; (2) the relevant public safety concerns, including the need to preserve limited prison resources for more serious, repeat, and violent offenders; (3) the intent of Congress that violent, repeat, and high-level drug traffickers who present public safety risks receive sufficiently severe sentences, and that nonviolent, lower- and street-level drug offenders without serious records receive proportionally less severe sentences; (4) the fiscal implications of any amendments or revisions to the sentencing guidelines or policy statements made by the United States Sentencing Commission; (5) the appropriateness of, and likelihood of unwarranted sentencing disparity resulting from, use of drug type and quantity as the primary factors determining a sentencing guideline range; and (6) the need to reduce and prevent racial disparities in Federal sentencing. (c) General instruction to sentencing commission Section 994(h) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (h) The Commission shall ensure that the guidelines specify a sentence to a term of imprisonment at or near the maximum term authorized for categories of defendants in which the defendant is 18 years old or older and— (1) has been convicted of a felony that is— (A) a violent felony as defined in section 924(e)(2)(B) of title 18; or (B) an offense under— (i) section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act; (ii) section 1002(a), 1005, or 1009 of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act; or (iii) chapter 705 of title 46, United States Code; and (2) has previously been convicted of two or more prior offenses, each of which is— (A) is classified by the applicable law of the convicting jurisdiction as a felony; and (B) is (i) a violent felony as defined in section 924(e)(2)(B) of title 18