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a Federal safe school district or to a local law en-
forcement agency with jurisdiction over the school
district, as appropriate, to pay for enhanced school
security measures.
(2) ENHANCED
SCHOOL
SECURITY
MEAS-
URES.—The measures that may be funded by a
grant under paragraph (1) include—
(A) equipping schools with metal detectors,
fences, closed circuit cameras, and other phys-
ical security measures;
(B) providing increased police patrols in
and around schools, including police hired pur-
suant to this title;
(C) mailings to parents at the beginning of
the school year stating that the possession of a
gun or other weapon in school will not be toler-
ated by school authorities;
(D) signs on each school indicating that
the school is part of a Federal Safe School Dis-
trict; and
(E) gun hotlines.
SEC. 303. ENHANCED LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711
et seq.) is amended—
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(1) by redesignating part Q as part R;
(2) by redesignating section 1701 as section
1801; and
(3) by inserting after part P the following:
‘‘PART Q—COPS ON THE STREET GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 1701. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance
may make not less than 50, but not more than 100 grants
to units of local government for the purposes of increasing
police presence in the community.
‘‘SEC. 1702. APPLICATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this part, a chief executive of a unit of local govern-
ment, shall submit an application to the Director. The ap-
plication shall contain the information required under sub-
section (b) and be in such form and contain such other
information as the Director may reasonably require.
‘‘(b) GENERAL CONTENTS.—Each application under
subsection (a) shall include a crime reduction plan which
includes—
‘‘(1) a request for funds available under this
part for the purposes described in section 1701;
‘‘(2) a description of the areas and populations
to be served by the grant and a description of the
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crime problems within the areas targeted for assist-
ance;
‘‘(3) information required to be considered by
the Director under section 1704;
‘‘(4) assurances that Federal funds received
under this part shall be used to supplement, not
supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be
available for activities funded under this part;
‘‘(5) detailed accounts of expenditures for law
enforcement for the preceding 5-year period prior to
receiving a grant under this part;
‘‘(6) detailed accounts of local expenditures for
law enforcement during any prior years in which
grants were received under this part;
‘‘(7) a description of how a portion of the grant
would be used to ensure the safety of public and pri-
vate elementary and secondary schools; and
‘‘(8) an evaluation component, including per-
formance standards and quantifiable goals to be
used to determine project progress and the data to
be collected to measure progress toward meeting the
plan’s goals.
‘‘SEC. 1703. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS; GRANT RENEWAL.
‘‘(a) ADMINISTRATIVE COST LIMITATION.—The Di-
rector shall use not more than 5 percent of the funds avail-
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able under this part for the purposes of administration,
technical assistance, and evaluation.
‘‘(b) RENEWAL OF GRANTS.—A grant under this
part may be renewed, subject to the availability of funds,
if the Director determines that the funds made available
to the recipient during the previous year were used in a
manner required under the approved application and the
requirements of this part.
‘‘SEC. 1704. SELECTION OF RECIPIENTS.
‘‘In awarding grants to units of local government
under this part, the Director shall consider—
‘‘(1) the crime rate per capita in the unit of
local government for violent crime, including murder,
rape, robbery, assault with a weapon, and kidnap-
ping; and
‘‘(2) the rate of increase of violent crime in
such unit of local government over the most recent
3-year period for which statistics are available.
‘‘SEC. 1705. REPORTS.
‘‘(a) REPORT TO DIRECTOR.—Recipients who receive
funds under this part shall submit to the Director not
later than March 1 of each year a report that describes
progress achieved in carrying out the plan required under
section 1702(b).
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‘‘(b) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—The Director shall
submit to the Congress a report by October 1 of each year
that shall contain a detailed statement regarding grant
awards, activities of grant recipients, and an evaluation
of projects established under this part.
‘‘SEC. 1706. DEFINITION.
‘‘For the purposes of this part, the term ‘Director’
means the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.) is amended
by striking the matter relating to part Q and inserting
the following:
‘‘PART Q—COMMUNITY POLICING; COP ON THE BEAT GRANTS
‘‘Sec. 1701. Grant authorization.
‘‘Sec. 1702. Application.
‘‘Sec. 1703. Allocation of funds; limitation on grants.
‘‘Sec. 1704. Award of grants.
‘‘Sec. 1705. Reports.
‘‘Sec. 1706. Definitions.
‘‘PART R—TRANSITION; EFFECTIVE DATE; REPEALER
‘‘Sec. 1801. Continuation of rules, authorities, and proceedings.’’.
SEC. 304. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 1001(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(12) There are authorized to be appropriated
$330,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 through
1998 to carry out the projects under part Q.’’.
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SEC. 305. COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711
et seq.), as amended by section 112(a), is amended—
(1) by redesignating part R as part S;
(2) by redesignating section 1801 as section
1901; and
(3) by inserting after part Q the following new
part:
‘‘PART R—COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 1801. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘(a) GRANT PROJECTS.—The Director of the Bureau
of Justice Assistance may make grants to units of local
government and to community groups to establish or ex-
pand cooperative efforts between police and a community
for the purposes of increasing police presence in the com-
munity, including—
‘‘(1) developing innovative neighborhood-ori-
ented policing programs;
‘‘(2) providing new technologies to reduce the
amount of time officers spend processing cases in-
stead of patrolling the community;
‘‘(3) purchasing equipment to improve commu-
nications between officers and the community and to
improve the collection, analysis, and use of informa-
tion about crime-related community problems;
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‘‘(4) developing policies that reorient police em-
phasis from reacting to crime to preventing crime;
‘‘(5) creating decentralized police substations
throughout the community to encourage interaction
and cooperation between the public and law enforce-
ment personnel on a local level;
‘‘(6) providing training and problem solving for
community crime problems;
‘‘(7) providing training in cultural differences
for law enforcement officials;
‘‘(8) developing community-based crime preven-
tion programs, such as safety programs for senior
citizens, community anticrime groups, and other
anticrime awareness programs;
‘‘(9) developing crime prevention programs in
communities that have experienced a recent increase
in gang-related violence; and
‘‘(10) developing projects following the model
under subsection (b).
‘‘(b) MODEL PROJECT.—The Director shall develop
a written model that informs community members regard-
ing—
‘‘(1) how to identify the existence of a drug or
gang house;
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‘‘(2) what civil remedies, such as public nui-
sance violations and civil suits in small claims court,
are available; and
‘‘(3) what mediation techniques are available
between community members and individuals who
have established a drug or gang house in the com-
munity.
‘‘SEC. 1802. APPLICATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) To be eligible to receive a
grant under this part, a chief executive of a unit of local
government, a duly authorized representative of a com-
bination of local governments within a geographic region,
or a community group shall submit an application to the
Director in such form and containing such information as
the Director may reasonably require.
‘‘(2) In an application under paragraph (1), a single
office, or agency (public, private, or nonprofit) shall be
designated as responsible for the coordination, implemen-
tation, administration, accounting, and evaluation of serv-
ices described in the application.
‘‘(b) GENERAL CONTENTS.—Each application under
subsection (a) shall include—
‘‘(1) a request for funds available under this
part for the purposes described in section 1801;
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‘‘(2) a description of the areas and populations
to be served by the grant; and
‘‘(3) assurances that Federal funds received
under this part shall be used to supplement, not
supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be
available for activities funded under this part.
‘‘(c) COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.—Each application shall
include a comprehensive plan that contains—
‘‘(1) a description of the crime problems within
the areas targeted for assistance;
‘‘(2) a description of the projects to be devel-
oped;
‘‘(3) a description of the resources available in
the community to implement the plan together with
a description of the gaps in the plan that cannot be
filled with existing resources;
‘‘(4) an explanation of how the requested grant
shall be used to fill those gaps;
‘‘(5) a description of the system the applicant
shall establish to prevent and reduce crime problems;
and
‘‘(6) an evaluation component, including per-
formance standards and quantifiable goals the appli-
cant shall use to determine project progress, and the
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data the applicant shall collect to measure progress
toward meeting project goals.
‘‘SEC. 1803. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS; LIMITATIONS ON
GRANTS.
‘‘(a) ALLOCATION.—The Director shall allocate not
less than 75 percent of the funds available under this part
to units of local government or combinations of such units
and not more than 20 percent of the funds available under
this part to community groups.
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE COST LIMITATION.—The Di-
rector shall use not more than 5 percent of the funds avail-
able under this part for the purposes of administration,
technical assistance, and evaluation.
‘‘(c) RENEWAL OF GRANTS.—A grant under this part
may be renewed, subject to the availability of funds, if the
Director determines that the funds made available to the
recipient during the previous year were used in a manner
required under the approved application and if the recipi-
ent can demonstrate significant progress toward achieving
the goals of the plan required under section 1802(c).
‘‘(d) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a
grant made under this part may not exceed 75 percent
of the total costs of the projects described in the applica-
tion submitted under section 1802 for the fiscal year for
which the projects receive assistance under this part.
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‘‘SEC. 1804. AWARD OF GRANTS.
‘‘(a) SELECTION
OF RECIPIENTS.—The Director
shall consider the following factors in awarding grants to
units of local government or combinations of such units
under this part:
‘‘(1) NEED AND ABILITY.—Demonstrated need
and evidence of the ability to provide the services de-
scribed in the plan required under section 1802(c).
‘‘(2) COMMUNITY-WIDE
RESPONSE.—Evidence
of the ability to coordinate community-wide response
to crime.
‘‘(3) MAINTAIN
PROGRAM.—The ability to
maintain a program to control and prevent crime
after funding under this part is no longer available.
‘‘(b) GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION.—The Director
shall attempt to achieve, to the extent practicable, an equi-
table geographic distribution of grant awards.
‘‘SEC. 1805. REPORTS.
‘‘(a) REPORT TO DIRECTOR.—Recipients who receive
funds under this part shall submit to the Director not
later than March 1 of each year a report that describes
progress achieved in carrying out the plan required under
section 1802(c).
‘‘(b) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—The Director shall
submit to the Congress a report by October 1 of each year
containing—
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‘‘(1) a detailed statement regarding grant
awards and activities of grant recipients; and
‘‘(2) an evaluation of projects established under
this part.
‘‘SEC. 1806. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this part—
‘‘ ‘community group’ means a community-based
nonprofit organization that has a primary purpose of
crime prevention.
‘‘ ‘Director’ means the Director of the Bureau
of Justice Assistance.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.), as amended by sec-
tion 112(b), is amended by striking the matter relating
to part R and inserting the following:
‘‘PART R—COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS
‘‘Sec. 1801. Grant authorization.
‘‘Sec. 1802. Application.
‘‘Sec. 1803. Allocation of funds; limitations on grants.
‘‘Sec. 1804. Award of grants.
‘‘Sec. 1805. Reports.
‘‘Sec. 1806. Definitions.
‘‘PART S—TRANSITION; EFFECTIVE DATE; REPEALER
‘‘Sec. 1901. Continuation of rules, authorities, and proceedings.’’.
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
1001(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)), as amended by
section 112(c), is amended—