---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4770"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4770"
heading: "Limitations on availability of funds for cost sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4770"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
---

# §4770. Limitations on availability of funds for cost sharing


Federal funds made available to [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) under other programs may not be used by the [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) for cost-sharing purposes under grant provisions of this chapter, except that Federal funds of a program financed wholly by Federal funds may be used to pay a pro-rata share of such cost sharing. [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) funds used for cost sharing on other federally assisted programs may not be used for cost sharing under grant provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title V, § 511, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1928.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, means the provisions of subchapters I, II, III, and IV of this chapter. See section 4761 of this title.