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 PUBLIC LAW 106-546—DEC. 19, 2000 114 STAT. 2727 (4) specify the allocation that the State shall make, in using grant amounts to carry out DNA analyses of samples, as between samples specified in subsection (a)(1) and samples specified in subsection (a)(2); and (5) specify that portion of grant amounts that the State shall use for the purpose specified in subsection (a)(3). (c) CRIMES WITHOUT SUSPECTS. —A State that proposes to allocate grant amounts under paragraph (4) or (5) of subsection (b) for the purposes specified in paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (a) shall use such allocated amounts to conduct or facilitate DNA analyses of those samples that relate to crimes in connection with which there are no suspects. (d) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES.— (1) IN GENERAL. — The plan shall require that, except as, provided in paragraph (3), each DNA analysis be carried out in a laboratory that satisfies quality assurance standards and is— (A) operated by the State or a unit of local government within the State; or (B) operated by a private entity pursuant to a contract with the State or a unit of local government within the State. (2) QUALITY ASSURANCE STANDARDS. —(A) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall maintain and make available to States a description of quality assurance protocols and practices that the Director considers adequate to assure the quality of a forensic laboratory. (B) For purposes of this section, a laboratory satisfies quality assurance standards if the laboratory satisfies the quality control requirements described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 210304(b) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14132(b)). (3) USE OF VOUCHERS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.— ^A grant for the purposes specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) may be made in the form of a voucher for laboratory services, which may be redeemed at a laboratory operated by a private entity approved by the Attorney General that satisfies quality assurance standards. The Attorney General may make payment to such a laboratory for the analysis of DNA samples using amounts authorized for those purposes under subsection (j). (e) RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS. — (1) NONSUPPLANTING. —Funds made available pursuant to this section shall not be used to supplant State funds, but shall be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in the absence of Federal funds, be made available from State sources for the purposes of this Act. (2) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—^A State may not use more than 3 percent of the funds it receives from this section for administrative expenses. (f) REPORTS TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Each State which receives a grant under this section shall submit to the Attorney General, for each year in which funds from a grant received under this section is expended, a report at such time and in such manner as the Attorney General may reasonably require, which contains— (1) a summary of the activities carried out under the grant and an assessment of whether such activities are meeting the needs identified in the application; and

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