---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2991g"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2991g"
heading: "Records and audits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2991g"
units:
  - "Chapter 34 — Economic Opportunity Program"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Native American Programs"
---

# §2991g. Records and audits

- (a) Each [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) which receives [financial assistance](/usc/42/2992c.md?p=2) under this subchapter shall keep such records as the Commissioner may prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by that [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of such [financial assistance](/usc/42/2992c.md?p=2), the total cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) in connection with which such [financial assistance](/usc/42/2992c.md?p=2) is given or used, the amount of that portion of the cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit.
- (b) The Commissioner and the Comptroller General 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 any [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) which receives [financial assistance](/usc/42/2992c.md?p=2) under this subchapter that are pertinent to the [financial assistance](/usc/42/2992c.md?p=2) received under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–452, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 808, as added Pub. L. 93–644, § 11, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2325; renumbered § 809, Pub. L. 100–175, title V, § 502(3), Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 973; amended Pub. L. 102–375, title VIII, § 822(9), Sept. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 1298.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 809 of Pub. L. 88–452 was renumbered section 810 and is classified to section 2991h of this title.

### Amendments

1992—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 102–375 substituted “Commissioner” for “Secretary”.