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2.Review of Offer After receipt, an authorized official reviews the documents for accuracy and consistency. The following officials then review and consider for approval the gift offer(in order of review): • USCIS Field Operations, Associate Director; • USCIS Office of Chief Counsel's Ethics Division; and • USCIS Director(final approval). Field leadership may accept a gift offer or donated facility for ceremony use from a federal, state, or local governmental agency without the approval of the USCIS Director. However, before accepting such an offer, field leadership must consider if acceptance would create a conflict of interest. Field leadership should confer with the Field Operations Directorate at headquarters and the USCIS Office of the Chief Counsel's Ethics Division before accepting gifts or a donated facility. 3.Rejection of Offer USCIS may reject an offer of use of facilities if: • The gift offer would not aid or facilitate the mission of USCIS and DHS; • The acceptance of the gift would create or appear to create a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interest; • The donor seeks to obtain or conduct business with USCIS or DHS; • The donor conducts operations or activities that are regulated by USCIS or DHS; • The acceptance of the gift or use of the donated facility would reflect unfavorably upon the ability of the agency, or any employee of the agency, to carry out USCIS and DHS responsibilities or official duties in a fair and objective manner; • The acceptance of the gift or use of the donated facility would compromise the integrity or the appearance of the integrity of USCIS or DHS programs or any official involved in those programs; • The acceptance of the gift or use of the donated facility would violate, or create the appearance of a violation of the Hatch Act;JM • The acceptance of the gift or use of the donated facility might reasonably create the appearance of preferential treatment or official endorsement of an outside entity; or • The acceptance of the gift or use of the donated facility would be inconsistent with USCIS' interest in upholding the importance, dignity, and solemnity of the occasion. The authorized agency officials may consider various factors, including the following, in their determination: • The identity of the donor; • The monetary or estimated market value or the cost to the donor;