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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 in Schools funding must be

used to hire new, additional School

Resource Officers, over and above the

number of sworn officers that your

agency would fund with state or local

funds in the absence of the grant

(including other School Resource

Officers). Your agency may not reduce

its state or locally-funded level of sworn

officers (including other School

Resource Officers) as a result of

applying for or receiving COPS in

Schools grant funding.

COPS in Schools funding may also be

used to rehire sworn officers previously

employed by your agency who have

been laid off for financial reasons

unrelated to the availability of the COPS

in Schools grant. Your agency must

obtain prior written approval from the

COPS Office, however, if you wish to

use COPS in Schools funding to rehire

any officer who is laid off after the

official award start date of the COPS in

Schools grant.

All grant recipients must develop a

written plan to retain their COPSfunded officer positions with State or

local funding after Federal funding

ends. This plan must be submitted at

the time of application to be considered

for funding. The application must also

include a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) to document the

roles and responsibilities of the

collaborative effort between law

enforcement and education. The MOU

must be signed by the law enforcement

executive and the appropriate school

official and must be submitted at the

time of application to be considered for

funding. The application must also

include a Narrative Addendum to

document that the School Resource

Officers will be assigned to work in and

around primary or secondary schools,

and provide a descriptive narrative of

the use of the School Resource Officers.

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 the school administrator designated

as the educational partner under the CIS

grant 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.

Dated: February 8, 2001.

Ralph Justus,

Acting Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services FY 2001 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 funds under the Tribal

Resources Grant Program, a program

designed to meet the most serious needs

of law enforcement in Indian

communities through a broadened,

comprehensive hiring program that will

offer a variety of funding options from

salary and benefits for new police

personnel to funding for law

enforcement training and equipment for

new and existing officers. This program,

which complements the COPS Office’s

efforts to fund 100,000 additional

community policing officers and to

support innovative community policing,

will enhance law enforcement

infrastructures and community policing

efforts in tribal communities which

have limited resources and are affected

by high rates of crime and violence.

Applications should reflect the

department’s most serious law

enforcement needs and must link these

needs to the implementation or

enhancement of community policing. In

addition, a written plan to retain COPSfunded officer positions after Federal

funding has ended must be submitted

with the grant application.

All Federally Recognized Tribes with

established police departments or

existing police efforts are eligible to

apply. Tribes that wish to establish

police departments and meet specific

criteria are eligible to apply. Tribes or

villages may also apply as a consortium

with a written partnership agreement

that names a lead agency and describes

how requested resources will serve the

consortium’s population. In addition,

tribes that are currently served by

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) law

enforcement may request funding under

this grant program to supplement their

existing police services. Tribes whose

law enforcement services are

exclusively provided by local policing

agencies through a contract agreement

are not eligible under the COPS TRGP

program, but may apply to the COPS

Universal Hiring Program for police

officer positions only.

DATES: Applications will be sent to all

Federally Recognized Tribes with

existing law enforcement efforts by

February 2001. Tribes or villages that

wish to apply as a start-up or

consortium may request an application

kit from the COPS Office. The deadline

for the submission of application is

April 16, 2001. Applications must be

postmarked by April 16, 2001 to be

eligible.

ADDRESSES: To obtain an application or

for more information, call the U.S.

Department of Justice Response Center

at 1–800–421–6770. A copy of the

application kit will be available in

February on the COPS Office web site

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center, 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 Tribal Resources Grant Program is

a program developed to meet the most

serious needs of law enforcement in

Indian communities through a

broadened, comprehensive hiring

program that will offer a variety of

funding options from salary and benefits

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for new police personnel to funding for

law enforcement training and

equipment for new and existing officers.

This program will enhance law

enforcement infrastructures and

community policing efforts in these

Tribal communities, many of which

have limited resources and are affected

by high rates of crime and violence.

The Tribal Resources Grant Program

is part of a larger Federal initiative

which over the last three years, has

resulted in the Departments of Interior

and Justice working in collaboration to

improve law enforcement in tribal

communities. Funding has been

appropriated to several DOJ agencies

including the FBI, the Bureau of Justice

Assistance (BJA), the Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention

(OJJDP), the Corrections Program Office

(CPO), and the COPS Office. COPS is

coordinating with these agencies as well

as with the Office of Law Enforcement

Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

to ensure that limited resources are not

spent on duplicative efforts.

The Tribal Resources Grant will

provide tribal communities with the

resources to: Hire new police officers;

train new and existing officers in

community policing, grants

management and computer training as

well as basic police training at a state

academy or the Indian Police Academy

in Artesia, NM; and provide basic

standard issue equipment, ranging from

bullet-proof vests and uniforms, to

firearms and portable radios.

The Tribal Resources Grant Program

emphasizes deployment of officers and

resources into communities that are

affected by high rates of crime and

violence. Applicants must submit a

written plan to retain their COPSfunded officer positions after Federal

funding has ended. This plan must be

submitted to the COPS Office with the

Tribal Resources Grant Program

application.

A total of $40,000,000 in funding will

be available under the Tribal Resources

Grant Program. The grant will cover a

maximum Federal Share of 75% of total

project costs,, including approved salary

and benefits of entry-level police

officers (up to a maximum of $75,000

per officer over three years), basic law

enforcement training and equipment,

vehicles, and technology. A local match

requirement of 25% of the total project

costs is included in this program. A

waiver of the local match requirement

may be requested but will be granted

only on the basis of documented

demonstrated fiscal hardship. Requests

for waivers must be submitted with the

application.

Tribes whose law enforcemnt services

are exclusively provided by local

policing agencies through contract

arrangements are not eligible under this

COPS program. However, tribes that do

not meet the eligibility requirements for

this program may apply to the COPS

Office Universal Hiring Program for

police officer positions only.

Receiving an award under the Tribal

Resources Grant Program will not

preclude grantees from future

consideration under other COPS grant

programs for which they are eligible.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) reference for this

program is 16.710.

Dated: February 8, 2001.

Ralph Justus,

Acting Director.

[FR Doc. 01–5058 Filed 3–1–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–AT–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree

Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

Notice is hereby given that a proposed

Consent Decree (‘‘Decree’’) in United

States v. Preston Engravers, Inc., Civil

Action No. 3:99CV1273(JBA) (D. Conn.),

and United States v. Roto-Die Company,

Inc. d/b/a Rotometrics Group and

Micrometrics Systems, Civil Action No.

4:99CV10186SNL (E.D. Mo.), was

lodged on February 5, 2001, with the

United States District Court for the

District of Connecticut.

The complaints in these cases allege

that defendants Preston Engravers, Inc.

(‘‘Preston’’) and Roto-Die Company, Inc.

(‘‘Roto-Die’’) (collectively the

‘‘Defendants’’) violated section 112 of

the Clean Air Act (‘‘CAA’’), 42 U.S.C.

7412, and the National Emission

Standard for Chromium Emissions from

Hard and Decorative Chromium

Electroplating and Chromium

Anodizing Tanks (the ‘‘Chromium

Electroplating NESHAP’’) at machine

tooling facilities owned and/or operated

by the Defendants in East Windsor,

Connecticut, Eureka, Missouri, and

Meadows of Dan, Virginia.

Under the proposed Decree,

Defendants shall pay the United States

a civil penalty of $245,000.00.

Moreover, the Decree requires

Defendants to, inter alia, refrain from

further violating the CAA, to complete

the development of and implementation

of an operation and maintenance plan

for each of the three facilities operated

by Defendants, and to submit four

quarterly reports to EPA for each facility

documenting the ongoing compliance

with relevant emission limits for the

affected sources.

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, P.O. Box 7611, Washington,

D.C. 20044–7611, and should refer to

United States v. Preston Engravers, Inc.,

DOJ Ref. #90–5–2–1–06029 and/or

United States v. Roto-Die Company,

Inc., d/b/a Rotometrics Group and

Micrometrics Systems, DOJ Ref. #90–5–

2–1–06032.

The proposed consent decree may be

examined at the office of the United

States Attorney, District of Connecticut,

157 Church Street, New Haven,

Connecticut 06510, (203) 821–3700; the

office of the United States Attorney,

Eastern District of Missouri, United

States Court & Customs House, 1114

Market Street, Room 401, St. Louis,

Missouri 63101, (314) 539–2200; the

Region I Office of the Environmental

Protection Agency, 1 Congress Street,

Suite 1100, Boston, Massachusetts

02114, (617) 918–2001; the Region III

Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 19103–2029, (215) 814–

2900; and the Region VII Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 901

North Fifth Street, Kansas City, Kansas

66101, (913) 551–7010. A copy of the

proposed Consent Decree may be

obtained by mail from the Consent

Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611,

Washington, D.C. 20044. In requesting a

copy please refer to the referenced case

and enclose a check in the amount of

$7.25 (25 cents per page reproduction

costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Ronald G. Gluck,

Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement

Section, Environment Natural Resources

Division.

[FR Doc. 01–5059 Filed 3–1–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–15–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993—Aerospace Vehicle

Systems Institute (‘‘AVSI’’)

Cooperative

Notice is hereby given that, on

November 7, 2000, pursuant to Section

6(a) of the National Cooperative