---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2417"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2417"
heading: "Criteria for participating parties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2417"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
  - "Subchapter II — National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
---

# §2417. Criteria for participating parties

- (a) **Establishment of criteria by regulation—** The [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1) shall prescribe by regulation, after consultation with appropriate agencies and officials of Federal, [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1), basic criteria for the participating parties under this chapter.
- (b) **Reallocation of funds—** If the [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1) determines, on the basis of information available to it during any fiscal year, that a portion of the funds provided to a participating party for that fiscal year will not be required by the party or will become available by virtue of the application of regulations established by the [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1) to govern noncompliance by a participating party, that portion shall be available for reallocation under this section.
- (c) **Establishment of criteria for determination of noncompliance—** The [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1) shall by regulation prescribe the basic criteria for determination of noncompliance by participating parties including appropriate provisions for notice and hearing with respect to such determination.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–136, title II, § 207, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 739.)