Rule2025-23880
Office of the Attorney General; Consolidation of the Office of the Executive Secretariat Into the Justice Management Division
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Published
December 29, 2025
Effective
December 29, 2025
Issuing agencies
Justice Department
Abstract
This rule amends the Department's organizational regulations by eliminating the Office of the Executive Secretariat as a separate office and consolidating its functions within the Justice Management Division.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 245 (Monday, December 29, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60570-60571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23880]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of the Attorney General
28 CFR Part 0
[Docket No. JMD165; AG Order No. 6570-2025]
Consolidation of the Office of the Executive Secretariat Into the
Justice Management Division
AGENCY: Department of Justice.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This rule amends the Department's organizational regulations
by eliminating the Office of the Executive Secretariat as a separate
office and consolidating its functions within the Justice Management
Division.
DATES: Effective December 29, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John E. Thompson, Deputy General
Counsel, Justice Management Division; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bcf6d3d4d292f992e8d4d3d1cccfd3d2fcc9cfd8d3d692dbd3ca"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="82c8edeaecacc7acd6eaedeff2f1edecc2f7f1e6ede8ace5edf4">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Summary
On January 17, 2025, the Department of Justice published a final
rule amending its organizational regulations to establish the functions
of the Office of the Executive Secretariat (``OES'') which had been
created as a separate component of the Department on August 17, 2023.
Office of the Executive Secretariat, 90 FR 5608 (Jan. 17, 2025).
Upon further consideration of the best way to organize the
Department and consistent with the Administration's deregulatory and
streamlining initiatives, this rule rescinds the prior establishment of
OES as a separate component. This rule restores its functions to a
staff within the Justice Management Division, which had formerly
performed those functions prior to the August 17, 2023, establishment
of OES.
This rule also revises 28 CFR 0.1 to delete OES from the list of
Department components.
II. Administrative Procedure Act
This rule is a rule of agency organization, procedure, and practice
and is limited to matters of agency management and personnel.
Therefore, it is not a substantive rule, and, as such, it is exempt
from the requirements of prior notice and comment and a 30-day delay in
the effective date. See 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(2), (b)(A), (d).
III. Regulatory Analyses
In developing this final rule, the Department considered numerous
statutes and executive orders applicable to the rulemaking process. The
Department's analysis of the applicability of those statutes and
executive orders to this rule is summarized below.
A. Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review), Executive
Order 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review), and Executive
Order 14192 (Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation)
This final rule is not a significant regulatory action under
section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866, and as supplemented by Executive
Order 13563. This rule is limited to agency organization, management,
and personnel as described by Executive Order 12866, section 3(d)(3),
and therefore is not a ``regulation'' or ``rule'' as defined by that
Executive Order. Accordingly, this action has not been reviewed by the
Office of Management and Budget.
Further, as this rule relates to agency organization, management,
or personnel, it is fully exempt from the numerical 10-for-1 and cost
offset requirements of Executive Order 14192.
B. Executive Order 14294 (Overcriminalization of Federal Regulations)
Executive Order 14294 requires agencies promulgating regulations
with criminal regulatory offenses potentially subject to criminal
enforcement to explicitly describe the conduct subject to criminal
enforcement, the authorizing statutes, and the mens rea standard
applicable to each element of those offenses. This final rule does not
impose a criminal regulatory penalty and is thus exempt from E.O. 14924
requirements.
C. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980, 5 U.S.C. 601-612, as
amended, requires Federal agencies to consider the potential impact of
regulations on small entities during rulemaking. The term ``small
entities'' comprises small businesses, not-for-profit organizations
that are independently owned and operated and are not dominant in their
fields, and governmental jurisdictions with populations of less than
50,000. 5 U.S.C. 601.
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A Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is not required for this final
rule because the Department is not required to publish a general notice
of proposed rulemaking for this matter.
D. Paperwork Reduction Act
This final rule does not call for a new or revised collection of
information under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520.
E. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
A rule has federalism implications under Executive Order 13132 if
it has a substantial direct effect on the States, on the relationship
between the national government and the States, or on the distribution
of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.
E.O. 13132, sec. 1(a). The Department has analyzed this final rule
under that Order and determined that this rule does not have federalism
implications.
F. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. 1531-1538,
requires Federal agencies to determine whether a rule, if promulgated,
will result in the expenditure by State, local, or Tribal governments,
in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million (adjusted
annually for inflation) or more in any one year. 2 U.S.C. 1532(a). This
final rule does not require or result in expenditures by any of the
above-named entities.
G. Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice Reform), Plain Language
This final rule meets applicable standards in sections 3(a) and
3(b)(2) of Executive Order 12988.
H. Executive Order 13175 (Consultation and Coordination With Indian
Tribal Governments)
This final rule does not have Tribal implications under Executive
Order 13175 because it would not have a substantial direct effect on
one or more Indian tribes, on the relationship between the Federal
Government and Indian tribes, or on the distribution of power and
responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian tribes.
I. Congressional Review Act
This rule relates to agency management, personnel, and
organization, and does not substantially affect the rights or
obligations of non-agency parties. 5 U.S.C. 804(3)(B), (C). This action
is accordingly not a ``rule'' as that term is used in the Congressional
Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 804(3), and the reporting requirement of 5
U.S.C. 801 does not apply.
List of Subjects in 28 CFR Part 0
Authority delegations (Government agencies), Government employees,
Organization and functions (Government agencies).
Authority and Issuance
For the reasons stated above, the Department of Justice amends 28
CFR Part 0 as follows:
PART 0--ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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1. The authority citation for part 0 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, 515-519.
Sec. 0.1 [Amended]
0
2. In Sec. 0.1, amend table 1 by removing the entry for ``Office of
the Executive Secretariat.''
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3. Amend Sec. 0.77 by adding paragraph (p) to read as follows:
Sec. 0.77 Operational functions.
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(p) Ensure that official documents requiring the review, approval,
or signature by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or
Associate Attorney General are assigned, tracked, and cleared within
the Department of Justice, as appropriate; manage select interagency
requests for official approval or concurrence by the Attorney General,
Deputy Attorney General, or Associate Attorney General; Departmental
clearances; and submissions from other agencies for review and
clearance, including rulemakings and guidance documents circulated by
the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to Executive Order 12866
or any successor order and documents circulated by the Department of
State for clearance, within the Department of Justice.
Subpart O-1 [Removed]
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4. Remove subpart O-1, including Sec. 0.81.
Dated: December 19, 2025.
Pamela Bondi,
Attorney General.
[FR Doc. 2025-23880 Filed 12-23-25; 8:45 am]
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