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34 U.S.C. § 40501 — Program authorized
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Grants authorized** — The Attorney General may award grants to eligible entities described in paragraph (2) to enable the eligible entities to improve the transportation, processing, identification, and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains, including migrants.
(2) **Eligible entities** — Eligible entities described in this paragraph are the following:
(A) States and units of local government.
(B) Accredited, publicly funded, Combined DNA Index System (commonly known as “CODIS”) forensic laboratories, which demonstrate the grant funds will be used for DNA typing and uploading biological family DNA reference samples, including samples from foreign nationals, into CODIS, subject to the protocols for inclusion of such forensic DNA profiles into CODIS, and the privacy protections required under [section 40502(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40502/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(C) Medical examiners offices.
(D) Accredited, publicly funded toxicology laboratories.
(E) Accredited, publicly funded crime laboratories.
(F) Publicly funded university forensic anthropology laboratories.
(G) Nonprofit organizations that have working collaborative agreements with State and county forensic offices, including medical examiners, coroners, and justices of the peace, for entry of data into CODIS or the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (commonly known as “NamUs”), or both.
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Grants authorized** — The Attorney General may award grants to eligible entities described in paragraph (2) to enable the eligible entities to improve the transportation, processing, identification, and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains, including migrants.
(2) **Eligible entities** — Eligible entities described in this paragraph are the following:
(A) States and units of local government.
(B) Accredited, publicly funded, Combined DNA Index System (commonly known as “CODIS”) forensic laboratories, which demonstrate the grant funds will be used for DNA typing and uploading biological family DNA reference samples, including samples from foreign nationals, into CODIS, subject to the protocols for inclusion of such forensic DNA profiles into CODIS, and the privacy protections required under [section 40502(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40502/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(C) Medical examiners offices.
(D) Accredited, publicly funded toxicology laboratories.
(E) Accredited, publicly funded crime laboratories.
(F) Publicly funded university forensic anthropology laboratories.
(G) Nonprofit organizations that have working collaborative agreements with State and county forensic offices, including medical examiners, coroners, and justices of the peace, for entry of data into CODIS or the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (commonly known as “NamUs”), or both.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 14661 was editorially reclassified as former [section 40501 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40501&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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There is hereby established an Office of Justice Programs within the Department of Justice under the general authority of the Attorney General. The Office of Justice Programs (hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the “Office”) shall be headed by an Assistant Attorney General (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Assistant Attorney General”) appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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**(a) Application** To be eligible to receive a grant award under this chapter, an entity described in [section 40501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40501&num=0&edition=prelim) shall submit an application at such time and in such form as the Attorney General may reasonably require.
**(b) Contents** Each such application shall include assurances that the applicant shall, to the greatest extent possible—
(1) report to the National Crime Information Center and, when possible, to law enforcement authorities throughout the applicant’s jurisdiction regarding every deceased unidentified person, regardless of age, found in the applicant’s jurisdiction;
(2) enter a complete profile of such unidentified person in compliance with the guidelines established by the Department of Justice for the National Crime Information Center Missing and Unidentified Persons File, including dental records, DNA records, x-rays, and fingerprints, if available;
(3) enter the National Crime Information Center number or other appropriate number assigned to the unidentified person on the death certificate of each such unidentified person;
(4) retain all such records pertaining to unidentified persons until a person is identified; and
(5) collect and report information to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) regarding missing persons and unidentified remains.
**(c) Privacy protections for biological family reference samples**
(1) **In general** — Any suspected biological family DNA reference samples received from citizens of the United States or foreign nationals and uploaded into the Combined DNA Index System (commonly referred to as “CODIS”) by an accredited, publicly funded CODIS forensic laboratory awarded a g
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 40502
acted section 552a of Title 5, Government Organization
and Employees, and provisions set out as notes under
section 552a of Title 5. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under
section 552a of Title 5 and Tables.
The Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce,
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act,
1973, referred to in Art. VIII(c), is Pub. L. 92–544, Oct.
25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1109. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Tables.
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 14616 of
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to edi-
torial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
AMENDMENTS
2022—Art. VIII(a). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted ‘‘chap-
ter 10 of title 5’’ for ‘‘the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (5 U.S.C. App.)’’.
CHAPTER 405—REPORTING OF
UNIDENTIFIED AND MISSING PERSONS
Sec.
40501.
Program authorized.
40502.
Eligibility.
40503.
Use of funds.
40504.
Grants for the assistance of organizations to
find missing adults.
40505.
Reporting on National Missing and Unidenti-
fied Persons System (NamUs) Program.
40506.
Authorization of the National Missing and
Unidentified Persons System.
40507.
Information sharing.
40508.
Report to Congress.
§ 40501. Program authorized
(a) In general
(1) Grants authorized
The Attorney General may award grants to
eligible entities described in paragraph (2) to
enable the eligible entities to improve the
transportation, processing, identification, and
reporting of missing persons and unidentified
remains, including migrants.
(2) Eligible entities
Eligible entities described in this paragraph
are the following:
(A) States and units of l
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