---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6906"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6906"
heading: "Matching requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6906"
units:
  - "Chapter 95 — Microenterprise Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program"
---

# §6906. Matching requirements

- (a) **In general—** Financial assistance under this chapter shall be matched with funds from sources other than the Federal Government on the basis of not less than 50 percent of each dollar provided by the [Administration](/usc/15/6901.md?p=1).
- (b) **Sources of matching funds—** Fees, grants, gifts, funds from loan sources, and in-kind resources of a grant recipient from public or private sources may be used to comply with the matching requirement in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Exception—**
  - (1) **In general—** In the case of an [applicant](/usc/15/7a.md?p=3) for assistance under this chapter with severe constraints on available sources of matching funds, the [Administrator](/usc/15/6901.md?p=2) may reduce or eliminate the matching requirements of [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) **Limitation—** Not more than 10 percent of the total funds made available from the [Administration](/usc/15/6901.md?p=1) in any fiscal year to carry out this chapter may be excepted from the matching requirements of [subsection (a)](#a), as authorized by paragraph (1) of this subsection.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–325, title I, § 177, as added Pub. L. 106–102, title VII, § 725, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1474.)