---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1281b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1281b"
heading: "Availability of Farmers Home Administration funds for non-Federal share"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1281b"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Grants for Construction of Treatment Works"
---

# §1281b. Availability of Farmers Home Administration funds for non-Federal share


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Federal assistance made available by the Farmers Home Administration to any political subdivision of a [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) may be used to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of any [construction](/usc/33/1292.md?p=1) project carried out under [section 1281 of this title](/usc/33/1281.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–4, title II, § 202(f), Feb. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 16.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Quality Act of 1987, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.