Security Bars and Processing; Delay of Effective Date

Document 2024-30774 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Justice in the Federal Register on December 27, 2024, with an effective date of January 27, 2025. On December 23, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") and the Department of Justice ("DOJ") (collectively, "the Departments") published a final rule entitled Security Bars and Processing ("Security Bars final rule") to define "danger to the security of the United States" to include certain emergency public health concerns. The Departments have delayed the final rule's effective date such that it has never gone into effect. This rulemaking further delays the Security Bars final rule's effective date until December 31, 2025. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/27/2024-30774/security-bars-and-processing-delay-of-effective-date.

No. Document 2024-30774 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.