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16.2—Public reading rooms.

(a) The Department maintains public reading rooms that contain the records that the FOIA requires to be made regularly available for public inspection and copying. Each Department component is responsible for determining which of the records it generates are required to be made available in this way and for making those records available either in its own reading room or in the Department's central reading room. Each component shall maintain and make available for public inspection and copying a current subject-matter index of its reading room records. Each index shall be updated regularly, at least quarterly, with respect to newly included records.

(b) The Department maintains public reading rooms or areas at the locations listed below:

(1) Bureau of Prisons—on the Seventh Floor, 500 First Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(2) Civil Rights Division—in Room 930, 320 First Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(3) Community Relations Service—in Suite 2000, 600 E Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(4) Drug Enforcement Administration—in Room W-7216, 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia;

(5) Executive Office for Immigration Review (Board of Immigration Appeals)—in Suite 2400, 5107 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Virginia;

(6) Federal Bureau of Investigation—at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC;

(7) Foreign Claims Settlement Commission—in Room 6002, 600 E Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(8) Immigration and Naturalization Service—425 I Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(9) Office of Justice Programs—in Room 5430, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(10) Pardon Attorney—on the Fourth Floor, 500 First Street, NW., Washington, DC;

(11) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—650 Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Washington, DC;

(12) United States Attorneys and United States Marshals—at the principal offices of the United States Attorneys and the United States Marshals, which are listed in most telephone books; and

(13) All other components of the Department of Justice—in Room 6505 at the Main Justice Building, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.

(c) Components shall also make reading room records created by the Department on or after November 1, 1996, available electronically at the Department's World Wide Web site (which can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov ), through use of the Department's “Freedom of Information Act Home Page.” This includes each component's index of its reading room records, which will indicate which records are available electronically.

Code of Federal Regulations

[Order No. 2156-98, 63 FR 29593, June 1, 1998; 63 FR 51401, Sept. 25, 1998, as amended by Order No. 2650-2003, 68 FR 4928, Jan. 31, 2003]

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