---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10351"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10351"
heading: "Rural drug enforcement assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10351"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Rural Drug Enforcement"
---

# §10351. Rural drug enforcement assistance

- (a) Of the total amount appropriated for this section in any fiscal year:
  - (1) 50 percent shall be allocated to and shared equally among [rural States](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) as described in [subsection (b)](#b); and
  - (2) 50 percent shall be allocated to the remaining [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) for use in nonmetropolitan areas within those [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), as follows:
    - (A) $250,000 to each nonrural State; and
    - (B) of the total funds remaining after the allocation in [subparagraph (A)](#a-2-A), there shall be allocated to each [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of remaining funds described as the population of such [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) bears to the population of all [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7).
- (b) For the purpose of this section, the term “[rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33)” means a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) that has a population density of fifty-two or fewer persons per square mile or a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) in which the largest county has fewer than one hundred and fifty thousand people, based on the decennial census of 1990 through fiscal year 1997.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1501, as added Pub. L. 101–647, title VIII, § 801(a)(3), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4825; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XVIII, § 180101(b), (c), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2045.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796bb of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1501 of Pub. L. 90–351 was renumbered section 2601 and is classified to section 10541 of this title.

Another prior section 1501 of Pub. L. 90–351, title X, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 238, was not classified to the Code.

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 103–322, § 180101(b), substituted “$250,000” for “$100,000”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–322, § 180101(c), inserted before period at end “, based on the decennial census of 1990 through fiscal year 1997”.