---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 130aa–4"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "130aa–4"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/130aa-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Howard University"
  - "Subchapter II — Endowment"
---

# §130aa–4. Enforcement

- (a) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the [Secretary](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=4) is authorized to terminate and recover any grant awarded under this subchapter if the [University](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=5)—
  - (1) withdraws or expends any [endowment fund corpus](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=2), or any [endowment fund income](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=3) in excess of the amount authorized by [section 130aa–3 of this title](/usc/20/130aa–3.md);
  - (2) fails to invest its [endowment fund corpus](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=2) or income in accordance with the investment standards set forth in [section 130aa–2 of this title](/usc/20/130aa–2.md); or
  - (3) fails to account properly to the [Secretary](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=4) concerning investments and expenditures of its [endowment fund corpus](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=2) or income.
- (b) If the [Secretary](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=4) terminates a grant under [subsection (a)](#a), the [University](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=5) shall return to the Treasury of the United States an amount equal to the sum of the original grant or grants under this subchapter[^1] plus any income earned thereon. The [Secretary](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=4) may direct the [University](/usc/20/130aa.md?p=5) to take such other appropriate measures to remedy any violation of this subchapter and to protect the financial interest of the United States.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See Codification note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–480, title II, § 206, Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2247.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

This subchapter, the first time it appears in subsec. (b), was in the original “this Act” which was translated as reading “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 98–480, Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2236, as the probable intent of Congress.