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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 1602

Training and technical assistance.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980

which has not been recommended by the Governor of a State, the Secretary shall notify the Governor of the State in which such entity is located of the application and shall provide the Governor and other interested persons a reasonable opportunity for a hearing on the application. (b) The Secretary may make grants to any public or nonprofit private entity for the provision of training and technical assistance for entities carrying out projects to protect and advocate the rights of mentally ill individuals. (c) No grant may be made under subsection (a) or (b) unless an application therefor is submitted to and approved by the Secretary. The application shall be submitted in such form and manner, and shall contain such information, as the Secretary may prescribe. (d) For grants under subsections (a) and (b), there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, $12,500,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984. Not more than 10 percent and not less than 5 percent of the amount appropriated under this subsection for any fiscal year shall be obligated for grants under subsection (b). TITLE VI—RAPE PREVENTION AND CONTROL RAPE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

42 USC 9511.

Study and investigation.

Summaries, publication. Report to Congress.

SEC. 601. (a) The Secretary, acting through the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Center"), may, directly or by grant, carry out the following: (1) A continuing study of rape, including a study and investigation of— (A) the effectiveness of existing Federal, State, and local laws dealing with rape; (B) the relationship, if any, between traditional legal and social attitudes toward sexual roles, the act of rape, and the formulation of laws dealing with rape; (C) the treatment of the victims of rape by law enforcement agencies, hospitals or other medical institutions, prosecutors, and the courts; (D) the causes of rape, identifying to the degree possible— (i) social conditions which encourage sexual attacks, and (ii) the motives of offenders, and (E) the impact of rape on the victim and family of the victim; (F) sexual assaults in correctional institutions; (G) the estimated actual incidence of forcible rape as compared to the reported incidence of forcible rape and the reasons for any difference between the two; and (H) the effectiveness of existing private and local and State government educational, counseling, and other programs designed to prevent and control rape. (2) The compilation, analysis, and publication of summaries of the continuing study conducted under paragraph (1) and the research and demonstration projects conducted under paragraph (5). The Secretary shall submit not later than March 30, 1983, to the Congress a summary of such study and projects together with a review of their effectiveness and recommendations where appropriate.