---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5353"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5353"
heading: "Information collection and dissemination with respect to grant recipients"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5353"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 53 — Monetary Transactions"
  - "Subchapter III — Money Laundering and Related Financial Crimes"
  - "Part 2"
---

# §5353. Information collection and dissemination with respect to grant recipients

- (a) **Applicant and Grantee Information.—**
  - (1) **Application process.—** The [Secretary](/usc/31/5340.md?p=3) shall issue requests for proposal, as necessary, regarding, with respect to the grants awarded under [section 5352](/usc/31/5352.md), the application process, grant renewal, and suspension or withholding of renewal grants. Each application under this paragraph shall be in writing and shall be subject to review by the [Secretary](/usc/31/5340.md?p=3).
  - (2) **Reporting.—** The [Secretary](/usc/31/5340.md?p=3) shall, to the maximum extent practicable and in a manner consistent with applicable law, minimize reporting requirements by a grant recipient and expedite any application for a renewal grant made under this part.
- (b) **Activities of Secretary.—** The [Secretary](/usc/31/5340.md?p=3) may—
  - (1) evaluate the utility of specific initiatives relating to the purposes of the program;
  - (2) conduct an evaluation of the program; and
  - (3) disseminate information described in this subsection to—
    - (A) eligible State local law enforcement agencies or prosecutors; and
    - (B) the general public.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–310, § 2(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2948.)