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 93 STAT. 1196 Programs eligible for allocations.

PUBLIC LAW 96-157—DEC. 27, 1979 "(1) to stimulate and encourage the improvement of justice and the modernization of State court operations by means of financial assistance to national nonprofit organizations operating in conjunction with and serving the judicial branches of State governments; "(2) to provide national education and training programs for State and local prosecutors, defense personnel, judges and judicial personnel, and to disseminate and demonstrate new legal developments and methods by means of teaching, special projects, practice, and the publication of manuals and materials to improve the administration of criminal justice. Organizations supported under this paragraph shall assist State and local agencies in the education and training of personnel on a State and regional basis; "(3) to support community and neighborhood anticrime programs; "(4) to stimulate, improve, and support victim-witness assistance programs; and "(5) to improve the administration of justice by encouraging and supporting the development, dissemination, implementation, evaluation, and revision of criminal justice standards and guidelines. PROCEDURE FOR ESTABLISHING DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS

42 USC 3763.

Discretionary program priorities, invitation of public comment.

Publication in Federal Register.

"SEC. 603. (a) The Director of the Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics and the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall periodically and jointly establish discretionary programs and projects for financial assistance under this part. Such programs and projects shall be considered priorities for a period of time not to exceed three years from the time of such determination. "(b) Such Director and such Administrator shall jointly annually request the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, State and local governments, and other appropriate public and private agencies to suggest discretionary programs and projects. Such Director and such Administrator shall jointly then, pursuant to regulations, annually publish the proposed priorities pursuant to this part and invite and encourage public comment concerning such priorities. Priorities shall not be established or modified until such Director and such Administrator jointly have provided at least sixty-days advance notice for such public comment and such Director and such Administrator jointly shall encourage and invite recommendations and opinion concerning such priorities from appropriate agencies and officials of State and units of local government. After considering any comments submitted during such period of time and after consultation with appropriate agencies and officials of State and units of local government, such Director and such Administrator jointly shall determine whether existing established priorities should be modified. Such Director and such Administrator shall jointly publish in the Federal Register the priorities established pursuant to this part prior to the beginning offiscalyear 1981 and each fiscal year thereafter for which appropriations will be available to carry out the program.

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