---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 286b–8"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "286b–8"
heading: "Grant payments, records, and audit"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/286b-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part D — National Library of Medicine"
  - "Subpart 2 — financial assistance"
---

# §286b–8. Grant payments, records, and audit

- (a) Payments under grants made under sections [286b–3](/usc/42/286b–3.md), [286b–4](/usc/42/286b–4.md), [286b–5](/usc/42/286b–5.md), [286b–6](/usc/42/286b–6.md), and [286b–7](/usc/42/286b–7.md) of this title may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall prescribe by regulation after consultation with the Board.
- (b)
  - (1) Each recipient of a grant under this subpart shall keep such records as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such grant, the total cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or undertaking in connection with which such grant is given or used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) and the [Comptroller General](/usc/42/300x–64.md?p=b-1) of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of such recipients that are pertinent to any grant received under this subpart.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 477, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 863.)