---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10511"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10511"
heading: "Grant authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10511"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Dna Identification Grants"
---

# §10511. Grant authorization


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make funds available under this subchapter to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government, or [combinations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=9) thereof, to carry out all or a substantial part of a program or project intended to develop or improve the capability to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid (referred to in this subchapter as “DNA”) in a forensic laboratory.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2401, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210302(c)(1)(C), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2066.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2401 of Pub. L. 90–351 was renumbered section 2601 and is classified to section 10541 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210302(c)(4), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2068, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [enacting this subchapter and amending sections 10152, 10154, 10261, and 10541 of this title] shall take effect on the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 13, 1994].”