---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13284"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13284"
heading: "Cost-sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13284"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Electric Motor Vehicles"
  - "Part A — Electric Motor Vehicle Commercial Demonstration Program"
---

# §13284. Cost-sharing

- (a) **Requirement—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall require at least 50 percent of the costs directly and specifically related to any [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) under this part to be from non-Federal sources. Such share may be in the form of cash, personnel, services, equipment, and other resources.
- (b) **Reduction—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) may reduce the amount of costs required to be provided by non-Federal sources under [subsection (a)](#a) if the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) determines that the reduction is necessary and appropriate—
  - (1) considering the technological risks involved in the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2); and
  - (2) in order to meet the objectives of this part.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title VI, § 614, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2903.)