[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9198-9199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5304]



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JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES


Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts

AGENCY: Judicial Conference of the United States.

ACTION: Notice of Conference approval and publication of the Long Range 
Plan for the Federal Courts (December 1995).

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    The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved the first 
Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts and published it for general 
information. This plan is derived from a proposal that the Conference 
received from its Committee on Long Range Planning in March 1995. As 
explained in an earlier notice (60 FR 30317), the Conference members 
reviewed at length the 101 recommendations and 77 implementation 
strategies in the proposed long range plan and, as a result, 64 
recommendations and 48 strategies were approved without substantive 
change in April and May 1995. All other items in the proposed plan were 
referred to other committees of the Conference for additional study.
    Based on reports from the other committees, Conference review of 
the proposed long range plan was completed in September 1995. At that 
time, the following recommendations and implementation strategies were 
approved without change:

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            Recommendations                 Implementation strategies   
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                                         4a-4c                          
8                                        ...............................
                                         12b                            
13                                       ...............................
17-18                                    ...............................
20                                       ...............................
22                                       ...............................
24                                       ...............................
28.....................................  28a-28b                        
33                                       ...............................
42.....................................  42a-42b                        
49.....................................  49a-49b                        
52.....................................  52a(2)-(3), 52b(1)-(4),        
                                         52c(2)                         
90                                       ...............................
                                         92b-92c, 92e-92f               
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    The following items were approved with substantive revisions or 
technical corrections:

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            Recommendations                 Implementation strategies   
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4                                                                       
7                                                                       
10                                                                      
12.....................................  12a, 12c                       
14                                                                      
23                                                                      
25                                                                      
27                                                                      
                                         39c                            
44                                                                      
48                                                                      
                                         52c(5)                         
65                                                                      
66-68                                                                   
69.....................................  69a-69d                        
89                                                                      
92.....................................  92a, 92d, 92g                  
                                         94d                            
96                                                                      
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    And the following items were deleted in their entirety:

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              Recommendations                 Implementation strategies 
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15                                                                      
29                                                                      
70........................................  70a-70c                     
71-75                                                                   
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    At the direction of the Executive Committee of the Conference, the 
entire plan document was republished in light of the Conference 
actions. This included renumbering of the approved items and conforming 
revisions and updates to commentary and other supplementary text. In 
addition, the Executive Committee authorized on the Conference's behalf 
a number of minor,

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conforming technical corrections in the following items:

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              Recommendations                 Implementation strategies 
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7                                                                       
13                                                                      
51 (formerly 53)..........................  51a                         
                                            (formerly                   
                                            53a)                        
54-55 (formerly 56-57)                                                  
56 (formerly 58)..........................  56a-56b                     
                                            (formerly                   
                                            58a-58b)                    
57-58 (formerly 59-60)                                                  
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    The newly published Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts 
(December 1995) provides a guide for policy making and administration 
by the Judicial Conference and other judicial branch authorities. It 
should be emphasized, however, that only the recommendations and 
implementation strategies represent judicial branch policy. All other 
text in the document, including commentary on recommendations and 
strategies, serves to explain and supplement the approved items but 
does not necessarily reflect the views of the Judicial Conference.
    The Long Range Plan is intended to promote continued public 
dialogue concerning the future of the federal courts. To that end, the 
plan already has been distributed to all federal judges and senior 
judicial staff, all members of Congress and relevant congressional 
staff, other federal agencies, state judges and judicial staff, bar 
associations, law schools, and other interested parties. Copies can be 
obtained by contacting the Long Range Planning Office in the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The plan is also 
available to Internet users at the Federal Courts' Home Page on the 
World Wide Web (http://www.uscourts.gov).

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: February 29, 1996.
Leonidas Ralph Mecham,
Secretary to the Judicial Conference of the United States.
[FR Doc. 96-5304 Filed 3-6-96; 8:45 am]
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