---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 576.100"
title: "24"
number: "576.100"
heading: "General provisions and expenditure limits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/576.100"
---

# §576.100. General provisions and expenditure limits.

- (a) ESG funds may be used for five program components: street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing assistance, and HMIS; as well as administrative activities. The five program components and the eligible activities that may be funded under each are set forth in [§ 576.101](/cfr/24/576.101.md) through [§ 576.107](/cfr/24/576.107.md). Eligible administrative activities are set forth in [§ 576.108](/cfr/24/576.108.md).
- (b) The total amount of the recipient's fiscal year grant that may be used for street outreach and emergency shelter activities cannot exceed the greater of:
  - (1) 60 percent of the recipient's fiscal year grant; or
  - (2) **The amount of Fiscal Year 2010 grant funds committed for homeless assistance activities.**
- (c) The total amount of ESG funds that may be used for administrative activities cannot exceed 7.5 percent of the recipient's fiscal year grant.
- (d) Subject to the cost principles in [2 CFR part 200](/cfr/2/part200.md), [subpart E](/cfr/24/subpartE.md), and other requirements in this part, employee compensation and other overhead costs directly related to carrying out street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing, and HMIS are eligible costs of those program components. These costs are not subject to the expenditure limit in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section.

## Notes

### Amendments

[76 FR 75974, Dec. 5, 2011, as amended at 80 FR 75939, Dec. 7, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1701x, 1701 x-1; 42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq., 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 76 FR 75974, Dec. 5, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 75974, Dec. 5, 2011, as amended at 80 FR 75939, Dec. 7, 2015]