---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1962c–5"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1962c–5"
heading: "“State” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1962c-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 19B — Water Resources Planning"
  - "Subchapter III — Financial Assistance to States for Comprehensive Planning Grant Authorizations"
---

# §1962c–5. “State” defined


For the purpose of this subchapter the term “[State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14)” means a [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Guam.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–80, title III, § 306, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 253; Pub. L. 94–285, § 2, May 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 516.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–285 inserted reference to Guam.