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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement

§ 10108. Availability of funds

Statutory text

(a)

Period for awarding grant funds

(1)

In general

Unless otherwise specifically provided in an authorization, DOJ grant funds for a fiscal year shall remain available to be awarded and distributed to a grantee only in that fiscal year and the three succeeding fiscal years, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3). DOJ grant funds not so awarded and distributed shall revert to the Treasury.

(2)

Treatment of reprogrammed funds

DOJ grant funds for a fiscal year that are reprogrammed in a later fiscal year shall be treated for purposes of paragraph (1) as DOJ grant funds for such later fiscal year.

(3)

Treatment of deobligated funds

If DOJ grant funds were obligated and then deobligated, the period of availability that applies to those grant funds under paragraph (1) shall be extended by a number of days equal to the number of days from the date on which those grant funds were obligated to the date on which those grant funds were deobligated.

(b)

Period for expending grant funds

DOJ grant funds for a fiscal year that have been awarded and distributed to a grantee may be expended by that grantee only in the period permitted under the terms of the grant. DOJ grant funds not so expended shall be deobligated.

(c)

Definition

In this section, the term “DOJ grant funds” means, for a fiscal year, amounts appropriated for activities of the Department of Justice in carrying out grant programs for that fiscal year.

(d)

Applicability

This section applies to DOJ grant funds for fiscal years beginning with fiscal year 2006.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

    Pub. L. 90–351 title I § 108 · 82 Stat. 197

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 10108

    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1161(a), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3118

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1161(a), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3118

  2. Pub. L. 109–271 § 8(g) · 120 Stat. 750

    Substituted · 34 U.S.C. § 10108(b)

    Pub. L. 109–271 substituted “be deobligated” for “revert to the Treasury”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–271 substituted “be deobligated” for “revert to the Treasury”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (g) Availability of Funds.— Section 108(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3712g(b)) is amended by striking “revert to the Treasury” and inserting “be deobligated”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3712g 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 “be deobligated” for “revert to the Treasury”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1161(b), , 119 Stat. 3118, as amended by Pub. L. 109–271, § 8(n)(4)(B), , 120 Stat. 768, provided that: “This section [enacting this section] and the amendment made by this section take effect on .”

Credits

2006 · 2 acts
  1. 2006Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1161(a), , 119 Stat. 3118
  2. 2006amended Pub. L. 109–271, § 8(g), , 120 Stat. 767.
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(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1161(a), , 119 Stat. 3118; amended Pub. L. 109–271, § 8(g), , 120 Stat. 767.)

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