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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Executive Office for Immigration
Review

Notice Pursuant to the National
Cooperative Research and Production
Act of 1993—Institute of Environmental
Sciences and Technology

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Notice is hereby given that, on April
24, 2014, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the
National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301
et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Institute of
Environmental Sciences and
Technology (‘‘IEST’’) has filed written
notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing additions or
changes to its standards development
activities. The notifications were filed
for the purpose of extending the Act’s
provisions limiting the recovery of
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages
under specified circumstances.
Specifically, IEST’s principal place of
business has changed to Arlington
Heights, IL. Also, the nature and scope
of IEST’s standards development
activities have changed to:
Contamination Control (CC); Design,
Test, and Evaluation (DT&E); and
Product Reliability (PR). The areas of
interest are as follows: CC—Air
cleanliness, air filtration, cleanroom and
clean zone design and testing,
cleanroom operation, consumables used
in cleanrooms, nanotechnology facilities
and operations, and pertinent
equipment and tools; DT&E—
Mechanical shock and vibration
equipment and applications, test
methods and analysis techniques for
various categories of military and
consumer equipment, dynamic data
acquisition and analysis; and PR—
Environmental stress screening for
manufacturing processes, reliability
testing.
On September 21, 2004, IEST filed its
original notification pursuant to Section
6(a) of the Act. The Department of
Justice published a notice in the Federal
Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the
Act on December 3, 2004 (69 FR 70282).
Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust
Division.
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Office of the Chief Administrative
Hearing Officer Electronic Filing Pilot
Program
Office of the Chief
Administrative Hearing Officer,
Executive Office for Immigration
Review, Department of Justice.
ACTION: Public notice.
AGENCY:

The Office of the Chief
Administrative Hearing Officer
(OCAHO), Executive Office for
Immigration Review (EOIR), is creating
a voluntary pilot program to test an
electronic filing system in certain cases
filed with OCAHO under 8 U.S.C. 1324a
and 1324b. This notice describes the
procedures for participation in the pilot
program.
DATES: The pilot program will be in
effect from May 30, 2014 until
November 26, 2014. Parties who enroll
in the pilot program with respect to a
particular case within these dates will
be permitted to continue utilizing
electronic filing throughout the
pendency of that case.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Rosenblum, General Counsel, Executive
Office for Immigration Review, 5107
Leesburg Pike, Suite 2600, Falls Church,
Virginia 20530, telephone (703) 305–
0470 (not a toll-free call).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Background
The Office of the Chief Administrative
Hearing Officer (OCAHO), Executive
Office for Immigration Review (EOIR),
Department of Justice (Department), is
establishing a pilot program that would
allow parties in cases before OCAHO’s
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and
Chief Administrative Hearing Officer
(CAHO) to file case-related documents
by email. Currently, parties before
OCAHO submit paper filings to
OCAHO, and simultaneously serve a
physical copy of each document on
other parties to the case. Under this
pilot program, both filing with OCAHO
and service on other parties could be
accomplished by email in eligible cases.
OCAHO is undertaking this initiative to
attempt to make submission of case
documents more convenient for parties
and to reduce the time and expense
presently incurred with paper filings.
On April 1, 2013, EOIR published a
final rule in the Federal Register
establishing a mandatory electronic

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registry (eRegistry) for all attorneys and
accredited representatives who practice
before EOIR’s immigration courts and
the Board of Immigration Appeals
(Board). See 78 FR 19400. eRegistry is
part of a long-term agency plan to create
an electronic case access and filing
system for the immigration courts and
the Board, pursuant to the Government
Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA),
Public Law 105–277, 112 Stat. 2681–750
(1998).
OCAHO is not currently participating
in eRegistry, for a number of reasons.
First, OCAHO’s cases are filed and
tracked in different databases than and
differ in both substance and procedure
from those handled by the immigration
courts and the Board. Second, while
many attorneys and accredited
representatives appear repeatedly before
the immigration courts and the Board in
different cases, OCAHO does not
encounter as many repeat
representatives in its cases.
Additionally, many parties in OCAHO
cases appear pro se or are represented
by non-attorneys (for example, business
managers or human resources
specialists) for only a single case.
Therefore, OCAHO does not believe that
a formal registry is necessary or useful
for its cases at this time.
However, in order to align OCAHO
procedures with the rest of the agency
as it moves toward a system for
electronic filing in cases before the
immigration courts and the Board,
OCAHO is instituting this temporary,
limited, and voluntary electronic filing
pilot program. Implementation of this
pilot program on a small scale will
allow OCAHO to test and evaluate
operating an electronic filing system. At
the conclusion of the pilot program,
OCAHO will assess its experience and
determine the best course of action for
the development of a more
comprehensive and permanent
electronic filing system. OCAHO also
welcomes input from the public in this
regard.
This notice describes the basic
procedures for applying for and
participating in the pilot program. As
detailed herein, OCAHO also intends to
send more detailed instructions for
participation directly to the parties in
eligible cases.
II. Eligibility to Participate
An opportunity to participate in the
pilot program will be offered in all
OCAHO cases filed within 180 days of
the effective date of this notice.
Enrollment in the pilot program will be
limited to those cases in which both
parties: (1) Elect to participate and (2)
certify that they and/or their

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representative(s) have access to the
technology necessary to comply with
the procedures for electronic filing and
that access to the parties’ email will be
provided only to authorized
individuals. This technology includes
access to a scanner that can create
documents in portable document format
(PDF), up-to-date software for creating
and reading PDF documents, and an
email account that can send and receive
email attachments up to ten (10)
megabytes in size. While all new
OCAHO cases will be eligible for the
pilot, OCAHO may limit the total
number of cases that will be accepted
into the pilot program once it
commences, as circumstances require.
III. Procedures for Participation
OCAHO cases commence with the
filing of a complaint, by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in cases
brought under 8 U.S.C. 1324a and 8
U.S.C. 1324c, or by the Office of Special
Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair
Employment Practices (OSC), or the
charging or injured party in cases
brought under 8 U.S.C. 1324b. OCAHO
subsequently issues a Notice of Case
Assignment to both parties, assigning
the case to an OCAHO ALJ and giving
the respondent the opportunity to file
an answer. After the respondent files an
answer, the ALJ issues an order for
prehearing statements, setting a
schedule for discovery and dispositive
motions. Under this pilot program, once
OCAHO receives the respondent’s
answer, OCAHO will invite parties to
participate in the pilot by mailing to
both parties instructions outlining the
procedures for the pilot and the
certification form the parties must
complete and sign in order to
participate in the pilot program.
In order to enroll in the pilot, each
party must submit the signed
certification form in hard copy to
OCAHO and serve a copy of the
certification on the opposing party. The
certification must: Identify the email
address the party will use for all caserelated communications and
submissions; certify that only
authorized individuals will have access
to that email address; attest that the
party has access to the necessary
technology; and consent to abide by the
specific procedures for filing and
service outlined in the e-filing
instructions that will be sent to each
party. If both parties to a case agree to
participate in the pilot and meet the
certification requirements, they will be
notified by mail and email that their
case has been accepted into the pilot
program. Thereafter, all case documents
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on the opposing party in the case by
email. All documents submitted under
this pilot that require a signature under
28 CFR 68.7, including motions, briefs,
and other pleadings, must include a
handwritten, scanned signature. All
files submitted by email must be in PDF.
For cases enrolled in the pilot
program, all decisions and orders issued
by the ALJ (or, in cases of administrative
review, the CAHO) will be signed,
scanned, and emailed to both parties in
the case.
The pilot will be entirely voluntary. A
case will not be accepted into the pilot
unless both parties consent in writing to
participate. Once accepted, the parties
will be responsible for all activity and
communications from their designated
email account. Parties who elect not to
participate in the pilot will continue to
file and receive case documents as set
forth in 28 CFR part 68.
IV. Additional Information
The pilot program will be effective for
180 days after the date of this notice.
Parties who properly enroll in the pilot
program during this 180-day period will
be allowed to continue filing by email
throughout the duration of their case
before OCAHO, even if the case remains
pending beyond the 180-day pilot
period. OCAHO will continue to accept
paper submissions in accordance with
the procedures at 28 CFR part 68 in all
cases not enrolled in the pilot program.
Parties and their representatives will
be responsible for all activity and
communications with OCAHO
conducted from the party’s or
representative’s designated email
account. Parties and their
representatives must take necessary
steps to ensure that only authorized
individuals have access to the party’s or
representative’s designated email
account and all official case documents
sent and received through that email
account, as those documents may
contain sensitive or protected privacy
information.
Dated: May 15, 2014.
Juan P. Osuna,
Director.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–2014–032]

Records Schedules; Availability and
Request for Comments
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)

AGENCY:

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Notice of availability of
proposed records schedules; request for
comments

ACTION:

The National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA)
publishes notices at least once monthly
of certain Federal agency requests for
records disposition authority (records
schedules). Once approved by NARA,
records schedules provide mandatory
instructions on what happens to records
when no longer needed for current
Government business. They authorize
preservation of records of continuing
value in the National Archives of the
United States and destruction, after a
specified period, of records lacking
administrative, legal, research, or other
value. NARA publishes notices for
records schedules in which agencies
propose to destroy records not
previously authorized for disposal or
reduce the retention period of records
already authorized for disposal. NARA
invites public comments on such
records schedules, as required by 44
U.S.C. 3303a(a).
DATES: Requests for copies must be
received in writing on or before June 30,
2014. Once NARA completes the
appraisal of the records, NARA will
send a copy of the schedule. NARA staff
usually prepare appraisal memoranda
that contain additional information
concerning the records covered by a
proposed schedule. These, too, may be
requested and will be provided once the
appraisal is completed. Requesters will
be given 30 days to submit comments.
ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of
any records schedule identified in this
notice by contacting Records
Management Services (ACNR) using one
of the following means:
Mail: NARA (ACNR), 8601 Adelphi
Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001.
Email: [email protected].
FAX: 301–837–3698.
Requesters must cite the control
number, which appears in parentheses
after the name of the agency which
submitted the schedule, and must
provide a mailing address. Those who
desire appraisal reports should so
indicate in their request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Margaret Hawkins, Director, Records
Management Services (ACNR), National
Archives and Records Administration,
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD
20740–6001. Telephone: 301–837–1799.
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year,
Federal agencies create billions of
records on paper, film, magnetic tape,
and other media. To control this
accumulation, agency records managers
SUMMARY:

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