---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11183"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11183"
heading: "Withholding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11183"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — Programs and Offices"
  - "Part F — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §11183. Withholding


Whenever the [Administrator](/usc/34/11103.md?p=5), after giving reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to a recipient of financial assistance under this subchapter, finds that—

- (1) the program or activity for which the grant or contract involved was made has been so changed that it no longer complies with this subchapter; or
- (2) in the operation of such program or activity there is failure to comply substantially with any provision of this subchapter;

the [Administrator](/usc/34/11103.md?p=5) shall initiate such proceedings as are appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title II, § 299B, formerly § 293, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7266(4), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4449; renumbered § 299B, Pub. L. 102–586, § 2(i)(1)(B), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5006.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5673 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 7296(a) of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as an Effective Date of 1988 Amendment note under section 11101 of this title.