Title 34 — NavyRelease 119-73not60
§12122 Efficiency in Law Enforcement and Corrections
Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 121— VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter I— PRISONS › Part B— Miscellaneous Provisions › § 12122
Summary
The Attorney General must encourage grant programs under this Act to use low-cost ways to build and run facilities and to use surplus federal property. The Attorney General may study whether modular or prefabricated construction is cost‑effective for housing nonviolent criminals.
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Title 34, §12122
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(a)In the administration of each grant program funded by appropriations authorized by this Act or by an amendment made by this Act, the Attorney General shall encourage—
(1)innovative methods for the low-cost construction of facilities to be constructed, converted, or expanded and the low-cost operation of such facilities and the reduction of administrative costs and overhead expenses; and
(2)the use of surplus Federal property.
(b)The Attorney General may make an assessment of the cost efficiency and utility of using modular, prefabricated, precast, and pre-engineered construction components and designs for housing nonviolent criminals.
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This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 103–322, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1796, known as the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement
Act of 1994. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
of 1994 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13722 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
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34 U.S.C. § 12122
Title 34 — Navy
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Apr 5, 2026
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