13078 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 42 / Friday, March 2, 2001 / Notices

available for public review during

regular business hours. Individual

respondents may request that we

withhold their home address from the

administrative record. We will honor

such requests to the extent allowable by

law. There may also be other

circumstances in which we would

withhold from the administrative record

a respondent’s identity, as allowable by

law. If you wish us to withhold your

name and address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comments. We will not; however,

consider anonymous comments. We

will make all submissions from

organizations or businesses, and from

individuals identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, available

for public inspection in their entirety.

DATES: Written data or comments on

these applications must be received, at

the address given below, by April 2,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Documents and other

information submitted with these

applications are available for review,

subject to the requirements of the

Privacy Act and Freedom of Information

Act, by any party who submits a written

request for a copy of such documents to

the following office within 30 days of

the date of publication of this notice:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875

Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,

Georgia 30345 (Attn: Victoria Davis,

Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/679–

4176; Facsimile: 404/679–7081.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victoria Davis, Telephone: 404/679–

4176; Facsimile: 404/679–7081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Applicant:

Michael Hardman, Illinois Natural

History Survey, Champaign, Illinois

TE038178–0.

The applicant requests authorization

to take the following species: Yaqui

catfish, Ictalurus pricei; Smoky madtom,

Noturus baileyi; Yellowfin madtom,

Noturus flavipinnis; Neosho madtom,

Noturus placidus; Pygmy madtom,

Noturus stanauli; and Scioto madtom,

Noturus trautmani. Yaqui catfish,

Ictalurus pricei will be obtained

throughout the species ranges in the San

Bernardino Creek and Yaqui River,

Arizona. Noturus baileyi will be

obtained in Citico Creek, Monroe

County, Tennessee. Noturus flavipinnis

will be obtained throughout the species

ranges in the North Fork Holston River,

Virginia and Tennessee; South Fork

Holston River to Fort Ratrick Henry

Dam, Tennessee; Holston River

downstream to John Sevier Detention

Lake Dam, Tennessee; and all tributaries

thereto. Noturus placidus will be

obtained from the Neosho River, Kansas.

Noturus stanauli will be obtained from

the Clinch River, Hancock County, and

Duck River/Hurricane Creek,

Humphreys County, Tennessee. Finally,

Noturus trautmani will be obtained

from the Big Darby Creek, Pickaway

County, Ohio. The purpose of the take

is to collect nucleotide sequence data to

recover the relationship among all

species of Ictaluridae, to recover the

sister taxon of Ictaluridae and the

placement of the family among all

catfish families, and to develop a

method of error analysis for

phylogenetic studies involving multiple

data.

Applicant: The Nature Conservancy,

Virginia Chapter, Charlottesville,

Virginia TE038256–0.

The applicant requests authorization

to take (harass) the red-cockaded

woodpecker, Picoides borealis, for the

purpose of installing cavity restrictors

on active cavities located on the Nature

Conservancy’s Piney Grove Preserve.

Dated: February 16, 2001.

H. Dale Hall,

Acting Regional Director.

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

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 a new

grant program, COPS in Schools 2001,

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

2001 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: There are two application

deadlines for the COPS in Schools 2001

program. Applications are due and must

be postmarked no later than June 15,

2001. Priority consideration for FY 2001

funding will be given to applications

received postmarked on or before March

30, 2001. Applications received

postmarked after March 30, 2001, but

postmarked on or before June 15, 2001

will receive secondary consideration for

funding in FY 2001. All applications

received prior to the June 15, 2001

deadline that are not funded in FY 2001

because of limited funding will be

carried over for consideration in FY

2002 (subject to available funding).

Applications must be postmarked by

this date to be considered for funding.

All applicants must apply to the COPS

in Schools 2001 program using the CIS

Application kit. Previous editions of the

application are null and void and will

not be accepted.

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/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

U.S. Department of Justice Response

Center, (202) 307–1480 or 1–800–421–

6770 or your grant advisor. 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/.

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.

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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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BILLING CODE 4410–AT–M

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