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1 In this plan, the terms ‘‘tribes’’ and ‘‘tribal 

jurisdictions’’ refer to both American Indian and 

Alaska Native communities. 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention 

[OJP (OJJDP) Docket No. 1521] 

Final Plan for Fiscal Year 2010 

AGENCY: Office of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention, Office of 

Justice Programs, Department of Justice. 

ACTION: Notice of Final Plan for Fiscal 

Year 2010. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice 

and Delinquency Prevention is 

publishing this notice of its Final Plan 

for fiscal year (FY) 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Office of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention at 202–307– 

5911. [This is not a toll-free number.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 

Prevention (OJJDP) is a component of 

the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in 

the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Provisions within Section 204(b)(5)(A) 

of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 

Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, 42 

U.S.C. 5601 et seq. (JJDP Act), direct the 

OJJDP Administrator to publish for 

public comment a Proposed Plan 

describing the program activities that 

OJJDP proposes to carry out during FY 

2010 under Parts D and E of Title II of 

the JJDP Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 5651– 

5665a, 5667, 5667a. Because the Office’s 

discretionary activities extend beyond 

Parts D and E, the Acting Administrator 

of OJJDP published a proposed plan 

outlining a more comprehensive listing 

of the Office’s programs. OJJDP invited 

the public to comment on the Proposed 

Plan for FY 2010, which was published 

in the Federal Register on December 1, 

2009 (74 FR 62821). The deadline for 

submitting comments on the Proposed 

Plan was January 15, 2010. 

The Acting Administrator reviewed 

and analyzed the public comments that 

OJJDP received, and a summary of 

OJJDP activities since the comment 

period ended appears later in this 

document. The Acting Administrator 

took these comments into consideration 

in developing this Final Plan, which 

describes the program activities that 

OJJDP intends to fund during FY 2010. 

Since early in 2010, OJJDP has posted 

on its Web site (http:// 

www.ojjdp.ncjrs.gov) solicitations for 

competitive programs to be funded 

under the Final Plan for FY 2010. These 

funding opportunities are announced 

via OJJDP’s JUVJUST listserv and other 

methods of electronic notification. To 

obtain information about OJJDP and 

other OJP funding opportunities, visit 

Grants.gov’s ‘‘Find Grant Opportunities’’ 

Web page at http://www.grants.gov/

applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp. 

No proposals, concept papers, or other 

forms of application should be 

submitted in response to this Final Plan. 

Department Priorities: OJJDP has 

structured this plan to reflect the high 

priority that the Administration and the 

Department have placed on addressing 

youth violence and victimization and 

improving protections for youth 

involved with the juvenile justice 

system. The programs presented here 

represent OJJDP’s current thinking on 

how to advance the Department’s 

priorities during this fiscal year. This 

Final Plan also incorporates feedback 

from OJJDP’s ongoing outreach to the 

field seeking ideas on program areas and 

the most promising approaches for those 

types of areas. 

OJJDP’s Purpose: Congress established 

OJJDP through the JJDP Act of 1974 to 

help States and communities prevent 

and control delinquency and strengthen 

their juvenile justice systems and to 

coordinate and administer national 

policy in this area. 

Although States, American Indian/ 

Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities,1

and other localities retain primary 

responsibility for administering juvenile 

justice and preventing juvenile 

delinquency, OJJDP supports and 

supplements the efforts of public and 

private organizations at all levels 

through program funding via formula, 

block, and discretionary grants; 

administration of congressional earmark 

programs; research; training and 

technical assistance; funding of 

demonstration projects; and 

dissemination of information. OJJDP 

also helps administer Federal policy 

related to juvenile justice and 

delinquency prevention through its 

leadership role in the Coordinating 

Council on Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention. 

OJJDP’s Vision: OJJDP strives to be the 

recognized authority and national leader 

dedicated to the future, safety, and wellbeing of children and youth in, or at risk 

of entering, the juvenile justice system 

and to serving children, families, and 

community organizations that protect 

children from harm and exploitation. 

OJJDP’s Mission: OJJDP provides 

national leadership, coordination, and 

resources to prevent and respond to 

juvenile delinquency and victimization 

by supporting States, tribal 

jurisdictions, and communities in their 

efforts to develop and implement 

effective coordinated prevention and 

intervention programs and improve the 

juvenile justice system so that it protects 

public safety, holds offenders 

accountable, and provides treatment 

and rehabilitation services tailored to 

the needs of juveniles and their families. 

Guiding Principles for OJJDP’s 

National Leadership: OJJDP provides 

targeted funding, sponsors research and 

demonstration programs, offers training 

and technical assistance, disseminates 

information, and uses technology to 

enhance programs and collaboration in 

exercising its national leadership role. 

In all of these efforts, the following four 

principles guide OJJDP: 

(1) Empower communities and engage 

youth and families. 

(2) Promote evidence-based practices. 

(3) Require accountability. 

(4) Enhance collaboration. 

1. Empower communities and engage 

youth and families. Families and 

communities play an essential role in 

any effort to prevent delinquency and 

protect children from victimization. 

Communities must reach beyond the 

formal systems of justice, social 

services, and law enforcement to tap 

into the wisdom and energies of many 

others—including business leaders, the 

media, neighborhood associations, block 

leaders, elected officials, tribal leaders, 

clergy, faith-based organizations, and 

especially families and young people 

themselves—who have a stake in 

helping local youth become productive, 

law-abiding citizens. In particular, 

OJJDP must engage families and youth 

in developing solutions to delinquency 

and victimization. Their strengths, 

experiences, and aspirations provide an 

important perspective in developing 

those solutions. 

To be effective, collaboration among 

community stakeholders must be 

grounded in up-to-date information. 

With Federal assistance that OJJDP 

provides, community members can 

partner to gather data, assess local 

conditions, and make decisions to 

ensure resources are targeted for 

maximum impact. 

2. Promote evidence-based practices. 

To make the best use of public 

resources, OJJDP must identify ‘‘what 

works’’ in delinquency prevention and 

juvenile justice. OJJDP is the only 

Federal agency with a specific mission 

to develop and disseminate knowledge 

about what works in this field. Drawing 

on this knowledge, OJJDP helps 

communities replicate proven programs 

and improve their existing programs. 

OJJDP helps communities match 

program models to their specific needs 

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to the developmental, cultural, and 

gender needs of the youth and families 

they will serve. 

3. Require accountability. OJJDP 

requires the national, State, tribal, and 

local entities whose programs OJJDP 

supports to explain how they use 

program resources, determine and 

report on how effective the programs are 

in alleviating the problems they are 

intended to address, and propose plans 

for remediation of performance that 

does not meet standards. OJJDP has 

established mandatory performance 

measures for all its programs and 

reports on those measures to the Office 

of Management and Budget. OJJDP 

requires its grantees and applicants to 

report on these performance measures, 

set up systems to gather the data 

necessary to monitor those performance 

measures, and use this information to 

continuously assess progress and finetune the programs. 

4. Enhance collaboration. Juvenile 

justice agencies and programs are just 

one part of a larger set of systems that 

encompasses the many agencies and 

programs that work with at-risk youth 

and their families. For delinquency 

prevention and child protection efforts 

to be effective, they must be coordinated 

at the local, tribal, State, and Federal 

levels with law enforcement, social 

services, child welfare, public health, 

mental health, school, and other 

systems that address family 

strengthening and youth development. 

One way to achieve this coordination is 

to establish broad-based coalitions to 

create consensus on service priorities 

and to build support for a coordinated 

approach. With this consensus as a 

foundation, participating agencies and 

departments can then build mechanisms 

to link service providers at the program 

level—including procedures for sharing 

information across systems. 

OJJDP took its guidance in the 

development of this Final Plan from the 

priorities that the Attorney General has 

set forth for the Department. At the 

same time, OJJDP drew upon its 

Strategic Plan for 2009–2011. The four 

primary goals at the heart of OJJDP’s 

Strategic Plan echo the Attorney 

General’s priorities. Those goals are: 

prevent and respond to delinquency, 

strengthen the juvenile justice system, 

prevent and reduce the victimization of 

children, and prevent and reduce youth 

violence to create safer neighborhoods. 

OJJDP’s Summary of Public Comments 

on the FY 2010 Proposed Plan 

OJJDP published its Proposed Plan for 

FY 2010 in the Federal Register (74 FR 

62821) on December 1, 2009. During the 

subsequent 45-day public comment 

period, OJJDP received 150 submissions. 

Since the close of public comment, 

OJJDP has carefully reviewed and 

considered each of the submissions in 

its development of the Final Plan for FY 

2010. 

Comments addressed many of the 

program areas and activities in which 

OJJDP is currently engaged. Far and 

away, detention and corrections reform 

was the single topic that elicited the 

most responses. More than a third of the 

comments dealt with some aspect of 

detention and corrections reform. In 

keeping with U.S. Department of Justice 

priorities, OJJDP will sponsor several 

detention and corrections reform 

programs in FY 2010. They include the 

National Training and Technical 

Assistance Center for Youth in Custody, 

which will provide education, training, 

and technical assistance for State, local, 

and tribal departments of juvenile 

justice and corrections, service 

providers, and private organizations that 

operate juvenile facilities. OJJDP will 

also partner with the Annie E. Casey 

Foundation to expand its Juvenile 

Detention Alternatives Initiative. 

Other areas that drew frequent or 

substantive comments were 

reauthorization of the JJDP Act, 

disproportionate minority contact, 

mentoring, gender-specific issues, and 

family violence. 

OJJDP looks to the field for guidance 

on emerging juvenile justice needs and 

issues of concern, and targets its 

allocation of funding and resources, 

based, in part, on the feedback the 

Office receives from policymakers and 

practitioners through such vehicles as 

the Proposed Plan. OJJDP wishes to note 

that in the interim period between 

publication of the Proposed Plan in 

December and this Final Plan, Congress 

identified the Office’s funding streams 

for FY 2010 and OJJDP adjusted its 

funding priorities accordingly. As a 

result, OJJDP will not fund in 2010 some 

programs that appeared in the Proposed 

Plan, and OJJDP also has added new 

programs. Comments the Office received 

on the Proposed Plan, Administration 

priorities, and available funds informed 

these decisions. 

Many respondents expressed their 

appreciation for being given the 

opportunity to review and comment on 

the Proposed Plan. OJJDP is encouraged 

by the volume and quality of the 

comments that the Office received for 

the 2010 Proposed Plan and looks 

forward to continued communication 

and collaboration with the juvenile 

justice field. 

OJJDP Final Plan for Fiscal Year 2010 

Each year OJJDP receives formula and 

block grant funding as well as 

discretionary funds for certain program 

areas. Based on the 2010 budget, OJJDP 

offers the following 2010 Final Plan for 

its discretionary funding. Programs are 

organized according to Department 

priorities and traditional OJJDP focus 

areas. 

Department and OJJDP Priorities 

OJJDP administers grant programs 

authorized by the Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as 

amended. OJJDP also administers 

programs under other legislative 

authority and through partnerships with 

other Federal agencies. In keeping with 

OJJDP’s mission, these programs are 

designed to help strengthen the juvenile 

justice system, prevent juvenile 

delinquency and violence, and protect 

and safeguard the nation’s youth. The 

Administration and the Attorney 

General have identified children’s 

exposure to violence, gang and 

community violence, and racial 

disparities within the juvenile justice 

system as focus areas for the 

Department. 

Programs To Address and Treat 

Children Exposed to Violence 

The Attorney General’s Initiative on 

Children Exposed to Violence Program: 

Phase I will support community-based 

strategic planning to prevent and reduce 

the impact of children’s exposure to 

violence in their homes, schools, and 

communities. Within the Department, a 

committee comprising OJJDP, the Office 

for Victims of Crime, the Office on 

Violence Against Women, the National 

Institute of Justice, Community Oriented 

Policing Services, and the Executive 

Office of United States Attorneys jointly 

manages and supports this project. 

Through strategic planning, 

communities will improve access to, 

delivery of, and quality of services for 

children and families and respond to 

their needs at any point of entry into the 

legal, social services, medical, law 

enforcement, and community-based 

support systems. This program will 

expand existing partnerships among 

municipal and tribal leadership; 

education; health, including public 

health and mental health; family 

support and strengthening; social 

services; early childhood education and 

development; domestic violence 

advocacy and services; victim support; 

substance abuse prevention and 

treatment; crisis intervention; child 

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enforcement at the tribal, local, State, 

and Federal levels. 

Within OJJDP, Safe Start projects 

enhance the accessibility, delivery, and 

quality of services provided young 

children who have been exposed to 

violence or who are at high risk. These 

programs focus on practice innovation, 

research and evaluation, training and 

technical assistance, and resource 

development and public awareness. In 

2010, OJJDP efforts to address children 

exposed to violence include: 

• The Safe Start Promising 

Approaches Project will develop and 

support practice enhancements and 

innovations to prevent and reduce the 

impact of children’s exposure to 

violence in their homes and 

communities. The two components of 

this project are: (1) ‘‘Strategic 

Enhancement,’’ which improves an 

ongoing evidence-based model, or (2) 

‘‘Practice Innovation,’’ which 

implements a strategy/intervention 

based on sound theory and evaluative 

literature, which has yet to be evaluated 

rigorously. OJJDP will also conduct a 

national evaluation of the project 

beginning in 2010. 

• OJJDP will fund a 12- month, fulltime fellow position located at OJJDP to 

focus on children’s exposure to violence 

programming. The position is funded 

via a grant to the fellow’s home 

institution in the amount of their salary 

and benefit costs for the duration of the 

fellowship. 

OJJDP will conduct a second wave of 

the National Survey of Children 

Exposed to Violence to capture trend 

data and compare it to the results of the 

first survey. This project will document 

changes in the incidence and prevalence 

of children’s exposure to a broad array 

of violence, crime, and abuse 

experiences. 

Community-Based Violence Prevention 

Demonstration Program 

Under this program, communities will 

develop multi-strategy, multidisciplinary approaches to reduce gun 

violence. These programs will target the 

high-risk activities and behaviors of a 

small number of carefully selected 

members of the community who are 

likely to be involved in violent 

activities, specifically gun violence, in 

the immediate future. These programs 

will be closely coordinated with a 

broader administration initiative. These 

demonstration programs will support 

Federal, State, and local partnerships to 

replicate proven strategies to reduce 

violence, such as CeaseFire, which is 

widely credited with significantly 

reducing shootings and homicides in 

targeted Chicago communities. 

CeaseFire, which employs a public 

health approach, interrupts the cycle of 

violence and changes norms about 

behavior. OJJDP will consider for grant 

support under this program other 

community-based violence reduction 

models that are evidence-based. This 

demonstration program includes 

programs of research and evaluation and 

technical assistance. These programs are 

coordinated with the Bureau of Justice 

Assistance. 

Disproportionate Minority Contact 

Section 223(a)(22) of the JJDP Act of 

1974, as amended, requires States to 

address delinquency prevention and 

system improvement efforts to reduce, 

without establishing or requiring 

numerical standards or quotas, the 

disproportionate number of minority 

youth who come into contact with the 

juvenile justice system. States fund 

these activities primarily through their 

Title II Formula and Title V 

Delinquency Prevention Grants funds. 

OJJDP continues to enhance the annual 

training and technical assistance it 

provides to the States to support their 

development of direct services 

(diversion, alternatives to secure 

confinement, advocacy, cultural 

competency training, etc.); legislative 

reforms; administrative, policy, and 

procedural changes; structured 

decisionmaking (detention screening, 

risk assessment, needs assessment 

instruments, etc.), and other activities. 

OJJDP staff will continue to conduct 

annual site visits to the States to 

monitor progress toward system change 

goals and to provide guidance. 

Additionally, OJJDP recently 

reorganized and added a new full-time 

DMC Coordinator, who will assist the 

States in their efforts to address and 

reduce DMC. 

Youth Gang Prevention and Intervention 

Program 

OJJDP will award grants to sites that 

replicate selected promising or effective 

secondary gang prevention and 

intervention programs in targeted 

communities as part of an existing 

community-based comprehensive antigang initiative. Sites will replicate one 

of the following programs: Aggression 

Replacement Training, Boys and Girls 

Clubs (BGCA) Gang Prevention Through 

Targeted Outreach, BGCA Gang 

Intervention Through Targeted 

Outreach, Broader Urban Involvement 

and Leadership Development Detention 

Program, and Movimiento Ascendencia. 

Tribal Youth 

Since 1998, Congress has 

appropriated more than $120 million for 

programs addressing tribal youth. OJJDP 

administers most of its tribal initiatives 

through the Tribal Youth Program 

(TYP). These programs fund initiatives, 

training and technical assistance, and 

research and evaluation projects 

designed to improve juvenile justice 

systems and delinquency-prevention 

efforts among federally recognized 

American Indian and Alaska Native 

tribes. Since 1999, 10 percent of the 

TYP appropriation has been used for 

research and evaluation activities and 2 

percent has been used for training and 

technical assistance. 

U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated 

Tribal Assistance 

In response to concerns that tribes 

voiced during recent public listening 

sessions, DOJ developed the 

Coordinated Tribal Assistance 

Solicitation (CTAS) in 2010 that 

combined all of its existing competitive 

tribal solicitations into one document. 

The CTAS solicitation is posted on the 

Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Web 

page at http:// 

www.tribaljusticeandsafety.gov/docs/ 

ctassolicitation.pdf. Following are the 

OJJDP solicitations within the CTAS: 

• Tribal Youth Program supports and 

enhances tribal efforts to prevent and 

control delinquency and improve their 

juvenile justice systems. Grantees 

develop and implement delinquency 

prevention programs, interventions for 

court-involved youth, improvements to 

the juvenile justice system, alcohol and 

substance abuse prevention programs, 

and emotional/behavioral program 

services. 

• Tribal Youth Reconnection Program 

engages tribal youth who are chronically 

truant or at risk of dropping out of 

school in activities centered on cultural 

preservation, land reclamation, or 

green/sustainable tribal traditions. 

• Tribal Youth Resiliency Program 

will support tribal efforts to develop and 

implement interventions that address 

the effects and issues of childhood 

trauma. 

• Strengthening Initiative for Native 

Girls Program teaches native girls 

culturally appropriate skills to resist 

substance abuse, prevent teen 

pregnancy, prevent sexual abuse, foster 

positive relationships with peers and 

adults, learn self-advocacy, and build 

prosocial skills. 

• Tribal Juvenile Detention Reentry 

Program provides services for youth 

residing within tribal juvenile detention 

centers or soon to be released from such 

a center. Services include risk and 

needs assessments, educational and 

vocational programs, mental health 

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family strengthening, recreational 

activities, and extended reentry 

aftercare to help them successfully 

reintegrate into the tribal community. 

Tribal Youth Field-Initiated Research 

and Evaluation Programs 

These field-initiated studies will 

further what is understood regarding the 

experiences, strengths, and needs of 

tribal youth, their families, and 

communities and what works to reduce 

their risks for delinquency and 

victimization. This initiative is 

especially interested in evaluations that 

identify effective and promising 

delinquency prevention, intervention, 

and treatment programs for tribal youth, 

including those that assist tribal youth 

in enhancing their own cultural 

knowledge and awareness. 

Child Protection Programs in Tribal 

Communities 

This program will provide resources 

and technical assistance to Native 

American communities to help them 

address child abduction and child 

exploitation. Under this program, the 

grantee will expand the critical services, 

best practices, tools, and other resources 

of the AMBER Alert and Internet Crimes 

Against Children programs to protect 

children ages 0 to 18 in tribal 

communities at risk for exploitation. 

Tribal Youth National Mentoring 

Program 

This national initiative will support 

the development, maturation, and 

expansion of mentoring services for 

tribal youth on tribal reservations that 

are underserved due to location, 

shortage of mentors, emotional or 

behavioral challenges of the targeted 

population, or other situations. 

Juvenile Justice System Reform 

OJJDP recognizes the need for States 

to have effective and efficient juvenile 

justice systems and for the Office to 

assist them in identifying and 

implementing promising and evidencebased practices. Reforming juvenile 

justice and improving systems across 

the country is a priority for OJJDP. 

Components of the juvenile justice 

system that OJJDP will focus on in 2010 

include detention and corrections 

reform, juvenile indigent defense, and 

youth transitioning back to their 

communities from a detention and 

corrections facility. 

To improve juvenile detention and 

corrections in FY 2010, OJJDP will work 

with communities through a 

multidisciplinary and comprehensive 

approach that focuses on youth to assess 

their risks and needs and assure they 

receive effective services and programs 

that do not compromise public safety. 

Juvenile Detention Alternatives 

Initiative 

In FY 2010, OJJDP will partner with 

the Annie E. Casey Foundation to 

jointly fund an expansion of the 

Juvenile Detention Alternatives 

Initiative (JDAI) that will provide 

training and technical assistance to 

States and communities implementing 

the initiative. In 1992, the Casey 

Foundation launched JDAI, in which 

sites across the country created and 

tested new alternatives to detention. 

At its essence, JDAI demonstrates that 

jurisdictions can safely reduce their 

reliance on secure detention. JDAI 

communities also test the hypothesis 

that detention reforms will equip 

juvenile justice systems with values, 

skills, and policies that will improve 

results in other components of the 

system. 

The objectives of JDAI sites are to: 

• Eliminate the inappropriate or 

unnecessary use of secure detention; 

• Minimize re-arrest and failure-toappear rates pending adjudication; 

• Ensure appropriate conditions of 

confinement in secure facilities; 

• Redirect public finances to sustain 

successful reforms; 

• Reduce racial and ethnic 

disparities. 

National Training and Technical 

Assistance Center for Youth in Custody 

Through this program, OJJDP will 

establish the National Training and 

Technical Assistance Center for Youth 

in Custody (the Center) to provide 

education, training, and technical 

assistance for State, local, and tribal 

departments of juvenile justice and 

corrections, service providers, and 

private organizations that operate 

juvenile facilities. The Center will 

emphasize the rehabilitative goals of the 

juvenile justice system and provide 

comprehensive training, technical 

assistance, and resources directly to 

justice facilities that detain or confine 

youth. The Center will also update and 

contribute to the knowledge base of best 

practices in detaining or confining 

youth. 

Juvenile Indigent Defense National 

Clearinghouse 

OJJDP is developing and will 

implement a model national 

clearinghouse for juvenile defense 

attorneys to provide publications and 

resources, policy development and 

leadership opportunities, training, and 

technical assistance around indigent 

defense issues. This program will 

improve the overall level of systemic 

advocacy, enhance the quality of 

juvenile indigent defense 

representation, and ensure professional 

and ongoing technical support to the 

juvenile indigent defense bar. 

Second Chance Act Adult and Juvenile 

Offender Reentry Demonstration 

Projects 

OJJDP, in collaboration with the 

Bureau of Justice Assistance, will 

support additional demonstration 

projects under the Second Chance Act 

Youth Offender Reentry Initiative, a 

comprehensive response to the 

increasing number of people who are 

released from prison, jail, and juvenile 

facilities each year and are returning to 

their communities. The goal of this 

initiative is to reduce the rate of 

recidivism for offenders released from a 

juvenile residential facility and increase 

public safety. Demonstration projects 

provide necessary services to youth 

while in confinement and following 

their release into the community. The 

initiative will focus on addressing the 

unique needs of girls reentering their 

communities. 

Girls’ Delinquency 

According to data from the Federal 

Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 

2000, arrest rates of girls increased 

more, or decreased less, than those of 

boys for the same offenses. By 2004, 

girls accounted for 30 percent of 

juvenile arrests. This apparent trend 

raises a number of questions, including 

whether it reflects an increase in girls’ 

delinquency or changes in society’s 

responses to girls’ behavior. While 

OJJDP’s Girls Study Group helped 

expand what is known about what 

works—and what does not—in 

preventing and intervening in girls’ 

delinquency, the field lacks adequate 

information about evidence-based 

programs that effectively address girls’ 

delinquency. In FY 2010, OJJDP is 

supporting research and evaluation to 

identify effective delinquency 

prevention, intervention, and treatment 

programs for girls. OJJDP will also 

provide training and technical 

assistance to the field on effective 

delinquency programming for girls. 

Evaluations of Girls’ Delinquency 

Programs 

These evaluations will measure the 

effectiveness of delinquency prevention, 

intervention, and/or treatment programs 

to prevent and reduce girls’ risk 

behavior and offending. Over the past 

two decades, the number of girls 

entering the juvenile justice system has 

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raised a number of questions for OJJDP, 

including whether this reflected an 

increase in girls’ delinquency or 

changes in society’s responses to girls’ 

behavior. OJJDP’s Girls Study Group 

recently completed a review of 

evaluations of girls’ delinquency 

programs and found that most programs 

have not been evaluated, thereby 

limiting knowledge about the most 

appropriate and effective programs for 

girls. 

National Girls Institute 

The National Girls Institute will 

evaluate promising and innovative 

prevention, intervention, treatment, 

education, detention, and aftercare 

services for delinquent and at-risk girls. 

The Institute will translate the 

information learned through the Girls 

Study Group and other research and 

expert knowledge for practitioners and 

policymakers. The Institute will serve as 

OJJDP’s national training and technical 

assistance provider for promising and 

evidence-based practices in girls’ 

delinquency prevention, intervention, 

and treatment. The Institute will also 

provide information dissemination, 

collaboration, policy development, and 

other leadership functions. 

Research, Evaluation, and Data 

Collection 

OJJDP supports and promotes 

research, vigorous and informative 

evaluations of demonstration programs, 

and collection and analysis of statistical 

data. The goal of these activities is to 

generate credible and useful information 

to improve decisionmaking in the 

juvenile justice system. OJJDP sponsors 

research that has the greatest potential 

to improve the nation’s understanding 

of juvenile delinquency and 

victimization and of ways to develop 

effective prevention and intervention 

programs to respond to it. 

Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation 

Program 

The 2010 Field Initiated Research and 

Evaluation program will support 

multiple grant awards for research and 

evaluations of programs and initiatives 

that focus on the juvenile justice 

system’s response to delinquency and 

system improvement. The goal of the 

research questions posed will be to 

inform policy and lead to 

recommendations for juvenile justice 

system improvement. 

Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center 

This program will provide training 

and technical assistance to State, tribal, 

local, and non-profit entities that work 

in the juvenile justice and victimization 

field on how to prepare for and carry 

out an evaluation of their activities. The 

Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center will 

develop easily accessible tools and 

resources for the field and assist these 

agencies in developing evidence-based 

strategies and programs. 

National Juvenile Justice Data 

Collection Program 

OJJDP supports several key national 

juvenile data collection programs, some 

of which have existed for several years, 

and others that are new. These include: 

• Census of Juveniles in Residential 

Placement, which collects information 

about all youth residing in facilities who 

are awaiting or have been adjudicated 

for a status or delinquent offense. 

• Juvenile Residential Facility 

Census, which collects information 

about the security and services of 

facilities that hold youth for delinquent 

offenses, pre- and post-adjudication. 

• Census of Juveniles on Probation, 

which collects a 1-day count of all 

youth on formal probation, including 

demographic characteristics and the 

offense for which they are being 

supervised. 

• Census of Juvenile Probation 

Supervision Offices, which collects 

information about the offices that 

oversee youth who are on probation in 

the United States. 

National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis 

Program 

This program will support the 

juvenile justice community’s need for 

current, high-quality data and statistical 

information. The grantee will maintain 

and update OJJDP’s Statistical Briefing 

Book and its Easy Access data tools, 

conduct original research, produce 

publications, respond to information 

requests, and work with OJJDP to 

develop new data resources that 

respond to the needs of the juvenile 

justice field. 

Substance Abuse and Treatment 

OJJDP, often in partnership with other 

Federal agencies and private 

organizations, develops programs, 

research, or other initiatives to address 

juvenile use and abuse of illegal, 

prescription, and nonprescription drugs 

and alcohol. OJJDP’s substance abuse 

efforts include control, prevention, and 

treatment programs. 

Family and Juvenile Drug Court 

Programs 

OJJDP will implement and enhance 

family drug courts that serve substanceabusing adults who are involved in the 

family dependency court system. The 

Center for Children and Family Futures 

will provide training and technical 

assistance to family drug courts. The 

Juvenile Drug Courts Mentoring and 

Support Services Initiative will build 

the capacity of States, State courts, local 

courts, units of local government, and 

tribal governments to develop and 

establish comprehensive support 

services that include mentoring, 

educational services, health services, 

employment services, community 

services, recreational activities, 

parenting programs, housing assistance 

to serve substance-abusing youth who 

are assigned to the juvenile drug court 

program. 

OJJDP and the Department of Health 

and Human Services’ Center for 

Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) will 

continue joint funding to integrate and 

implement the juvenile drug court and 

Reclaiming Futures program models. 

The National Council of Juvenile and 

Family Court Judges provides training 

and technical assistance. 

Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws 

Program 

The Enforcing Underage Drinking 

Laws (EUDL) Program supports States’ 

efforts to reduce drinking by juveniles 

through its four components: Block 

grants to the 50 States, the 5 territories, 

and the District of Columbia; 

discretionary grants; technical 

assistance; and research and evaluation. 

Under the block grant component, each 

State, the District of Columbia, and the 

territories receive approximately 

$360,000 annually to support law 

enforcement activities, media 

campaigns, and coalition building. The 

EUDL discretionary grant component 

supports several diverse initiatives to 

help communities develop promising 

approaches to address underage 

drinking. EUDL training and technical 

assistance supports communities and 

States in their efforts to enforce 

underage drinking laws. EUDL funds 

and Federal partnerships also support 

evaluations of community initiatives 

within the EUDL discretionary grant 

component. 

Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws 

Assessment, Strategic Planning, and 

Implementation Initiative 

Under this discretionary component 

of the Enforcing Underage Drinking 

Laws program, States will implement an 

assessment and strategic planning 

process to develop targeted, effective 

activities to reduce underage access and 

consumption of alcohol. Grantees will 

assess local conditions and design a 

long-term strategic plan; implement 

selected and approved actions of that 

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and evaluate how the State responded to 

the recommendations, crafted its 

strategic plan, and implemented 

portions of the plan with the remaining 

funds. 

Mentoring 

OJJDP supports mentoring programs 

for youth at risk of failing in school, 

dropping out of school, or becoming 

involved in delinquent behavior, 

including gang activity and substance 

abuse. The goals of the programs are to 

reduce juvenile delinquency and gang 

participation, improve academic 

performance, and reduce the school 

dropout rate. Mentoring funds support 

mentoring programs that provide 

general guidance and support; promote 

personal and social responsibility; 

increase participation in education; 

support juvenile offenders returning to 

their communities after confinement in 

a residential facility; discourage use of 

illegal drugs and firearms; discourage 

involvement in gangs, violence and 

other delinquent activity; and encourage 

participation in community service 

activities. OJJDP will also sponsor 

several research projects that will 

evaluate mentoring programs or 

approaches and the effectiveness of 

specific mentoring practices. 

Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring 

Initiative 

The Second Chance Act Juvenile 

Mentoring Initiative will provide grants 

for mentoring and other transitional 

services to reintegrate juvenile offenders 

into their communities. The grants will 

be used to mentor juvenile offenders 

during confinement, through transition 

back to the community, and postrelease; to provide transitional services 

to assist them in their reintegration into 

the community; and to support training 

in offender and victims issues. The 

initiative’s goals are to reduce 

recidivism among juvenile ex-offenders, 

enhance community safety, and 

enhance the capacity of local 

partnerships to address the needs of 

juvenile ex-offenders returning to their 

communities. 

Group Mentoring Research and 

Evaluation Program 

OJJDP seeks to expand what is known 

about nontraditional mentoring 

programs as a prevention and 

intervention strategy for juvenile 

delinquency. OJJDP will evaluate the 

effectiveness of select group mentoring 

programs supported by local Boys and 

Girls Clubs. Increasing knowledge 

regarding the use of group and sitebased mentoring programs is a primary 

goal for this evaluation. 

Mentoring Research Program 

This program seeks to enhance the 

understanding of mentoring as a 

prevention strategy for youth who are at 

risk of involvement or already involved 

in the juvenile justice system. While 

mentoring appears to be a promising 

intervention for youth, more evaluation 

work is needed to further highlight the 

components of a mentoring program 

that are most effective. It is expected 

that the results of this effort will 

encourage a more effective utilization of 

resources as well as enhance the 

implementation of evidence-based best 

practices for juvenile mentoring. 

Mentoring for Safe Schools/Healthy 

Students Initiatives 

The Safe Schools/Healthy Students 

Initiatives are a joint effort by the U.S. 

Departments of Education, Health and 

Human Services, and Justice to support 

schools in creating safer and healthier 

learning environments. Under this 

initiative current Safe Schools/Healthy 

Student sites will develop and 

implement community-based mentoring 

programs in conjunction with their 

overall comprehensive communitywide 

plan. Safe Schools supports the 

reduction of negative behavior in 

elementary and middle school youth 

(e.g., truancy, bullying) and enhances 

positive behavior and connection to 

their families, school personnel, and 

other community members through 

evidence-based mentoring initiatives. 

National and Multi-State Mentoring 

Programs 

These programs support national 

organizations and organizations with 

mentoring programs in at least five 

States to enhance or expand community 

programs that provide mentoring 

services to high-risk populations that 

are underserved due to location, 

shortage of mentors, special physical or 

mental challenges of the targeted 

population, or other analogous 

situations that the community in need 

of mentoring services identifies. 

Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring 

Programs 

Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring 

Programs focus on enhancing existing 

mentoring programs. The three 

enhancements include: (1) Involving the 

parents in activities or services, (2) 

providing structured activities and 

programs for the mentoring matches, 

and (3) developing and implementing 

ongoing training and support for 

mentors. 

Child Victimization 

Since its inception, OJJDP has 

consistently strived to safeguard 

children from victimization by 

supporting research, training, and 

community programs that emphasize 

prevention and early intervention. A 

commitment to children’s safety is 

written into the Office’s legislative 

mandate, which includes the Juvenile 

Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 

of 1974, the Missing Children’s 

Assistance Act of 1984, and the Victims 

of Child Abuse Act of 1990. OJJDP 

continues to improve the responses of 

the justice system and related systems, 

increase public awareness, and promote 

model programs for addressing child 

victimization in States and communities 

across the country. 

Children’s Advocacy Centers 

OJJDP will continue funding for 

programs that improve the coordinated 

investigation and prosecution of child 

abuse cases. These programs include a 

national subgrant program for local 

children’s advocacy centers, a 

membership and accreditation program, 

regional children’s advocacy centers, 

and specialized technical assistance and 

training programs for child abuse 

professionals and prosecutors. Local 

Children’s Advocacy Centers utilize 

multidisciplinary teams of professionals 

to coordinate the investigation, 

treatment, and prosecution of child 

abuse cases. 

Court Appointed Special Advocate 

Programs 

OJJDP will continue funding for Court 

Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) 

programs that provide children in the 

foster care system or at risk of entering 

the dependency system with highquality, timely, effective, and sensitive 

representation before the court. CASA 

programs train and support volunteers 

who advocate for the best interests of 

the child in dependency proceedings. 

OJJDP funds a national CASA training 

and technical assistance provider and a 

national membership and accreditation 

organization to support State and local 

CASA organizations’ efforts to recruit 

volunteer advocates, including minority 

volunteers, and to provide training and 

technical assistance to these 

organizations and to stakeholders in the 

child welfare system. 

Missing Children 

Authorized through the Missing 

Children’s Assistance Act of 1984, as 

amended, these programs enhance the 

national response of State, local, and 

Federal law enforcement agencies, 

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organizations to missing and exploited 

children. These programs serve as the 

primary vehicle for building a national 

infrastructure to support efforts to 

prevent the abduction and exploitation 

of our nation’s children. 

Missing and Exploited Children 

Program Support 

OJJDP will continue funding for a 

national membership organization for 

nonprofit organizations serving the 

families of missing children and to 

assist in identifying and promulgating 

best practices in serving these children 

and families. 

In FY 2010, OJJDP also will support 

programs that: 

• Provide training and technical 

assistance to local, State, and tribal law 

enforcement agencies and other 

organizations charged with responding 

to missing children cases. 

• Design and implement the AMBER 

Alert National Conference. 

• Improve responses to child 

abductions across borders. 

• Conduct research on children 

characterized as lost, injured, or missing 

to improve community responses to 

these cases. 

• Conduct a national study of the 

incidence of missing children. 

Missing and Exploited Children 

Training and Technical Assistance 

Program 

This program will support training in 

areas such as child abuse investigations, 

child fatality investigations, and child 

sexual exploitation investigations. 

Authorized by the Missing Children’s 

Assistance Act, this program will help 

State and local law enforcement, child 

protection, prosecutors, medical 

providers, and child advocacy center 

professionals develop an effective 

response to child victimization cases. 

Child Exploitation 

The increasing number of children 

and teens using the Internet, the 

proliferation of child pornography, and 

the increasing number of sexual 

predators who use the Internet and 

other electronic media to prey on 

children present both a significant 

threat to the health and safety of young 

people and a formidable challenge for 

law enforcement. OJJDP took the lead 

early on in addressing this problem. 

More than a decade ago, the Office 

established the Internet Crimes Against 

Children task force program. In FY 

2010, OJJDP will launch the Youth with 

Sexual Behavior Problems Program to 

support localities in the development 

and implementation of treatment 

programs for youth ages 10 to 14 who 

have exhibited inappropriate sexual 

behaviors against another child and for 

their victims. The program will 

specifically address interfamilial and/or 

co-residential sexual misconduct for 

youth and provide adjunctive support 

services to child victims and families 

who have been victimized. 

Internet Crimes Against Children 

Program 

OJJDP will continue funding to 

support the operations of the 61 Internet 

Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task 

forces. The ICAC Task Force Program 

helps State and local law enforcement 

agencies develop an effective response 

to sexual predators who prey upon 

juveniles via the Internet and other 

electronic devices and child 

pornography cases. This program 

encompasses forensic and investigative 

components, training and technical 

assistance, victim services, and 

community education. 

The ICAC Task Force Strategies for 

Protecting Children at High Risk for 

Commercial Sexual Exploitation 

Program will support select law 

enforcement agencies as they 

• Improve training and coordination. 

• Develop policies and procedures to 

identify commercial sexual exploitation 

victims. 

• Investigate and prosecute cases 

against adults who sexually exploit 

children for commercial purposes. 

• Adopt practices to intervene 

appropriately with and compassionately 

serve victims, including providing 

essential services in cases where 

technology is used to facilitate the 

exploitation of the victim. 

In addition, OJJDP is supporting 

related ICAC activities and programs, 

including: 

• Designing and implementing the 

2011 ICAC National Training 

Conference. 

• Research on Internet and other 

technology-facilitated crimes against 

children. 

• Training for ICAC officers, 

prosecutors, judges, and other 

stakeholders. 

• Technical assistance to support 

implementation of the ICAC program. 

Youth With Sexual Behavior Problems 

Program 

This program will assist localities in 

responding to instances of child sexual 

victimization by perpetrators who are 

younger than 18 years old, with a 

specific emphasis on interfamilial child 

victims and offenders. The program will 

develop communities’ capacity to 

utilize a multidisciplinary approach 

when working with children who have 

been sexually abused by other children 

and adolescents. The program will also 

build communities’ capacity to provide 

treatment and supervision resources to 

youthful perpetrators of sexual abuse 

against children. This program will be 

coordinated with OJP’s Sex Offender 

Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, 

Registering, and Tracking (SMART) 

Office. 

Juvenile Justice System Improvement 

OJJDP works to improve the 

effectiveness and efficiency of the 

juvenile justice system. A major 

component of these efforts is the 

provision of training and technical 

assistance (TTA) resources that address 

the needs of juvenile justice 

practitioners and support State and 

local efforts to build capacity and 

expand the use of evidence-based 

practices. Training and technical 

assistance is the planning, development, 

delivery, and evaluation of activities to 

achieve specific learning objectives, 

resolve problems, and foster the 

application of innovative approaches to 

juvenile delinquency and victimization. 

OJJDP has developed a network of 

providers to provide targeted training 

and technical assistance to 

policymakers and practitioners. 

Child Abuse Training for Judicial and 

Court Personnel 

OJJDP will continue funding for 

programs that provide targeted training 

and technical assistance to judicial and 

court personnel who work within the 

dependency system. The purpose of this 

initiative is to improve the juvenile and 

family courts’ handling of child abuse 

and neglect cases and ensure timely 

decisionmaking in permanency 

planning for abused and neglected 

children. The initiative also aims to 

reduce and eventually eliminate racial 

disproportionality and disparate 

treatment in the dependency system. 

Engaging Law Enforcement To Reduce 

Juvenile Crime, Victimization, and 

Delinquency 

This program supports the 

enhancement or expansion of 

approaches that engage Federal, State, 

local, and tribal law enforcement in 

reducing juvenile crime, victimization, 

and delinquency by providing them 

with comprehensive training, technical 

assistance, and research findings. The 

initiative will examine how police can 

address priority issues more effectively 

using evidence-based strategies that 

enhance their effectiveness in policing 

situations involving youth. Key issues 

may include disproportionate minority 

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school safety, and unsafe and 

inappropriate use of electronic 

communication. This initiative will 

engage law enforcement leaders and 

front-line officers through classroom 

and Web-based instruction, online 

resources, peer-to-peer networking and 

interaction, and geospatial information 

system technology. 

State Advisory Group Training and 

Technical Assistance Project 

Under this project, OJJDP provides 

training and technical assistance to 

State advisory groups (SAGs) appointed 

under the Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDP Act) 

1974, as amended. The training and 

technical assistance that SAG members 

receive serve two broad purposes. It 

enables them to: (1) Better understand 

the juvenile justice system in their 

respective States or territories and (2) 

become more familiar with all programs 

and facilities serving youth. Trained 

SAG members will more effectively 

carry out their roles and responsibilities 

to ensure and enhance a responsive 

juvenile justice system within their 

jurisdictions. 

General 

Support for Conferences on Juvenile 

Justice 

OJJDP will support conferences that 

address juvenile justice and the 

prevention of delinquency. This support 

would provide community prevention 

leaders, treatment professionals, 

juvenile justice officials, researchers, 

and practitioners with information on 

best practices and research-based 

models to support State, local 

government, and community efforts to 

prevent juvenile delinquency. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Jeff Slowikowski, 

Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile 

Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Interchangeable Virtual 

Instruments Foundation, Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on April 

15, 2010, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the 

National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Interchangeable 

Virtual Instruments Foundation, Inc. 

has filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney 

General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of 

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages 

under specified circumstances. 

Specifically, Phase Matrix, Springfield, 

VA, has withdrawn as a party to this 

venture. In addition, Pacific Mindworks, 

Inc. has changed its address to San 

Diego, CA. 

No other changes have been made in 

either the membership or planned 

activity of the group research project. 

Membership in this group research 

project remains open, and 

Interchangeable Virtual Instruments 

Foundation, Inc. intends to file 

additional written notifications 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On May 29, 2001, Interchangeable 

Virtual Instruments Foundation, Inc. 

filed its original notification pursuant to 

Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department 

of Justice published a notice in the 

Federal Register pursuant to Section 

6(b) of the Act on July 30, 2001 (66 FR 

39336). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on December 1, 2009. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on December 21, 2009 (74 FR 

67902). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12030 Filed 5–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—PXI Systems Alliance, 

Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on April 

1, 2010, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the 

National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), PXI Systems Alliance, 

Inc. has filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney 

General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of 

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages 

under specified circumstances. 

Specifically, Tyco Electronics, 

Middletown, PA; OpenATE, Inc., Taipei 

City, TAIWAN; and Logic Instrument 

USA, Inc., Owings Mills, MD, have been 

added as parties to this venture. Also, 

Eberspacher Electronics GmbH & Co. 

KG, Goppingen, GERMANY; VX 

Instruments GmbH, Landshut-Altdorf, 

GERMANY; Keithly Instruments, Solon, 

OH; Elektrobit Austria GmbH, Vienna, 

AUSTRIA; DiagnoSYS Systems Ltd., 

Hampshire, UNITED KINGDOM; and 

Elma Electronic Inc., Fremont, CA, have 

withdrawn as parties to this venture. 

No other changes have been made in 

either the membership or planned 

activity of the group research project. 

Membership in this group research 

project remains open, and PXI Systems 

Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional 

written notifications disclosing all 

changes in membership. 

On November 22, 2000, PXI Systems 

Alliance, Inc. filed its original 

notification pursuant to Section 6(c) of 

the Act. The Department of Justice 

published a Notice in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on March 8, 2001 (66 FR 13971). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on February 12, 2010. A 

Notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on March 23, 2010 (75 FR 13781). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12033 Filed 5–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—The Applied 

Nanotechnology Consortium 

Notice is hereby given that, on March 

26, 2010, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the 

National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), The Applied 

Nanotechnology Consortium (‘‘TANC’’) 

has filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney 

General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing (1) the identities 

of the parties to the venture and (2) the 

nature and objectives of the venture. 

The notifications were filed for the 

purpose of invoking the Act’s provisions 

limiting the recovery of antitrust 

plaintiffs to actual damages under 

specified circumstances. 

Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, 

the identities of the parties to the 

venture are: Connecticut Center for 

Advanced Technology, Inc., East 

Hartford, CT; Ensign-Bickford 


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