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Department of Justice; Withdrawal of Rulemaking Actions

The Department of Justice ("DOJ" or "the Department") is withdrawing 16 Notices of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRMs"), Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRMs"), and Suppleme...

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  2. 21 CFR Chapter II
  3. 27 CFR Parts 478 and 479
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AGENCY:

Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice.

ACTION:

Withdrawal of rulemaking actions.

SUMMARY:

The Department of Justice (“DOJ” or “the Department”) is withdrawing 16 Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRMs”), Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRMs”), and Supplemental Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPRMs”) as well as 38 other previously announced regulatory actions. The Department is withdrawing these actions as part of the Federal Government's deregulatory initiative and because of ongoing assessments of agency needs, priorities, and objectives.

DATES:

As of September 11, 2025, the NPRMs, ANPRMs, SNPRMs, and other previously announced rulemakings listed below in Table 1 and Table 2 are withdrawn.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christina Greer, Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice, Room 4254, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530; telephone: (202) 514-5739 (not a toll-free call).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On January 31, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,” E.O. 14192, 90 FR 9065 (Jan. 31, 2025), “to promote prudent financial management and alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens.” Id. at 9065. He stated that “[i]t is the policy of the executive branch to be prudent and financially responsible in the expenditure of funds, from both public and private sources, and to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people.” Id.E.O. 14192 imposes a regulatory cap for fiscal year 2025 and instructs the heads of all agencies “to ensure that the total incremental cost of all new regulations” issued during the year is “significantly less than zero.” Id. Additionally, any new incremental costs must “be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations.” Id.

Since President Trump's announcement of a deregulatory effort through E.O. 14192, the Department has carefully reviewed its pending rulemakings and has identified actions that do not align with current agency needs, priorities, and objectives, including the best means of addressing some or all of the issues covered by these actions. Some of the actions so identified have been published in the Federal Register as NPRMs, ANPRMs, or SNPRMs. Other actions have been included in one or more editions of the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the “ Unified Agenda” ) [1] but have not resulted in any publications in the Federal Register .

Accordingly, the Department is withdrawing the 16 published NPRMs, ANPRMs, and SNPRMs listed in Table 1, for which the Department plans no further action. Similarly, the Department is also withdrawing the 38 projected rulemakings listed in Table 2 previously included in the Unified Agenda that the Department no longer intends to pursue.

Table 1—Previously Published NPRMs and ANPRMs Being Withdrawn
RIN DOJ component Citation
1110-AA24 FBI Carriage of Concealed Weapons Pursuant to Public Law 108-277; the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2003, 72 FR 2817 (Jan. 23, 2007) (NPRM).
1117-AB60 DEA Providing Controlled Substances to Ocean Vessels, Aircraft, and Other Entities, 87 FR 42662 (July 18, 2022) (ANPRM).
1117-AB74 DEA Regulation of Telepharmacy Practice, 86 FR 64096 (Nov. 17, 2021) (ANPRM).
1117-AB75 DEA Schedules of Controlled Substances; Exempted Prescription Products, 87 FR 21588 (Apr. 12, 2022) (NPRM).
1117-AB84 DEA Controlled Substance Destruction Alternatives to Incineration, 88 FR 74379 (Oct. 31, 2023) (ANPRM).
1120-AB10 BOP Compassionate Release, 81 FR 36485 (June 7, 2016) (NPRM).
1120-AB10 BOP Reduction in Sentence for Medical Reasons, 71 FR 76619 (Dec. 21, 2006) (NPRM).
1120-AB56 BOP Inmate Commissary Account Deposit Procedures, 80 FR 38658 (July 7, 2015) (NPRM).
1120-AB61 BOP Pre-Release Community Confinement, 76 FR 58197 (Sept. 20, 2011) (NPRM).
1120-AB67 BOP Use of Chemical Agents or Other Less-Than-Lethal Force in Immediate Use of Force Situations, 81 FR 10153 (Feb. 29, 2016) (NPRM).
1120-AB69 BOP Infectious Disease Management: Voluntary and Involuntary Testing, 80 FR 73153 (Nov. 24, 2015) (NPRM).
1120-AB78 BOP Inmate Financial Responsibility Program: Procedures, 88 FR 1331 (Jan. 10, 2023) (NPRM); Inmate Financial Responsibility Program: Procedures, 89 FR 102022 (Dec. 17, 2024) (SNPRM).
1125-AA52 EOIR Jurisdiction and Venue in Removal Proceedings, 72 FR 14494 (Mar. 28, 2007) (NPRM).
1125-AA71 EOIR Retrospective Regulatory Review Under E.O. 13563, 77 FR 59567 (Sept. 28, 2012) (ANPRM).
1140-AA23 ATF Machine Guns, Destructive Devices, and Certain Other Firearms; Amended Definition of “Pistol” (2003R-33P), 70 FR 17624 (Apr. 7, 2005) (NPRM).
1140-AA47 ATF Amended Definition of “Adjudicated as a Mental Defective” and “Committed to a Mental Institution” (2010R-21P), 79 FR 774 (Jan. 7, 2014) (NPRM).
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Table 2—Rulemakings Included in the Unified Agenda But Not Published in the Federal Register
RIN DOJ component Title
1105-AB12 EOUST Procedures for Suspension and Removal of Panel Trustees and Standing Trustees.
1105-AB65 OLP Ensuring Fairness and Consistency in the Administration of Sentences in Federal Capital Cases.
1105-AB74 CRM Asset Forfeiture Program Victim, Owner, and Lienholder Remission and Mitigation.
1105-AB76 PARDON Office of the Pardon Attorney; Rules Governing Petitions for Executive Clemency, Notification of Denial of Clemency or Case Closure.
1105-AB77 OLP Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection.
1110-AA38 FBI Regulatory Updates to Implement Policy—National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
1117-AB50 DEA Amendments to the Drug Enforcement Administration Hearing Regulations.
1117-AB52 DEA Principal Place of Business or Professional Practice.
1117-AB59 DEA Electronic Submission of DEA Form 41 (Registrant Record of Controlled Substances Destroyed).
1117-AB63 DEA Termination of Registration Upon Discontinuation of Business or Change of Ownership.
1117-AB65 DEA Disaster Registration Emergency Authorities.
1117-AB67 DEA Campus Registration.
1117-AB68 DEA Employment Bar and New Employment Waivers.
1117-AB69 DEA Operation of Automated Dispensing Systems at Long Term Care Facilities by Hospital/Clinic Pharmacies.
1117-AB71 DEA Medical Missions.
1117-AB76 DEA Amending Regulations to Separate K-9 Handlers From the Researcher Category.
1117-AB77 DEA Analytical Labs and Hemp.
1117-AB83 DEA Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion.
1117-AB86 DEA Revision of Application for Manufacturing Quota.
1121-AA90 OJP Updating Appendix D to 28 CFR Part 61, Office of Justice Programs Procedures Relating to Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
1125-AA63 EOIR Application of the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar to Asylum and Withholding of Removal for Recruitment or Use of Child Soldiers.
1125-AA73 EOIR Procedures for Cases Involving Mentally Incompetent Aliens.
1125-AA82 EOIR Civil Enforcement Actions for Document Fraud Under Section 274C of the Immigration and Nationality Act; Authority of EOIR's Anti-Fraud Officer.
1125-AB05 EOIR Procedures to Commence Proceedings Before the Immigration Court.
1125-AB12 EOIR Procedures for Asylum and Bars to Asylum Eligibility.
1125-AB13 EOIR Clarifying Definitions and Analyses for Fair and Efficient Asylum and Other Protection Determinations.
1125-AB16 EOIR Executive Office for Immigration Review; Office of Legal Access Programs.
1125-AB17 EOIR EOIR Organization; EOIR Director's Authority.
1125-AB19 EOIR Executive Office for Immigration Review; Fee Review.
1125-AB22 EOIR Hearing Requirements and Application Procedures for Asylum and Related Protection.
1125-AB24 EOIR Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds.
1125-AB25 EOIR Asylum Eligibility; Persecutor Bar.
1125-AB27 EOIR Clarifying and Revising Custody Determination Procedures for Noncitizens Subject to Discretionary Detention (INA 236(a)/8 U.S.C. 1226 detention).
1125-AB31 EOIR Consideration of Non-LPR Cancellation of Removal Applications.
1140-AA36 ATF Commerce in Explosives—Relief From Disabilities.
1140-AA48 ATF Nonimmigrant Alien Waiver (NIA Rule).
1190-AA76 CRT Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by State and Local Governments and Places of Public Accommodation; Equipment and Furniture.
1190-AA77 CRT Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by State and Local Governments; Public Right-of-Way.

Dated: September 8, 2025.

Pamela Bondi,

Attorney General.

Footnotes

1.  As of the date of drafting this FRN, the most recently issued edition of the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions was the Fall 2024 edition, which was withdrawn from the Federal Register but remains available on the website of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at https://www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​eAgendaHistory. The Department's entries in the Fall 2024 edition may be viewed at the following addresses: (1) the current actions are available at https://perma.cc/​JT2M-KZXE; (2) the long-term actions are available at https://perma.cc/​Y9A2-H2DZ; and (3) the inactive actions are available at https://perma.cc/​W5Y4-7UW6.

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