---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 6702"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "6702"
heading: "Local Government Fiscal Assistance Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/6702"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 67 — Federal Payments"
---

# §6702. Local Government Fiscal Assistance Fund

- (a) **Administration of Fund.—** The Department of the Treasury has a [Local Government](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) Fiscal [Assistance](/usc/31/6501.md?p=1) Fund, which consists of amounts appropriated to the Fund.
- (b) **Authorization of Appropriations.—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Fund—
  - (1) $270,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;
  - (2) $283,500,000 for fiscal year 1997;
  - (3) $355,500,000 for fiscal year 1998;
  - (4) $355,500,000 for fiscal year 1999; and
  - (5) $355,500,000 for fiscal year 2000.

  Such sums are to remain available until expended.

- (c) **Administrative Costs.—** Up to 2.5 percent of the amount authorized to be appropriated under [subsection (b)](#b) is authorized to be appropriated for the period fiscal year 1995 through fiscal year 2000 to be available for administrative costs by the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) in furtherance of the purposes of the program. Such sums are to remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31001(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1861.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6702, Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1012, related to payments to governments, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–272, title XIV, § 14001(a)(1), (e), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 327, 329, eff. Oct. 18, 1986.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Deficit Neutrality

Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31001(c), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1881, provided that: “Any appropriation to carry out the amendment made by this subtitle [subtitle J (§§ 31001, 31002) of title III of Pub. L. 103–322, enacting this chapter] to title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 1995 or 1996 shall be offset by cuts elsewhere in appropriations for that fiscal year.”