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contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

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Vol. 76, No. 112 

Friday, June 10, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

2 CFR Chapter XXVII 

5 CFR Chapter XXVIII 

8 CFR Chapter V 

21 CFR Chapter II 

27 CFR Chapter II 

28 CFR Chapters I, III, V, and VI 

31 CFR Chapter IX 

40 CFR Chapter IV 

41 CFR Chapter 128 

45 CFR Chapter V 

48 CFR Chapter 28 

[FDMS Docket No. DOJ–LA–2011–0016] 

Preliminary Plan for Retrospective 

Review Under E.O. 13563 

AGENCY: Department of Justice. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its implementation 

of Executive Order 13563, ‘‘Improving 

Regulation and Regulatory Review,’’ 

issued by the President on January 18, 

2011, the Department of Justice (the 

Department) encourages comments on 

its preliminary plan for the retrospective 

review of its existing regulations to 

determine whether any such regulations 

should be modified, streamlined, 

expanded, or repealed. The purpose of 

the Department’s review is to make its 

regulatory program more effective and 

less burdensome in achieving its 

regulatory objectives. 

Comment Date: Written comments 

must be postmarked and electronic 

comments must be submitted on or 

before July 11, 2011. Commenters 

should be aware that the electronic 

Federal Docket Management System 

will not accept comments after 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the last day of the 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to 

OLP Regulatory Docket Clerk, 

Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Room 4250, Washington, 

DC 20530. To ensure proper handling, 

please reference FDMS Docket No. DOJ– 

LA–2011–0016 on your correspondence. 

You may also submit comments 

electronically or view an electronic 

version of this notice and of the plan at 

http://www.regulations.gov, at Docket 

No. DOJ–LA–2011–0016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Hinchman, Senior Counsel, 

Office of Legal Policy, Department of 

Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Room 4252, Washington, DC 20530; 

Telephone (202) 514–8059. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Posting of Public Comments. Please 

note that all comments received are 

considered part of the public record and 

made available for public inspection 

online at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Such information includes personal 

identifying information (such as your 

name, address, etc.) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter. Personal 

identifying information identified and 

located as set forth above will be placed 

in the agency’s public docket file, but 

not posted online. If you wish to inspect 

the agency’s public docket file in person 

by appointment, please see the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

paragraph. 

The Department understands that the 

public comment period set forth in this 

Request for comments is shorter than 

the 60-day comment period normally 

given for proposed rules. However, in 

this Request for comments (which is 

not, of course, a proposed rule), the 

Department is not asking for detailed, 

lengthy comments on its regulations, 

but only on matters pertaining to the 

Department’s preliminary retrospective 

review plan. 

Overview 

On January 18, 2011, the President 

issued Executive Order 13563, 

‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,’’ to ensure that Federal 

regulations seek more affordable, less 

intrusive means to achieve policy goals, 

and that agencies give careful 

consideration to the benefits and costs 

of those regulations. As part of the 

Department’s implementation of the 

Executive Order, on March 1, 2011, it 

published a Request for Information 

(RFI) seeking public comment on how 

best to review its existing regulations 

and to identify whether any of its 

existing regulations should be modified, 

streamlined, expanded, or repealed. (76 

FR 11163) Before the comment period 

closed on March 30, 2011, the 

Department received ten comments. The 

comments are summarized in the 

Department’s Preliminary Plan for 

Retrospective Review of Existing 

Regulations (May 18, 2011), which is 

posted on http://www.regulations.gov at 

Docket No. DOJ–LA–2011–0016, and is 

also available on the Department’s main 

Web site at http://www.justice.gov/. 

Consistent with the Department’s 

commitment to public participation in 

the rulemaking process, the Department 

is now by this Request for comments 

soliciting views from the public on its 

Preliminary Plan for Retrospective 

Review of its regulations. The 

Department is also soliciting additional 

candidate rules for review, and 

specifically inviting comments that 

identify why particular rules should be 

prioritized for review under the 

standards we lay out in the plan. 

To comment on the Justice 

Department’s preliminary plan, visit 

http://www.regulations.gov and insert 

DOJ–LA–2011–0016 in the ‘‘Enter 

Keyword or ID’’ box. Once you are taken 

to the docket for the plan, click on the 

‘‘Submit a Comment’’ bubble to open the 

comment form. We look forward to 

hearing from you. 

The Department notes that this 

Request for comments is issued solely 

for information and program-planning 

purposes. The Department will give 

careful consideration to the responses, 

and may use them as appropriate during 

the retrospective review, but we do not 

anticipate providing a point-by-point 

response to each comment submitted. 

While responses to this Request for 

comments do not bind the Department 

to any further actions related to the 

response, all submissions will be made 

publically available on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Dated: June 2, 2011. 

Christopher H. Schroeder, 

Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 

Policy. 

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