---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6400"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6400"
heading: "Limitation on loan guarantees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6400"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
  - "Part B — General Provisions"
---

# §6400. Limitation on loan guarantees


Loan guarantees and obligation guarantees under this Act or any amendment to another law made by this Act may not be issued in [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) of any limitation in appropriations or other Acts, with respect to the amounts of outstanding obligational authority.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title V, § 530, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 964.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means Pub. L. 94–163, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 871, known as the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 6201 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6201 of this title and Tables.