---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12655"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12655"
heading: "General authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12655"
units:
  - "Chapter 129 — National and Community Service"
  - "Subchapter I — National and Community Service State Grant Program"
  - "Division I — American Conservation and Youth Service Corps"
---

# §12655. General authority


The [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) may make grants to [States](/usc/42/12522.md?p=1) or local applicants and may transfer funds to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Agriculture or to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Interior for the creation or expansion of full-time, part-time, year-round, or summer, youth [corps](/usc/42/12626.md?p=3) [programs](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8)[^1] To the extent practicable, the [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) shall apply the provisions of division C in making grants under this section.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by a period.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 199A, formerly § 121, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3140; Pub. L. 102–384, § 5, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1455; renumbered § 199A and amended Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(a), (e)(1), (2), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 788, 815.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 12541 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 103–82, § 101(a).

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–82, § 101(e)(1), (2), substituted “Corporation” for “Commission”, substituted “or to the Secretary of the Interior” for “, to the Secretary of the Interior, or to the Director of ACTION”, struck out “under section 12512 of this title” after “may make grants”, and inserted at end “To the extent practicable, the Corporation shall apply the provisions of division C in making grants under this section.”

1992—Pub. L. 102–384 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The Commission may make grants under section 12512 of this title to States or local applicants, to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Secretary of the Interior, or to the Director of ACTION for the creation or expansion of full-time or summer youth corps programs.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.

### Short Title

For short title of subtitle I of title I of Pub. L. 101–610 which enacted this division, as the American Conservation and Youth Service Corps Act of 1990, see section 199 of Pub. L. 101–610, set out as a note under section 12501 of this title.