Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 8 / Thursday, January 12, 1995 / Notices 2985

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services

FY 1995 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 the

availability of grants to support the

purchase of equipment and technology,

the procurement of support resources

and the use of overtime under COPS

Making Officer Redeployment Effective

(‘‘COPS MORE’’). Eligible applicants

under COPS MORE are those state, local

and other public law enforcement

agencies, Indian tribal governments,

other public and private entities, and

multi-jurisdictional or regional

consortia that employ sworn law

enforcement officers.

DATES: COPS MORE Application Kits

will be available on December 31, 1994

and completed applications must be

received by the COPS Office no later

than March 17, 1995.

ADDRESSES: COPS MORE Application

Kits may be obtained by writing to

COPS MORE, P.O. Box 14440,

Washington, D.C. 20044 or by calling

the Department of Justice Crime Bill

Response Center, (202) 307–1480 or 1–

800–421–6770. Completed COPS MORE

Application Kits should be sent to

Director, COPS Program, P.O. Box

14440, Washington, D.C. 20044.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Department of Justice Crime Bill

Response Center, (202) 307–1480 or 1–

800–421–6770, or David Hayeslip or

Craig Uchida, Office of Community

Oriented Policing Services, U.S.

Department of Justice, 633 Indiana

Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington,

DC 20531, (202) 514–2058.

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.

COPS MORE is designed to expand the

time available for community policing

by current law enforcement officers,

rather than fund the hiring or rehiring

of additional law enforcement officers.

COPS MORE permits eligible agencies

to seek funding for the purchase of

equipment and technology, the

procurement of support resources

(including civilian personnel) and to

pay overtime. As a result of this

funding, the number of officers

redeployed by agencies in community

policing must be equal to or greater than

the number of officers that would result

from grants of the same amount for

hiring new officers. Application Kits

will be available as of December 31,

1994. Completed Applications Kits must

be received by the COPS Office by

March 17, 1995.

Applicants must provide a thorough

explanation of how the proposed

redeployment funds will actually result

in the required increase in the number

of officers deployed in community

policing. Additionally, the applicant

must specify within the COPS MORE

Application a plan for continuing the

proposed activity following the

conclusion of COPS MORE funding.

Technical assistance with the

development of policing plans will be

provided to jurisdictions in need of

such assistance. Grants will be made for

up to 75 percent of the cost of the

equipment, technology, civilian salaries

or overtime for one year, with the

remainder to be paid by state or local

funds. In the case of overtime grants,

federal funds may be used for up to 75

percent of an officer’s hourly overtime

rate of pay. An officer’s regular overtime

wage is the amount an officer is paid for

each hour of overtime services, and does

not include benefits. COPS

redeployment funds may not be used to

replace funds that eligible agencies

otherwise would have devoted to

equipment, technology, civilian hiring

or overtime.

An award under COPS MORE will not

affect the eligibility of an agency’s

application for a grant under any other

COPS program. An agency that receives

funding under COPS Phase I, COPS

AHEAD and/or COPS FAST is eligible

to receive additional funding under

COPS MORE, however, any prior award

may be considered in the assessment of

the agency’s need for additional

resources under COPS MORE.

Dated: January 3, 1995.

John R. Schmidt,

Associate Attorney General.

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Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant

to the Clean Water Act

In accordance with Departmental

policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby

given that a proposed consent decree in

United States v. City of Titusville,

Florida, and State of Florida (M.D. Fla.),

Civil Action No. 95–9–CIV–ORL–18,

was lodged on January 4, 1995 with the

United States District Court for the

Middle District of Florida. The consent

decree settles a civil judicial

enforcement action brought under

Section 309 of the Clean Water Act, 33

U.S.C. 1319, for the City of Titusville’s

operation of a publicly owned sanitary

sewage collection system and two

associated treatment plants in violation

of National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System permits and in

violation of section 301(a) of the Clean

Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1311(a). Under

the Consent Decree, the City of

Titusville will construct a new

Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant

and an associated wetlands treatment

system, modify its existing treatment

plants to eliminate discharges of

wastewater into the Indian River, and

pay a civil penalty of $600,000.

The Department of Justice will

receive, for a period of thirty (30) days

from the date of this publication,

comments relating to the proposed

consent decree. Comments should be

addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General for the Environment and

Natural Resources Division, Department

of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and

should refer to United States v. City of

Titusville, Florida, and State of Florida,

DOJ Ref. #90–5–1–1–3979.

The proposed consent decree may be

examined at the Office of the United

States Attorney, Middle District of

Florida, 80 North Hughey Avenue, 201

Federal Building, Orlando Florida

32801; and at the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624–

0892. A copy of the proposed consent

decree may be obtained in person or by

mail from the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a

copy please refer to the referenced case

and enclose a check in the amount of

$10.75 (25 cents per page reproduction

costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Bruce Gelber,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement

Section, Environment and Natural Resources

Division.

[FR Doc. 95–779 Filed 1–11–95; 8:45 am]

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