---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4628"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4628"
heading: "State acting as agent for Federal program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4628"
units:
  - "Chapter 61 — Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies for Federal and Federally Assisted Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Uniform Relocation Assistance"
---

# §4628. State acting as agent for Federal program


Whenever real property is acquired by a [State agency](/usc/42/4601.md?p=3) at the request of a [Federal agency](/usc/42/4601.md?p=1) for a Federal program or [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2), such acquisition shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be deemed an acquisition by the [Federal agency](/usc/42/4601.md?p=1) having authority over such program or [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–646, title II, § 208, Jan. 2, 1971, 84 Stat. 1899.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–646, Jan. 2, 1971, 84 Stat. 1894, known as the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4601 of this title and Tables.