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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 3464

PUBLIC LAW 95-624—NOV. 9, 1978

(2) a report on the status of the Federal Prison Industries. Employment and (b) The report made under this section shall include a long-range training for plan for the improvement of meaningful employment training, and prisoners. ^he methods which could be undertaken to employ a greater number of United States prisoners in the program. Such report may include recommendations for legislation. SKC. 11. Notwithstanding the second of the paragraphs relating to salaries and expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1973 (86 Stat. 1115), sums authorized to be appropriated by this Act for such salaries and expenses may be used for the purposes described in such paragraph until but not later than the end of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979. SEC. 12. In addition to any other sums authorized by this Act to be ' appropriated for the activities of the Federal Prison System, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 to bring the facilities of the Federal Prison System into compliance with fire safety standards of the localities in which such facilities are loca<^ed. Not later than one hundred and eighty days after the appropriation of sums authorized for this purpose, the Federal Bureau of Prisons shall report to the Congress the extent to which such facilities have complied with such Standards. Such report shall describe the purposes for which sums authorized to be appropriated have been or are to be expended. Report to SEC. 13. (a) The Attorney General shall, during the fiscal year for Congress. which appropriations are authorized by this Act, transmit a report to 28 USC 519 note, each House of the Congress in any case in which the Attorney General— (1) establishes a policy to refrain from the enforcement of any provision of law enacted by the Congress, the enforcement of which is the responsibility of the Department of Justice, because of the position of the Department of Justice that such provision of law is not constitutional; or (2) determines that the Department of Justice will contest, or will refrain from defending, any provision of law enacted by the Congress in any proceeding before any court of the United States, or in any administrative or other proceeding, because of the position of the Department of Justice that such provision of law is not constitutional. (b) Any report required in subsection (a) shall be transmitted not later than thirty days after the Attorney General establishes the policy specified in subsection (a)(1) or makes the determination specified in subsection (a)(2). Each such report shall— Hi « (1) specify the provision of law involved; (2) include a detailed statement of the reasons for the position of the Department of Justice that such provision of law is not constitutional; and (3) in the case of a determination specified in subsection (a)(2), indicate the nature of the judicial, administrative, or other proceeding involved. (c) If, during the fiscal year for which appropriations are authorized by this Act, the Attorney General determines that the Department of Justice will contest, or will refrain from defending, any provision of law enacted by the Congress in any proceeding before any court of the United States, or in any administrative or other proceedj ing, because of the position of the Department of Justice that such