---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10406"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10406"
heading: "Payment requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10406"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Juvenile Accountability Block Grants"
---

# §10406. Payment requirements

- (a) **Timing of payments—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall pay to each [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or specifically[^1] qualified [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) that receives funds under [section 10404 of this title](/usc/34/10404.md) that has submitted an application under this subchapter the amount awarded to such [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) not later than the later of—
  - (1) the date that is 180 days after the date that the amount is available; or
  - (2) the first day of the payment period if the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) has provided the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) with the assurances required by [subsection (c)](#c).
- (b) **Repayment of unexpended amounts—**
  - (1) **Repayment required—** From amounts awarded under this subchapter, a [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or [specially qualified unit](/usc/34/10410.md?p=2) shall repay to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), before the expiration of the 36-month period beginning on the date of the award, any amount that is not expended by such [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or unit.
  - (2) **Extension—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may adopt policies and procedures providing for a one-time extension, by not more than 12 months, of the period referred to in [paragraph (1)](#b-1).
  - (3) **Penalty for failure to repay—** If the amount required to be repaid is not repaid, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall reduce payment in future payment periods accordingly.
  - (4) **Deposit of amounts repaid—** Amounts received by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) as repayments under this subsection shall be deposited in a designated fund for future payments to [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) and [specially qualified units](/usc/34/10410.md?p=2).
- (c) **Administrative costs—** A [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) that receives funds under this subchapter may use not more than 5 percent of such funds to pay for administrative costs.
- (d) **Nonsupplanting requirement—** Funds made available under this subchapter to [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) and units of local government shall not be used to supplant [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local funds as the case may be, but shall be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in the absence of funds made available under this subchapter, be made available from [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local sources, as the case may be.
- (e) **Matching funds—**
  - (1) **In general—** The Federal share of a grant received under this subchapter may not exceed 90 percent of the total program costs.
  - (2) **Construction of facilities—** Notwithstanding [paragraph (1)](#e-1), with respect to the cost of constructing [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) detention or correctional facilities, the Federal share of a grant received under this subchapter may not exceed 50 percent of approved cost.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “specially”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1805, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12102(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1865.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796ee–5 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1805 of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1821, and classified to former section 3796ee–4 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, related to allocation and distribution of funds, prior to the general amendment of part R of title I of Pub. L. 90–351 by Pub. L. 107–273.