26632 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 89 / Monday, May 8, 2000 / Notices

Clearance Officer, United States

Department of Justice, Information

Management and Security Staff, Justice

Management Division, Suite 1220,

National Place, 1331 Pennsylvania

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530.

Dated: April 28, 2000.

Brenda E. Dyer,

Department Deputy Clearance Officer, United

States Department of Justice.

[FR Doc. 00–11342 Filed 5–5–00; 8:45 am]

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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: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice,

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services (‘‘COPS’’) announces a new

grant program, COPS in Schools,

designed to combat school violence by

helping local law enforcement agencies

hire additional community policing

officers to work in schools. This

program provides an incentive for law

enforcement agencies to build working

relationships with schools and to use

community policing efforts to combat

school violence. The COPS in Schools

program will help reduce the local

match requirement for local law

enforcement agencies seeking to hire

additional new officers to be used in or

around schools.

DATES: The application deadline for CIS

is June 16, 2000. Applications must be

postmarked by this date to be

considered for funding. Due to limited

funding, applications that are not

funded this Fiscal Year will be carried

over for consideration in Fiscal year

2001 (subject the availability of Fiscal

Year 2001 funding). If your agency

already was awarded a FAST, AHEAD

or UHP grant, you may request

additional officers at any time. Note on

your application if you are requesting

officers that will be assigned to primary

or secondary schools.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of an

application or for more information,

please call the U.S. Department of

Justice Response Center at 1–800–421–

6770 or (202) 307–1480, or visit the

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

cops/.

Departments that have a pending

application under the Universal Hiring

Program that are interested in

redirecting that request to the COPS in

Schools initiative should contact their

grant advisor at 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 CIS application and

information on the COPS Office are also

available on the Internet via the COPS

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

.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center, (202) 307–1480 or 1–800–421–

6770 or your grant advisor.

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 COPS in Schools program is

specifically designed to combat school

violence.

Many communities are discovering

that trained, sworn Law enforcement

officers assigned to schools make a

difference. The presence of these

officers provides schools with on-site

security and a direct link to local law

enforcement agencies.

Community policing officers typically

perform a variety of functions within

the school including teaching crime

prevention and substance-abuse classes,

monitoring troubled students, and

building respect for law enforcement

among students. School Resource

Officers combine the functions of law

enforcement and education.

The COPS in Schools initiative

provides an incentive for law

enforcement agencies to build working

relationships with schools to use

community policing efforts to combat

school violence.

The COPS in Schools initiative

reduces the local match requirement for

law enforcement agencies seeking to

hire additional officers in and around

schools.

Grants will be awarded to provide for

a designated portion of the salary and

benefits of each new officer over three

years. The maximum grant amount is

$125,000 per officer; any remainder is

paid with state or local funds. To

qualify for funding, officers must be

hired on or after the grant award start

date. Funding begins when new officers

are hired or on the award date

(whichever is later). Funds are

distributed over the course of the grant.

COPS grants must not replace funds

that eligible agencies otherwise would

have devoted to hire officers in the

absence of the COPS funding. In other

words, any hiring under the COPS in

Schools program must be in addition to,

not in lieu of, officers that otherwise

would have been hired or currently

employed officers. Grant recipients

must develop a written plan to retain

their COPS-funded officer positions

with State of local funding after Federal

funding ends. This plan must be

submitted with the application.

To be eligible to receive funding

under this grant program, applicants

must be eligible to receive funding

under the current guidelines established

for the Universal Hiring Program (UHP).

UHP guidelines are available from the

U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center (1–800–421–6770). Applicants

must also provide assurance that the

officers employed under this program

will be assigned to work in primary or

secondary schools and must enter into

a partnership agreement with either a

specific school official or with an

official with general educational

oversight authority in that jurisdiction.

All applicants must also submit a

memorandum of understanding (MOU).

The MOU, which must be signed by

both the Law Enforcement Executive

and the School Official with general

educational oversight, is an agreement

between the parties involved whose

purpose is to define the roles and

responsibilities of the individuals and

partners involved.

In addition to these general program

requirements, agencies seeking funding

under this program will be asked to

provide supporting documentation in

the following areas: problem

identification and justification,

community policing strategies to be

used by the officers, quality and level of

commitment to the effort, and the link

to community policing.

All COPS in Schools awards will

contain an ‘‘Additional Grant

Condition’’ that must be signed and

returned to the COPS Office. This

condition requires the funded officer(s)

and a school administrator to attend a

COPS in Schools Training. Costs for

training, per diem, travel, and lodging

for attendance of required participants

will be reimbursed by the COPS Office

up to a maximum of $1100.

An award under the COPS in Schools

grant program will not affect the

eligibility of an agency to receive

awards under any other COPS program.

(The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) reference for this program

is 16.710.)

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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.