---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6864b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6864b"
heading: "Technical transfer grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6864b"
units:
  - "Chapter 81 — Energy Conservation and Resource Renewal"
  - "Subchapter III — Energy Conservation and Renewable-Resource Assistance for Existing Buildings"
  - "Part A — Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons"
---

# §6864b. Technical transfer grants

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1) may, to the extent funds are made available, provide financial assistance to entities receiving funding from the Federal Government or from a [State](/usc/42/6802.md?p=6) through a weatherization assistance program under [section 6863](/usc/42/6863.md) or [section 6864 of this title](/usc/42/6864.md) for—
  - (1) evaluating technical and management measures which increase program and/or private entity performance in weatherizing [low-income](/usc/42/6862.md?p=7) housing;
  - (2) producing technical information for use by persons involved in weatherizing [low-income](/usc/42/6862.md?p=7) housing;
  - (3) exchanging information; and
  - (4) conducting training programs for persons involved in weatherizing [low-income](/usc/42/6862.md?p=7) housing.
- (b) **Conditions—**
  - (1) Not less than 50 percent of amounts provided under this section shall be awarded to entities other than [States](/usc/42/6802.md?p=6).
  - (2) A recipient of financial assistance under this section may contract with [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) entities to carry out all or part of the activities for which such financial assistance is provided.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–385, title IV, § 414B, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 142(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2842.)