[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR0.15]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 0--ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart C--Office of the Deputy Attorney General
 
Sec. 0.15  Deputy Attorney General.


    (a) The Deputy Attorney General is authorized to exercise all the 
power and authority of the Attorney General, unless any such power or 
authority is required by law to be exercised by the Attorney General 
personally.
    (b) The Deputy Attorney General shall advise and assist the Attorney 
General in formulating and implementing Department policies and programs 
and in providing overall supervision and direction to all organizational 
units of the Department. Subject to the general supervision of the 
Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General shall direct the 
activities of organizational units as assigned. In

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addition, the Deputy Attorney General shall:
    (1) Except as assigned to the Associate Attorney General by 
Sec. 0.19(a)(1), exercise the power and authority vested in the Attorney 
General to take final action in matters pertaining to:
    (i) The employment, separation, and general administration of 
personnel in the Senior Executive Service and in General Schedule grades 
GS-16 through GS-18, or the equivalent, and of attorneys and law 
students regardless of grade or pay in the Department;
    (ii) The appointment of special attorneys and special assistants to 
the Attorney General (28 U.S.C. 515(b));
    (iii) The appointment of Assistant U.S. Trustees and fixing of their 
compensation; and
    (iv) The approval of the appointment by U.S. Trustees of standing 
trustees and the fixing of their maximum annual compensation and 
percentage fees as provided in 28 U.S.C. 587(e).
    (v) The appointment, employment, separation, and general 
administration of Assistant United States Attorneys and other attorneys 
to assist United States Attorneys when the public interest so requires 
and fixing their salaries.
    (2) Administer the Attorney General's recruitment program for honor 
law graduates and judicial law clerks.
    (3) Coordinate Departmental liaison with White House Staff and the 
Executive Office of the President.
    (4) Coordinate and control the Department's reaction to civil 
disturbances and terrorism.
    (5) Perform such other duties and functions as may be assigned from 
time to time by the Attorney General.
    (c) The Deputy Attorney General may redelegate the authority 
provided in paragraphs (b)(1) (i), (ii), (iii), and (v) of this section 
to take final action in matters pertaining to the employment, 
separation, and general administration of attorneys and law students in 
grades GS-15 and below, to appoint special attorneys and special 
assistants to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 515(b), to 
appoint Assistant United States Trustees and fix their compensation, and 
to take final action in matters pertaining to the appointment, 
employment, separation, and general administration of Assistant United 
States Attorneys and other attorneys to assist United States Attorneys 
when the public interest so requires and to fix their salaries.
    (d) The Deputy Attorney General may redelegate the authority 
provided in paragraph (b)(1)(iv) of this section to take final action in 
matters pertaining to the approval of the appointment by U.S. Trustees 
of standing trustees and the fixing of their maximum annual compensation 
and percentage fees as provided in 28 U.S.C. 587(e) to the Director of 
the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees.
    (e) The officials to whom the Deputy Attorney General delegates 
authority under paragraph (c) of this section and any of the officials 
who may be otherwise authorized by the Deputy Attorney General to 
perform any other attorney personnel duties may redelegate those 
authorities and duties.
    (f) The Deputy Attorney General is authorized, and may delegate 
authority to the Director of the Asylum Policy and Review Unit within 
the Office of Legal Policy, to:
    (1) Compile and disseminate to Immigration and Naturalization 
Service (INS) officers information concerning the persecution of persons 
in countries on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a 
particular social group, or political opinion.
    (2) Review cases decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals 
pursuant to 8 CFR 3.1(h)(1)(i);
    (3) Review INS asylum decisions in cases which the Deputy Attorney 
General directs INS to refer to him.
    (4) Assist INS in conducting training concerning asylum and assist 
in resolving questions of policy that may arise.
    (g) The Deputy Attorney General is authorized to exercise the 
authority vested in the Attorney General under section 528(a), Public 
Law 101-509, to accept from federal departments and agencies the 
services of attorneys and non-law enforcement personnel to assist the 
Department of Justice in the investigation and prosecution of fraud or 
other criminal or unlawful activity in or against any federally insured 
financial institution or the Resolution Trust Corporation, and to 
supervise

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such personnel in the conduct of such investigations and prosecutions.

[Order No. 960-81, 46 FR 52340, Oct. 27, 1981, as amended by Order No. 
1063-84, 49 FR 32065, Aug. 10, 1984; Order No. 1097-85, 50 FR 25708, 
June 21, 1985; Order No. 1176-87, 52 FR 11044, Apr. 7, 1987; Order No. 
1251-88, 53 FR 5370, Feb. 24, 1988; Order No. 1479-91, 56 FR 10510, Mar. 
13, 1991; Order No. 1949-95, 60 FR 9777, Feb. 22, 1995]