---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11172"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11172"
heading: "Grants for technical assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11172"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — Programs and Offices"
  - "Part E — Developing, Testing, and Demonstrating Promising New Initiatives and Programs"
---

# §11172. Grants for technical assistance


The [Administrator](/usc/34/11103.md?p=5) may make grants to and contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide technical assistance to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), units of general local government, [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal governments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45), local private entities or agencies, or any [combination](/usc/34/11103.md?p=9) thereof, to carry out the projects for which grants are made under [section 11171 of this title](/usc/34/11171.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title II, § 262, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12212, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1891.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5666 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 262 of Pub. L. 93–415 was classified to section 5665a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–273.

Another prior section 262 of Pub. L. 93–415 was renumbered section 299A and is classified to section 11182 of this title.