---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2393"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2393"
heading: "Payments in anticipation of services; withholding of payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2393"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Local Assistance"
---

# §2393. Payments in anticipation of services; withholding of payments


The payments made pursuant to [section 2391 of this title](/usc/42/2391.md) to transferees of [municipal installations](/usc/42/2304.md?p=f) are in anticipation that the respective recipients of those payments furnish, or have furnished, for the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b), the school, [hospital](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1), or other municipal services in respect of which the payments are made. Any such payment may be withheld, in whole or in part, if the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) finds that the recipient is not furnishing such services for any part of the area so designated.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 9, § 93, 69 Stat. 482; Pub. L. 94–187, title VI, § 601(1), Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1077.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1975—Pub. L. 94–187 substituted “Administrator” for “Commission”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Energy Research and Development Administration terminated and functions vested by law in Administrator thereof transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by sections 7151(a) and 7293 of this title.