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PUBLIC LAW 106-572—DEC. 28, 2000 114 STAT. 3059 (B) the unlawful damaging, destroying, altering, deleting, removing of computer software, or data contained in a computer, computer system, computer program, or computer network; or (C) the unlawful interference with the operation of or denial of access to a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network; (2) an assessment of the State and local resource needs, including criminal justice resources being devoted to the investigation and enforcement of computer crime laws; and (3) a plan for coordinating the programs funded under this section with other federally funded technical assistant and training programs, including directly funded local programs such as the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program (described under the heading "Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance" of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-119)). (d) MATCHING FUNDS. —The Federal share of a grant received under this section may not exceed 90 percent of the costs of a program or proposal funded under this section unless the Attorney General waives, wholly or in part, the requirements of this subsection. (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (1) IN GENERAL. —There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2004. (2) LIMITATIONS.—Of the amount made available to carry out this section in any fiscal year not more than 3 percent may be used by the Attorney General for salaries and administrative expenses. (3) MINIMUM AMOUNT. — Unless all eligible applications submitted by any State or unit of local government within such State for a grant under this section have been funded, such State, together with grantees within the State (other than Indian tribes), shall be allocated in each fiscal year under this section not less than 0.75 percent of the total amount appropriated in the fiscal year for grants pursuant to this section, except that the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands each shall be allocated 0.25 percent. (f) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES. —Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Attorney General may use amounts