``ATF'') regulations to clarify when a rifle is ``intended to be fired from the shoulder.'' The Department proposes factors ATF considers when evaluating firearms equipped with a purported ``stabilizing brace'' to determine whether...
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Definition of “Frame or Receiver” and Identification of Firearms
The Department of Justice (``Department'') proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (``ATF'') regulations to provide new regulatory definitions of ``firearm frame or receiver'' and ``frame or receiver'' because the current regulations fail to capture the full meaning of those terms. The Department also proposes...
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Death in Custody Reporting Act Collection
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance 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.
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested;Extension Without Change of a Currently Approved Collection; Comments Requested: Form CSO-005, Preliminary Background Check Form
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.
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection, eComments Requested; Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection
The Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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Proposed Adjustments to the Aggregate Production Quotas for Schedule I and II Controlled Substances and Assessment of Annual Needs for the List I Chemicals Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, and Phenylpropanolamine for 2021
The Drug Enforcement Administration proposes to adjust the 2021 aggregate production quotas for several controlled substances in schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act and assessment of annual needs for the list I chemicals ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine.