---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 566"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "566"
heading: "Employee drug and alcohol abuse assistance programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/566"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Department of Labor"
---

# §566. Employee drug and alcohol abuse assistance programs

- (a) **Establishment—** The Secretary of Labor shall establish a program through which the Secretary shall provide grants to, or enter into contracts with, employers to enable such employers to develop employee drug and alcohol abuse assistance programs.
- (b) **Applications—** Employers desiring to receive a grant or contract under this section shall submit to the Secretary of Labor, an application, in such form and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
- (c) **Regulations—** The Secretary of Labor shall promulgate regulations necessary to carry out this section.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, and $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1990 and 1991.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2101, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4216.)