---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 239f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "239f"
heading: "Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/239f"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions"
  - "Part C — Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection"
---

# §239f. Administration

- (a) **Administration by agreement with other agency or agencies—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may administer any or all of the provisions of this part through Memorandum of Agreement with the head of any appropriate Federal [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).
- (b) **Regulations—** The head of the [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) administering this part or provisions thereof (including any [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) head administering such Act[^1] or provisions through a Memorandum of Agreement under [subsection (a)](#a)) may promulgate such implementing [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) as may be found necessary and appropriate. Initial implementing [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) may be interim final [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “part”.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 267, as added Pub. L. 108–20, § 2, Apr. 30, 2003, 117 Stat. 645.)