---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3542"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3542"
heading: "Public notice and comment regarding demonstration programs not expressly authorized in law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3542"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — Department of Housing and Urban Development"
---

# §3542. Public notice and comment regarding demonstration programs not expressly authorized in law

- (a) No demonstration program not expressly authorized in law may be commenced by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Housing and Urban Development until (1) a description of such demonstration program is published in the Federal Register, which description may be included in a notice of funding availability; and (2) there expires a period of sixty calendar days following the date of such publication, during which period the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall fully consider any public comments submitted with respect to such demonstration program.
- (b) Nothing in this section may be considered to authorize the conducting of any demonstration program by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Housing and Urban Development.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–181, title I [title IV, § 470], Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1237.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1984, and not as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act which comprises this chapter.