6 U.S.C. § 341 : US Code - Section 341: Under Secretary for Management

Search 6 U.S.C. § 341 : US Code - Section 341: Under Secretary for Management

(a) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Management,
shall be responsible for the management and administration of the
Department, including the following:
(1) The budget, appropriations, expenditures of funds,
accounting, and finance.
(2) Procurement.
(3) Human resources and personnel.
(4) Information technology and communications systems.
(5) Facilities, property, equipment, and other material
resources.
(6) Security for personnel, information technology and
communications systems, facilities, property, equipment, and
other material resources.
(7) Identification and tracking of performance measures
relating to the responsibilities of the Department.
(8) Grants and other assistance management programs.
(9) The transition and reorganization process, to ensure an
efficient and orderly transfer of functions and personnel to the
Department, including the development of a transition plan.
(10) The conduct of internal audits and management analyses of
the programs and activities of the Department.
(11) Any other management duties that the Secretary may
designate.
(b) Immigration
(1) In general
In addition to the responsibilities described in subsection (a)
of this section, the Under Secretary for Management shall be
responsible for the following:
(A) Maintenance of all immigration statistical information of
the Bureau of Border Security and the Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration Services. Such statistical information shall
include information and statistics of the type contained in the
publication entitled "Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service" prepared by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (as in effect immediately before the
date on which the transfer of functions specified under section
251 of this title takes effect), including region-by-region
statistics on the aggregate number of applications and
petitions filed by an alien (or filed on behalf of an alien)
and denied by such bureau, and the reasons for such denials,
disaggregated by category of denial and application or petition
type.
(B) Establishment of standards of reliability and validity
for immigration statistics collected by such bureaus.
(2) Transfer of functions
In accordance with subchapter XII of this chapter, there shall
be transferred to the Under Secretary for Management all
functions performed immediately before such transfer occurs by
the Statistics Branch of the Office of Policy and Planning of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service with respect to the
following programs:
(A) The Border Patrol program.
(B) The detention and removal program.
(C) The intelligence program.
(D) The investigations program.
(E) The inspections program.
(F) Adjudication of immigrant visa petitions.
(G) Adjudication of naturalization petitions.
(H) Adjudication of asylum and refugee applications.
(I) Adjudications performed at service centers.
(J) All other adjudications performed by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service.