Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§2907 Contract and Grant Authority; Records and Audits
Title 15 › CHAPTER 56 — NATIONAL CLIMATE PROGRAM › § 2907
Summary
Federal agencies can use their own staff or, if funding laws allow, hire other people or groups under contracts or grants to do their work. Anyone who gets federal money this way must keep records the Office Director requires that show how much money they got, how they spent it, the total project cost, and any other funding sources. The Office Director and the U.S. Comptroller General (or their reps) can inspect those books and records for audit for 3 years after the work ends.
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Title 15, §2907
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(a)Functions vested in any Federal officer or agency by this chapter or under the Program may be exercised through the facilities and personnel of the agency involved or, to the extent provided or approved in advance in appropriation Acts, by other persons or entities under contracts or grant arrangements entered into by such officer or agency.
(b)(1)Each person or entity to which Federal funds are made available under a contract or grant arrangement as authorized by this chapter shall keep such records as the Director of the Office shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such person or entity of such funds, the total cost of the activities for which such funds were so made available, the amount of that portion of such cost supplied from other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit.
(2)The Director of the Office and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall, until the expiration of 3 years after the completion of the activities (referred to in paragraph (1)) of any person or entity pursuant to any contract or grant arrangement referred to in subsection (a), have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of such person or entity which, in the judgment of the Director or the Comptroller General, may be related or pertinent to such contract or grant arrangement.
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15 U.S.C. § 2907
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102