---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7917"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7917"
heading: "Financial assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7917"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Remedial Action Program"
---

# §7917. Financial assistance

- (a) **Federal and non-Federal funds; administrative costs—** In the case of any designated [processing site](/usc/42/7911.md?p=6) for which an agreement is executed with any [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) for remedial action at such site, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7911.md?p=1) shall pay 90 per centum of the actual cost of such remedial action, including the actual costs of acquiring such site (and any interest therein) or any disposition site (and any interest therein) pursuant to [section 7913 of this title](/usc/42/7913.md), and the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) shall pay the remainder of such costs from non-Federal funds. The [Secretary](/usc/42/7911.md?p=1) shall not pay the administrative costs incurred by any [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) to develop, prepare, and carry out any cooperative agreement executed with such [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) under this subchapter, except the proportionate share of the administrative costs associated with the acquisition of lands and interests therein acquired by the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) pursuant to this subchapter.
- (b) **Indian land processing sites—** In the case of any designated [processing site](/usc/42/7911.md?p=6) located on Indian lands, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7911.md?p=1) shall pay the entire cost of such remedial action.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–604, title I, § 107, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3029.)