---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6864c"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6864c"
heading: "Contractor optimization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6864c"
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"
---

# §6864c. Contractor optimization

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1) may request that 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 of this title](/usc/42/6863.md) or [section 6864 of this title](/usc/42/6864.md) perform periodic reviews of the use of private contractors in the provision of weatherization assistance, and encourage expanded use of contractors as appropriate.
- (b) **Use of training funds—** Entities described in [subsection (a)](#a) may use funding described in such subsection to train private, non-Federal entities that are contracted to provide weatherization assistance under a weatherization program, in accordance with rules determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–385, title IV, § 414C, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title I, § 1011(d)(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2442.)