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THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, August 6, 1996
Statement of the Press Secretary
President Clinton signed legislation today that provides the
$12 million he had requested to help investigate and solve acts of
church fires.
"I'm pleased that Congress agreed to my request and provided
these vitally needed resources as quickly as it did," the President
said. "I am committed to finding the necessary funds to support
these efforts."
The $12 million will go to the Treasury Department's Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), which already has over 100
agents engaged in the full-time investigations of church firese7
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Normally, ATF funds are provided through the Treasury/Postal
Service appropriations bill. But, at the President's urging,
Congress provided them in the first appropriations bill for fiscal attached
1997 that it sent to him.
Specifically, the $12 million will help the ATF:
pay overtime costs for personnel manning command posts and
performing the investigations;
pay the costs of travel to and from: arson sites, follow-up
investigations, surveillance, the executing of warrants, trial
preparation, vehicle rental, and the training of accelerant-
detecting canines;
finance a telephone hotline and pay for rewards for
information;
buy Automated Data Processing (ADP) equipment to allow
agents to take statements from potential witnesses in many
remote locations; up to now, agents have been required to
return long distances to field offices to type up the
statements for eventual signature;
buy certain portable laboratory equipment to allow on-site
analysis of forensic evidence at the fires, thus speeding the
process in which evidence must be forwarded long distances to
ATF laboratories;
pay for motor vehicle repair; up to now, the vehicle repair
budget has been used for upkeep and emergency maintenance