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Title 31 — Money and FinanceRelease 119-73not60

§6504 Use of Existing State or Multimember Agency to Administer Grant Programs

Title 31 › Subtitle SUBTITLE V— GENERAL ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 65— INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION › § 6504

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The head of the federal agency running a grant program can let a State use a different state office or setup instead of the required single state agency. They may do this if the State’s executive or legislative authority that controls state organization asks for it, shows the single-agency rule would stop the State from having the most effective and efficient setup, and the federal head decides the grant program’s goals will not be harmed by the alternate arrangement.

Full Legal Text

Title 31, §6504

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Notwithstanding a law of the United States providing that one State agency or multimember agency must be established or designated to carry out or supervise the administration of a grant program, the head of the executive agency carrying out the program may, when requested by the executive or legislative authority of the State responsible for the organizational structure of a State government—
(1)waive the one State agency or multimember agency provision on an adequate showing that the provision prevents the establishment of the most effective and efficient organizational arrangement within the State government; and
(2)approve another State administrative structure or arrangement after deciding that the objectives of the law authorizing the grant program will not be endangered by using another State structure or arrangement.

Legislative History

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 650442:4214.Oct. 16, 1968, Pub. L. 90–577, § 204, 82 Stat. 1101. In the section, the word “agency” is substituted for “board or commission” for consistency in the revised title. Before clause (1), the words “executive agency” are substituted for “Federal department or agency” because of the definition in section 102 and 6501(3) of the revised title. The words “appropriate” and “determining or revising” are omitted as surplus. The words “Governor or other” are omitted as covered by “executive . . . authority”. In clause (2), the words “after deciding” are substituted for “Provided, That the head of the Federal department or agency determines” to eliminate unnecessary words.

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Citation

31 U.S.C. § 6504

Title 31 — Money and Finance

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60