PUBLIC LAW 96-157—DEC. 27, 1979
93 STAT. 1199
assist State and local governments in planning manpower programs for criminal justice; and "(4) to carry out a program of planning, development, demonstration, and evaluation of recruitment, selection, and placement practices. "(b)(1) The amount of a grant or contract under this section may be up to 100 per centum of the total cost of a program, but the total financial support may not exceed 80 per centum of the total operating budget of any funded institutions or programs. "(2) Institutions funded under this section shall assure that to the maximum extent fesisible efforts shall be made to increase the nonFederal share of the total operating budgets of such institutions or programs with the objective of becoming self-sustaining. "(3) To the greatest extent possible funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall not be utilized to provide per diem or subsistence for State and local officials receiving such training.
Allocation of program funds.
FBI TRAINING OF STATE AND LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE PERSONNEL
"SEC. 704. (a) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is authorized to— "(1) establish and conduct training programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy at Quantico, Virginia, to provide, at the request of a State or unit of local government, training for State and local criminal justice personnel; "(2) develop new or improved approaches, techniques, systems, equipment, and devices to improve and strengthen criminal justice; and "(3) assist in conducting, at the request of a State or unit of local government, local and regional training programs for the training of State and local criminal justice personnel engaged in the investigation of crime and the apprehension of criminals. Such training shall be provided only for persons actually employed as State police or highway patrol, police of a unit of local government, sheriffs, and their deputies, and other persons as the State or unit may nominate for police training while such persons are actually employed as officers of such State or unit. "(b) In the exercise of the functions, powers, and duties established under this section the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall be under the general authority of the Attorney General.
42 USC 3774.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION PROGRAM
"SEC. 705. (a) Pursuant to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c), the Administration is authorized, after appropriate consultation with the Commissioner of Education, to carry out programs of academic educational assistance to improve and strengthen criminal justice. "(b) The Administration is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and make payments to institutions of higher education for loans, not exceeding $2,200 per academic year to any person, to persons enrolled on a full-time basis in undergraduate or graduate programs approved by the Administration and leading to degrees or certificates in areas directly related to criminal justice or suitable for persons employed in criminal justice, with special consideration to police or correctional personnel of States or units of local government on academic leave to earn such degrees or certificates.
42 USC 3775.
contract authority.
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