[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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