---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10476"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10476"
heading: "Geographic distribution"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10476"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Mental Health Courts"
---

# §10476. Geographic distribution


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, an equitable geographic distribution of grant awards is made that considers the special needs of [rural communities](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-32), [Indian tribes](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18), and Alaska Natives.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2206, as added Pub. L. 106–515, § 3(a), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2401.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2206 of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title V, § 50001(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1957, related to Federal share of grants, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title I, § 114(b)(1)(A)], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–21; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.