---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 14304"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "14304"
heading: "Recommendations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/14304"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Appalachian Regional Development"
  - "Chapter 143 — Appalachian Regional Commission"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization and Administration"
---

# §14304. Recommendations


The Appalachian Regional [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) may make recommendations to the President and to the Governors and appropriate local officials with respect to—

- (1) the expenditure of amounts by federal, state, and local departments and agencies in the [Appalachian region](/usc/40/14102.md?p=a-1) in the fields of natural resources, agriculture, education, training, and health and welfare and in other fields related to the purposes of this subtitle; and
- (2) additional federal, state, and local legislation or administrative actions as the [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) considers necessary to further the purposes of this subtitle.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1258.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 14304 | 40 App.:103. | Pub. L. 89–4, title I, § 103, Mar. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 7. |

Before clause (1), the words “from time to time” are omitted as unnecessary.