---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12121"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12121"
heading: "Task force on prison construction standardization and techniques"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12121"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter I — Prisons"
  - "Part B — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §12121. Task force on prison construction standardization and techniques

- (a) **Task force—** The Director of the National Institute of Corrections shall, subject to availability of appropriations, establish a task force composed of Federal, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), and local officials expert in prison [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10), and of at least an equal number of engineers, architects, and [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) experts from the private sector with expertise in prison design and [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10), including the use of cost-cutting [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) standardization techniques and cost-cutting new building materials and technologies.
- (b) **Cooperation—** The task force shall work in close cooperation and communication with other [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local officials responsible for prison [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) in their localities.
- (c) **Performance requirements—** The task force shall work to—
  - (1) establish and recommend standardized [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) plans and techniques for prison and prison component [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10); and
  - (2) evaluate and recommend new [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) technologies, techniques, and materials,

  to reduce prison [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) costs at the Federal, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), and local levels and make such [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) more efficient.

- (d) **Dissemination—** The task force shall disseminate information described in [subsection (c)](#c) to [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local officials involved in prison [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10), through written reports and meetings.
- (e) **Promotion and evaluation—** The task force shall—
  - (1) work to promote the implementation of cost-saving efforts at the Federal, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), and local levels;
  - (2) evaluate and advise on the results and effectiveness of such cost-saving efforts as adopted, broadly disseminating information on the results; and
  - (3) to the extent feasible, certify the effectiveness of the cost-savings efforts.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20406, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1826.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13721 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.