U.S. Department of Justice
FY 2019 Contingency Plan
- January 10, 2019 This FY 2019 Contingency Plan covers Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department)
operations during a lapse in appropriations.
The Antideficiency Act restricts the Federal Government’s ability to obligate funds in advance of
appropriations or beyond appropriated levels. During a lapse in appropriations, the Department
will only continue the following categories of activities:
1. Those funded by a source that has not lapsed, such as permanent indefinite
appropriations and carryover of no-year funds appropriated in a prior year;
2. Those for which there is an express authority to continue during an appropriations
lapse;
3. Those for which authority to continue during an appropriations lapse arises by
necessary implication;
4. Those related to the discharge of the President’s constitutional duties and powers; and
5. Those related to “emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of
property,” i.e., where there is a reasonable likelihood that the safety of human life or
the protection of property would be compromised, in some significant degree, by
delay in the performance of the function in question.
The Department of Justice is comprised of about 40 components that have a broad array of
national security, law enforcement, and criminal justice system responsibilities. The
Department’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States
according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide
federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of
unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Therefore, a significant portion of the Department’s mission relates to the safety of human life
and the protection of property, and primarily for this reason, the Department has a high
percentage of activities and employees that are excepted from the Antideficiency Act restrictions
and can continue during a lapse in appropriations. Other activities and employees are excepted
because they are funded with multi-year or no-year appropriations, or because they are
Presidential appointees, most of whom are excepted from furlough because they are not covered
by the leave system in 5 U.S.C. Chapter 63. 1 Note that the contingency plan assumes that, at the
time of a shutdown, all Components and Subcomponents normally headed by a Presidential
Appointee are in fact headed by a Presidential Appointee. If at the time of shutdown the
Note: Former career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointees who receive a Presidential appointment that would
normally convey an exemption from the leave system may be eligible to elect to retain SES leave benefits under 5
U.S.C. § 3392(c). If SES leave benefits are so elected, such a Presidential Appointee would be subject to furlough
under 5 CFR part 359, subpart H, unless otherwise excepted.
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 Department does not have Presidential appointees in one or more of those positions, the
Department will determine the excepted status of those who are acting in those positions in
accordance with the criteria above.
Agency Summary:
The total number of agency employees on-board at the time of the implementation of the
Contingency Plan was 113,546 2 (see Table 2). Based on data as of June 23, 2018, for a lapse in
appropriations for the first 5 calendar days of fiscal year 2019, 95,302 DOJ employees were
excepted from furlough (see Table 1), representing 84% of DOJ on-board employees.
Table 1: Department of Justice FY 2019 Contingency Plan Exceptions
Employees Excepted from Furlough
Categories

Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Category 5

3

Employees whose compensation is financed by a resource other
than annual appropriation (also referred to as “exempt
employees”)
Employees necessary to perform activities expressly authorized
by law to continue during a lapse in appropriations
Employees necessary to perform activities necessarily implied by
law
Employees necessary to the discharge of the President’s
constitutional duties and powers
Employees necessary to protect life and property

Total

Total Excepted
Employees
FY 2019
6,411

1,031
16,139
N/A
71,721
95,302

The Department’s plan is consistent with Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions and Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) guidance and conforms to the following general principles:
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The law enforcement capacity of the U.S. Government should not be impaired or
perceived to be impaired. To do so could constitute an imminent threat to the safety of
human life and the protection of property.

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Component heads were directed to be conservative in designating employees as
“excepted,” especially those in headquarters or other “overhead” functions and
occupations. Also, components may call some employees back to work if the need for
their services becomes critical, and to furlough others as conditions change.

Onboard staffing data are derived from DOJ’s payroll system and reflect information from pay period 12, ending
June 23, 2018.
3
Note that this number includes employees funded with carryover, multi-year and no-year funding appropriated
in prior years. The number of excepted employees in this category may decrease over the course of an
appropriations lapse as carryover funding is depleted.
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Ancillary support services will be maintained only to the extent necessary to support
excepted operations. These ancillary functions include very limited legislative affairs and
other congressional support activities, public affairs activities, and community outreach,
which may be conducted only to the extent the failure to perform those functions prevents
or significantly damages the functioning of a funded component, the operations of other
funded parts of the Government, or the performance of an excepted function. While mail
will continue to be an excepted function, the number of staff on board to process mail
will be reduced; therefore, the public should reasonably expect delays in mail delivery.

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Employees may not be reassigned or given new duties, and offices may not be
restructured, in order to move individuals from a non-excepted function into an excepted
function (although some rotational coverage of excepted positions will occur).

With respect to litigation, the Department’s plan assumes that the Judicial Branch will continue
to operate through the furlough. 4 Therefore:
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Criminal litigation will continue without interruption as an activity essential to the safety
of human life and the protection of property.

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Civil litigation will be curtailed or postponed to the extent that this can be done without
compromising to a significant degree the safety of human life or the protection of
property. Litigators will continue to approach the courts and request that active cases,
except for those in which postponement would compromise to a significant degree the
safety of human life or the protection of property, be postponed until funding is available.
If a court denies such a request and orders a case to continue, the Government will
comply with the court’s order, which would constitute express legal authorization for the
activity to continue. The Department will limit its civil litigation staffing to the minimum
level needed to comply with the court’s order and to protect life and property. Receipt of
summonses, pleadings and motions by mail may be delayed.

Assumptions relating to training activities (in components whose funding has lapsed) are as
follows: 5
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In order to ensure the proper execution of the Department’s emergency functions,
components may determine that the training of new employees in positions that have
been designated as “emergency” is an excepted function.

The federal courts are continuing to hear and decide cases during the lapse in appropriations utilizing fees and noyear appropriations. When this source of funding is exhausted, furloughs may impact the number of cases courts will
hear.
5
The Department of Homeland Security closed the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). DOJ staff
assigned to FLETC and trainees at FLETC are furloughed unless they are directed to work on excepted activities.
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To the extent that the training of new “emergency” employees is in process or about to
begin when a lapse occurs, components should consider whether a short delay (for
example, over the weekend) in the training will compromise emergency functions. If such
a delay will not compromise emergency functions, components should consider keeping
the employees at the training center but delaying the training itself, or not sending the
employees to the training during the brief delay. If at any point the component determines
that the delay in training might impact emergency functions, the training should resume.

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New employees who are not in positions designated as “emergency” should not start
work during the lapse and should not be trained.

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In-service training of current employees, even those excepted from furlough, will be
cancelled.

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Training of state and local officers will be discontinued for the duration of the lapse in
appropriations.

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As a general rule, training for international law enforcement officers occurring in the
United States will be cancelled. However, with respect to training of international law
enforcement officers abroad (such as the training of officers who will be working in a
combat zone), components will use their judgment to determine whether such training
needs to occur immediately in order to protect human life or property. If so, such training
may continue.

Department of Justice programs funded with permanent indefinite appropriations or other
funding not subject to annual appropriation (e.g., Diversion Control, Health Care Fraud and
Abuse Control, Debt Collection, Assets Forfeiture Fund, Federal Prison Industries, Special
Counsel) are displayed in the plan as excepted positions (and are also referred to as “exempted
positions” in other contexts), because their funding is not dependent upon an enacted
appropriation. Also, the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Buildings and Facilities and Commissary
accounts have multi-year authority and have adequate carryover funding to meet expenses during
a lapse in appropriations. Employees paid from these funding sources are not dependent upon an
enacted appropriation and are therefore considered excepted. Also included in the total are
Presidential Appointees, most of whom are excepted from furlough because they are not covered
by the leave system in 5 U.S.C. Chapter 63. This does not include non-career SES and Schedule
C employees.

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 Individual DOJ Component Summaries:
Following is a synopsis of the components’ plans for the Department of Justice, including the
nature of the agency activities in which excepted employees will be engaged. The attached Table
2 provides the total number of employees in the component on-board when the plan was
implemented; the total number of component employees excepted from furlough under each of
the recognized exceptions; and the agency’s legal basis for each of its determinations to except
employees.
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General Administration (GA)/Working Capital Fund (WCF)/Justice Information
Sharing Technology (JIST): Accounts include the Department’s Leadership and Senior
Policy/Management Offices. This includes Presidential Appointees, who are not subject
to furlough by virtue of their appointment status, while a sizeable number of employees
in these organizations will be furloughed. The excepted employees will provide overall
Departmental leadership and policy management for ongoing operations that protect life
and property and for other excepted activities during the lapse of appropriations.
The GA account also funds a portion of the functions and staff of the Justice
Management Division (JMD). The excepted GA-funded JMD employees will provide
Department-wide direction for staffs providing support for ongoing operations that
protect life and property; direct support, including IT support, for Department-wide
operations that protect life and property; and building security at the Main Justice
Building. The Working Capital Fund is funded by reimbursements from a variety of
sources, but primarily from sources that are appropriated annually and would not be
available if there is a lapse in appropriations; therefore, only JMD employees performing
excepted functions are excepted from furloughs. In addition, a number of JMD
employees are funded by the Three Percent Fund for debt collection, which is not subject
to annual appropriation, and thus these employees may continue to work during a lapse in
appropriations.
JMD also oversees the JIST and the WCF Information Technology accounts. Excepted
employees in these areas are needed to operate the 24/7 Justice Security Operations
Center, which provides information security for the Department’s systems. In addition,
these employees are needed for information technology operations and systems that
support ongoing law enforcement operations that will continue during any lapse in
appropriations.

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Executive Office for Immigration Review: Excepted employees are needed to process
all immigration cases and appeals involving detained aliens, including criminal aliens;
provide Headquarters oversight of excepted functions; provide administrative support for
excepted functions; and preserve jurisdictional viability of discrimination cases within the
Administrative Law Judge function.
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Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA): There are no employees excepted from furlough.
However, OPA’s mission is to assist the President in the exercise of his constitutional
clemency power. Therefore, if an inmate facing execution in a capital case filed an
application for commutation of sentence and appropriations lapsed, it is possible that
some OPA employees would be excepted temporarily. Such applications for clemency
are infrequent, but if one were to be pending during a lapse in appropriations, the
exception for “discharge of the President’s constitutional duties and powers” might in
fact apply to OPA employees needed to timely investigate the application, prepare the
report and recommendation on the case, and effectuate the President’s decision under the
Constitution to grant or deny clemency to the capital offender.

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Office of the Inspector General: As a Presidential Appointee, the Inspector General is
not subject to furlough. The excepted employees are needed to investigate allegations of
bribery, fraud, abuse, civil rights violations and violations of other criminal laws and
administrative procedures arising from the conduct of Department employees, contractors
and grantees; support law enforcement functions; oversee emergency operations and
provide legal advice and issue subpoenas; continue work on time-sensitive national
security investigations; and provide security and administrative support for excepted
personnel and emergency services.

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U.S. Parole Commission (USPC): The excepted USPC employees are needed to
respond to requests for emergency warrants and process parole certificates. Due to the
constitutional prohibitions against the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, this
litigation has continued and is expected to continue in all judicial districts. Also, the
USPC anticipates that the U.S. Probation Offices and the Court Services and Offender
Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA) will continue to submit
written requests for USPC action against offenders who have violated the conditions of
their release. The Chairman and the Commissioners, as Presidential Appointees, are not
subject to furlough. They will be available to approve each warrant before issuance.
USPC has jurisdiction over federal offenders who committed offenses before November
1, 1987, as well as all District of Columbia (DC) offenders. Much of the DC caseload is
driven by requests for warrants as a result of violations of the terms and conditions of
parole.

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National Security Division (NSD): As a Presidential Appointee, the Assistant Attorney
General is not subject to furlough. The excepted employees are needed to ensure the
Department’s national security investigations and prosecutions continue, that the
Department’s national security activities are coordinated both within the Department and
with other government agencies, and to represent the Intelligence Community before the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which will remain open to facilitate the national
security activities of United States in a manner consistent with the law. NSD will also
provide legal advice to the Intelligence Community with respect to ongoing national
security matters, and oversee the Department’s administration of the U.S. Government’s
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 authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In addition, excepted
employees will continue work on pending counterterrorism, espionage, export control,
and sanctions violations; coordinate and supervise the Department’s international
terrorism, domestic terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction matters; and continue to
review Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States matters, including
responding to time-sensitive inquiries regarding the national security implications of
corporate conduct in compliance with National Security Agreements.
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General Legal Activities (GLA): The Solicitor General and the Assistant Attorneys
General are Presidential Appointees, and are not subject to furlough. The GLA account
includes the following components: Office of the Solicitor General, Tax Division,
Criminal Division, Civil Division, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Office
of Legal Counsel, Civil Rights Division, and INTERPOL Washington. The excepted
employees are necessary to provide legal advice on ongoing excepted functions of the
Executive Branch, including matters of national security and presidential authority, to the
Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, others within the Department, the White
House, the National Security Council, and the Departments of State and Defense.
Excepted employees will also review Attorney General Orders, Executive Orders and
Proclamations, and presidential memoranda and directives; ensure that criminal litigation
continues uninterrupted; seek continuances for civil and appellate litigation, except as
necessary for the immediate protection of life or property; proceed with civil and
appellate litigation should attempts to secure continuances fail; provide administrative
advice and resource allocation guidance to Civil Rights Prosecution personnel and the
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, in the event of civil disorder; respond
to and investigate complaints of alleged criminal civil rights violations involving
endangerment of life or property and handle complaints from institutionalized persons
concerning life-threatening situations. Also, excepted employees are needed to provide
uninterrupted communications among federal, state, local and international law
enforcement entities in furtherance of, among other things, criminal investigations and
the apprehension of fugitives and criminal and illegal aliens. If a court denies a litigator’s
request to postpone a case and orders it to continue, the litigation will become an
excepted activity that can continue during the lapse.

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Antitrust Division (ATR): As a Presidential Appointee, the Assistant Attorney General
is not subject to furlough. The excepted employees are needed to conduct or directly
support ongoing criminal trials, prepare for criminal proceedings that have been
scheduled for court (including the handling of arraignments, pleas, and sentencing
hearings), and conduct or support ongoing civil litigation in which a continuance cannot
be obtained. They will also prepare cases that must be filed due to Hart-Scott-Rodino or
statute of limitations deadlines, only when an extension or waiver cannot be obtained and
ATR leadership determines that allowing a proposed merger to go forward without
objection would pose a reasonable likelihood of peril to property in which the United
States has an immediate interest.
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U.S. Attorneys: As Presidential Appointees, U.S. Attorneys are not subject to furlough.
Excepted employees are needed to address ongoing criminal matters and civil matters of
urgency throughout the Nation. Criminal litigation will continue without interruption as
an excepted activity to maintain the safety of human life and the protection of property.
Civil litigation will be curtailed or postponed to the extent this can be done without
compromising to a significant degree the safety of human life or the protection of
property. If a court denies a litigator’s request to postpone a case and orders it to
continue, the litigation will become an excepted activity that can continue during the
lapse. Headquarters support is maintained only to the extent necessary to support
excepted operations.

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U.S. Trustees Program: Excepted employees are needed to protect bankruptcy estate
property through the appointment and oversight of fiduciaries and through other means.
Excepted employees are responsible for coordinating meetings of debtors and creditors,
as well as civil and criminal matters, including cases with the U.S. Attorneys and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attempts will be made to curtail or postpone
appearances before the Bankruptcy Courts. Excepted employees are limited to
performing only those functions in which there is a definite risk of substantial property
loss or violation of law.

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Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: As Presidential Appointees, the
Commissioners are not subject to furlough. All staff are furloughed; therefore, staff
activity related to the settlement of foreign claims is postponed.

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U.S. Marshals Service (USMS): The USMS is currently without a Director and the
Acting Director is not a Presidential Appointee; as such, he is subject to furlough, unless
otherwise excepted. The 94 U.S. Marshals in the Federal Districts are Presidential
Appointees, but are subject to the Leave Act and, therefore, are also subject to furlough.
However, since they all have duties directly related to the protection of life and property,
they are excepted from furlough and will continue working. The excepted employees,
including the Acting Director and the U.S. Marshals, are needed to carry out duties
associated with judicial security; prisoner custody, security, and transportation; and
fugitive apprehension. Some Headquarters personnel are also excepted as their functions
are critical to the support of the U.S. Marshals and Deputy U.S. Marshals in the field –
this support includes integrity assurance, oversight of investigative operations and
judicial security, tactical operations, witness security, and management functions that
include law and policy, budget and finance, procurement, information technology, human
resource administration, and security.

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Community Relations Service (CRS): As a Presidential Appointee, the Director is not
subject to furlough. CRS provides critical assistance in resolving and preventing racial,
ethnic and national origin community conflicts, violence, and civil disorder, and it helps
communities struggling to recover in the aftermath of alleged violent hate crimes. A
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 minimum number of employees are necessary to provide a rapid response to emergency
situations to protect the safety of human life or the protection of property.
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Special Counsel’s Office (SCO): The Special Counsel’s Office is funded with a
permanent indefinite appropriation. All direct employees are displayed as excepted
positions because their funding is not dependent upon an enacted appropriation.
One attorney left the Special Counsel’s Office after pay period 13. As of July 15, 2018,
the SCO employs eight term employees directly, who are requested to be excepted in the
FY 2019 contingency plan based on the exception justification provided above.

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Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement (ICDE): DOJ components participating in
the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program have excepted
their ICDE-funded personnel from furlough as appropriate within their agency
designations. OCDETF provides reimbursable funding to its member agencies to support
the salaries and expenses of their participating personnel. A small number of Executive
Office employees are needed to provide day-to-day administrative support to the nine
member agencies of the OCDETF Co-Located Strike Forces and to the OCDETF Fusion
Center (OFC), which also houses the Department’s International Organized Crime
Intelligence Operations Center (IOC-2). The nine Co-Located Strike Forces are designed
to serve a dual purpose: they aggressively target the highest-level drug trafficking
organizations; and they also function as a central point for gathering intelligence and
disseminating investigative leads throughout the neighboring areas. The OFC is a
comprehensive data center containing all drug and related financial intelligence
information from all OCDETF- member investigative agencies and the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): As a Presidential Appointee, the Director is not
subject to furlough. Excepted personnel are needed because all operations of the FBI are
directed toward national security and investigations of violations of law involving
protection of life and property. Thus, the FBI must be able to continue existing
investigations, open new investigations, and respond to all contingencies which might
arise during a lapse of appropriations. Accordingly, all FBI agents and support personnel
in the field are considered excepted from furlough.
At FBI headquarters, the excepted personnel will provide direction and investigative
support to all field operations and excepted headquarters functions. This includes
personnel in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which provides
fingerprint identification services to criminal and national security investigations, and the
Records Management Division, which provides name check services to criminal and
national security investigations. Excepted personnel also include nearly all federal
employees supporting the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): DEA’s Administrator is a Presidential
Appointee and is not subject to furlough. All agents in DEA field organizations are
excepted from furlough because they support active counternarcotics investigations. This
encompasses 23 domestic divisions, 7 regional foreign divisions, critical tactical support
groups including the El Paso Intelligence Center and the Special Operations Division,
forensic sciences, and technical surveillance support. DEA investigations need to
continue uninterrupted so that cases are not compromised and the health and safety of the
American public is not placed at risk. In addition, some headquarters personnel are
critical to the support of agents actively engaged in investigative actions in the field – this
support includes agency direction and priorities, legal support, integrity assurance and
oversight of investigations, and critical support of emergency field functions, such as
coordination of joint efforts involving other federal, state, local and foreign agencies;
24/7 tactical Command Center, tactical analytical support to investigations, programs and
operations worldwide; as well as worldwide support in the areas of financial
management, contract oversight, personnel, and basic training. Headquarters support will
be maintained only to the extent necessary to support excepted operations.
DEA Diversion Control Fee Account: All employees on-board are excepted since these
positions are fully fee-funded; therefore, all drug diversion control activities will
continue. These activities include preventing, detecting, and investigating the diversion
of controlled substances from legitimate channels, while ensuring an adequate and
uninterrupted supply of controlled substances to meet legitimate needs.

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF): As a Presidential
Appointee, the Director of ATF is not subject to furlough. Excepted employees include:
all agents in ATF’s field divisions, who conduct the full range of criminal investigations
in the firearms, arson, explosives, alcohol and tobacco program areas; Industry
Operations Investigators who conduct compliance inspections of Federal firearms and
Federal explosives licensees (including those mandated under the Safe Explosives Act),
as well as application inspections; and other personnel who collect, review and analyze
intelligence data in support of criminal investigations. Headquarters support will be
maintained only to the extent necessary to support excepted operations.

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Bureau of Prisons (BOP): All staff at the Federal prisons, including Public Health
Service Officers necessary to provide medical care of inmates, are considered excepted
since they have direct daily inmate custody responsibilities. Employees are also needed to
continue inmate custody responsibilities over some 34,317 inmates in contract facilities
and process all new designations to federal prisons from the Courts. Regional and
headquarters support will be maintained only to the extent necessary to support excepted
operations. BOP’s Buildings and Facilities, Prison Industries and Commissary accounts
have multi-year authority and should have adequate carry over funding to meet expenses
during a lapse in appropriations.
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Grant Programs (Office of Justice Programs, Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services, Office on Violence Against Women): As Presidential Appointees,
the OVW Director and the Assistant Attorney General for OJP are not subject to
furlough. The grants awarded by the Department are funded from no-year appropriations,
as are the employees who administer those grants. As a result, these activities may
continue during a lapse as long as sufficient S&E carryover funds remain, and based
upon input from Department leadership regarding mission requirements. However, for
the sake of the FY 2019 contingency exercise and consistent with prior plans, OJP is
reflecting the level of personnel who would be needed if they had to reduce the personnel
to only those most critical during a shutdown, which is approximately 41 (or 6%). OVW
and COPS anticipate sufficient carryover funding to support their full complement of
employees on-board for some time during a lapse in appropriations, and display an
excepted rate of 100% for planning purposes.

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 Table 2: FY 2019 Department of Justice Contingency Plan
On-Board vs. Excepted Employees
Excepted
Total
OnBoard

Total

Agents

I ntel
Analysts

Attorneys

Other
Staff

%
Excepted

AFF

22

22

0

0

0

22

100%

ATF

5,061

4,260

2,614

144

54

1,448

84%

ATR

655

264

0

0

144

120

40%

BOP

36,361

35,287

16,988

0

189

18,110

97%

CIV

1,382

1,673

0

0

538

135

49%

COPS

93

93

0

0

8

85

100%

CRM

955

764

0

0

516

248

80%

CRS

39

1

0

0

0

1

3%

CRT

595

174

0

0

118

56

29%

DEA

8,923

7,673

4,365

596

88

2,624

86%

ENRD

578

263

0

0

212

51

45%

EOIR

1,684

809

0

0

327

482

48%

36,594

31,839

13,108

2,917

139

15,675

87%

9

2

0

0

0

2

22%

987

202

0

0

24

178

20%

INTERPOL

63

53

0

40

2

10

84%

JIST

30

3

0

0

0

3

10%

NSD

349

236

0

6

187

43

68%

29

13

0

3

4

6

45%

OIG

488

267

119

0

11

137

55%

OJP

677

41

0

0

2

39

6%

OLC

29

23

0

0

20

3

79%

OPA

16

1

0

0

0

1

6%

OSG

47

43

0

0

23

20

91%

OVW

64

64

0

0

4

60

100%

SCO

9

8

0

0

5

3

89%

TAX

509

284

0

0

220

64

56%

USA

10,982

6,963

39

54

4,907

1,963

63%

USMS

5,118

4,614

3,588

40

10

976

90%

USPC

55

22

0

0

2

20

USTP

978

341

0

0

158

183

40
%
35%

113,381

95,302

40,821

3,800

7,913

42,768

84%

Name

FBI
FCSC
GA/WCF

OCDETF

TOTAL

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 Table 3: FY 2019 Department of Justice Contingency Plan
Excepted Employees by Category
Categories
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 5

TOTAL

Total
6,411

Employees Excepted from Furlough
Intel
Agent
Analyst
Attorney
898

93

632

Other
4,788

1,031

39

0

850

142

16,139

865

2,651

190

12,424

71,721

39,019

1,056

6,232

25,414

95,302

40,821

3,800

7,904

42,768

Category 1 = Employees whose compensation is financed by a resource other than annual
appropriations.
Category 2 = Employees necessary to perform activities expressly authorized by law.
Category 3 = Employees necessary to perform activities necessarily implied by law (including
presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed employees).
Category 4 = Employees necessary to the discharge of the President’s constitutional duties and
powers.
Category 5 = Employees necessary to protect life and property.

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