---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 14522"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "14522"
heading: "Consent of States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/14522"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Appalachian Regional Development"
  - "Chapter 145 — Special Appalachian Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Administrative"
---

# §14522. Consent of States


This subtitle does not require a State to engage in or accept a program under this subtitle without its consent.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1274.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 14522 | 40 App.:222. | Pub. L. 89–4, title II, § 222, Mar. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 18. |