---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3172"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3172"
heading: "Termination or modification of economic development districts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3172"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Public Works and Economic Development"
  - "Subchapter IV — Economic Development Districts"
---

# §3172. Termination or modification of economic development districts


The [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) shall, by regulation, promulgate standards for the termination or modification of the designation of [economic development districts](/usc/42/3122.md?p=5-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–136, title IV, § 402, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3609.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3172, Pub. L. 89–136, title IV, § 404, as added Pub. L. 93–423, § 8, Sept. 27, 1974, 88 Stat. 1162; amended Pub. L. 94–487, title I, § 116, Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2335; Pub. L. 96–506, § 1(8), Dec. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 2745; Pub. L. 97–35, title XVIII, § 1821(a)(7), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 766, authorized additional appropriations for Indian economic development, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–393, § 102(a).

A prior section 402 of Pub. L. 89–136 was classified to section 3162 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–393, § 102(a).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Feb. 11, 1999, see section 105 of Pub. L. 105–393, set out as a note under section 3121 of this title.