---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6867"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6867"
heading: "Administration of projects receiving financial assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6867"
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"
---

# §6867. Administration of projects receiving financial assistance

- (a) **Reporting requirements—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/6862.md?p=2), by general or special orders, may require any recipient of financial assistance under this part to provide, in such form as he may prescribe, such reports or answers in writing to specific questions, surveys, or questionnaires as may be necessary to enable the [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1) and the [Director](/usc/42/6862.md?p=2) to carry out their functions under this part.
- (b) **Maintenance of records—** Each person responsible for the administration of a weatherization assistance [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) receiving financial assistance under this part shall keep such records as the [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1) may prescribe in order to assure an effective financial audit and performance evaluation of such [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2).
- (c) **Audit and examination of books, etc.** The [Secretary](/usc/42/6802.md?p=1), the [Director](/usc/42/6862.md?p=2) (with respect to community action [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1)), and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, information, and records of any [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) receiving financial assistance under this part that are pertinent to the financial assistance received under this part.
- (d) **Method of payments—** Payments under this part may be made in installments and in advance, or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–385, title IV, § 417, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1156; Pub. L. 96–294, title V, § 577(2), June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 760.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Subsecs. (a) to (c). Pub. L. 96–294 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.