Instructions For Appropriation Language Changes - Department Of Justice Form

2010 APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE CHANGES

Department of Justice

The information provided below describes substantive changes from the Department of Justice

Appropriations Act for 2009. Also, changes such as new funding levels, changes in the number of motor

vehicles, changes in references to fiscal years, and deletion of references to emergency funding

designations and prior year rescissions are not discussed.

Program

Language Changes

Adds language to allow for the transfer of Post-GTMO Activities funding to other Department

General Administration,

of Justice accounts. Deletes language regarding transfer authority to clarify that within the GA

Salaries and Expenses

appropriation, movement of funds constitutes a reprogramming and not a transfer.

National Drug Intelligence

Adds language providing funding for the National Drug Intelligence Center as an

Center

appropriation within the Department of Justice.

Deletes the language directing a funding transfer back to OPM because this transfer will not

General Legal Activities

occur for 2010.

United States Attorneys,

Deletes the language requiring $33,600,000 to hire Assistant U.S. Attorneys to carry out

Salaries and Expenses

section 704 of the Adam Walsh Act of 2006.

United States Marshals

Decreases funding for official reception and representation expenses.

Service

Fees and Expenses of

Requests additional authority to compensate for the increase in support for information

Witnesses

technology costs.

Assets Forfeiture Fund

Adds language to permanently cancel unobligated balances of $285,000,000.

Bureau of Alcohol,

Adds not to exceed language to $10,000,000 no-year authority; Changes the language to allow

Tobacco, Firearms and

federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies or federal, state, and local prosecutors

Explosives

wider use of firearms trace data.

Adds Salaries and Expenses heading to provide for necessary expenses for management and

administration.

For Justice Assistance: Adds the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974

and the Second Chance Act of 2007 to the list of Authorizations; Adds language to include

criminal justice statistics programs and other activities as authorized by title I of part C of the

1968 Act; Adds language that provides funding for the Statewide Victim Notification System

of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; Adds language that provides funding for the Regional

Information Sharing System as authorized by part M of title I of the 1968 Act; Adds language

that provides funding for the Missing Children’s Program as authorized by sections 404(b) and

405(a) of the 1974 Act; Deletes language that amended 42 U.S.C. 10603; Moves the Salaries

and Expenses account to its own heading.

For State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance: Adds the Second Chance Act of 2007and

the Brady Act of 1993 to the list of Authorizations; Deletes language that provided funding to

reimburse State and Local law enforcement for security and related costs for the Presidential

Office of Justice Programs

transition and inauguration; ; Deletes language that provided funding for State Criminal Alien

Assistance Program; Deletes language that provided funding for the Northern Border

Prosecutor Initiative; Deletes language that provided funding for Missing Alzheimer’s Disease

Patient Alert; Deletes language that provided funding for Drug Courts solely and mental health

courts solely and adds language that provides funding for drug, mental health, and problem

solving courts; Deletes language providing funding for grants for wrongful prosecution review;

Deletes language which specifies amounts for each initiative under assistance to Indian tribes;

Deletes language that provided funding for economic, high technology, and Internet crime

prevention grants; Deletes language that requires funding used to increase law enforcement

officers result in a net gain in the number of law enforcement officers performing non-

administrative public safety service; Adds language that provides funding for competitive

grants including funding for SMART Office activities.

For Juvenile Justice: Deletes language for grants and projects authorized by sections 261 and

262 of the 1974 Act; Adds language providing funds for community-based violence prevention

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Instructions For Appropriation Language Changes - Department Of Justice Form - 2010

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