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Title 34, NavyRelease 119-110

§12143 Program Requirements

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER II — CRIME PREVENTION › Part B — Model Intensive Grant Programs › § 12143

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

An applicant must describe the main local causes of ongoing violent crime in the area they want to serve. Give examples like few youth programs or safe activities, run-down public facilities, poor services (such as public transit, street lighting, substance abuse treatment, or job-help centers), or weak police and public safety resources. The applicant must give a community-based plan that says exactly how grant money will be used to fight those causes and who (nonprofits, government, businesses, volunteers, and residents) will work together. The applicant also must include a way to measure success with clear, objective measures, how those measures will be checked, and a timeline for the evaluation.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §12143

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(a)Description
An applicant shall include a description of the distinctive factors that contribute to chronic violent crime within the area proposed to be served by the grant. Such factors may include lack of alternative activities and programs for youth, deterioration or lack of public facilities, inadequate public services such as public transportation, street lighting, community-based substance abuse treatment facilities, or employment services offices, and inadequate police or public safety services, equipment, or facilities.
(b)Comprehensive plan
An applicant shall include a comprehensive, community-based plan to attack intensively the principal factors identified in subsection (a). Such plans shall describe the specific purposes for which funds are proposed to be used and how each purpose will address specific factors. The plan also shall specify how local nonprofit organizations, government agencies, private businesses, citizens groups, volunteer organizations, and interested citizens will cooperate in carrying out the purposes of the grant.
(c)Evaluation
An applicant shall include an evaluation plan by which the success of the plan will be measured, including the articulation of specific, objective indicia of performance, how the indicia will be evaluated, and a projected timetable for carrying out the evaluation.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13773 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 12143

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110