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

# §12645a. Grant periods


Unless otherwise specifically provided, the [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) has authority to award a grant or contract, or enter into a cooperative agreement, under the national service laws for a period of 3 years.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 187, as added Pub. L. 111–13, title I, § 1612, Apr. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 1538.)

## Notes

### 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.