---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10478"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10478"
heading: "Technical assistance, training, and evaluation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10478"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Mental Health Courts"
---

# §10478. Technical assistance, training, and evaluation

- (a) **Technical assistance and training—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may provide technical assistance and training in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter.
- (b) **Evaluations—** In addition to any evaluation requirements that may be prescribed for grantees, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may carry out or make arrangements for evaluations of programs that receive support under this subchapter.
- (c) **Administration—** The technical assistance, training, and evaluations authorized by this section may be carried out directly by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), in collaboration with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), or through grants, contracts, or other cooperative arrangements with other entities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2208, as added Pub. L. 106–515, § 3(a), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2402.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796ii–7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2208 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, required reports by entities receiving funds, 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.