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§694–2 Revolving fund for qualified contract guarantees; investment of idle funds

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 14B— - SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV–A— - GUARANTEES › Part Part A— - Commercial or Industrial Lease and Qualified Contract Guarantees › § 694–2

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

A separate fund is set up inside the Treasury for the guarantees program. The Administrator can use it as a revolving fund and is not limited by fiscal year deadlines. All money, property, or other assets the Administrator gets from running the program must be put into that fund. Payments and expenses from the program must come from the fund, except for administrative costs. Any money in the fund that is not needed for current costs or for paying claims may be invested in U.S. government bonds or other obligations backed by the United States, but money that was put in as capital for the fund cannot be invested.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §694–2

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There is created within the Treasury a separate fund for guarantees which shall be available to the Administrator without fiscal year limitations as a revolving fund for the purpose of section 694–1 of this title. All amounts received by the Administrator, including any moneys, property, or assets derived by him from his operations in connection with section 694–1 of this title shall be deposited in the fund. All expenses and payments, excluding administrative expenses, pursuant to operations of the Administrator under section 694–1 of this title shall be paid from the fund. Moneys in the fund not needed for the payment of current operating expenses or for the payment of claims arising under this part may be invested in bonds or other obligations of, or bonds or other obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States; except that moneys provided as capital for the fund shall not be so invested.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–302 inserted investment of idle funds provision. 1977—Pub. L. 95–89 prohibited payment of administrative expenses from the fund and deleted provisions which authorized: a $15,000,000 appropriation of capital for the fund; payment during the fiscal year into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, from the fund, of interest on the cumulative amount of appropriations available as capital to the fund less the average undisbursed cash balance in the fund during the year; and investment of noncapital moneys, when not needed for payment of current operating expenses or claims arising under section 694–2 of this title, in Federal bonds or obligations or bonds or obligations guaranteed by the United States as to principal and interest.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–302 effective Oct. 1, 1980, see section 507 of Pub. L. 96–302, set out as a note under section 631 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1977 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–89 effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 106 of Pub. L. 95–89, set out as a note under section 633 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 694–2

Title 15Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73