---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300n–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300n–3"
heading: "Technical assistance and provision of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300n-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Preventive Health Measures with Respect to Breast and Cervical Cancers"
---

# §300n–3. Technical assistance and provision of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds

- (a) **Technical assistance—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may provide training and technical assistance with respect to the planning, development, and operation of any [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) or [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) carried out pursuant to [section 300k of this title](/usc/42/300k.md). The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may provide such technical assistance directly or through grants to, or contracts with, public and private entities.
- (b) **Provision of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds—**
  - (1) **In general—** Upon the request of a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) receiving a grant under [section 300k of this title](/usc/42/300k.md), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may, subject to [paragraph (2)](#b-2), provide supplies, equipment, and [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for the purpose of aiding the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) in carrying out such section and, for such purpose, may detail to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) any officer or [employee](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) of the Department of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).
  - (2) **Corresponding reduction in payments—** With respect to a request described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall reduce the amount of payments under the grant under [section 300k of this title](/usc/42/300k.md) to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) involved by an amount equal to the costs of detailing personnel (including pay, allowances, and travel expenses) and the fair market value of any supplies, equipment, or [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) provided by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c). The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, for the payment of expenses incurred in complying with such request, expend the amounts withheld.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XV, § 1507, as added Pub. L. 101–354, § 2, Aug. 10, 1990, 104 Stat. 414.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 300n–3, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XV, § 1534, as added Jan. 4, 1975, Pub. L. 93–641, § 3, 88 Stat. 2255; amended Aug. 1, 1977, Pub. L. 95–83, title I, § 102(d), 91 Stat. 383; Oct. 4, 1979, Pub. L. 96–79, title I, §§ 125, 127(d), 93 Stat. 628, 629; Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 933(a)(3), 95 Stat. 570, provided for developing new centers for health planning, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–660, title VII, § 701(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3799, effective Jan. 1, 1987.