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 112 STAT. 2681-755 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 (4) Clinical assessment of incoming substance-involved offenders. (5) Availability of religious and spiritual activity and counseling to provide an environment that encourages recovery from substance involvement in correctional facilities. (6) Education and vocational training, (7) A substance-free correctional facility policy. SEC. 116. EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT TO CON- GRESS. (a) EVALUATION. — Contracts. (1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall enter into a contract, with an evaluating agency that has demonstrated experience in the evaluation of substance abuse treatment, to conduct an evaluation that incorporates the criteria described in paragraph (2). (2) EVALUATION CRITERIA.— The Director, in consultation with the Directors of the appropriate National Institutes of Health, shall establish minimum criteria for evaluating each program. Such criteria shall include— (A) reducing substance abuse among participants; (B) reducing recidivism among participants; (C) cost effectiveness of providing services to participants; and (D) a data collection system that will produce data comparable to that used by the Office of Applied Studies of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Office of Justice Programs. (b) REPORT. —The Director shall submit to the appropriate committees, at the same time as the President's budget for fiscal year 2001 is submitted, a report that— (1) describes the activities funded by grant awards under this subtitle; (2) includes the evaluation submitted pursuant to subsection (a); and (3) makes recommendations regarding revisions to the authorization of the program, including extension, expansion, application requirements, reduction, and termination. SEC. 117. DEFINITIONS. In this subtitle: (1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES.—The term "appropriate committees" means the Committees on the Judicisiry and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. (2) DIRECTOR. —The term "Director" means the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. (3) SUBSTANCE-INVOLVED OFFENDER.— The term "substanceinvolved offender" means an individual under the supervision of a State or local criminal justice system, awaiting trial or serving a sentence imposed by the criminal justice system, who— (A) violated or has been arrested for violating a drug or alcohol law; (B) was under the influence of alcohol or an illegal drug at the time the crime was committed; (C) stole property to buy illegal drugs; or

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