Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 89 / Monday, May 8, 2000 / Notices 26633

Dated: April 21, 2000.

Thomas Frazier,

Director.

[FR Doc. 00–11368 Filed 5–5–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–AT–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services; FY 2000 Community Policing

Discretionary Grants

AGENCY: Office of Community Oriented

Policy Services, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice,

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services (‘‘COPS’’) announces the

availability of Universal Hiring Program

(UHP) grants to pay up to 75 percent of

the total salary and benefits for new

officers over three years, and up to a

maximum of $75,000 per officer, with

the remainder to be paid by state or

local funds. To qualify for funding,

officers must be hired on or after the

grant award start date. Funding will

begin once the new officers have been

hired or on the date of the award,

whichever is later, and will be paid over

the course of the grant. All policing

agencies, as well as jurisdictions seeking

to establish new policing agencies, are

eligible to apply for this program.

DATES: Application deadline for UHP is

May 31, 2000. Applications must be

postmarked by the deadline date.

Additional application deadline dates

may be announced later and are subject

to available funding. If additional

funding is available, applications

postmarked after the deadline date may

be carried over to the next funding

period. Unlike previous fiscal years,

funding is limited under the Universal

Hiring Program. Because funding is

limited, we encourage you to apply

early. If your agency previously was

awarded funding under the Universal

Hiring Program, you may request

additional officers at any time.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of an

application or for more information, call

the U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center at (202) 307–1480 or 1–800–421–

6770.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center, (202) 307–1480 or 1–800–421–

6770. The UHP application and

information on the COPS Office are also

available on the Internet via the COPS

web site at: http://www.usdoj.gov/cops.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Overview

The Violent Crime Control and Law

Enforcement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103–

322) authorizes the Department of

Justice to make grants to increase

deployment of law enforcement officers

devoted to community policing on the

streets and rural routes in this nation.

The Universal Hiring Program (UHP)

enables interested agencies to

supplement their current sworn forces,

or interested jurisdictions to establish a

new agency, through Federal grants for

up to three years. All policing agencies,

as well as jurisdictions seeking to

establish new policing agencies, are

eligible to apply for this program.

Grants will be made for up to 75

percent of the total salary and benefits

for each new officer over three years,

and up to a maximum of $75,000 per

officer, with the remainder to be paid by

state or local funds. Funding will begin

once the new officers have been hired

or on the date of the award, whichever

is later, and will be paid over the course

of the grant. Officers must be hired after

the grant award start date to qualify for

grant funding.

Waivers of the non-Federal matching

requirement may be requested under

UHP, but will be granted only upon a

showing of extraordinary fiscal

hardship.

COPS grant funds must not be used to

replace funds that eligible agencies

otherwise would have devoted to officer

hiring in the absence of the grant. In

other words, any hiring under UHP

must be in addition to, and not in lieu

of, officers that otherwise would have

been hired. All grant recipients must

develop a written plan to retain their

COPS-funded officer positions after

Federal funding has ended. This plan

must be submitted to the COPS Office

with your application.

In hiring additional officers under the

UHP, agencies may not reduce the scope

of their customary screening and

training procedures, and must include

community policing principles in their

training curricula.

An award under the COPS Universal

Hiring Program will not affect the

consideration of an agency’s eligibility

for a grant under other COPS programs.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) reference for this program

is 16.710.

Dated: April 21, 2000.

Thomas Frazier,

Director.

[FR Doc. 00–11369 Filed 5–5–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–AT–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services FY 2000 Community Policing

Discretionary Grants

AGENCY: Office of Community Oriented

Policing Services, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Revised notice of availability:

deadline extension.

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice,

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services (‘‘COPS’’) announces the

Visiting Fellowship Program (VFP)

designed to support training, technical

assistance, research, program

development and policy analysis to

contribute to address crime and related

problems in communities across the

country.

The VFP is intended to offer

researchers, policing professionals,

community leaders, and policy analysts

an opportunity to undertake

independent research, problem

development activities, and policy

analysis designed to advance

community policing in a variety of

ways.

Two types of fellowships are

available: Community Policing Training

and Technical Assistance Fellowships,

and Program/Policy Support and

Evaluation (PPSE) Fellowships.

Community Policing Training and

Technical Assistance Fellowships will

offer police practitioners and

community leaders the opportunity to

participate in a community policing

training program that is national in

scope. PPSE Fellowships will offer

police practitioners, researchers, and

policy analysts the opportunity to

support innovative community policing

programs, to engage in activities to

assess the effectiveness of community

policing approaches, and to apply

policy analysis skills to support the

advancement of community policing

nationwide.

Visiting fellows will study a topic of

mutual interest to the Fellow and the

COPS Office for up to 12 months.

Residency in Washington, DC, is not

required, but visits to the COPS Office

are encouraged.

DATES: The application deadline has

been extended to May 15, 2000.

Applications must be post marked by

May 15, 2000 to be eligible for

consideration.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of an

application or for more information, call

the U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center at 1–800–421–6770. Application

kits are also available on the COPS

Office web site at http://

www.usdoj.gov/cops.