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[CITE: 42USC3796bb]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 46--JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT
 
                SUBCHAPTER XII-C--RURAL DRUG ENFORCEMENT
 
Sec. 3796bb. Rural drug enforcement assistance

    (a) Of the total amount appropriated for this section in any fiscal 
year:
        (1) 50 percent shall be allocated to and shared equally among 
    rural States as described in subsection (b) of this section; and
        (2) 50 percent shall be allocated to the remaining States for 
    use in nonmetropolitan areas within those States, as follows:
            (A) $250,000 to each nonrural State; and
            (B) of the total funds remaining after the allocation in 
        subparagraph (A), there shall be allocated to each State an 
        amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of remaining 
        funds described as the population of such State bears to the 
        population of all States.

    (b) For the purpose of this section, the term ``rural State'' means 
a State that has a population density of fifty-two or fewer persons per 
square mile or a State in which the largest county has fewer than one 
hundred and fifty thousand people, based on the decennial census of 1990 
through fiscal year 1997.

(Pub. L. 90-351, title I, Sec. 1501, as added Pub. L. 101-647, title 
VIII, Sec. 801(a)(3), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4825; amended Pub. L. 
103-322, title XVIII, Sec. 180101(b), (c), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2045.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1501 of Pub. L. 90-351 was renumbered section 2601 
and is classified to section 3797 of this title.
    Another prior section 1501 of Pub. L. 90-351, title X, June 19, 
1968, 82 Stat. 238, was not classified to the Code.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 180101(b), 
substituted ``$250,000'' for ``$100,000''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 180101(c), inserted before period 
at end ``, based on the decennial census of 1990 through fiscal year 
1997''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 13862, 13971 of this title.
