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§10617 Distribution and Allocation

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 101 — JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT › SUBCHAPTER XXX — DRUG COURTS › § 10617

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must try to make grant money spread fairly across different parts of the country, as much as possible. If, in any fiscal year, no grants from this program go to a State or to any local governments in that State (not counting Indian tribes), the Bureau of Justice Assistance must give targeted technical help and training to that State and its eligible applicants. The help is meant to boost their chances for future grants and to strengthen State drug court systems. The Bureau must pay attention to the special needs of rural States, rural areas, and rural communities.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §10617

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(a)Geographic distribution
The Attorney General shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, an equitable geographic distribution of grant awards is made.
(b)Technical assistance and training
Unless one or more applications submitted by any State or unit of local government within such State (other than an Indian tribe) for a grant under this subchapter has been funded in any fiscal year, such State, together with eligible applicants within such State, shall be provided targeted technical assistance and training by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to assist such State and such eligible applicants to successfully compete for future funding under this subchapter, and to strengthen existing State drug court systems. In providing such technical assistance and training, the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall consider and respond to the unique needs of rural States, rural areas and rural communities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3797u–6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–271 substituted “Bureau of Justice Assistance” for “Community Capacity Development Office” in two places. Pub. L. 109–162 added subsec. (b) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (b). Text read as follows: “Unless all eligible applications submitted by any State or unit of local government within such State for a grant under this subchapter have been funded, such State, together with grantees within the State (other than Indian tribes), shall be allocated in each fiscal year under this subchapter not less than 0.50 percent of the total amount appropriated in the fiscal year for grants pursuant to this subchapter.”

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 10617

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110