FY 2001 BUDGET REQUEST HIGHLIGHTS

February 10, 2000 (3:17PM)

US Department of Justice

FY 2001 BUDGET REQUEST HIGHLIGHTS

The Justice Department's FY 2001 budget will provide a $1.83 billion increase over the 2000 level. The total $23.35 billion budget for FY 2001 includes $3.02 billion funded through mandatory resources such as fees. The discretionary budget of $20.13 billion is $1.66 billion over FY 2000's discretionary budget requested, an increase of 9 percent.

The budget highlights include:

$215.9 million to further combat gun violence.

$616.4 million to improve community law enforcement efforts by funding, more police officers, and community prosecutors, as well as providing local law enforcement with the latest crime-fighting technologies.

$171.4 million in increased funding to break the cycle of drugs and to curb drug trafficking.

$37 million in increased funding to combat cybercrime.

$2.4 billion in increased funding, including advance appropriations, to detain and incarcerate federal prisoners.

$119.6 million in increased funding to support the Justice Department's counterterrorism efforts.

$17.1 million in increases for civil rights initiatives.

$439.3 million, including fee funding, in new resources to guard against illegal immigration and promote legal entry to the United States.

$358 million for fighting crime through technology, including funds from the Department of Defense for telecommunications carrier compliance.

$82 million in increased funding for public safety initiatives on Indian lands.

$32.2 million in increased funding for the Justice Department's litigation efforts.

COMBATING GUN VIOLENCE

Although gun violence has been dropping and gun prosecutions have increased, the Justice Department is seeking expanded resources to ensure that gun crime continues to decline. The Justice Department's FY 2001 budget request includes additional funds to hire local prosecutors to address gun hot spots, to intensify federal efforts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and to further reduce youth violence. In total, $215.9 million is available in the Justice Department's budget request to address gun violence.

United States Attorneys

$14.5 million and 163 positions, including 113 attorneys, to bolster firearms prosecutions. 20 gun enforcement teams, will enable districts to implement the successful pilot projects begun in selected areas, such as Boston's "Operation Ceasefire." These project supplement the traditional approach with a more focused effort in collaboration with other federal, state, local, and community organizations.

National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network (NIBIN)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

$1.36 million to provide the communications infrastructure required to implement a joint FBI and BATF ballistics imaging system. The new system, NIBIN, is designed to combine the best features of the BATF's Integrated Bullet Identification System (IBIS) and the FBI's DRUGFIRE system. BATF will provide $30 million in 2001 to state and local law enforcement to upgrade their existing systems. Under a December 1999 memorandum of understanding between the two agencies, the FBI is responsible for maintaining the high-speed communications network for existing systems, as well as providing the communications network for the new unified ballistics imaging system.

Office of Justice Programs

$10 million to help state and local law enforcement reduce their backlog of inputting data into their ballistics systems. This will complement BATF's $30 million program for NIBIN.

Direct State and Local Assistance -- Office of Justice Programs

$150 million in new funding for community prosecutors, which will provide a total of $200 million for the Community Prosecution Program. Under this initiative, OJP will make discretionary grants to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions and prosecutors' offices to substantially increase the number of prosecutors interacting directly with members of the community. Of this amount, $150 million will be used to hire or redeploy up to 1,000 community prosecutors in jurisdictions designated by the Justice Department as High Gun Violence Areas.
$10 million for OJP's Gun Safety Research and Development to further develop, test and replicate "smart gun" technologies, which will prevent guns from being used by anyone other than the owner.
$10 million, to be made available from existing Byrne Discretionary money, for the Kids and Guns Local Media Campaign. This OJP initiative will provide matching grants to support local media campaigns which promote such things as proper storage for guns and preventing child access. Localities could also use media campaigns to publicize gun penalties to deter gun crime.
$10 million for grants to reimburse state and local law enforcement agencies for the cost of destroying weapons that are no longer useful. This will help prevent guns from being circulated into the population.

$10 million, out of current Title V funding, to expand the Partnerships to Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence Initiative to another 20-25 sites. This initiative funds a wide array of programs, including: gun tracing; strong law enforcement activity; innovative police/probation partnerships; community-based efforts involving schools, mental health, social service providers and parents; and public information efforts to educate youth and communities on the dangers of firearms. Funding will also be used to provide training, technical assistance and program evaluation.

IMPROVING COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT

The Justice Department recognizes the importance of building closer relationships between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. Community policing builds on fundamental policing practices by emphasizing crime prevention and developing lasting solutions to problems. Community policing initiatives and other local law enforcement strategies have helped produce a 20-year low in the crime rate. In FY 2001, the Justice Department continues its commitment to improve community law enforcement efforts by seeking an additional $616.4 million. This includes funds to provide local communities with the latest in crime fighting technolgies.

Community Oriented Policing Services

$230.68 million is requested for the Public Safety and Community Policing Grants Program, bringing total funding for this program to $650 million in 2001. $67.5 million is requested for additional hiring money, and $157 million is requested for innovative programs. The hiring funding will keep the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) on course to funding up to 150,000 officers by the end of 2005.

The following earmarks are contained within the $650 million: $45 million for Indian country law enforcement; $25 million for the bullet-proof vest program; $20 million for school safety problem-solving partnerships; $17 million for the D.C. Offender Services Office, $36 million for management and administration; $30 million for OJP's Police Corps Program; and $20 million for National Police Scholarships.

$220 million is requested for crime-fighting technologies under the COPS appropriation. This will provide a total of $350 million for programs to help state and local law enforcement combat crime by using the latest in technology. This funding will include the following initiatives:

$69 million in additional funding for the Crime Identification Technology Assistance (CITA) Program (Dewine-Leahy Legislation), bringing total CITA funding to $199 million. Under this program, funds will be used to interconnect computer systems within the criminal justice system and wireless communications systems within the public safety community.

$70 million to upgrade criminal history, criminal justice, and identification record systems; promote compatibility and participation in federal, state, and local systems; and capture information for statistical and research programs, as authorized by CITA. In 2000, $35 million was earmarked for this program under CITA. In 2001, this funding is requested separately from the larger CITA request.

$50 million to improve forensic labs including: $35 million in grants to state, tribal, and local laboratories to improve their DNA and general forensic capabilities (with $5 million specifically targeted to Indian tribes) and $15 million in grants to state and local laboratories to reduce their convicted offender DNA sample backlog. In 2000, $30 million was provided for these purposes under the CITA Program. In 2001 this funding is requested separately from the larger CITA request.

$10 million for the Community Mapping, Planning, and Analysis for Safety Strategies (COMPASS) initiative that would enable communities to better respond to crime by using sophisticated data to map crime, drug use and other problems. Over 5 years, OJP will equip 10 urban and 5 rural, mid-sized, and tribal jurisdictions with cutting edge information technologies. COMPASS will fund a research consortium to work with crime analysts in each community to develop data-driven crime control strategies and to evaluate the effectiveness of those strategies.

$10 million to continue base funding for the NIJ's Technology Centers which identify the appropriate technology that can help solve specific crimes. For example, NIJ helped Utica, New York improve its case closure rate for arson from 2 percent to 52 percent, with a 100 percent conviction rate, by providing it with tools such as a digital camera system to record suspects' faces at vulnerable buildings.

$6 million for computer regional forensic labs (discussed under combating cybercrime).

$5 million for continued base funding for the NIJ DNA Research and Development Program to reduce the time and cost of performing DNA analysis.

$70 million, of which $35 million is new funding under a new community crime prevention program, to address youth and school safety. Of this total, $5 million will be used to fund a value-base program between youth and police; $30 million will be used for school-based problem-solving partnerships (including $20 million from the Public Safety and Community Policing Grants Program), and $35 million will be used for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program (including $15 million in the Title V At-Risk Children's Grant Program).

$20 million to support a COPS-run police integrity training initiative. Under this initiative, the COPS Office will encourage greater professionalism in the ranks of law enforcement by providing grants to develop and implement new policing strategies.

$5 million for COPS' police recruitment initiative, which will assist law enforcement agencies recruit a diverse group of qualified applicants to reflect the communities they serve. A total of 20 demonstration sites will be funded at $250,000 per site.

$5 million for citizen problem solving academies under the COPS program. The goal of this initiative is to provide citizens with the tools and training necessary for them to work collaboratively with policing agencies.

Office of Justice Programs

$50 million, of the $200 million community prosecution program, will be used to hire up to 300 community prosecutors. In addition, up to $50 million of the COPS hiring funding will be used to fund community investigators for prosecutors' offices. These investigators will, among other things, assist in locating witnesses, research the whereabouts of absentee landlords, and identify the ownership of abandoned buildings.

$15 million for Building Blocks, a new OJP initiative that will build on existing program models to help jurisdictions address immediate delinquency and crime problems and develop long-term infrastructures to meet future crime and public safety issues.

$10 million to expand the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI), which is currently underway in five cities. Through this initiative, cities are experimenting with a new way of doing business that makes use of statistical data and information analysis, boosts the U.S. Attorney's role as a key community problem solver, and asks researchers to act as navigators observing, analyzing, and recommending changes in crime fighting startegies.

$8.5 million as an earmark for OJP's Weed and Seed Program, of which $2 million will be used to evaluate the strategies employed at existing Weed and Seed sites. The remaining $6.5 million will replace assets forfeiture super surplus funding with direct appropriated funding.

$5 million for a new research initiative concerning the dependency court system's response to child abuse and neglect. Funding for this initiative will come from earmarks in the drug courts program and juvenile justice formula funds. This program will focus on the State Court Improvement Program and the Adoption and Safe Families Acts, which change the practices of juvenile dependency courts and prevented children from lingering in foster care.

$5 million for the NIJ to conduct a family violence research and evaluation program. With this funding, NIJ will evaluate the current system of responding to family violence and establish a basic research program concentrating on child abuse and neglect and elder abuse.

$2 million to assess the current capacity of forensic labs and develop national guidelines on how to effectively handle evidence in investigations.

$1 million for OJP to begin developing of a new Justice Online Information Exchange (JOIE) system -- an interactive network for justice professionals and those interested in justice. The new system which will replace the paper-based, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, will consist of multiple, compatible, connected databases whose information can be cross-analyzed when queried by customers.

United States Attorneys

$4 million to support the operations of D.C. Superior Court by funding investigative resources that will augment investigative work provided by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Short-Term Witness Protection Program

$227 thousand and 3 positions to expand the Short-Term Protection Program, which specializes in protecting threatened witnesses in criminal proceedings for whom the Witness Security Program and the Emergency Witness Assistance Program are inappropriate.

BREAKING THE CYCLE

In order to break the cycle of drug use and its consequences, drug-abusing inmates should have access to drug treatment, as well as a program that provides support services to help them reenter the community. This year, nearly 570,000 inmates will return to communities across the nation. The Justice Department's budget includes $215 million, including $171.39 million in new funding, to help break this cycle. $75 million of new funding will help states and localities implement tough new systems to drug test, treat, and punish prisoners, parolees and probationers, who abuse drugs. In addition, the budget proposes $50 million -- a 25 percent increase over 2000 -- for drug courts that work to break non-violent offenders of their drug addiction. In addition to drug prevention efforts, the Justice Department seeks a total of $1.73 billion for drug enforcement efforts.

Office of Justice Programs

$75 million for OJP's Zero Tolerance Drug Supervision Program. This initiative will provide discretionary grants to states, units of local government, Indian tribes, and state and local courts to plan and implement comprehensive drug testing and treatment programs, as well as graduated sanctions for individuals within the criminal justice system. Systematic drug testing under the coercion of the criminal justice system is an important tool for criminal justice agencies concerned with controlling drug abuse among the offender population. When compared to substance abusers who voluntarily enter treatment, those coerced into treatment through the criminal justice system are just as likely to succeed. Of the $75 million requested, $25 million will be devoted to the new $60 million Offender Re-entry Grant Program, and $10 million will be targeted to Indian Country.

$60 million ($35 million new from COPS, $25 million new from OJP) for an Offender Reentry Program that will combine surveillance, sanctions, and support services in ways that afford increased protection to communities that experience unusually high returns of inmates. This new OJP initiative, which creates partnerships between law enforcement entities and community leaders, will prepare communities for the more successful return of inmates. It will also fund reentry courts where ex-inmates would appear regularly before judges to review their progress. The initiative will also include a special juvenile transition support program that will address the special integrative needs of juveniles. OJP will administer this program jointly with the Department of Labor, which will apply $75 million to develop and operate jobs-related programs in the same communities, and with the Department of Health and Human Service, which will contribute $10 million to this effort, for a total of $145 million.

$10 million for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Drug Prevention Demonstration Program, providing total funding of $20 million, including a $10 million earmark under Title V. This program is designed to develop, demonstrate and test programs to increase the perception among youth that drug use is risky, harmful, and unattractive. The $20 million will be used to fund up to 280 new sites, which will serve approximately 1,000 middle/junior high school students per site.

$50 million, in total, of which $10 million is an increase, for OJP's Drug Courts Program. This program provides grants to plan, establish, or enhance state and local drug courts which maintain specialized treatment, rehabilitation, and supervision of certain nonviolent substance abusing offenders. This additional funding will be used to establish 12 new drug courts and assist 8 additional communities in planning a drug court. Of this total, $2 million will be used for the $5 million initiative concerning the dependency court system's response to child abuse and neglect.

$5 million to expand the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System (ADAM) -- the only federally-funded drug use program that directly addresses the relationship between drug use and criminal behavior -- from 35 sites to 50 sites. Increasing the number of sites will expand the ability to directly inquire into drug problems in particular cities, and expand the program to more accurately estimate drug use at the national level.

$4.5 million in total, of which $1.5 million is an increase, to fund OJP's national demonstration initiative on alcohol and crime. Grants will be awarded to develop comprehensive community-level enforcement and prevention programs aimed at combating underage drinking. Further, additional research will be conducted to explain the relationship between alcohol and crime.

$4.4 million for the OJJDP to evaluate its Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offenders Program at selected jurisdictions within the 8 participating states. The funds will be used to collect data to see if the strategy resulted in a decrease in recidivism or led to new delinquent behavior.

$2 million to provide a total of $65 million for the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program, which provides formula grants for state and local governments to develop and implement substance abuse programs within state and local correctional and detention facilities. This increase will support an additional 700 offenders.

Drug Enforcement Administration

Special Operations Division

$3.1 million and 18 positions (11 Special Agents) to support Special Operations Division (SOD) investigations into unlawful drug and laundering operations along the Southwest Border. SOD is a multi-agency program comprised of elements from the DEA, FBI, IRS, the United States Customs Service and the Justice Department's Criminal Division. SOD's mission is to establish seamless law enforcement aimed at dismantling entire national and international trafficking organizations. These additional funds will allow SOD to increase its effort to reduce the amount of drugs destined for the US via the Southwest Border and to establish a Money Laundering/Financial Investigations Section within SOD to provide nationwide coordination on Title III field investigations that identify and target money laundering operations.

Criminal Division

$389 thousand and 5 positions (3 attorneys) to support the Criminal Division's international drug money laundering and forfeiture programs. The Office of Enforcement Operations requests funding to address the increasing number of new wiretaps relating to narcotics enforcement, specifically from efforts such as SOD.

COMBATING CYBERCRIME

The nation's information infrastructure, including the banking system, the stock market, the electricity and water supply, the telecommunications network, and critical government services, all rely on computer networks. These systems are the foundation upon which society functions, and by virtue of our growing dependence on these systems, they are increasingly the target of criminals at home and abroad. The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand. The Justice Department seeks to create a permanent network of experts dedicated to preventing computer crime and prosecuting those responsible. In FY 2001, the budget includes $37 million in added funding to continue to fight cybercrime.

Office of Justice Programs

$8.75 million for the National White Collar Crime Center (NWCCC) to continue expanding training initiatives for state and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies to meet the increasing incidence of computer crime. The Center acts as a clearinghouse, providing information on all federal computer crime training and offering a "yellow pages" of resources available in forensic computer science, as well as computer and network investigations.

$6 million to develop up to 10 Regional Computer Forensic Labs and support the capabilities of existing computer forensic labs. It will also expand upon the limited computer/electronic crime forensic support capabilities that are resident in the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Centers.

$1 million for the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect Computer Crime and Cyber Fraud statistics to measure the magnitude and consequences of computer crime.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Computer Analysis and Response Team (CART)

$11.4 million including $8.6 million to fund 100 response team members who will be dispatched to support investigations into computer related crimes. $2.8 million will be used to further develop the Automated Computer Examination System (ACES), ACES which is a data forensics tool that scans thousands of files for identification of known format and executable program files. By FY 2001, the number of cases involving computer forensic examination is expected to more than double the number in FY 1999.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Center

$612 thousand and 8 positions (2 agents) for a joint IPR Center to be co-led by the FBI and the U.S. Customs Service. IPR infringement includes both violations of the Economic Espionage Act (theft of trade secrets) as well as traditional copyright and trademark violations. Copyright violations primarily encompass computer software, recorded music and video piracy, while trademark violations primarily entail the counterfeiting of certain products and brand name goods. The IPR Center will focus on intelligence and analytical requirements of IPR cases.

United States Attorneys

$4.1 million to vigorously prosecute cases referred by law enforcement task forces regarding individuals who produce child pornography; travel across state lines to engage in sex with children; and trade images of child pornography via the print media or over the Internet.

$3.9 million to investigate and prosecute other alleged crimes in which the criminal relies on a computer, such as stealing trade secrets, embezzling funds over the Internet, or appropriating copyrighted works.

Criminal Division

$586 thousand and 7 positions (5 attorneys) to support the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section which has become a nexus for federal, state, local and foreign agencies seeking guidance on how to respond to the threat of cybercrime/ cyberterrorism.

$560 thousand, and 4 positions (4 attorneys) to stay abreast of technological changes and developments and to target those who use computers, computer bulletin board systems, and computer online services to traffic in child pornography. Resources will also support investigations and prosecutions of those who sell, buy, or transport women and children interstate or internationally to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Also, the Division is requesting increases to improve its ability to participate in the development of enforcement efforts involving international parental kidnaping.

ENHANCING DETENTION AND INCARCERATION EFFORTS

The number of inmates in the Federal Prison System has more than doubled since 1990, as a result of tougher sentencing guidelines, the abolition of parole, minimum mandatory sentences, and significant increases in law enforcement efforts. The budget provides $4.4 billion for the Bureau of Prisons to reduce overcrowding and to accommodate future growth, including housing long-term INS detainees. The budget also supports an effort to increase inmate enrollment in literacy programs. For INS, the budget requests more bedspace and more transportation to remove criminal aliens, as well as funding to implement detention standards.

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

$2 billion and 53 positions for FY 2001 through FY 2003. This includes, for FY 2001, $683 million for 11 construction projects funding to complete construction of 6 prisons and site and planning funding for 5 more prisons. This budget requests advance appropriations of $791 million in FY 2002 and $535 million in FY 2003, for an additional 6 prisons.

$80.18 million and 1,404 positions to activate 4 facilities (3,806 beds), scheduled to open in 2001, 3 high security facilities with 2 minimum security camps and 1 Federal Detention Center (FDC). By activating the high security prisons, the BOP will add 1,088 in Atwater, California and 960 beds in Coleman, Florida. These activations are needed to address the 54% overcrowding rate in high security prisons. Activation of the FDC in Honolulu, Hawaii will add much needed detention bed space (670 beds) in the Western region.

$84.47 million and 23 positions for an additional 6,520 contract beds to accommodate the increasing number of sentenced short and long term non- U.S. citizen inmates, as well as the rise in other sentenced offender contract population.

$13.08 million and 125 positions to expand 6 facilities (2,444 beds) at Ft. Dix, New Jersey; Elkton, Ohio; Jesup, Georgia; Yazoo City, Mississippi; Seagoville, Texas; and, Lompoc, California scheduled to be open in 2001. These expansions will convert minimum security beds to secure camps, add work camps to free up low security beds, and add housing units inside secure perimeter fences. These expansions will address the 39% overcrowding rate at low security facilities.

$8.12 million to begin the initial purchase of equipment for the Lee County, Virginia penitentiary and the Federal Correctional Institution at Petersburg, Virginia. Both of these facilities will be activated in the first half of FY 2002.

$7.43 million and 120 positions to increase inmate enrollment in educational courses, such as GED, English proficiency, Special Education and Vocational Training programs and classes. These expansions are needed to meet the conditions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which has increased inmate demand for the literacy/GED program.

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Interior Enforcement

$92.5 million, of which $10.5 million is from the re-authorization of Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to identify and remove criminal aliens. Requested resources will fund 1,000 new contract beds, 120 new juvenile detention beds, and additional detention personnel to manage the new beds ($55.4 million). Additional resources will be used to increase the number of domestic and alien repatriation movements using the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System ($15.6 million), to enable INS to implement INS detention standards in non-federal contract beds ($8.6 million), and to reduce the backlog of inputting criminal alien records into the National Crime Information Center database ($8 million).

Detention Construction

$25.8 million to construct two 200-bed dorms at the Port Isabel, Texas Service Processing Center (SPC), to maintain existing SPC facilities, and to construct new SPC support space, such as dining, laundry, and administrative facilities, which no longer will support the increasing levels of detainees being processed for removal at many of the SPCs.

U.S. Marshals Service

Federal Prisoner Detention

$64.35 million to fund costs associated with approximately 9.53 million contract jail days -- or 7.8 percent above the 2000 level. The detainee population has grown considerably over the last few years due to significant increases in federal law enforcement personnel.

Mission Support Staffing

$17.06 million and 283 positions to handle the increased workload generated by other law enforcement agencies and the opening of new courthouses. The 1999 increases in federal law enforcement personnel will generate significant workload for the USMS in 2001, as these agents and prosecutors bring cases to fruition.

Courthouse Security Equipment

$7.0 million to provide safety and security to new and renovated courthouses. Adequate security systems reduce the need for detention officers and contract guards, and provide the ability to monitor and record crisis situations.

Special Assignments

$5.0 million to provide security at high threat and/or high profile trials, as well as protective details for judicial personnel involved in these trials.

Prisoner Transportation

$3.51 million to pay for the anticipated increase in air and ground movements of USMS prisoners.

Detention Enforcement Officers for Prisoner Handling

$2.06 million and 43 positions to replace contract guards with Detention Enforcement Officers (DEOs) in those districts where guard use is consistently high. The workload of the USMS has been growing faster than the workforce, and the USMS has had to rely heavily on contract guards, especially in the larger districts and along the Southwest Border. While contract guards have law enforcement backgrounds, each may have received different training, some of which may not be appropriate for use with federal prisoners.

D.C. Superior Court

$1.01 million and 21 positions to provide more coverage in the D.C. Superior Court cellblocks. The Superior Court has more prisoners every day than any other district and operates on a longer work week. Currently, the Superior Court has only 28 DEOs, resulting in a ratio of 11 detainees to each DEO an unacceptable level of staffing, which puts USMS personnel at great risk.

Cooperative Agreement Program Staff

$100 thousand and 2 positions to manage contractual agreements with state, local and private correctional facilities for both the USMS and INS.

Detention Trustee

$26 million and 6 positions to create an office, reporting to the Deputy Attorney General, to manage Justice Department detention resources. Of this amount, up to $25 million is to pay other entities for the costs associated with the care, maintenance, detention, and repatriation of illegal aliens held outside the continental United States.

United States Parole Commission

$328 thousand and 6 positions for the Parole Commission to continue making parole decisions for District of Columbia prisoners.

COUNTERTERRORISM AND FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

Preventing terrorism and thwarting foreign espionage are among the most serious challenges facing law enforcement today. The Justice Department's FY 2001 budget includes a $119.6 million increase through both federal actions and state and local assistance to fight terrorism and address hostile intelligence activities.

Counterterrorism Fund

$15 million for the Attorney General's Counterterrorism Fund, established in response to the Oklahoma City bombing, bringing the total to $25 million. The funds will be used to reimburse any Justice Department organization for costs incurred in countering, investigating, or prosecuting domestic and/or international terrorism; to finance reward payments; and to restore the operational capacities of offices damaged by terrorist acts.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Counterintelligence

$19.1 million and 138 positions (63 agents) to enhance the FBI's ability to conduct national security investigations and to thwart hostile intelligence services operating in the U.S.

Intelligence Analysts

$3.1 million and 55 intelligence analysts positions to engage in strategic intelligence analyses both in the field and at headquarters.

Counterterrorism Research and Development

$5 million to continue counterterrorism research and development (R&D) related to explosives detection and forensic science. The FBI initiated 11 multi-year counterterrorism R&D projects in FY 1998, using resources provided from the Attorney General's Counterterrorism Fund. This request will provide the FBI Laboratory recurring base resources to continue its multi-year counterterrorism R&D efforts.

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Preparedness

$3.5 million for WMD preparedness activities. Of this amount, $2.94 million is for an FBI operated Chemical/Biological (CB) helpline, CB hotline, and technical expert contract services. In addition, $563 thousand will be used for National Domestic Preparedness Office (NDPO) outreach efforts. The NDPO serves as a central coordinating office and information clearinghouse for federal assistance programs to state and local communities, with the goal of integrating and streamlining government assistance.

Hazardous Devices School

$2.9 million to support state/local bomb technician training at the Hazardous Devices School. The facility, located at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the only formal domestic training school for state and local law enforcement to learn safe and effective bomb disposal operations. The added resources will support student travel, equipment, supplies, training materials, and explosives.

2002 Winter Olympics Support

$1.1 million to plan and provide security for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The resources requested will ensure that the FBI possesses the ability to adequately prepare the public safety infrastructure in Salt Lake City to both preempt and mitigate the potential for terrorist acts that may be directed at this major event.

Contract Guard Services

$600 thousand to hire 24-hour contract guard services for 3 additional field offices. As a result of the bombing incidents in New York and Oklahoma City, as well as threats of violence aimed at federal facilities and employees, the FBI is relocating field offices to sole tenant facilities to maintain an acceptable security risk level.

Office of Justice Programs

$31 million for costs associated with the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici (NLD) Domestic Preparedness Training Program (NLD). The program targets the 120 most populous cities, providing first responders with classroom training, various levels of practical exercise, and equipment and training aids to prepare for nuclear, biological, and chemical incidents. This Department of Defense (DoD) program, created in 1996, is proposed to be formally transferred to the Office of Justice Programs on October 1, 2000.

$17 million for the Counterterrorism Technology Program. Two specific proposals recommended by the National Security Council's Interagency Working Group on Weapons of Mass Destruction, include a chemical detection program and a personal and collective protection program, as well as continuing the NIJ's development of counterterrorism technologies.

$9 million for a Law Enforcement Training Program that will greatly expand the Law Enforcement Awareness Course; develop Tactical Operations Training Curricula for state and local SWAT and tactical teams in cooperation with the Hazardous Materials Response Unit of the FBI; expand a training program in order to train the 3,300 sheriffs nationwide; and, develop a new course for senior command staff in sheriffs' and police departments.

$6 million to provide technical assistance to state and local communities for domestic preparedness. OJP plans to provide technical assistance for each of the jurisdictions receiving equipment grants and to other jurisdictions for needs such as developing or refining emergency response plans to incorporate planning for terrorist incidents.

$3 million, primarily for OJP to expand the First Responder Equipment Acquisition Program, which will provide a total of $78 million to the nation's largest jurisdictions to pay for such things as HAZMAT suits for firefighters and emergency medical personnel; decontamination equipment; and, equipment to detect chemical, biological, and radiological threats.

$2 million for OJP to expand training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) at Fort McClellan, Alabama, which is expected to train 2,000 first responders in 2001. This center provides specialized advanced training, including live agent training, to state and local emergency first responders.

General Administration

$1 million and 10 positions in the Office of Intelligence and Policy Review (OIPR) to handle counterterrorism work and reviews requests for surveillance or searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Criminal Division

$210 thousand and 3 positions for the Office of Enforcement Operations (OEO) to address victim assistance needs related to the Pan Am 103 case and other terrorist-related assistance requirements in the future. In addition, the Division is seeking funds to improve its capacity to properly service the rising number of witnesses.

$92 thousand and 1 attorneys to support the Terrorism and Violent Crime Section's work related to the Five-Year Interagency Counterterrorism and Technology Crime Plan. This position is necessary to provide coordination and planning among the Justice Department and government-wide components.

ENFORCING CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS

The Justice Department is the chief enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws. Through the enforcement efforts of the Civil Rights Division, the United States Attorney Offices, and the FBI, the Justice Department seeks to protect civil rights and liberties guaranteed to all Americans. The FY 2001 budget requests a total civil rights enforcement budget of $107.8 million, a $16 million increase in civil rights funding. The request represents a 19 percent increase over the FY 2000 enacted level of $82.2 million and a 41 percent increase over the 1999 enacted level of $69.3 million.

The additional resources will enable the Civil Rights Division to continue prosecuting criminal civil rights cases; encourage continued compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; promote compliance with the nation's fair housing, lending and employment laws; protect the rights of institutionalized persons; and expand so-called "pattern or practice" investigations and prosecutions.

Civil Rights Division

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

$2.3 million and 12 attorneys to increase the Division's ability to enforce the ADA, including: (1) addressing an increasing number of complaints filed under Title II and Title III of the ADA; (2) addressing increasing litigation caseload anticipated for FY 2001, including employment cases referred to the Department by the EEOC; (3) expanding efforts to certify that state and local building codes meet ADA requirements; (4) providing technical assistance and outreach to assist small business and law enforcement officials in meeting ADA requirements; and (5) ensuring that persons confined in public institutions have adequate mental health services.

Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act

$1.8 million and 11 positions (5 attorneys) to help review the various redistricting and

other voting changes that will result from the 2000 Census.

Civil Enforcement of "Pattern or Practice" Police Misconduct

$656 thousand and 5 positions (3 attorneys) to investigate allegations of widespread misconduct or other discriminatory practices or policies by law enforcement agencies.

Criminal Civil Rights Actions

$482 thousand and 8 positions (5 attorneys) to enhance the Division's ability to investigate and prosecute civil rights violations such as hate crimes, police misconduct, and violence against health care providers.

Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons

$389 thousand and 3 positions (2 attorneys) to further protect the rights of nursing home residents, juveniles in detention and correctional institutions and residents in mental health facilities. This request will and help strengthen the Justice Department's ability to monitor settlements to ensure compliance.

Fundamental Opportunities

The Civil Rights Division requires additional resources to expand programs which seek to protect basic civil rights. These enhancements will provide resources necessary for improvements in the following areas:

$1.3 million to provide litigations support to the Civil Rights Division.

$530 thousand and 8 positions (5 attorneys) to enable the Division to address new legislative requirements under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act.

$250 thousand for computer software and technical support to assist the Division's Housing Section in its review of records of lending institutions.

$189 thousand and 3 positions (2 attorneys) to address the influx of employment discrimination cases anticipated as a result of streamlining operations at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

$189 thousand and 3 positions (2 attorneys) to attack in-school segregation, insuring that desegregation has been achieved.

$189 thousand and 3 positions (2 attorneys) to provide training to federal agencies and state and local governments on the legal requirements and investigatory techniques applicable under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

$143 thousand and 2 attorneys to handle civil rights appeals.

Administrative Support

$441 thousand and 13 positions are required to maintain adequate levels of administrative support to the Division's litigating sections. Additional resources will provide support in areas such as financial management, litigation support, information technology and human resources.

Community Relations Service

$2.35 million and 30 positions for CRS to dispatch conflict resolution experts to communities experiencing racial conflict and community unrest.

Office of Justice Programs

$2.1 million to support the Police Use of Force Program Initiative -- a comprehensive program to address the appropriate use of controlling techniques by law enforcement officers when dealing with citizens. Of this amount, $1.2 million is requested to continue collecting and analyzing data on use of force from local police agencies, and to acquire more extensive data on police-citizen encounters based on the results of the 1999 Police-Public Contact Survey. $900 thousand is sought to develop a national survey of the current state of research on police use of force training and policies.

$1.25 million from existing Byrne Discretionary program funding for a Hate Crime Initiative, including $1 million to train state, local, and federal criminal practitioners, $200 thousand to develop partnerships at various levels of government to respond to hate crimes and to disseminate successful program strategies, and $50 thousand to partner with public and private organizations to develop public service announcements to combat hate crimes.

$1 million is requested for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to develop and implement a program to produce a method of annually measuring the number of hate crimes. The funds will add a hate supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey to include questions about whether the crime victim believed the offender was motivated on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender.

$750 thousand, for BJS to help develop a national statistical program to gather data from law enforcement agencies about police-initiated traffic stops. The goal is to determine whether, and to what extent, such stops may be based upon legally inappropriate criteria such as "racial profiling."

$500 thousand to develop and monitor felony case processing information from a sample of jurisdictions to determine if there is a disparity in the way a defendant is treated based on their race or other non-legally relevant factors.

$300 thousand for BJS to formulate a method to collect data on the victimization of people with disabilities. This data collection effort is required under the Crime Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act, and will be incorporated into the National Crime Victimization Survey.

ENHANCING IMMIGRATION ACTIVITIES

The Justice Department is charged with enforcing immigration laws by securing the nation's borders from illegal immigration and expediting the legal flow of commerce and people into the United States. Coupled with these duties is the Justice Department's role in providing benefits to non-citizens seeking services, and ensuring that these services are delivered in a fair, timely, and consistent manner.

The Justice Department has been instrumental in reversing decades of neglect along the southwest border and has added technology and barriers along the northern border in an aggressive border management strategy. Since 1993, this strategy has added more than 5,400 new Border Patrol agents over 136 percent higher than the 1993 level. The Justice Department's FY 2001 budget includes $439.3 million in new funding for federal immigration, including fee accounts, and $600 million for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). The total FY 2001 request seeks $4.81 billion for immigration-related activities.

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Border Management

$72 million for INS' border management initiative which includes resources to add 430 new Border Patrol agents ($52 million). Additionally, $20 million is requested for the Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System (ISIS) a force-multiplying technology, consisting of an interlocking system of buried ground sensors, day and night-vision surveillance cameras, and a computer system that links ground sensors with the cameras via global positioning satellite technology.

$5 million, from the Assets Forfeiture Fund Super Surplus, to continue efforts to integrate two fingerprint systems, INS's two print IDENT system, and the FBI's ten print IAFIS system. In FY 2001, the Department will continue designing and developing the Integrated FBI/INS Fingerprint Identification System, including the possibility of pilot testing a new FBI Federal Lookout File. It will also finish assessing the impact on the Border Patrol of ten-printing individuals at border stations.

$22.3 million for 269 new Immigration Inspectors to staff 3 new ports of entry that will open in Texas during FY 2000 (87 Inspectors). 28 inspectors will handle the increased workload associated with the expedited removal process at land ports of entry, and 154 inspectors will be stationed at international airports. These positions will be funded from user fees.

Pay Reform

$69.9 million for a Border Patrol agent and Immigration Inspector Pay Reform package, of which $56 million is requested from appropriated resources, and of which $13.9 million will come from user fees. In FY 2001, INS proposes to upgrade the journeyman grade levels of its Border Patrol agent and Immigration Inspector job series and modify overtime provisions for Border Patrol agents. Resources are also requested to fund more aggressive recruitment and hiring initiatives.

Construction

$51.3 million to construct and maintain new Border Patrol stations and Sector headquarters to accommodate the growing number of agents being deployed. Additionally, resources will be used to augment the existing network of border barriers in the San Diego area ($3.3 million).

Immigration Services

$80 million to be derived from establishing a premium application processing service for business-related applicants. Business applicants choosing this service will be assessed a $1,000 fee, and the application will be processed within 15 days. Of the total anticipated receipts, $55 million will be deposited into the new Immigration Services Capital Investment Account, and $25 million will remain in the Examinations Fee account to support the additional staff to process these applications, as well as to support application anti-fraud efforts.

$75 million generated in new receipts from the re-authorization of Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Re-authorizing this provision permits aliens -- who otherwise are required to return to their home country to adjust their immigration status -- to remain in the U.S., provided they pay a penalty fee to do so. Anticipated receipts will be split between the Breached Bond/Detention Fund, and the Capital Investment Account described below.

$34.8 million in appropriated resources to capitalize the new Capital Investment Account. This account is established to support the capital requirements associated with benefits applications processing. Additional resources for this account will be derived from re-authorizing Section 245(i) ($37.5 million), noted above, and from the proposed Premium Processing Fee ($55 million), also noted above. The total FY 2001 Capital Investment Account resource level totals $127.5 million.

Support --Functions

$10.1 million to hire additional staff (60 positions) at INS' Burlington, Vermont, Debt Management Center and the Dallas, Texas Finance Center ($3.3 million). More staffing (30 positions) is sought to handle the rapid growth at the Administrative Service Center and to address a staffing shortfall in the Legal Proceedings program (50 positions; $4.8 million).

Executive Office for Immigration Review

$5 million for the Executive Office for Immigration Review to keep pace with the increased workload.

United States Attorneys

$3.8 million to aggressively enforce the immigration statutes by prosecuting illegal aliens, including aliens who, after deportation, attempt to reenter or are found in the U.S. illegally; alien smugglers and alien smuggling organizations; and, those who produce, distribute or sell false identifications.

Office of Justice Programs

$15 million in increased funding to reimburse state and local governments for the cost of incarcerating criminal illegal aliens. The requested funding will bring the total amount of reimbursements to $600 million.

FIGHTING CRIME THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Just as society as a whole has become dependent on highly sophisticated technology, so, too, must law enforcement. The FY 2001 budget includes an additional $358 million for federal information resources management software and hardware, wiretapping systems, cryptology equipment, DNA collection efforts and on-going research and development projects, and data driven crime control strategies. This funding will improve the information sharing abilities of the Justice Department and upgrade much needed legal and management tools. The budget also increases support for upgrades in federal wireless communications systems, including improved efficiency in the use of federal spectrum assigned to law enforcement. Highlights include:

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

$225 million in new resources for a total of $240 million for the Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund (TCCF) to continue reimbursing the telecommunications industry for certain costs associated with modifying their networks. Of this total, $120 million will be sought by each the Justice Department and the Department of Defense in recognition of CALEA's contribution to national security activities.

$2.1 million in the FBI's budget to test and verify the technical solutions proposed by manufacturers under CALEA and to acquire subject matter expertise needed to address new technologies that must comply with CALEA.

Drug Enforcement Administration

FIREBIRD

$56 million and 2 positions to support the FIREBIRD operational requirements. As DEA's primary office automation infrastructure, FIREBIRD supports the full spectrum of DEA's global operations. These funds will support continued deployment of the FIREBIRD system worldwide, preserve the operational capability, security and integrity of the already-deployed units.

El Paso Intelligence Center

$1.5 million to enhance the El Paso Intelligence Center's (EPIC) Information System which collects, distributes and analyzes sensitive intelligence data on worldwide drug movements and organizations.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Information Sharing Initiative (ISI)

$40.84 million and 15 positions to continue implementing the FBIs information sharing initiative. Of the total, $40 million in new funds, plus $20 million of base funds, will help the FBI upgrade its wide area network and local area network, its enterprise network management system, and its Intranet. These resources, plus previous funding provided, will result in a total of $140 million in nonpersonnel funding for ISI implementation.

Digital Collection Systems

$25.3 million and 4 positions to ensure the FBI's ability to conduct lawful intercepts in a digital telecommunications environment. This multi-year initiative will allow the FBI to replace analog systems in all 56 field offices with digital technology.

$10 million from the Assets Forfeiture Fund Super Surplus, to support a multi-year automated information initiative to store and manage lawfully collected electronic surveillance intelligence and evidentiary material among FBI field offices. This system will enable agents to access evidence from remote locations consistent with security and privacy concerns.

Telecommunications Services/Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Circuits

$14.33 million to fund the annual leased costs associated with the Justice Consolidated Network's ATM circuits, which process high volumes of multimedia information.

Counterencryption

$7 million to provide the necessary tools to law enforcement so it can intercept encrypted communications, when it has obtained court authorization to do so.

Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database

$5.34 million and 5 positions and to start-up and implement the Federal Offenders Database. The resources will allow the FBI, with the assistance of other federal agencies, to collect and type approximately 20,000 DNA samples, and 5,000 DNA samples annually thereafter, from persons convicted of violent crimes in federal courts. Currently, there is no federal-level collection program.

Digital Body Recorders

$2 million to provide digital body recorders in all field offices in place of analog body recorders. The ability to deploy digital body recorders to the field allows the FBI to maintain a valuable investigative technology that is used in a high percentage of criminal cases, and produces evidence that may not otherwise be obtained.

General Administration

$88.6 million to comply with the requirement that all federal spectrum users narrow by one-half the bandwidth used to transmit radio signals.

PROTECTING INDIAN COUNTRY

Homicide and violent crime rates on Indian lands are rising, even as crime rates in the rest of the country fall. The FY 2001 budget proposes an additional $82 million to fund public safety programs on Indian land. The money is to be used to increase the number of fully trained and equipped police officers in Indian country; improve the quality of the criminal justice system, including courts and detention facilities; enhance substance abuse programs; and combat tribal youth crime. Budget highlights include:

Office of Justice Programs

$10 million for OJP's Indian Tribal Courts Program, bringing total funding to $15 million. This increase will fund many new grants to plan, maintain, and enhance tribal courts.

$10 million for the tribal portion of OJP's Zero Tolerance Drug Supervision Program. This initiative will provide discretionary grants to tribes for comprehensive drug testing and treatment programs and to implement graduated sanctions for individuals within the criminal justice system.

$8 million for an Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Diversion Program. Of this amount, $6.5 million will be used for grants to support tribal detention or probation-based projects to divert offenders who abuse alcohol and drugs to detoxification and halfway houses. Currently, many tribal criminal justice systems have minimal referral services available for court-mandated activities. The remaining funding will be used for training, technical assistance, research, evaluation, and data collection efforts.

$8 million to provide 57 Indian tribes with resources to develop or enhance programs to address tribal youth with mental health, behavioral, or alcohol and substance abuse problems. Additional funds will pay for a variety of training, technical assistance, research, evaluation, and data collection efforts.

$6 million for Tribal Criminal and Civil Legal Assistance. Of this total, $4.5 million will be used to provide Indian tribes, tribal consortia, and private/non-profit legal service organizations serving a reservation-based constituency the resources to develop or enhance their capacity to provide criminal and civil legal assistance. Another $1 million will be used to provide discretionary grants to the 31 existing Tribal Colleges to create, develop and enhance a two-year curriculum on paralegal studies, law advocate studies, indigenous justice systems or other areas directly related to criminal and civil legal assistance. The remaining funding will be used for training, technical assistance, research, evaluation, and data collection efforts.

$5 million to fund sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) units in Indian country, which will gather the evidence necessary for prosecuting sexual offenders. This funding will be used for a pilot project that would establish SANE units at 10 tribal sites.

$2 million to conduct a national census of tribal criminal justice agencies and related statistical activities. These efforts will offer a systematic understanding of how criminal matters are adjudicated and disposed of on Native American lands.

$12.5 million for Title V Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention (an increase of $7.5 million, for a total of $20 million) and $5 million for a tribal earmark in the Police Corps Program. These funds will support tribal juvenile justice systems and will provide additional training for tribal police officers.

Community Oriented Policing Services

$5 million for funding, training, and equipping additional Tribal uniformed officers (for a total of $45 million).

$5 million for grants to tribal authorities to improve their general forensic capabilities. This is part of the COPS request for crime fighting through technology.

United States Attorneys

$4.7 million and 60 positions (33 attorneys) to support innovative, community-based strategies aimed at reducing overall violent crime, violent gangs, and juvenile crime on Indian reservations.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Victim Witness Specialists

$2.60 million to hire and equip 31 Victim Witness Specialists (VWS) who would be assigned to resident agencies on or near Indian Country. The specialists will identify and assist all victims and witnesses of federal crimes in which the FBI is the primary investigative agency.

Indian Country Contract Forensic Examinations

$1.41 million for contracts with 3 accredited, full-service state crime laboratories to conduct forensic exams on Indian Country evidence gathered in the Minneapolis, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City field offices, which have accounted for more than 75 percent of Indian Country cases in the past five years.

State/Local Task Force Overtime

$634 thousand for overtime for tribal, state and local full time non-federal law enforcement officers on 10 to 12 Safe Trails Task Forces (STTFs). In many areas, a significant obstacle to participating on STTFs is the limited budgetary resources of tribal agencies to compensate officers for overtime.

General Administration

$932 thousand and 8 positions within the Office of the Associate Attorney General (OASG) to institutionalize the Office of Tribal Justice (OTJ) as an integral, ongoing component of the Department. The Justice Department has significant responsibilities towards Indian country, supporting the development of strong tribal law enforcement, tribal courts, and institutions of self-government.

Criminal Division

$70 thousand, and 1 position to assist the Criminal Division in continuing its role in developing the Presidential Initiative to Improve Law Enforcement in Indian Country and to ensure that the Justice Department will have an effective voice in law enforcement and policy matters in Indian Country.

LEGAL REPRESENTATION, ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAWS,
AND DEFENSE OF U.S. INTERESTS

As responsibilities and caseloads continue to expand, the Justice Department is seeking additional resources to prosecute unlawful activities, and protect the interests of the American people in court. The FY 2001 budget includes $32.2 million in new initiatives to perform its role as the nation's litigator.

Antitrust Division

Merger Enforcement Strategy

$8.05 million and 69 positions (23attorneys) to keep merger enforcement at a pace with burgeoning company mergers and with rapid technological advancements.

Civil Non-Merger Enforcement Strategy

$5.24 million and 44 positions (16 attorneys) to ensure the Antitrust Division's capacity to appropriately conduct civil non-merger enforcement as outlined under section 1 of the Sherman Act, including group boycotts and exclusive dealing arrangements.

International Criminal Cartel Investigations

$7.57 million and 63 positions (21 attorneys) to maintain its prosecutorial efforts against price fixing, bid rigging, and horizontal customer and territorial allocations. As industries undergo global restructuring, these schemes are becoming more prevalent and complex.

International Agreements

$94 thousand and 1 attorney position to handle an increasing workload related to existing and new international enforcement agreements.

United States Attorneys

Defensive Civil Litigation

$5.7 million to prepare for and defend civil lawsuits against the United States and to promote effective defense of lawsuits through training and efficient use of resources in order to protect public funds and programs, policy initiatives and statutes.

Environment and Natural Resources Division

Defending Civil Environmental Laws and the Public Fisc

$1.15 million and 8 attorneys to support the Environment and Natural Resources Division's efforts to defend federal programs and regulations. These funds will support ENRD's increased workload associated with protecting multi-billion dollar Army and Department of Energy programs designed to store, transport, and destruct hazardous materials; defending the largest and most complex Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act defensive matters; handling challenges to the Endangered Species Act; and, increasing participation in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Enforcing and Prosecuting Environmental Laws

$988 thousand and 7 attorneys to address an expanding civil enforcement caseload, increase attention to criminal environmental matters, and protect Indian land claims.

Tax Division

International Tax Compliance Initiative

$500 thousand and 7 attorneys to enhance the Tax Division's the ability to expose and attack the use of illegal tax evasion offshore schemes. The use of the Internet and other electronic technology makes the promotion and use of foreign trusts and other offshore schemes easier to accomplish and more popular, as well as more difficult to detect.

Abusive Trust Initiative

$500 thousand and 6 attorneys to provide resources to prosecute and combat the use of illegal domestic trusts. These additional funds will be used to stop the substantial increase in the number of taxpayers utilizing trusts in an attempt to avoid or limit their federal tax liabilities.

Litigation Support

$1 million to support the use of automated litigation tools which will decrease the amount of time necessary to complete document-intensive trials, allow attorneys and paralegals to analyze large volumes of documents quickly and more thoroughly, and prepare the Division for electronic court filings.

Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)

The Justice Department strongly endorses the use of ADR to resolve conflicts, which reduces costly litigation. In 2001, additional resources are requested for ADR activities.

$1.35 million, of which $350 thousand will be used to promote the use of ADR to resolve conflicts and cut costly litigation. $350 thousand will be used to establish a full operating budget for the Office of Dispute Resolution, which oversees ADR activities within the Justice Department and disperses funding to appropriate litigating components to pay ADR costs. Another $1 million will double the amount available within the Fees and Expenses of Witness appropriation for ADR expenses.

Office of Legal Counsel

$93 thousand and 1 position to assist the Office of Legal Council in its legal review of Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) legal documents designed to implement Presidential decisions or transmit Presidential requests in emergency situations.

OTHER INITIATIVES TO ADVANCE THE NATION'S
CRIME FIGHTING CAPACITY

In addition to the special initiatives, the Justice Department's FY 2001 budget includes $88.5 million for other enhancements.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Health Care Fraud Enforcement

$12 million and 48 positions (30 agents) to allow the FBI to continue combating health care fraud. In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the FBI will receive $88 million in FY 2001 for healthcare fraud investigations through the Health Care Fraud Abuse Control Account (HCFAC).

Training

$6.5 million and 4 positions to provide essential training resources to fully utilize the FBI Academy space, to provide technical and analytic training to agents and other professionals, and to continue development of interactive multi-media training courses.

Language Translation

$5 million to contract additional linguist support so that investigators can analyze intelligence in foreign languages.

Criminal Confidential Funds

$2.1 million to pay for costs associated with undercover operations, such as renting space, maintaining vehicles for surveillance needs and covering travel expenses.

Firing Range Modernization

$1.9 million to continue construction efforts at the FBI Academy firing range. This funding would provide for the relocation and consolidation of an ammunition storage facility to support FBI and DEA firearms training, and alleviate environmental concerns associated with the accumulation of lead at existing outdoor ranges.

United States Attorneys

$12.3 million to provide the information technology equipment and staff to support large case document files, email among all US attorneys' offices and other Justice Department components, as well as general office automation needs.

$5 million to support efforts by the US Attorneys' to ensure the payment of child support to custodial parents.

Drug Enforcement Administration

$3.9 million and 24 positions to enhance DEA's financial and resource management oversight functions. These resources will allow DEA to fund ongoing needs for their Federal Financial System (FFS) and become fully compliant with accepted federal financial management practices.

United States Marshals Service

$1.42 million and 32 positions to allow USMS the capability to improve financial operations, increase financial oversight and policy compliance, and provide daily systems maintenance and support to the accounting system.

Office of Justice Programs

$7.35 million and 220 positions to manage and administer OJP and COPS programs. The administrative funding will be used to staff a number of initiatives, including International Research, Forensics Sciences, Justice On-Line Information Exchange, ADAM, the White Collar Crime Information Center, Police Use of Force, Child Abuse and Neglect, Zero Tolerance Drug Supervision Program, Drug Courts, and Mental Health of Offenders. It will also provide new staffing to handle the COP's Office's workload.

$7.25 million for the Violence Against Women Civil Legal Assistance Program, which will provide a total of $35.25 million for collaborative efforts involving the legal community (including legal services providers, law school clinics, and pro bono programs) and the domestic violence victims advocacy community.

$4.8 million for the Public Safety Officers Dependants Education Assistance Program. This funding will allow OJP to extend this program to the dependents of state and local public safety officers who have been killed or disabled in the line of duty, consistent with legislation now pending before Congress.

$1.4 million to establish an International Crime Research Program to support the goals of the President's International Crime Control Strategy. This program will help to assist justice agencies in emerging democracies and facilitate the sharing of knowledge with law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners and researchers both in the United States and abroad.

$1 million for BJS to conduct a national study tracking the justice system's handling of domestic violence cases. For the first time, data from the 75 largest counties in the United States will be gathered, tracking domestic violence cases through the justice system: from arrest, through prosecution, to conviction and sentencing.

$500 thousand for the On-line Collection and Analysis of Information initiative to begin converting existing paper-based collections of administrative data from state and local units of government to Internet-based, paperless collection programs, as well as substantially upgrading current BJS web-based data dissemination efforts.

$48 thousand for the Missing and Exploited Children's Program. This funding will allow for the updating and reprinting of important publications.

Criminal Division

International Crime

$1.2 million and 14 positions (7 attorneys) to support the division's fight against international crime.

Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund

$13.73 million in total to support the mission of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act's which provides for an apology and monetary compensation for specific diseases to underground uranium miners, persons who participated onsite in atmospheric nuclear tests or individuals downwind of the Nevada Test Site.