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B-195269 1 (1979-10-15)

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Dear Mra MeClory;
    This !s in response to your request that we determine whether, In
;,undIng its Urban Crine Prevention program, the Law£rorcemont
Asu in.tauc .,Administraton (LJEAA) acted Impropery,. We find no Irregun
    lt i .L'-A'LI funding of the ProgramV,


    The Urban Crime
Carter in a March 27,
The President Ovid he


Prlvontion Program was announced by Presiaent
1975s messgo to the Congress on urbAn policy,


      * * add $1o m-i1ion in now VOsotwces to Oxsting effort9
     in the Law Enf''cetr-ent AsnisitancesAdntnstratin for a
     P.ogram. operated Jointly by ACTION and JAA , iUnder
     tils Pogr, omayor's1 and local nelighborhoodg roups
     S* ' ,. de_ lap comunity crime Provention progras
Examptee of the types of progran efenvisioned we , 'scortaervbces for.
the elderly, centers to alsist crime victims-,, and heighborg0  watch
wroups, 14 Weekly Comp, ProsD .c. 5o92 (1978),


  un -.-may 310,41978s LEAA t• .... ... . .to  .'                    a
        .        97   L  A trasmitted to the cognizant congresjp1i ,
 committees an amendrnont to its FY3979 b'zdge- requegt, asking for the
 appropriation of an additional $109millio for the Urban Crime .Prvention
 fr'zogra mn, The arneillod                  or he            /     th
 bgthTh    e amendcrn ptte  a_,oparently arrived too late to be contsijtred
         by.heous  oee tWever, the Senate Committee considered
the amendment and added the requested $10 million to its verso :of the
bill, So Rep,   o o'*95-043, 33-34 (1978). In conference, the ationaj
5   million wvas removed fron the bilj, The Conference Report itn
Rop, No. 95-1565 (1978)), recited:h

   Funds requested for an urban crime prevention program
   are not within the amount recommended by the conferees.
   The conferaes feel this item neede further review and
   wcvuld suggost consideration of the request In Onjuntion
   with other programs In the ,-i adentle urban proposal.
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