---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 440.1"
title: "10"
number: "440.1"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/440.1"
---

# §440.1. Purpose and scope.


This part implements a weatherization assistance program to increase the energy efficiency of dwellings owned or occupied by low-income persons or to provide such persons renewable energy systems or technologies, reduce their total residential expenditures, and improve their health and safety, especially low-income persons who are particularly vulnerable such as the elderly, persons with disabilities, families with children, high residential energy users, and households with high energy burden.


## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 77217, Dec. 8, 2000, as amended at 71 FR 35778, June 22, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6861 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 3629, Jan. 27, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 77217, Dec. 8, 2000, as amended at 71 FR 35778, June 22, 2006]