---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10704"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10704"
heading: "Equitable distribution of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10704"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXVIII — Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program"
---

# §10704. Equitable distribution of funds


In awarding grants under this subchapter, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall distribute funds in a manner that—

- (1) equitably addresses the needs of [underserved populations](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-46), including [rural](/usc/34/11103.md?p=43) and tribal communities; and
- (2) focuses on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by [opioid](/usc/34/10705.md?p=3) abuse as evidenced in part by—
  - (A) high rates of primary [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) admissions for heroin and other [opioids](/usc/34/10705.md?p=3);
  - (B) high rates of [drug](/usc/34/10705.md?p=5) poisoning deaths from heroin and other [opioids](/usc/34/10705.md?p=3); and
  - (C) a lack of accessibility to [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) providers and facilities and to emergency medical [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 3024, as added Pub. L. 114–198, title II, § 201(a)(1), July 22, 2016, 130 Stat. 713.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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