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 104 STAT. 5104 PUBLIC LAW 101-650 —DEC. 1, 1990 (1) provide an accurate measure of the workload of existing judges; (2) are applied consistently to the various circuit courts of appeals and district courts; and (3) provide an accurate indicator of the need for additional judgeships. (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS. —The Comptroller General shall, not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, report the results of the review conducted under subsection (a) to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The report shall include such recommendations as the Comptroller General considers appropriate for revisions of the policies, procedures, and methodologies used by the Judicial Conference that were reviewed in the report. 28 USC 44 note. SEC. 206. EFFECTIVE DATE. This title shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this title. Federal Courts Study Committee Implementation Act of 1990. TITLE III—IMPLEMENTATION OF FED- ERAL COURTS STUDY COMMITTEE REC- OMMENDATIONS 28 USC 1 note. 28 USC 620 note. Reports. Reports. SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Federal Courts Study Committee Implementation Act of 1990". SEC. 302. STUDY OF INTERCIRCUIT CONFLICTS AND STRUCTURAL ALTER- NATIVES FOR THE COURTS OF APPEALS BY FEDERAL JU- DICIAL CENTER. (a) INTERCIRCUIT CONFLICTS. —The Board of the Federal Judicial Center is requested to conduct a study and submit to the Congress a report by January 1, 1992, on the number and frequency of conflicts among the judicial circuits in interpreting the law that remain unresolved because they are not heard by the Supreme Court. (b) FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN STUDY. —In conducting such a study, the Center should consider, to the extent feasible, all relevant factors, such as whether the conflict— (1) imposes economic costs or other harm on persons engaging in interstate commerce; (2) encourages forum shopping among circuits; (3) creates unfairness to litigants in different circuits, as in allowing Federal benefits in one circuit that are denied in other circuits; or (4) encourages nonacquiescence by Federal agencies in the holdings of the courts of appeals for different circuits, but is unlikely to be resolved by the Supreme Court. (c) STRUCTURAL ALTERNATIVES FOR THE COURTS OF APPEALS.— The Board of the Federal Judicial Center is requested to study the full range of structural alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals and submit a report on the study to the Congress and the Judicial Conference of the United States, no later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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