---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10496"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10496"
heading: "Discretionary research grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10496"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Support for Law Enforcement Officers and Families"
---

# §10496. Discretionary research grants


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may reserve 10 percent of funds to award research grants to a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization to study issues of importance in the [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) field as determined by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2306, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2064.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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