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Security Bars and Processing; Delay of Effective Date
On December 23, 2020, DHS and DOJ (collectively, ``the Departments'') published a final rule to clarify that the danger to the security of the United States statutory bar to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal encompass certain emergency public health concerns and make certain other changes. The Departments are delaying the rule's...
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Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review
The Department of Justice is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on December 11, 2020. That document amended Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice (``the Departments'') regulations governing credible fear determinations. Individuals found to have a credible fear will have their claims for asylum,...
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Approval of Civil Consent Decrees With State and Local Governmental Entities
This final rule amends the regulations of the Department of Justice (``Department'') setting forth the approval procedures to be used when a civil action against a State or local governmental entity is resolved by consent decree, prior to the finalization of that agreement.
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Security Bars and Processing
On July 9, 2020, DHS and DOJ (collectively, ``the Departments'') published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'') clarifying that the danger to the security of the United States statutory bar to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal may encompass emergency public health concerns. This final rule responds to comments received in...
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Procedures for Completing Uniform Periodic Reports in Non-Small Business Cases Filed Under Chapter 11 of Title 11
The Department of Justice (Department), through its component, EOUST, issues this final rule (Rule) in accordance with Section 602 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA). The BAPCPA authorizes the Department to issue rules requiring uniform periodic reports (periodic reports) by debtors-in-possession or...
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Executive Office for Immigration Review; Fee Review
On February 28, 2020, the Department of Justice (``the Department'' or ``DOJ'') published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'' or ``proposed rule'') that would increase the fees for those Executive Office for Immigration Review (``EOIR'') applications, appeals, and motions that are subject to an EOIR-determined fee, based on a fee review...
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Controls To Enhance the Cultivation of Marihuana for Research in the United States
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is amending its regulations to facilitate the cultivation of marihuana for research purposes and other licit purposes to enhance compliance with the Controlled Substances Act, including registering cultivators consistent with treaty obligations. This final rule adopts, with minor modifications, the...
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Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications
On July 16, 2019, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security (``DOJ,'' ``DHS,'' or, collectively, ``the Departments'') published an interim final rule (``IFR'') governing asylum claims in the context of aliens who enter or attempt to enter the United States across the southern land border between the United States and...
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Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in the Federal Agencies' Programs and Activities
This rule amends the regulations of the agencies listed above (``the Agencies'') to implement Executive Order 13831 of May 3, 2018 (Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative). This rule provides clarity about the rights and obligations of faith-based organizations participating in the Agencies' Federal financial assistance...
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Prohibition on Settlement Payments to Non-Governmental Third Parties
This final rule amends the Department's regulations to set forth the principles of the Attorney General's Memorandum of June 5, 2017, prohibiting the inclusion of provisions in settlement agreements directing or providing for a payment or loan to a non-governmental person or entity that is not a party to the dispute, except in defined...
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Appellate Procedures and Decisional Finality in Immigration Proceedings; Administrative Closure
On August 26, 2020, the Department of Justice (``Department'') published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'' or ``proposed rule'') that would amend the regulations of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (``EOIR'') regarding the handling of appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (``BIA'' or ``Board''). The Department proposed...
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Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal
On September 23, 2020, the Department of Justice (``DOJ'' or ``the Department'') published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'' or ``proposed rule'') that proposed to amend the regulations governing the adjudication of applications for asylum and withholding of removal before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (``EOIR''), including...
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Schedules of Controlled Substances: Exempt Anabolic Steroid Products
The Drug Enforcement Administration is denying applications to designate four in-process preparations containing trenbolone acetate as exempt anabolic steroid products under the Controlled Substances Act.
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Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review
On June 15, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (``DHS'') and the Department of Justice (``DOJ'') (collectively ``the Departments'') published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'' or ``proposed rule'') that would amend the regulations governing credible fear determinations. The proposed rule would make it so that individuals found to...
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: Procedures for Claims Submitted at the Statutory Filing Deadline
The Department of Justice (``the Department'') is publishing this document to inform the public of the Department's procedures for filing claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (``RECA'') at the statutory filing deadline. RECA requires that claims shall be barred unless filed within 22 years after the date of enactment of the...
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Delegation of Defense Production Act Authority
This final rule authorizes the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division to perform, as the delegate of the Attorney General, all functions that the Attorney General is required or authorized to perform by section 708 of the Defense Production Act (``DPA'').
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Manner of Federal Executions
The Department of Justice (``Department'' or ``DOJ'') is finalizing amendments to regulations to authorize implementation of a sentence in a Federal capital case in any manner consistent with Federal law and to make other amendments.
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Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of cyclopentyl fentanyl, isobutyryl fentanyl, para-chloroisobutyryl fentanyl, para-methoxybutyryl fentanyl, and valeryl fentanyl in Schedule I
The Drug Enforcement Administration places cyclopentyl fentanyl (N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N- phenylcyclopentanecarboxamide), isobutyryl fentanyl (N-(1- phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylisobutyramide), para-chloroisobutyryl fentanyl (N-(4-chlorophenyl)-N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4- yl)isobutyramide), para-methoxybutyryl fentanyl...
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Organization of the Executive Office for Immigration Review
On August 26, 2019, the Department of Justice (``Department'') published an interim final rule (``IFR'') amending the regulations related to the internal organization of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (``EOIR''). The amendments reflected changes related to the establishment of EOIR's Office of Policy (``OP'') in 2017, made related...