--- kind: "section" citation: "42 U.S.C. § 291j–6" title: "42" title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare" number: "291j–6" heading: "Loan guarantee and loan fund" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/291j-6" units: - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service" - "Subchapter IV — Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities" - "Part B — Loan Guarantees and Loans for Modernization and Construction of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities" --- # §291j–6. Loan guarantee and loan fund - (a) - (1) There is hereby established in the Treasury a loan guarantee and loan fund (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “fund”) which shall be available to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) without fiscal year limitation, in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriations Acts, (i) to enable him to discharge his responsibilities under guarantees issued by him under this part, (ii) for payment of interest on the loans to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) which are guaranteed, (iii) for direct loans to [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) which are sold and guaranteed, (iv) for payment of interest with respect to such loans, and (v) for repurchase by him of direct loans to [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) which have been sold and guaranteed. There are authorized to be appropriated to the fund from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to provide capital required for the fund. To the extent authorized from time to time in appropriation Acts, there shall be deposited in the fund amounts received by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) as interest payments or repayments of principal on loans and any other moneys, property, or assets derived by him from his operations under this part, including any moneys derived from the sale of assets. - (2) Of the moneys in the fund, there shall be available to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) for the purpose of making of direct loans to [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) only such sums as shall have been appropriated for such purpose pursuant to [section 291j–7 of this title](/usc/42/291j–7.md) or sums received by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) from the sale of such loans (in accordance with such section) and authorized in appropriations Acts to be used for such purpose. - (b) If at any time the moneys in the fund are insufficient to enable the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) to discharge his responsibilities under this part— - (i) to make payments of interest on loans to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) which he has guaranteed under this part; - (ii) to otherwise comply with guarantees under this part of loans to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1); - (iii) to make payments of interest subsidies with respect to loans to [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) which he has made, sold, and guaranteed under this part; - (iv) in the event of default by [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) to make payments of principal and interest on loans which the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) has made, sold, and guaranteed, under this part, to make such payments to the purchaser of such loan; - (v) to repurchase loans to [public agencies](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) which have been sold and guaranteed under this part, he is authorized to issue to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury notes or other obligations in such forms and denominations, bearing such maturities, and subject to such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury, but only in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriations Acts. Such notes or other obligations shall bear interest at a rate determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities during the month preceding the issuance of the notes or other obligations. The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations issued hereunder and for that purpose he is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under [chapter 31](/usc/31/chstIII/ch31.md) of title 31, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that chapter, are extended to include any purchase of such notes and obligations. The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury may at any time sell any of the notes or other obligations acquired by him under this subsection. All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the Treasury of such notes or other obligations shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States. Sums borrowed under this subsection shall be deposited in the fund and redemption of such notes and obligations shall be made by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) from such fund. ## Source credit (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VI, § 626, as added Pub. L. 91–296, title II, § 201, June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 347.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### Codification In subsec. (b), “chapter 31 of title 31” and “that chapter” substituted for “the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended” and “that Act, as amended”, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.