34 USC 10263 - Oversight and accountability

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 10263.

Oversight and accountability

All grants awarded by the Department of Justice that are authorized under this Act shall be subject to the following:

(1)

Audit requirement

(2)

Mandatory exclusion

(3)

Priority

(4)

Reimbursement

If an entity is awarded grant funds under this Act during the 2-fiscal-year period in which the entity is barred from receiving grants under paragraph (2), the Attorney General shall—

(A)

deposit an amount equal to the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and

(B)

seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously awarded grant funds.

(5)

Defined term

(6)

Nonprofit organization requirements

(A)

Definition

(B)

Prohibition

(C)

Disclosure

(7)

Administrative expenses

(8)

Conference expenditures

(A)

Limitation

(B)

Written approval

(C)

Report

(9)

Prohibition on lobbying activity

(A)

In general

Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act may not be utilized by any grant recipient to—

(i)

lobby any representative of the Department of Justice regarding the award of grant funding; or

(ii)

lobby any representative of a Federal, State, local, or tribal government regarding the award of grant funding.

(B)

Penalty

If the Attorney General determines that any recipient of a grant under this Act has violated subparagraph (A), the Attorney General shall—

(i)

require the grant recipient to repay the grant in full; and

(ii)

prohibit the grant recipient from receiving another grant under this Act for not less than 5 years.

(10)

Preventing duplicative grants

(A)

In general

(B)

Report

If the Attorney General awards duplicate grants to the same applicant for the same purpose, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that includes—

(i)

a list of all duplicate grants awarded, including the total dollar amount of any duplicate grants awarded; and

(ii)

the reason the Attorney General awarded the duplicate grants.

(Pub. L. 114–324, § 15, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1959.)

cite as: 34 USC 10263