5 1 full- or part-time community-based residential facilities for 2 youths requiring residential care, diagnosis, treatment, or 3 rehabilitation. 5 SEC. 121. The Secretary is authorized, with the con6 currence of the Attorney General, to make grants to any 7 public agency for projects or programs for diagnosing, treatSing, and rehabilitating youths who have been determined to 9 be delinquent by courts, police departments, or other cor10 rectional, law enforcement, or welfare agencies. 11 12 APPLICATIONS SEC. 122. Grants under this part may be made only 13 upon application by a State, county, municipal, or other 14 public agency which contains or is accompanied by assur ances satisfactory to the Secretary that 15 (1) (A) such agency will provide to the extent feasible for coordinating, on a continuing basis, of its operations with the operations of agencies or organizations furnishing welfare, education, health, mental health. recreation, job training, job placement, correction, and other basic services in the community for youth; (B) such agency will make reasonable efforts to secure or provide any of such services which are neces sary for such youth and which are not otherwise being provided in the community; and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 6 (C) maximum use will be made under the pro gram or project of other Federal, State, or local resources available for provision of such services; (D) public and private agencies and organizations providing the services referred to in paragraph (1) (A) (including police, courts, and other agencies involved in the youth correction process) will be consulted in the formulation by the applicant of the project or program for carrying out the purposes of this part, with a view not only to formulation of a project or program which takes account of the services and expertise of such agen cies and organizations, but also to adapting such serv ices to the better fulfillment of the purposes of this Act with respect to youths in the community described in section 121. 16 Such application shall contain such other information as the Secretary finds necessary to determine whether or not to approve the application, including (3) a description of the services for youths described in section 121 which are available in the com munity; (4) a statement of the method or methods of link ing the agencies and organizations, public and private, providing these and other services; and (5) a showing that the project or program is con 7 1 2 3 4 5 sistent with any comprehensive plans applicable to the community under the Safe Streets and Crime Control Act of 1967. CONSIDERATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS SEC. 123. In determining whether or not to approve 6 applications for grants under section 121, the Secretary shall 7 consider, among other relevant factors in the community of 8 the applicant (1) the relative costs and effectiveness of the proj ect or program in effectuating the purposes of this part; (2) the incidence of crime, particularly youth offenses and juvenile delinquency; (3) school dropout rates; (4) the adequacy of facilities and services for carrying out the purposes of this part; and (5) the extent of comprehensive planning in the community for carrying out the purposes of this part. USE OF FUNDS SEC. 124. Funds paid to an applicant agency under this part may be used for (1) meeting the cost of securing or providing services, for diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of youths referred to in section 121, which the Secretary pre scribes as essential for the purposes of this part, but only to the extent and for the period reasonably neces 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 8 sary for the community to secure or provide these services from other sources, and (2) meeting the cost of construction of unusual, and special purpose or innovative, types of facilities which, in the judgment of the Secretary, are necessary to the program for carrying out the purposes of this part, such as (A) combination detention and diagnostic facilities for delinquent youth, (B) half-way houses for youths who because of special behavioral problems have a high risk of becoming delinquent or who have been determined to be delinquent and are not yet ready for full return to society, and (C) sinall, special-purpose, residential, community-based facilities for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of youths who are in or under the control or supervision of correctional institutions. 17 It shall be a condition of any grant under this part which 18 is wholly or partially for construction that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on such construction shall be paid wages at rates not less than those Prevailing on similar construction in the locality as deter mined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the 23 Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a-5). 24 25 The Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to these labor standards the authority and functions set forth in Reorganiza 86-260-67 9 1 tion Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 P.R. 36, 64 Stat. 1267) 2 and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 3 4 5 U.S.C. 276c). FEDERAL FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION SEC. 125. A grant under this part may not exceed 60 6 per centum of the cost of the project or program with respect 7 8 to which it is made, except that the percentage with respect to so much of such cost as is for construction may not exceed 9 50 per centum. 10 11 12 PART C-PREVENTIVE SERVICES STATEMENT OF PURPOSE SEC. 140. The purpose of this part is to promote the 13 use of community-based services for the prevention of ju14 venile delinquency and the rehabilitation of delinquent 15 youths; and to assist communities to operate special diag 16 nostic, treatment, and rehabilitative programs for juvenile 17 delinquents and youths in danger of becoming delinquent. 18 19 AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS SEC. 141. The Secretary is authorized to make grants 20 to any community, municipal, or other local public or non21 profit private agency or organization to meet not to exceed 22 75 per centum of the cost of a project or program for 23 securing or provision of special diagnostic, treatment, or 24 rehabilitative services for youths who are delinquent or in |