---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10644"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10644"
heading: "Requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10644"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXII — Crime Free Rural State Grants"
---

# §10644. Requirements

- (a) **Training and technical assistance—** The [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) shall provide training and technical assistance, including through such groups as the National Crime Prevention [Council](/usc/34/11103.md?p=17), to assist local communities in developing Crime Prevention Plans that reflect statewide strategic goals and objectives, and performance targets and measures.
- (b) **Reports—** The [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) shall provide a report on its statewide strategic plan to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), including information about—
  - (1) involvement of relevant [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7)-level agencies to assist communities in the development and implementation of their Crime Prevention Plans;
  - (2) support for local applications for Community Grants; and
  - (3) community progress toward reducing crime, violence, and substance abuse.
- (c) **Certification—** Beginning in the third year of the program, [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) must certify that the local grantee’s project funded under the community grant is generally consistent with statewide strategic goals and objectives, and performance targets and measures.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2988, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11027(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1835.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797y–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.