[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30317-30318]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14056]



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JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES


Proposed Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts

AGENCY: Judicial Conference of the United States.

ACTION: Notice of Conference actions concerning the Proposed Long Range 
Plan for the Federal Courts.

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    On March 14, 1995, the Judicial Conference of the United States 
received from its Committee on Long Range Planning a Proposed Long 
Range Plan for the Federal Courts. The Proposed Plan is similar in 
format and content to the tentative proposal that the Committee 
circulated to the public last November (59 FR 55704) but contains 
changes made by the Committee to reflect comments received in writing 
and at public hearings with respect to the earlier version.
    In receiving the Proposed Plan, the Judicial Conference authorized 
public distribution of the document and took the following actions 
regarding the provisions of the Plan:
    1. The Conference allowed its individual members until April 11, 
1995, to request referral of any specific numbered recommendations to 
the appropriate Conference committees for further study and report to 
the September 1995 Conference session.
    2. The Conference approved, effective April 12, 1995, all 
recommendations in the Proposed Plan not subsequently identified for 
further study and report as described above. Approval of a Plan 
recommendation includes the corresponding implementation strategies but 
not the supporting commentary.
    In accordance with this procedure, the following items were 
approved, effective April 12, 1995, as part of the Long Range Plan for 
the Federal Courts:

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                                                       Implementation   
                  Recommendations                        strategies     
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19                                                                      
21                                                                      
26                                                                      
31                                                                      
32................................................  32a-32b.            
34                                                                      
35................................................  35a-35d.            
36-38                                                                   
39................................................  39a, 39d-39e.       
40-41                                                                   
43                                                                      
45................................................  45a-45b.            
46................................................  46a-46b.            
47                                                                      
50-51                                                                   
53................................................  53a-53b.            
54-57                                                                   
58................................................  58a-58b.            
59-62                                                                   
63................................................  63a-63d.            
64                                                                      
69                                                                      
71                                                                      
77-80                                                                   
81................................................  81a-81b.            
82-88                                                                   
91................................................  91a-91c.            
93................................................  93a-93e.            
94................................................  94a-94c.            
95                                                                      
97                                                                      
99................................................  99a-99e.            
100-101                                                                 
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    Also, in accordance with the prior decision of the Judicial 
Conference, individual Conference members requested that Conference 
action on the following items in the Proposed Plan be deferred pending 
further study by the appropriate committees:

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                                                       Implementation   
                  Recommendations                        strategies     
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1-3                                                                     
4.................................................  4a-4c.              
5-8                                                                     
9.................................................  9a-9b.              
10-11                                                                   
12................................................  12a-12c.            
13-15                                                                   
16................................................  16a-16c.            
17-18                                                                   
20                                                                      
22-25                                                                   
27                                                                      
28................................................  28a-28b.            
29                                                                      
30................................................  30a-30c.            
33                                                                      
                                                    39b-39c.            
42................................................  42a-42b.            
44................................................  44a.                
                                                    45c.                
48                                                                      
49................................................  49a-49b.            
52................................................  52a-52c.            
65-68                                                                   
70................................................  70a-70c.            
72-76                                                                   
89                                                                      
90                                                                      
92................................................  92a-92g.            
                                                    94d.                
96                                                                      
98                                                                      
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    Because most of the deferred items involve policy issues, they were 
assigned to the Conference committees with responsibility for the 
programs or topics in question and will be the subject of reports at 
the September 1995 Conference session. The Conference's Executive 
Committee was also assigned to consider the 11 recommendations (1-3, 5-
6, 9, 11, 16, 30 76, 98) and one implementation strategy (39b) on which 
purely technical questions were raised. After consulting with 
Conference members, the Executive Committee, on May 31, 1995, approved 
those 12 items on the Conference's behalf with minor word changes 
intended to clarify, improve accuracy, or adjust tone without altering 
substantive meaning.
    The Long Range Plan is a guide to policy making and administrative 
action by the Conference and other judicial branch authorities. 
However, only those items approved by the Judicial Conference represent 
Conference policies. All commentary on recommendations and 
implementation strategies and all other Plan provisions (including the 
recommendations and implementation strategies on which Conference 
members have requested further study) merely reflect the views of the 
Committee on Long Range Planning unless expressly approved by the 
Conference in subsequent proceedings.

[[Page 30318]] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Long Range Planning 
Office, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Suite 4-170, 
One Columbus Circle, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20544, 202-273-1810.

    Dated: June 1, 1995.
L. Ralph Mecham,
Secretary to the Judicial Conference of the United States.
[FR Doc. 95-14056 Filed 6-7-95; 8:45 am]
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