---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5315"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5315"
heading: "Interstate agreements or compacts; purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5315"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Community Development"
---

# §5315. Interstate agreements or compacts; purposes


The consent of the Congress is hereby given to any two or more [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) to enter into agreements or [compacts](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=4), not in conflict with any law of the United States, for cooperative effort and mutual assistance in support of community development planning and programs carried out under this chapter as they pertain to interstate areas and to localities within such [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), and to establish such [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making such agreements and [compacts](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=4) effective.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–383, title I, § 115, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 651.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 93–383, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 633, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.