[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 250 (Friday, December 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 77442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-8117]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Delegation of Authority 286]


Delegation by the Secretary of State to the Under Secretary for 
Political Affairs of Authority To Determine Exemptions From Port-of-
Entry (NSEERS) Special Registration, Fingerprinting, and Photographing 
Requirements (General)

    By virtue of the authority vested in me as Secretary of State by 
the laws of the United States, including the authority of section 1 of 
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as amended (22 
U.S.C. 2651a), I hereby delegate to the Under Secretary for Political 
Affairs the authority vested in the Secretary of State by 8 CFR 264, 
1(f) to: (1) Determine that special registration, fingerprinting, and 
photographing requirements shall not apply to an individual 
nonimmigrant alien upon arrival in the United States; and (2) 
determine, jointly with the Secretary of the Department of Homeland 
Security, that special registration, fingerprinting. and photographing 
requirements shall not apply to classes of nonimmigrant aliens upon 
arrival in the United States.
    Any authorities covered by this delegation may also be exercised by 
the Secretary of State or the Deputy Secretary of State.
    Any act, executive order, regulation, or procedure subject to or 
affected by this delegation shall be deemed to be such act, executive 
order, regulation, or procedure as amended from time to time.
    The Under Secretary for Political Affairs may not redelegate the 
authorities delegated by this delegation of authority.
    This delegation of authority supplements Delegation of Authority 
No. 253 and shall be published in the Federal Register.

    Dated: September 28, 2005.
Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of State, Department of State.
[FR Doc. E5-8117 Filed 12-29-05; 8:45 am]
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