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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement

§ 10661. Authority to make grants to address public safety and methamphetamine manufacturing, sale, and use in hot spots

Statutory text

(a)

 1 Purpose and program authority

(1)

Purpose

It is the purpose of this subchapter to assist States, territories, and Indian tribes (as defined in section 10554 of this title)—

(A)

to carry out programs to address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine drugs; and

(B)

to improve the ability of State, territorial, Tribal, and local government institutions of 2 to carry out such programs.

(2)

Grant authorization

The Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Office of Justice Programs may make grants to States, territories, and Indian tribes to address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine to enhance public safety.

(3)

Grant projects to address methamphetamine manufacture sale and use

Grants made under subsection (a) may be used for programs, projects, and other activities to—

(A)

investigate, arrest and prosecute individuals violating laws related to the use, manufacture, or sale of methamphetamine;

(B)

reimburse the Drug Enforcement Administration for expenses related to the clean up of methamphetamine clandestine labs;

(C)

support State, Tribal, and local health department and environmental agency services deployed to address methamphetamine; and

(D)

procure equipment, technology, or support systems, or pay for resources, if the applicant for such a grant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that expenditures for such purposes would result in the reduction in the use, sale, and manufacture of methamphetamine.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.
  2. 2 So in original. The word “of” probably should not appear.

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 § 2996 · 82 Stat. 197

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 10661

    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2996, as added Pub. L. 109–177, title VII, § 754, Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 274

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2996, as added Pub. L. 109–177, title VII, § 754, Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 274

  2. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2008

    Pub. L. 110–161 § 220(a)(1)(A) · 121 Stat. 1844

    Inserted · 34 U.S.C. § 10661(a)(1)

    Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(A), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes (as defined in section 3797d of this title)” after “to assist States” in introductory provisions

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(A), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes (as defined in section 3797d of this title)” after “to assist States” in introductory provisions.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “, territories, and Indian tribes (as defined in section 2704)” after “to assist States”; and

  3. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2008

    Pub. L. 110–161 § 220(a)(1)(B) · 121 Stat. 1844

    Substituted · 34 U.S.C. § 10661(a)(1)(B)

    Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(B), substituted “, territorial, Tribal, and local” for “and local”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(B), substituted “, territorial, Tribal, and local” for “and local”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking “and local” and inserting “, territorial, Tribal, and local”;

  4. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2008

    Pub. L. 110–161 § 220(a)(2) · 121 Stat. 1844

    Inserted · 34 U.S.C. § 10661(a)(2)

    Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(2), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes” after “make grants to States”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(2), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes” after “make grants to States”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting “, territories, and Indian tribes” after “make grants to States”; and

  5. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2008

    Pub. L. 110–161 § 220(a)(3) · 121 Stat. 1844

    Inserted · 34 U.S.C. § 10661(a)(3)(C)

    Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(3), inserted “, Tribal,” after “support State”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a)(3)(C). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(3), inserted “, Tribal,” after “support State”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting “, Tribal,” after “support State”.

4 of 5 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797cc of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Some section numbers or references in amendment notes below reflect the classification of such sections or references prior to editorial reclassification.

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(A), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes (as defined in section 3797d of this title)” after “to assist States” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(1)(B), substituted “, territorial, Tribal, and local” for “and local”.

Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(2), inserted “, territories, and Indian tribes” after “make grants to States”.

Subsec. (a)(3)(C). Pub. L. 110–161, § 220(a)(3), inserted “, Tribal,” after “support State”.

Credits

2006–2007 · 2 acts
  1. 2006Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2996, as added Pub. L. 109–177, title VII, § 754, , 120 Stat. 274
  2. 2007amended Pub. L. 110–161, div. B, title II, § 220(a), , 121 Stat. 1916.
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(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2996, as added Pub. L. 109–177, title VII, § 754, , 120 Stat. 274; amended Pub. L. 110–161, div. B, title II, § 220(a), , 121 Stat. 1916.)

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