---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4725"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4725"
heading: "Technical assistance; waiver of payments for costs; credits to appropriation or fund for payment of expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4725"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter II — Strengthening State and Local Personnel Administration"
---

# §4725. Technical assistance; waiver of payments for costs; credits to appropriation or fund for payment of expenses


The [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) may furnish technical advice and assistance, on request, to [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and general [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) seeking to improve their systems of personnel administration. The [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) may waive, in whole or in part, payments from such governments for the costs of furnishing such assistance. All such payments shall be credited to the appropriation or fund from which the expenses were or are to be paid.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title II, § 205, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1914; 1978 Reorg. Plan. No. 2, § 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

“Office”, meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted in text for “Commission”, meaning Civil Service Commission, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.