---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20982"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20982"
heading: "Assistance for prosecution of cases cleared through use of DNA backlog clearance funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20982"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety"
  - "Subchapter III — Grants and Other Provisions"
---

# §20982. Assistance for prosecution of cases cleared through use of DNA backlog clearance funds

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General may make grants to train and employ personnel to help prosecute cases cleared through use of funds provided for DNA backlog elimination.
- (b) **Authorization—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011 to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title VI, § 624, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 636.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16982 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.