Pub. L. 107-296, tit. VII, sec. 701
UNDER SECRETARY FOR MANAGEMENT.
SEC. 701. 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), 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 116 STAT. 2219type 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 441 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 title XV, 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.