---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60704"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60704"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60704"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 607 — Project Safe Neighborhoods Block Grant Program"
---

# §60704. Rules and regulations

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall issue guidance to create, carry out, and administer the [Program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) in accordance with this section.
- (b) **Funds to be directed to local control—** Amounts made available as grants under the [Program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) shall be, to the greatest extent practicable, locally controlled to address problems that are identified locally.
- (c) **Task Forces—** Thirty percent of the amounts made available as grants under the [Program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) each fiscal year shall be granted to Gang Task Forces in regions experiencing a significant or increased presence of criminal or transnational organizations engaging in high levels of violent crime, [firearms offenses](/usc/34/60701.md?p=1), human trafficking, and drug trafficking.
- (d) **Priority—** Amounts made available as grants under the [Program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) shall be used to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of individuals who have an aggravating or leadership role in a criminal or transnational organization described in [subsection (c)](#c).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–185, § 5, June 18, 2018, 132 Stat. 1486.)