---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8287a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8287a"
heading: "Payment of costs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8287a"
units:
  - "Chapter 91 — National Energy Conservation Policy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Energy Savings Performance Contracts"
---

# §8287a. Payment of costs


Any amount paid by a [Federal agency](/usc/42/8287c.md?p=1) pursuant to any contract entered into under this subchapter may be paid only from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the [agency](/usc/42/8259.md?p=1) for fiscal year 1986 or any fiscal year thereafter for the payment of energy, water, or wastewater [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) expenses, including related operations and maintenance expense.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–619, title VIII, § 802, as added Pub. L. 99–272, title VII, § 7201(a), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 142; amended Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, § 1090(b), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2067; Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title I, § 1002(e), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2423.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2020—Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “, including related operations and maintenance expenses” for “(and related operation and maintenance expenses)”.

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 inserted “, water, or wastewater treatment” after “payment of energy”.