[Title 28 CFR R]
[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 R - Drug Enforcement Administration]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


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                Subpart R_Drug Enforcement Administration



Sec. 0.100  General functions.

    The following-described matters are assigned to, and shall be 
conducted, handled, or supervised by, the Administrator of the Drug 
Enforcement Administration:
    (a) Functions vested in the Attorney General by sections 1 and 2 of 
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1968.
    (b) Except where the Attorney General has delegated authority to 
another Department of Justice official to exercise such functions, and 
except where functions under 21 U.S.C. 878(a)(5) do not relate to, arise 
from, or supplement investigations of matters concerning drugs, 
functions vested in the Attorney General by the Comprehensive Drug Abuse 
Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as amended. This will include 
functions which may be vested in the Attorney General in subsequent 
amendments to the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 
1970, and not otherwise specifically assigned or reserved by him.
    (c) Functions vested in the Attorney General by section 1 of 
Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973 and not otherwise specifically 
assigned.

[Order No. 520-73, 38 FR 18380, July 10, 1973, as amended by Order No. 
960-81, 46 FR 52348, Oct. 27, 1981; Order No. 1203-87, 52 FR 24447, July 
1, 1987; Order No. 2204-99, 64 FR 4295, Jan. 28, 1999; Order No. 2666-
2003, 68 FR 14899, Mar. 27, 2003]



Sec. 0.101  Specific functions.

    The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration shall be 
responsible for:
    (a) The development and implementation of a concentrated program 
throughout the Federal Government for the enforcement of Federal drug 
laws and for cooperation with State and local governments in the 
enforcement of their drug abuse laws.
    (b) The development and maintenance of a National Narcotics 
Intelligence System in cooperation with Federal, State, and local 
officials, and the provision of narcotics intelligence to any Federal, 
State, or local official that the Administrator determines has a 
legitimate official need to have access to such intelligence.
    (c) The development and implementation of a procedure to release 
property seized under section 511 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 881) to any innocent party having an immediate right to 
possession of the property, when the Administrator, in his discretion, 
determines it is not in the interests of justice to initiate forfeiture 
proceedings against the property.
    (d) Payment of awards (including those over $10,000) under 28 U.S.C. 
524(c)(2) and purchase of evidence (including the authority to pay more 
than $100,000) under 28 U.S.C. 524(c)(1)(F).

[Order No. 520-73, 38 FR 18380, July 10, 1973, as amended by Order No. 
565-74, 39 FR 15876, May 6, 1974; Order No. 898-80, 45 FR 44267, July 1, 
1980; Order No. 960-81, 46 FR 52348, Oct. 27, 1981; Order No. 1126-86, 
51 FR 7443, Mar. 4, 1986]

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Sec. 0.102  Drug enforcement policy coordination.

    The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration shall 
report to the Attorney General, through the Deputy Attorney General or 
the Associate Attorney General, as directed by the Attorney General.

[Order No. 1429-90, 55 FR 28909, July 16, 1990]



Sec. 0.103  Release of information.

    (a) The Administrator of DEA is authorized--
    (1) To release information obtained by DEA and DEA investigative 
reports to Federal, State, and local officials engaged in the 
enforcement of laws related to controlled substances.
    (2) To release information obtained by DEA and DEA investigative 
reports to Federal, State, and local prosecutors, and State licensing 
boards, engaged in the institution and prosecution of cases before 
courts and licensing boards related to controlled substances.
    (3) To authorize the testimony of DEA officials in response to 
subpoenas or demands issued by the prosecution in Federal, State, or 
local criminal cases involving controlled substances.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, all other 
production of information or testimony of DEA officials in response to 
subpoenas or demands of courts or other authorities is governed by 
subpart B of part 16 of this chapter. However, it should be recognized 
that subpart B is not intended to restrict the release of 
noninvestigative information and reports as deemed appropriate by the 
Administrator of DEA. For example, it does not inhibit the exchange of 
information between governmental officials concerning the use and abuse 
of controlled substances as provided for by section 503(a)(1) of the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 873(a)(1)).

[Order No. 520-73, 38 FR 18380, July 10, 1973, as amended by Order No. 
2614-2002, 67 FR 58990, Sept. 19, 2002]



Sec. 0.103a  Delegations respecting claims against the Drug Enforcement
Administration.

    (a) The Administrator of DEA is authorized to exercise the power and 
authority vested in the Attorney General under the Act of December 7, 
1989, Public Law 101-203, 103 Stat. 1805 (31 U.S.C. 3724) with regard to 
claims thereunder arising out of the lawful activities of DEA personnel 
in an amount not to exceed $50,000.00 in any one case.
    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of 28 CFR 0.104, the 
Administrator of DEA is authorized to redelegate the power and authority 
vested in him in paragraph (a) of this section to the Chief Counsel of 
DEA and the Chief Counsel's designee within the Office of Chief Counsel. 
This authority shall not be further redelegated below the Associate 
Chief Counsel level.

[Order No. 1751-93, 58 FR 35371, July 1, 1993]



Sec. 0.104  Redelegation of authority.

    The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is 
authorized to redelegate to any of his subordinates or any of the 
officers or employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service any 
of the powers and functions vested in him by this subpart R.

[Order 1146-86, 51 FR 30485, Aug. 27, 1986]



     Sec. Appendix to Subpart R of Part 0--Redelegation of Functions

    Section 1. Scope of authority. The authority delegated by this order 
is applicable to all officers and employees of the Drug Enforcement 
Administration (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
    Sec. 2. Supervisors. All Special Agents-in-Charge of the DEA and the 
FBI are authorized to conduct enforcement hearings under 21 U.S.C. 883, 
and to take custody of seized property under 21 U.S.C. 881. All Special 
Agents-in-Charge of the DEA and the FBI, the DEA Deputy Administrator, 
Assistant Administrators and Office Heads, and the FBI Executive 
Assistant Directors, Assistant Directors, Deputy Assistant Directors, 
and Section Chiefs, are authorized to release information pursuant to 28 
CFR 0.103(a)(1) and (2) that is obtained by the DEA and the FBI, and to 
authorize the testimony of DEA and FBI officials in response to 
prosecution subpoenas or demands under 28 CFR 0.103(a)(3). All DEA 
Laboratory Directors are authorized to release information pursuant to 
28 CFR 0.103(a)(1) and (2) that is obtained by a DEA laboratory, and to 
authorize the testimony of DEA laboratory personnel in response to 
prosecution subpoenas or demands under 28 CFR 0.103(a)(3). All DEA 
Special

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Agents-in-Charge are authorized to take custody of, and make disposition 
of, controlled substances seized pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 824(g).
    Sec. 3. Enforcement officers. (a) All DEA criminal investigators 
(series 1811 under Office of Personnel Management regulations) and 
special agents of the FBI are authorized to exercise all of the powers 
of enforcement personnel granted by 21 U.S.C. 876, 878, and 879; to 
serve subpoenas, administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive 
evidence under 21 U.S.C. 875; to execute administrative inspection 
warrants under 21 U.S.C. 880; and to seize property under 21 U.S.C. 881 
and 21 CFR 1316.71 et seq.
    (b) All DEA Diversion Investigators (series 1801 under Office of 
Personnel Management regulations) are authorized to administer oaths and 
serve subpoenas under 21 U.S.C. 875 and 876; to conduct administrative 
inspections and execute administrative inspection warrants under 21 
U.S.C. 878(2) and 880; to seize property incident to compliance and 
registration inspections and investigations under 21 U.S.C. 881; and to 
seize or place controlled substances under seal pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 
824.
    Sec. 4. Issuance of subpoenas. (a) The Chief Inspector of the DEA; 
the Deputy Chief Inspectors and Associate Deputy Chief Inspectors of the 
Office of Inspections and the Office of Professional Responsibility of 
the DEA; all Special Agents-in-Charge of the DEA and the FBI; DEA 
Inspectors assigned to the Inspection Division; DEA Associate Special 
Agents-in-Charge; DEA and FBI Assistant Special Agents-in-Charge; DEA 
Resident Agents-in-Charge; DEA Diversion Program Managers; FBI 
Supervisory Senior Resident Agents; DEA Special Agent Group Supervisors; 
those FBI Special Agent Squad Supervisors who have management 
responsibility over Organized Crime/Drug Program Investigations; and DEA 
Regional Directors, Assistant Regional Directors, and Country 
Attach[eacute]s, are authorized to sign and issue subpoenas with respect 
to controlled substances, listed chemicals, tableting machines or 
encapsulating machines under 21 U.S.C. 875 and 876 in regard to matters 
within their respective jurisdictions.
    (b) The Administrative Law Judge of DEA is authorized to sign and 
issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production 
of documents and materials to the extent necessary to conduct 
administrative hearings pending before him.
    Sec. 5. Legal functions. The Chief Counsel and the Director of DEA's 
Mid-Atlantic Laboratory are authorized to execute any certification 
required to authenticate any documents pursuant to 28 CFR 0.146. The 
Chief Counsel is also authorized to adjust, determine, compromise, and 
settle any claims involving the Drug Enforcement Administration under 28 
U.S.C. 2672 relating to tort claims where the amount of the proposed 
adjustment, compromise, settlement or award does not exceed $2,500; to 
formulate and coordinate the proceedings relating to the conduct of 
hearings under 21 U.S.C. 875, including the signing and issuance of 
subpoenas, examining of witnesses, and receiving evidence; to adjust, 
determine, compromise and settle any tort claims when such claims arise 
in foreign countries in connection with DEA operations abroad, and to 
conduct enforcement hearings under 21 U.S.C. 883. The Forfeiture Counsel 
of the DEA is authorized to exercise all necessary functions with 
respect to decisions on petitions under 19 U.S.C. 1618 for remission or 
mitigation of forfeitures incurred under 21 U.S.C. 881.
    Sec. 6. Import and export permits. The Deputy Assistant 
Administrator of the DEA Office of Diversion Control, the Deputy 
Director of the DEA Office of Diversion Control, the Chief of the Drug 
Operations Section of the DEA Office of Diversion Control, and the Chief 
of the International Drug Unit of the Drug Operations Section of the DEA 
Office of Diversion Control are authorized to perform all and any 
functions with respect to the issuance of importation and exportation 
permits for controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. 952 and 953, and all 
functions in regard to transshipments and intransit shipments of 
controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. 954.
    Sec. 7. Promulgation of regulations. The Deputy Assistant 
Administrator of the DEA Office of Diversion Control is authorized to 
exercise all necessary functions with respect to the promulgation and 
implementation of the following regulations published in chapter II, 
title 21, Code of Federal Regulations:
    (a) Part 1301, incident to the registration of manufacturers, 
distributors, and dispensers of controlled substances, except that final 
orders in connection with suspension, denial or revocation of 
registration shall be made by the Deputy Administrator of DEA.
    (b) Part 1302 relating to labelling and packaging requirements for 
controlled substances.
    (c) Part 1304 relating to records and reports of registrants.
    (d) Part 1305 relating to order forms.
    (e) Part 1306 relating to prescriptions, except provisions relating 
to dispensing of narcotic drugs for maintenance purposes.
    (f) Part 1307, title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, relating to 
miscellaneous provisions, except Sec. 1307.31 concerning special exempt 
persons.
    (g) The following sections of part 1308: Sec. Sec. 1308.21 and 
1308.22 relating to excluded nonnarcotic substances; Sec. Sec. 1308.23 
and 1308.24 relating to exempt chemical preparations; Sec. Sec. 1308.25 
and 1308.26 relating to excluded veterinary anabolic steroid implant 
products; Sec. Sec. 1308.31 and 1308.32 relating to exempted 
prescription products; and Sec. Sec. 1308.33 and 1308.34 relating to 
exempt anabolic steroid

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products, except that any final order following a contested proposed 
rulemaking shall be issued by the Deputy Administrator of DEA.
    (h) Part 1309, incident to the registration of manufacturers, 
distributors, importers and exporters of List I chemicals, except that 
final orders in connection with suspension, denial or revocation of 
registration shall be made by the Deputy Administrator of DEA.
    (i) Part 1310, relating to records, reports and identification of 
parties to transactions in listed chemicals and certain machinery, but 
not including the authority to add and delete listed chemicals pursuant 
to 21 CFR 1310.02.
    (j) Part 1311 relating to registration of importers and exporters of 
controlled substances, except that final orders in connection with 
suspension, denial or revocation of registration shall be made by the 
Deputy Administrator of DEA.
    (k) Part 1312 relating to importation and exportation of controlled 
substances, except that all final orders following a contested proposed 
rulemaking regarding the denial of an application for an import, export 
or transshipment permit shall be made by the Deputy Administrator of 
DEA.
    (l) Part 1313, relating to the importation and exportation of 
precursors and essential chemicals, but not including the authority to 
suspend shipments under 21 CFR 1313.41.
    Sec. 8. Financial functions. The Controller of the DEA is authorized 
to settle any employee claims filed under the Military Personnel and 
Civilian Employees' Claims Act in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
    Sec. 9. Chemical Diversion Act functions. The Chief of Operations of 
the DEA, Operations Division, is authorized to furnish, or cause to be 
furnished, descriptions of persons with whom regulated transactions may 
not be completed without prior approval of the DEA; to approve such 
transactions pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 830(b) and 21 CFR 1310.05(b); and to 
approve or disapprove regular customer or regular importer status under 
21 U.S.C. 971 and 21 CFR 1313.15 and 1313.24.
    Sec. 10. Deputization of State and Local Law Enforcement Officers. 
The Chief, Investigative Support Section, Office of Operations 
Management, Operations Division, is authorized to exercise all necessary 
functions with respect to the deputization of state and local law 
enforcement officers as Task Force Officers of DEA pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 
878(a).
    Sec. 11. Cross-Designation of Federal Law Enforcement Officers. The 
Chief, Investigative Support Section, Office of Operations Management, 
Operations Division is authorized to exercise all necessary functions 
with respect to the cross-designation of Federal law enforcement 
officers to undertake title 21 drug investigations under supervision of 
the DEA pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 873(b).
    Sec. 12. All other functions. The Deputy Administrator is authorized 
to exercise all necessary functions under 21 CFR parts 1300 through 
1316, except those functions otherwise delegated within this subpart. 
This will include functions which may be vested in the Administrator in 
subsequent amendments to 21 CFR parts 1300 through 1316 and not 
otherwise specifically assigned or reserved by him.

[47 FR 43370, Oct. 1, 1982]

    Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting the 
appendix to subpart R of part 0, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, 
which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and on 
GPO Access.