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title: "34 U.S.C. § 10388"
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title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
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# 34 U.S.C. § 10388 - General regulatory authority

## Text

The Attorney General may promulgate regulations and guidelines to carry out this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1708, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1813.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.