§10405 Allotment of Funds

Summary

Money available under section 10403 for grants under section 10406(a) must be split this way. Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands each get at least 1/8 of 1 percent of the grant funds for the year. Each State gets $600,000, and the rest of the money is shared among the States based on each State’s share of the total State population. The Secretary will use the most recent census numbers, or the annual interim estimates from the Department of Commerce, to figure population. If there is not enough money to pay those amounts, the shares are cut back proportionally. If more money later becomes available, the shares are raised back up the same way. If a State has not met grant rules and has not received its allotment by the end of the sixth month of the fiscal year, the Secretary will reassign that money to States that do meet the rules. Money given to a State stays available until the end of the next fiscal year. Any of that money not spent by then goes to the Secretary for discretionary use under section 10414 and must be spent within 1 year after it is made available. In the rule about $600,000 and population shares, “State” does not include the four territories named above.