EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT TO CONGRESS.

SEC. 116. EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT TO CONGRESS. (a) Evaluation.— (1) In general.—The Director shall enter into a contract, with an evaluating agency that has demonstrated experience in the evaluation of substance abuse treatment, to conduct an evaluation that incorporates the criteria described in paragraph (2). (2) Evaluation criteria.—The Director, in consultation with the Directors of the appropriate National Institutes of Health, shall establish minimum criteria for evaluating each program. Such criteria shall include— (A) reducing substance abuse among participants; (B) reducing recidivism among participants; (C) cost effectiveness of providing services to participants; and (D) a data collection system that will produce data comparable to that used by the Office of Applied Studies of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Office of Justice Programs. (b) Report.—The Director shall submit to the appropriate committees, at the same time as the President’s budget for fiscal year 2001 is submitted, a report that— (1) describes the activities funded by grant awards under this subtitle; (2) includes the evaluation submitted pursuant to subsection (a); and (3) makes recommendations regarding revisions to the authorization of the program, including extension, expansion, application requirements, reduction, and termination.