---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12645"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12645"
heading: "Sustainability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12645"
units:
  - "Chapter 129 — National and Community Service"
  - "Subchapter I — National and Community Service State Grant Program"
  - "Division F — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §12645. Sustainability


The [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2), after consultation with [State](/usc/42/12522.md?p=1) Commissions and recipients of assistance, may set sustainability goals for [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) under the national service laws, so that recipients of assistance under the national service laws are carrying out sustainable [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8). Such sustainability goals shall be in writing and shall be used—

- (1) to build the capacity of the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) that receive assistance under the national service laws to meet community needs;
- (2) in providing technical assistance to recipients of assistance under the national service laws regarding acquiring and leveraging non-Federal funds for support of the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) that receive such assistance; and
- (3) to determine whether the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8), receiving such assistance, are generating sufficient community support.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 186, as added Pub. L. 111–13, title I, § 1612, Apr. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 1538.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 12645, Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 186, as added Pub. L. 102–10, § 8(2), Mar. 12, 1991, 105 Stat. 31, directed Commission to issue final rules or regulations necessary to implement this subchapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82, title I, §§ 122(a), 123, Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 867, effective Oct. 1, 1993.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 6101(a) of Pub. L. 111–13, set out as an Effective Date of 2009 Amendment note under section 4950 of this title.