---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10513"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10513"
heading: "Application requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10513"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Dna Identification Grants"
---

# §10513. Application requirements


No grant may be made under this subchapter unless an application has been submitted to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) in which the applicant certifies that—

- (1) DNA analyses performed at the laboratory will satisfy or exceed then current standards for a quality assurance program for DNA analysis issued by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under [section 12591 of this title](/usc/34/12591.md).[^1]
- (2) DNA samples obtained by and DNA analyses performed at the laboratory shall be made available only—
  - (A) to criminal justice agencies for [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) identification purposes;
  - (B) in judicial proceedings, if otherwise admissible pursuant to applicable statutes or rules;
  - (C) for criminal defense purposes, to a defendant, who shall have access to samples and analyses performed in connection with the case in which the defendant is charged; or
  - (D) if personally identifiable information is removed, for a population statistics database, for identification research and protocol development purposes, or for quality control purposes; and
- (3) the laboratory and each analyst performing DNA analyses at the laboratory shall undergo semiannual external proficiency testing by a DNA proficiency testing program that meets the standards issued under [section 12591 of this title](/usc/34/12591.md).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2403, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210302(c)(1)(C), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2066; amended Pub. L. 106–546, § 8(b), Dec. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 2735.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796kk–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2000—Par. (3). Pub. L. 106–546 substituted “semiannual” for “, at regular intervals not exceeding 180 days,”.