[Title 28 CFR 0.96]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2009 Edition]
[Title 28 - JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION]
[Chapter I - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE]
[Part 0 - ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE]
[Subpart Q - Bureau of Prisons]
[Sec. 0.96 - Delegations.]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


28JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION12009-07-012009-07-01false0.96Sec. 0.96JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATIONDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEBureau of Prisons
Sec. 0.96  Delegations.

    The Director of the Bureau of Prisons is authorized to exercise or 
perform any of the authority, functions, or duties conferred or imposed 
upon the Attorney General by any law relating to the commitment, 
control, or treatment of persons (including insane prisoners and 
juvenile delinquents) charged with or convicted of offenses against the 
United States, including the taking of final action in the following-
described matters:
    (a) Requesting the detail of Public Health Service officers for the 
purpose of furnishing services to Federal penal and correctional 
institutions (18 U.S.C. 4005).
    (b) Consideration, determination, adjustment, and payment of claims 
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3722.
    (c) Designating places of imprisonment or confinement where the 
sentences of prisoners shall be served and ordering transfers from one 
institution to another, whether maintained by the Federal Government or 
otherwise, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4082 as it existed before the enactment 
of Pub. L. 98-473 (applicable to offenses committed prior to November 1, 
1987).
    (d) Extending the limits of the place of confinement of prisoners 
for the purposes specified, and within the limits established, by 18 
U.S.C. 4082(c) as it existed before the enactment of Public Law 98-473, 
and otherwise performing the functions of the Attorney General under 
that section (applicable to offenses committed prior to November 1, 
1987).
    (e) Designation of agents for the transportation of prisoners (18 
U.S.C. 4008).
    (f) Prescribing regulations for the use of surplus funds in 
``Commissary Funds, Federal Prisons'' to provide advances not in excess 
of $150 to prisoners at the time of their release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 
4284 as it existed before the enactment of Public Law 98-473 (applicable 
to offenses committed prior to November 1, 1987).
    (g) Allowance, forfeiture, and restoration of all good time pursuant 
to 18 U.S.C. 4161, 4162, 4165, and 4166 as those sections existed before 
the enactment of Public Law 98-473 (applicable to offenses committed 
prior to November 1, 1987).
    (h) Release of prisoners held solely for nonpayment of fine as 
provided in 18 U.S.C. 3569 as it existed before the enactment of Public 
Law 98-473 (applicable to offenses committed prior to November 1, 1987).
    (i) Furnishing transportation, clothing, and payments to released 
prisoners pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4281 as it existed before the enactment 
of Public Law 98-473 (applicable to offenses committed prior to November 
1, 1987).
    (j) Performing the functions of the Attorney General under the 
provisions of 18 U.S.C. chapter 313, Offenders with Mental Disease or 
Defect (18 U.S.C. 4241-4247).
    (k) Settlement of claims arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act 
as provided in 28 CFR 0.172.
    (l) Entering into reciprocal agreements with fire organizations for 
mutual aid and rendering emergency assistance in connection with 
extinguishing fires within the vicinity of a Federal correctional 
facility, as authorized by sections 2 and 3 of the Act of May 27, 1955 
(42 U.S.C. 1856a, 1856b).
    (m) Deciding upon requests by states for temporary transfers of 
custody of inmates for prosecution under Article IV of the Interstate 
Agreement on Detainers (84 Stat. 1399) and pursuant to

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other available procedures; and receiving and reviewing requests by the 
executive authority of states or the District of Columbia for, and 
authorizing the transfer of, inmates pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4085 as it 
existed before the enactment of Public Law 98-473 (applicable to 
offenses committed prior to November 1, 1987).
    (n) Prescribing rules and regulations applicable to the carrying of 
firearms by Bureau of Prisons officers and employees (18 U.S.C. 3050).
    (o) Promulgating rules governing the control and management of 
Federal penal and correctional institutions and providing for the 
classification, government, discipline, treatment, care, rehabilitation, 
and reformation of inmates confined therein (18 U.S.C. 4001, 4041, and 
4042).
    (p) Establishing and designating Bureau of Prisons Institutions (18 
U.S.C. 4001, 4042).
    (q) Granting permits to states or public agencies for rights-of-way 
upon lands administered by the Director in accordance with the 
provisions of 43 U.S.C. 931c and 43 U.S.C. 961 (18 U.S.C. 4001, 4041, 
4042, 43 U.S.C. 931c, 961).
    (r) Authority under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 4082(b) to provide 
law enforcement representatives with information on Federal prisoners 
who have been convicted of felony offenses and who are confined at a 
residential community treatment center located in the geographical area 
in which the requesting agency has jurisdiction (18 U.S.C. 4082).
    (s) Approving inmate disciplinary and good time regulations (18 
U.S.C. 3624).
    (t) Contracting, for a period not exceeding three years, with the 
proper authorities of any State, Territory, or political subdivision 
thereof, for the imprisonment, subsistence, care, and proper employment 
of persons convicted of offenses against the United States (18 U.S.C. 
4002).

[Order No. 1617-92, 57 FR 38772, Aug. 27, 1992, as amended by Order No. 
1884-94, 59 FR 29717, June 9, 1994; Order No. 2204-99, 64 FR 4295, Jan. 
28, 1999]