---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6734"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6734"
heading: "Administration; rules; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6734"
units:
  - "Chapter 80 — Public Works Employment"
  - "Subchapter II — Antirecession Provisions"
---

# §6734. Administration; rules; authorization of appropriations

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1) is authorized to prescribe, after consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1) of Labor, such rules as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out his functions under this subchapter. Such rules should be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/6701.md?p=1) not later than ninety days of July 22, 1976.
- (b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the administration of this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–369, title II, § 214, July 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1010.)