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[1] So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”.
§ 3796gg–10. Grants to Indian tribal governments
(a)
Grants
The Attorney General may make grants to Indian tribal governments and tribal organizations to—
(1)
develop and enhance effective governmental strategies to curtail violent crimes against and increase the safety of Indian women consistent with tribal law and custom;
(2)
increase tribal capacity to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking crimes against Indian women;
(3)
strengthen tribal justice interventions including tribal law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation, [1] correctional facilities;
(4)
enhance services to Indian women victimized by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking;
(5)
work in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward issues of domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking programs and to address the needs of children exposed to domestic violence;
(6)
provide programs for supervised visitation and safe visitation exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking committed by one parent against the other with appropriate security measures, policies, and procedures to protect the safety of victims and their children; and
(7)
provide transitional housing for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including rental or utilities payments assistance and assistance with related expenses such as security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing, and support services to enable a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking to locate and secure permanent housing and integrate into a community.
(b)
Collaboration
All applicants under this section shall demonstrate their proposal was developed in consultation with a nonprofit, nongovernmental Indian victim services program, including sexual assault and domestic violence victim services providers in the tribal or local community, or a nonprofit tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalition to the extent that they exist. In the absence of such a demonstration, the applicant may meet the requirement of this subsection through consultation with women in the community to be served.
(c)
Nonexclusivity
The Federal share of a grant made under this section may not exceed 90 percent of the total costs of the project described in the application submitted, except that the Attorney General may grant a waiver of this match requirement on the basis of demonstrated financial hardship. Funds appropriated for the activities of any agency of an Indian tribal government or of the Bureau of Indian Affairs performing law enforcement functions on any Indian lands may be used to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of programs or projects funded under this section.
[1] So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”.
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