---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6732"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6732"
heading: "Withholding of payments for failure to comply with statement of assurances; procedures applicable"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6732"
units:
  - "Chapter 80 — Public Works Employment"
  - "Subchapter II — Antirecession Provisions"
---

# §6732. Withholding of payments for failure to comply with statement of assurances; procedures applicable


Whenever the [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1), after affording reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing to any [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or unit of [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3), finds that there has been a failure to comply substantially with any assurance set forth in the statement of assurances of that [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or units of [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) filed under [section 6725 of this title](/usc/42/6725.md), the [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1) shall notify that [State](/usc/42/6701.md?p=2) or unit of [local government](/usc/42/6701.md?p=3) that further payments will not be made under this subchapter until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied, no further payments shall be made under this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–369, title II, § 212, July 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1009.)