---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11244"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11244"
heading: "Demonstration projects to provide services to youth in rural areas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11244"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter III — Runaway and Homeless Youth"
  - "Part D — Coordinating, Training, Research, and Other Activities"
---

# §11244. Demonstration projects to provide services to youth in rural areas

- (a)
  - (1) The Secretary may make grants on a competitive basis to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), localities, and private entities (and [combinations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=9) of such entities) to provide [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) (including transportation) authorized to be provided under part A, to runaway and [homeless](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-17) [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) in [rural areas](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-32).
  - (2)
    - (A) Each grant made under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) may not exceed $100,000.
    - (B) In each fiscal year for which funds are appropriated to carry out this section, grants shall be made under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) to eligible applicants to carry out projects in not fewer than 10 [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7).
    - (C) Not more than 2 grants may be made under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) in each fiscal year to carry out projects in a particular [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7).
  - (3) Each eligible applicant that receives a grant for a fiscal year to carry out a project under this section shall have priority to receive a grant for the subsequent fiscal year to carry out a project under this section.
- (b) To be eligible to receive a grant under [subsection (a)](#a), an applicant shall—
  - (1) submit to the Secretary an application in such form and containing such information and assurances as the Secretary may require by rule; and
  - (2) propose to carry out such project in a geographical area that—
    - (A) has a population under 20,000;
    - (B) is located outside a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area; and
    - (C) agree to provide to the Secretary an annual report identifying—
      - (i) the number of runaway and [homeless](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-17) [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) who receive [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) under the project carried out by the applicant;
      - (ii) the types of [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) authorized under part A that were needed by, but not provided to, such [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) in the geographical area served by the project;
      - (iii) the reasons the [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) identified under [clause (ii)](#b-2-C-ii) were not provided by the project; and
      - (iv) such other information as the Secretary may require.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 344, as added Pub. L. 102–586, § 3(g)(1)(C), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5024; amended Pub. L. 106–71, § 3(r)(2), Oct. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1043; Pub. L. 108–96, title I, § 114, Oct. 10, 2003, 117 Stat. 1170.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5714–24 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Some section numbers or references in amendment notes below reflect the classification of such sections or references prior to editorial reclassification.

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–96 substituted “Demonstration” for “Temporary demonstration” in section catchline.

1999—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 106–71 substituted “The Secretary” for “With funds appropriated under section 5751(c) of this title, the Secretary”.