[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 46 (Monday, March 10, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13263-13264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05083]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Bureau of Prisons
28 CFR Part 540
[BOP Docket No. 1148-N]
RIN 1120-AB48
Communication Management Units
AGENCY: Bureau of Prisons, Justice.
ACTION: Proposed rule; Notice to Reopen Comment Period.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) reopens the
comment period of the proposed rule published on April 6, 2010 (75 FR
17324) which proposed to establish and describe Communication
Management Units (CMUs) by regulation. We now reopen the comment period
for fifteen (15) additional days in order to allow inmates and
interested parties additional opportunity to comment.
DATES: Written comments must be postmarked and electronic comments must
be submitted on or before March 25, 2014. Comments received by mail
will be considered timely if they are postmarked on or before that
date. The electronic Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) will
accept comments until Midnight Eastern Time at the end of that day.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to the Rules Unit,
Office of General Counsel, Bureau of Prisons, 320 First Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20534. You may view an electronic version of this
regulation at www.regulations.gov. You may also comment by using the
www.regulations.gov comment form for this regulation. When submitting
comments electronically you must include the BOP Docket No. in the
subject box.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Qureshi, Office of General
Counsel, Bureau of Prisons, phone (202) 307-2105.
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
www.regulations.gov. Such information includes personal identifying
information (such as your name, address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by
the commenter.
If you want to submit personal identifying information (such as
your name, address, etc.) as part of your comment, but do not want it
to be
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posted online, you must include the phrase ``PERSONAL IDENTIFYING
INFORMATION'' in the first paragraph of your comment. You must also
locate all the personal identifying information you do not want posted
online in the first paragraph of your comment and identify what
information you want redacted.
If you want to submit confidential business information as part of
your comment but do not want it to be posted online, you must include
the phrase ``CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION'' in the first paragraph
of your comment. You must also prominently identify confidential
business information to be redacted within the comment. If a comment
has so much confidential business information that it cannot be
effectively redacted, all or part of that comment may not be posted on
www.regulations.gov.
Personal identifying information identified and located as set
forth above will be placed in the agency's public docket file, but not
posted online. Confidential business information identified and located
as set forth above will not be placed in the public docket file. If you
wish to inspect the agency's public docket file in person by
appointment, please see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT paragraph.
Discussion
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) reopens the
comment period of the proposed rule published on April 6, 2010 (75 FR
17324) (2010 proposed rule) which proposed to establish and describe
Communication Management Units (CMUs) by regulation. We now reopen the
comment period for fifteen (15) additional days in order to allow
inmates and interested parties additional opportunity to comment. We do
so in response to current ongoing litigation with which the Bureau has
been involved. We reopen the comment period for 15 days instead of the
typical 60-day length of a proposed rule comment period because the
rule was previously open for a 60-day public comment period in 2010 and
we received over 700 comments during that time. We now reopen the
comment period for a limited time to allow further comments from
interested parties while striving to expedite the regulation
development process.
The 2010 proposed rule codifies and describes the Bureau's
procedures for designating inmates to, and limiting communication
within, its Communication Management Units (CMU). Currently, the Bureau
operates two CMUs, separately located at the Federal Correctional
Complex (FCC), Terre Haute, Indiana (established in December 2006), and
the United States Penitentiary (USP), Marion, Illinois (established in
March 2008). For further information, please see the proposed rule
published on April 6, 2010 (75 FR 17324).
List of Subjects in 28 CFR Part 540 Prisoners.
Dated: March 4, 2014.
Charles E. Samuels, Jr.,
Director, Bureau of Prisons.
[FR Doc. 2014-05083 Filed 3-7-14; 8:45 am]
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