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 PUBLIC LAW 96-157—DEC. 27, 1979

93 STAT. 1211

offender, programs encouraging victim and witness participation in the criminal justice system, and programs designed to prevent retribution against or intimidation of witnesses by persons charged with or convicted of crimes; "(11) providing competent defense counsel for indigent and eligible low-income persons accused of criminal offenses; (12) developing projects to identify and meet the needs of drug dependent offenders; (13) increasing the availability and use of alternatives to maximum-security confinement of convicted offenders who pose no threat to public safety; "(14) reducing the rates of violence among inmates in places of detention and confinement; "(15) improving conditions of detention and confinement in adult and juvenile correctional institutions, as measured by the number of such institutions administering programs meeting accepted standards; "(16) training criminal justice personnel in programs meeting standards recognized by the Administrator; "(17) revision and recodification by States and units of local government of criminal statutes, rules, and procedures and revision of statutes, rules, and regulations governing State and local criminal justice agencies; and "(18) developing statistical and evaluative systems in States and units of local government which assist the measurement of indicators in each of the areas described in paragraphs (1) through (17). Such report shall identify separately, to the maximum practicable extent, such contribution according to the parts of this title under which such grants are authorized and made. "(c) Not later than two hundred and seventy days after the date of enactment of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall transmit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives a plan for the collection, analysis, and evaluation of any data relevant to measure, as objectively as is practicable, progress in each of the areas described in subsection (b). In developing such plan, the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall consult with the Director of the National Institute of Justice, the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives. After such consultation and at any time prior to the submission of such plan as required by this subsection, the Administrator may recommend to such committees reporting areas in addition to those described in subsection (b). Such plans shall include the Administrator's recommended definitions of the terms 'comprehensive statistics' and 'reasonably expected contribution' as used in subsection (b), which take into account the total amount of funds available for distribution to States and units of local government under parts D, E, and F, as compared to the total amount of funds available for expenditure by States and units of local government for criminal justice purposes. Such plan shall be used by the Administrator in preparing the report required by subsection (b). "(d) The report required by subsection (b) shall address whether a reasonably expected contribution has been attained in the aresis described in subsection (b) and any area added by the Administrator under subsection (c).

Plan, transmittal to congressional committees. Ante, p. 1167.

Consultation.

Definitions.

Ante, pp. 1179, 1192, 1195.

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