Originally from Dispute Resolution Journal

Sec. 6. (a) The Attorney General shall establish a Dispute Resolution Program in the Department of Justice. Such program shall include establishment of a Dispute Resolution Resource Center and a Dispute Resolution Advisory Board and the provision of financial assistance under section 8.

(b) The Center—

(1) shall serve as a national clearinghouse for the exchange of information concerning the improvement of existing dispute resolution mechanisms and the establishment of new dispute resolution mechanisms;

(2) shall provide technical assistance to State and local governments and to grant recipients to improve existing dispute resolution mechanisms and to establish new dispute resolution mechanisms;

(3) shall conduct research relating to the improvement of existing dispute resolution mechanisms and to the establishment of new dispute resolution mechanisms, and shall encourage fhe development of new dispute resolution mechanisms;

(4) shall undertake comprehensive surveys of the various State and local governmental dispute resolution mechanisms and major privately operated dispute resolution mechanisms in the States, which shall determine—