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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 2104

42 USC 3701.

PUBLIC LAW 98-473—OCT. 12, 1984 (1) the nature and extent of such emergency throughout a State or in any part of a State, (2) the situation or extraordinary circumstances which produced such emergency, (3) the availability of State and local criminal justice resources to resolve the problem, (4) the cost associated with the increased Federal presence, (5) the need to avoid unnecessary Federal involvement and intervention in matters primarily of State and local concern, and (6) any assistance which the State or other appropriate unit of government has received, or could receive, under any provision of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. DEFINITIONS

42 USC 10502.

SEC. 609N. For purposes of this subdivision— (1) the term "Federal law enforcement assistance" means funds, equipment, training, intelligence information, and personnel, (2) the term "Federal law enforcement community" means the heads of the following departments or agencies: (A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation, (B) the Drug Enforcement Administration, (C) the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, (D) the Internal Revenue Service, (E) the Customs Service, (F) the Immigration and Naturalization Service, (G) the United States Marshals Service, (H) the National Park Service, (I) the United States Postal Service, (J) the Secret Service, (K) the Coast Guard, (L) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and (M) other Federal agencies with specific statutory authority to investigate violations of Federal criminal laws, (3) the term "law enforcement emergency" means an uncommon situation which requires law enforcement, which is or threatens to become of serious or epidemic proportions, and with respect to which State and local resources are inadequate to protect the lives and property of citizens or to enforce the criminal law, except that such term does not include— (A) the perceived need for planning or other activities related to crowd control for general public safety projects, or (B) a situation requiring the enforcement of laws associated with scheduled public events, including political conventions and sports events, and (4) the term "State" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.